Today I got up and wrestled with the pool liner. After I finally got it out I had to put a new bottom in the pool. Several trips to town for stuff, rain, brutal. The only thing that doesn't hurt right now is my eyeballs. So I'm having a couple beers to kill the pain and taking the opportunity to listen more to these speakers.
So far all I have heard them on in this room is my UFO25, and only turned up to 1:30 on the dial. That's plenty loud, in fact 10:30 would be the normal listening level with these speakers in my largish room.
Tonight I decided to hear some of my reference tracks for slam that I used in the wood shop which is when the name 'Headwrecker' was coined.
I wanted to see what these things sounded like turned up, like we played them in the wood shop, but that was a push-pull amp with 3 to 5 times the power... Anyway I decided to do what any normal man would do in this situation and turned up the dial until the VR tubes in the back and or the meters started to flinch. I got to 3:00 on the dial and it was so loud I stopped. The amp was not clipping, I could not believe it. It was as loud or louder than I remember in the wood shop, and this room is much larger and a lot deader...
So I listened to this particular track and had a brand new thought that I've never had before...
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The slam and the speed at which the notes stop is so over the top, I've never heard anything do it this well before. It actually made me realize with amazement that air is really fast! That those notes could leave that cone and hit my chest that fast without any softening or spongy effect from the 9 foot air cushion was really just astounding.
The uncanny thing about these speakers, and this was true in the wood shop too, is that at high SPL, the clarity is unheard of. This goes back to the felt thing and the discord that came with it. The clarity from top the bottom on this is so unreal that you can play music 10dB (twice as loud) without shorting out your brain because your ears actually like it. No other speaker has this insane density throughout the midrange and top end. It makes tweeters sound silly, like BB's. The highs on these speakers are like 50 caliber rounds compared to BB's.
These speakers, if you could record it, could easily reproduce a 50 caliber round shot inside a building. After it went off, you would look at your chest to make sure you weren't hit. That is the kind of realism from a density and dynamics and speed perspective that these speakers are achieving.
So yea, they actually made me ponder how fast air actually is. It was faster than I thought. That was the conclusion, after listening to sounds for 62 years., most of it audiophile grade. Also the fact that what I am experiencing is through a 2.3 watt Zen Triode Amplifier is just about impossible to believe. The Zen TORII mono's on the house speakers only graze the boundary of what these speakers are doing with 30 times less power.
Never before has my bell been ringed this hard or my chest thumped this crisply -- and please understand that Decware started out life in the 1990's as a pro audio company that designed, built and installed sound systems in night clubs. We used Imperial horns, several of them in each club. We could make you car vibrate just driving by the club on main street.
With all that, and hundreds of IASCA winning car audio systems that I designed prior to the pro audio business, and the 30 years of DECWARE that you know of -- making low power amplification... I have a reputation for serious bass which means good bass and I can safely say that I have never heard anything hit like this. It's ear candy. You might think with millions of watts and a line array of woofers and subs that you can achieve similar results, but that's because you've not heard this, so we'll give you benefit of the doubt until you come over and listen to it in person. You can't make that many voice coils work together with this kind of resolution, it's impossible.
So again, with all this experience and bass reference it was never anywhere near this fast. And speed was its hallmark. But speed is relative. The speed is the key. These speakers are a lesson from the Audio Gods. It will be a real thrill to share them with audio community.
Steve