Or, at least, they DID build one, once.
Just got through re-furbing a pair of Sony SS-7300 speakers... one tweeter was out, and I managed to find a near-dead-nuts-on replacement (metal dome, replaced with an LPT 26T).
These things are outstanding!
Great, absolutely damped, smooth bass, stunningly good midbass (one of the most neutral/flat midbass responses I've heard, PERIOD), great driver integration. Massive soundstage.
These may be the oldest speakers I know of, that used a SHAPED polepiece and a copper SHORTING RING on the midrange AND woofer, to linearize the magnetic flux. And you can hear it- an uncanny ABSENCE of distortion/hash/sizzle. At first, it sounded like it might have a lack of "air" or "ambience"... but after getting the levels set right (which mostly consisted of boosting the mids and backing down the tweeter), it's dead-on.
So... the obvious question- if Sony COULD build a speaker like this, then WTF did they build such DRECK, for the most part, otherwise?! (I know, I know... MONEY... made off the sale of BPC, which they seemed to learn to do before most other Japanese companies...)
Regards,
Gordon.
Just got through re-furbing a pair of Sony SS-7300 speakers... one tweeter was out, and I managed to find a near-dead-nuts-on replacement (metal dome, replaced with an LPT 26T).
These things are outstanding!
Great, absolutely damped, smooth bass, stunningly good midbass (one of the most neutral/flat midbass responses I've heard, PERIOD), great driver integration. Massive soundstage.
These may be the oldest speakers I know of, that used a SHAPED polepiece and a copper SHORTING RING on the midrange AND woofer, to linearize the magnetic flux. And you can hear it- an uncanny ABSENCE of distortion/hash/sizzle. At first, it sounded like it might have a lack of "air" or "ambience"... but after getting the levels set right (which mostly consisted of boosting the mids and backing down the tweeter), it's dead-on.
So... the obvious question- if Sony COULD build a speaker like this, then WTF did they build such DRECK, for the most part, otherwise?! (I know, I know... MONEY... made off the sale of BPC, which they seemed to learn to do before most other Japanese companies...)
Regards,
Gordon.