Do Physicists Or Musicians Design Better Speakers?

SEas/Thor/Apollito only worked with the best drivers.
The man was a genius to figure out the proper crossover in this MTM design.

I can't wait to get the proper amp to these beauties to see just what the potential is.
The Jadis Orch Ref delivers some super clean, ZERO fatigue, imaging, but I'm confident these speakers have even more to offer.
My dream amp is the Cayin 500 with the GU29 tubes.
I couldn't imagine what the monoblocks that Cayin offers would make the Thors perform.
Other than that, I'd like the Jadis DA60 or their lateest top intergrated. But compared to Cayin, Jadis is over priced, by alot.

I'll keep everyone posted if/when I get the big Cayin, from overseas.
Until, its anyones guess just what these Thors hold , locked away.
Zero fatigue, mission accomplished. Of course we are not talking wall banging volume, but who here actually listens to uncomfortably loud music.
Do you?
Do you ever walk into a listening room and the salesman gives you slam volume.
Hideous noise as far as I'm concerned. Especially if you take that speaker to your home.

The Thors are only sold as a kit. But trust me if I can figure the solder points out, anyone can. But you need a high quality solder gun.
Richard Grey soldered mine in 45 minutes for both!!!
The guy is fast.
It would have taken me and a friend maybe 3 hours+.
To assemble the speaker drivers takes 2 hours/less. Just screw them in.
feel free to email me on questions.
I'll take a look at Dynaudio, GPL(?), Morel.
Morels?
You gotta be joking, right?
The Scan Speak are the cheap line of Seas.
When you get the Seas in your hand , you'll know what you have.
Go ahead take that driver out your cabinet, and compare it to the Seas.
No brainer

I've had the Thors for 3 yrs now.
There's nothing on the commercial maket/walk in store pre-made stuff/that can touch em for under $5..IMHO at any price, within reason of course.
The Tyler;'s as well look very interesting, but not sure how the crossover is worked out.

Paul
Baton Rouge

>> 03-28-06: Stevecham
>> As far as speaker design goes, the only two guys in
>> this industry that know what hell they're doing are Jim
>> Thiel and Richard Vandersteen.

LOL! :-)

Morel? You gotta be joking, right?

Nope. The EgglestonWorks Andra II happens to be a damn fine speaker, and uses two Morel drivers, in fact.

We've owned (and heard) speakers with SEAS drivers. I find them to be less focused than the Dynaudio, but they have a warmth and roundedness that others don't. When it comes to preferences, there is NO inarguable, as all choices are valid. Well, maybe not Chuck E. Cheese for their pizza. :-)

Evita the Egg speaker looks like one of those big speakers from the 1970's era.
Remember those?
Guess before your time.
Anyway I'm not impressed by a high number of drivers in a cabinet.
I make exceptions to that rule with the interesting Tyler designes, but only when he uses the Seas, not with the cheap Scan Speak tweet.
Alos I see Ty incorporates the W22 Seas in a few of his designs for added depth to bass.
Yet how he has that 3 3 crossed, I'm not sure, I really should take a trip to Kentucky to hear them. Which i plan to do in about 2 yrs.
Also Ty uses the super Seas W26 in a design, a 3 way.
Most of his big designs are way out my budget and way too big for what I need. Thou I do have a very big cathedreal room, now that katrina pushed into baton rouge.
Still his big boys are too much for the size tube amp I plan to upgrade with.
I'm keeping to these Thors, "my last speaker"
I listen to all classical so the MTM offers me much more than one of the 3 way Ty offers. I do not need the 8 inch, 10 inch woofer for bass, the W17's offers sufficient, + the 2 7 inch mids deliver a cleaner midrange and fuller mids , excellent for all the winds/brass/strings in orch/piano solo/chamber.
The Thor IMHO is the ideal speaker for classical, even jazz.

btw I see the Egg's want $2800+ ship JUST to upgrade the 1's to the 11's model.
Don't even tell me the asking price.
The Thors with upgrade xover cost me...$2K includes ship if I recall. $2K for the pair.
Not bad
Seas world's best drivers for the $.
Period.
The Skannings of course are like $700/each. I believe those are Seas as well. I've heard the Seas's are better than the Skann's. That I doubt as far as bass goes, but in the low mids the copper center design in the Seas are "as good as it gets"

Paul
Baton Rouge

I don't believe that it really matters who designs a speaker, i.e., a physicist or a musician. Wonderful speaker designs are created by all sorts of human beings, some of whom happen to be musicians and physicists who appreciate fine sound reproduction. Conversely, terrible speakers are sometimes designed by all sorts of human beings, including, but not inclusive of, physicists and musicians.