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German audio engineering is quite possibly the best on the planet!
The S Series, Goller explained, is basically a refinement over the company’s L Series speakers“an attempt to take our design principals to the extreme”with improved time-alignment and a greater emphasis on energy distribution.
The speakers were partnered with Gamut’s CD 3 CD player, D3i dual-mono preamplifier, and M250i power amp. Jack Johnson had a smooth, coherent sound, with nice detail to the acoustic guitar, and Dire Straits was conveyed with a very wide soundstage, solid images, and deep, heavy bass.
The standard scan-speak 18W/8531 is a very nice drive unit, and due to the relatively high numbers this driver is produced in (compared to other 'high end' manufacturers) it is quite cost effective. at $200 I would go buy it.If the main issue in designing speaker were just putting drivers in a box I would follow your recommendation. I am sure I can speak for all my colleagues in the speaker industry when saying that this is a s far from the thruth as you can get.The only analogy I can think of is ordering a set of strings for a stradivari violin and expect to be able to create the same instrument.