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Look, if having a laser flat response was this important we would all rock studio monitors and run dsp.

Some of the best speakers I've heard absolutely didn't have a flat response.

To top it off, audio in the last twenty years where flat response has been the goal has only sounded worse and worse. Alot of new gear sounds down right awful but it measures flat.

I'll put a handful of thirty year old speakers with crazy response curves up against any of these new flat response Chinese manufactured products coming out any day of the week.

One of the biggest reasons for Ty to go from Seas drivers to Danny's drivers was cost. There was a huge difference in the cost of the drivers. This, obviously helped with profits. I was actually surprised to hear that Ty was still in business after making the Decade series for so many years. He will be closing up shop in the next couple of years but that's because he wants to retire. He no longer has the expansive factory I toured when I went to go pick up the Linbrooks.

I was able to hear one of Danny's flagship speakers down at LSAF one year. I sat down to listen to a few selections and then he was gracious enough to offer to play anything I wanted. Then I left the room, after about 30 or so minutes.

Later on during the event, a couple of friends of mine (along with people we had just met) were talking about the various rooms and what we were really impressed with. Since we were about 20 feet from Danny's room, one of the new guys pointed at the room and asked me what my impressions were. Now, this was after I had turned around to see if Danny was still in the room....as I didn't want him to know my true thoughts.

I ripped into his system for probably 2 minutes. Little did I know that he had overheard most of what I had said. Of course, this was discovered a little too late, but the bell had already been rung. Unfortunately, ya' can't unring a bell.

Later on during that show, I had to speak with him about another mutual friend of ours. *Big gulp* So, I walked into his empty room and he volunteered to me that he had heard what I said. I immediately apologized and stated that my observations were not for his ears. He was polite, and admitted that he had damped the room too much.

Ya' think?

I don't believe he did it just to the room, I believe that he also did it to the speakers. The life was literally sucked right out of the music, no matter how loud he had it or what selection was played. Now, he was a gentleman about the whole thing and we remain friends today but I think it just boils down to this....

He has his own theories of what good sounds like, and that's cool. I can dig it. From what I have read and with some of the folks I have spoken with over the years, a lot of folks like what the man does. I'll just say that what sounds good to him and what sounds good to me are two completely different things.

Tom