Cain Abby vs Reference 3a De Capo i

Speaking of speakers, Srajan has bought a pair of my favorite speakers and will be reviewing them soon. He's gonna review them with my (and Gmoon1's) favorite amp if he can. Can you say "ultimate fidelity"? Can you say $3,300 for amp and speakers? How about "Conduit to the recording"? Srajan will be saying all these things, and not too long from now. You may not believe me, but you might believe him.

My taste and your taste and the dude around the way's taste are not far from obsolete. These preferences, I believe, are personal variations of which compromises are acceptable to each of us. There is a grand paradigm shift brewing as I write this which will whisk us all away to a new and amazing place where compromises become minisule. I seen it and it good. Very good.

I just ordered the Abby and will be getting it on the 20th. I also own the 3a's. I'll post when I can make some comments
Vik

I have owned both, built many other loudspeakers with both fostex and lowthers ,pretty much all models.Abby is a nice loudspeaker but suffers from dynamic compresion fe166e [fe168e is better as is fe166es-r]has only a little cone ,cabinet resonace problems too but over all its a fun loudspeaker the De capos are more detailed play louder but dont have the filled out sound of the abby.As far as lowther being better than quality fostex my findings are that lowthers have a bit more space to the mids but have a rough trebile responce ,droning bass in most all cabinets ,cost way to much ,need regular maintance and only realy show there best side in front horns or front and back horn cab like tp1 or yamamura.F200a is much better across the board in sound quality , deeper bass with much detail plays just as loud but needs a bit more power than lowther has better trebile detail and is just flatter across its range no annoying peaks.I can see why lowthers are well liked but f200a fe208 e sig with tweeter are more enjoyable to me and the others who have heard these systems in my home or there own as alway YMMV and we all have dif taste

Paul voight helped developed lowthers using a voight pipe cabinet as far as I know,Terry changed it a bit for fe166e but the designs been arround for many decades with lowthers.