erik2a3
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Doubtless the Mini Torii is a great match for many of Decware's own speaker designs. I wanted to mention two others that I have found to be not just good but exceptional. I had commented on an extremely satisfying combination with the Kipsch Heresy, and, having had just completed another DIY...really partial DIY horn project, wanted to describe it here. Madisound speaker components, who I have purchased parts from for the past nearly 20 years or so, sells a small horn kit based on a small Fostex full-range driver. This is like a miniature version of our much bigger Lowther horns, but is a better impedance match for the Mini Torii than the Lowthers. The Madisound kit is complete with all panels for a stereo pair of speakers pre precision cut, and includes drivers. For under $400 for the pair and a little work, these are awesome sounding speakers for lower power amplifiers. Of all the amps I own, the Mini Torii had for me a unique synergy.
The horn kit comes with polyfil acoustic stuffing for use in the compression chamber right behind the driver, but, for me at least, it's addition really took the life, clarity, and presence out of the spound. Obviously subjective, but it sounded terrible with the polyfil on the cabinet. I found the same thing with padding and Deflex I used in our Lowther horns, and prefer nothing in the way of dampening material of any kind. 6F6 outputs in the MT have become a faorite of mine.
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