"Ian Iveson" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

main role in returning the cone to its rest position, and the one on the
periphery is there mainly to stop that end from drooping or flopping
about sideways.


Which, of course can happen when some speakers get old and which can be
fixed to some extent by turning the speaker 180 degrees.

I guess...but I've never had an old speaker in my house.


See the 'Speaker shootout' thread - you may be missing summat!

I've had old IMF and B&W TLs here and they put out a lovely sound; also old
Wharfedales and one or two others that have all sounded very nice. Not to
say some of the brand new speakers I have also had didn't sound OK - again,
a pair of really modern Wharfedales were very good, I recall....



I rather expected a broadside along the lines of "what does this idiot
think he means by slow...".


Nobody ever got a broadside from me for a reasonably polite post!



I guess it takes some practise to get the bottom note out of one of these
before you run out of breath:

http://k53.pbase.com/u42/mardoli/lar....Alpenhorn.jpg


:-)

Ooh, there are times (almost anytime, actually) I could power one of those
*bigly* and 'breathing' wouldn't come into it! :-)


How does modern "drum and bass" sound on your Lowthers? I guess it's a
musical form facilitated by speakers that utilise modern materials
technology for suspension and cones.


Drums come over very well actually. A while back my old pal Shiny Nigel said
that the drum sound on one of my fullrange speakers was the most ****** he'd
ever heard! I just can't remember the word he used (extension?) and I can't
remember the track now, but he was very pleased with them!!

:-)