loquatious
village elder
edit: while at the time this thread was started, i had yet to own a pair of walsh-equipped infinitys, i subsequently became the owner of a pair of infinity monitor IIa speakers that utilize the walsh super tweeter. they are keepers. it should also be noted that this thread was started when a gentleman who purported to have been involved in the building of the prototypes of the infinity walsh tweeter was asked to elaborate on the process for the infinity faithful here at AK. that person later turned out not to be as advertised. nevertheless, for those interested in the walsh tweeter, it's design, restoration, and repair will find much valuable info in the pages that follow, if you are willing to wade through them. end edit.
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i don't own any infinitys that employed the "walsh" tweeter, but i've always lusted after a pair. i try to be an educated shopper, so i try to seek out info on the tweeters because, on most speakers i see come up for sale, the walsh tweeters are either thrashed or missing. i know replacements just don't come up, and the ohm company won't service the infinity derived version of the walsh design.
in my internet wanderings i came across an interesting thread relating to the walsh tweeter by a guy who built the prototypes for infinity. he goes by the handle "glorocks," but his name is jay and he seems willing to share info on how to build or rebuild a walsh tweeter. its on another site (diyaudio), but it contains some interesting info i thought would be useful to the infinity faithful. the thread is fairly recent (as of this writing) and seems to be in danger of petering out. i'd encourage members of AK's infinity forum to jump in and encourage this guy. he tried a thread on audiogon and had no interest, so he went to diyaudio. maybe we could coax him over to AK?
thought i should pass this on.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/planars-exotics/207762-diy-walsh-driver-revisited.html
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i don't own any infinitys that employed the "walsh" tweeter, but i've always lusted after a pair. i try to be an educated shopper, so i try to seek out info on the tweeters because, on most speakers i see come up for sale, the walsh tweeters are either thrashed or missing. i know replacements just don't come up, and the ohm company won't service the infinity derived version of the walsh design.
in my internet wanderings i came across an interesting thread relating to the walsh tweeter by a guy who built the prototypes for infinity. he goes by the handle "glorocks," but his name is jay and he seems willing to share info on how to build or rebuild a walsh tweeter. its on another site (diyaudio), but it contains some interesting info i thought would be useful to the infinity faithful. the thread is fairly recent (as of this writing) and seems to be in danger of petering out. i'd encourage members of AK's infinity forum to jump in and encourage this guy. he tried a thread on audiogon and had no interest, so he went to diyaudio. maybe we could coax him over to AK?
thought i should pass this on.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/planars-exotics/207762-diy-walsh-driver-revisited.html
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