Moving on to chapter two...
Danny was good enough to measure these Pensils, and here, my audio friends, are the results.
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I withheld my initial impressions until I could see his results so I could try and couple the measurements with what I'm hearing. As I told Danny, trying to attach adjectives to sound from speakers is a difficult task. My recurring thought was "shiny". Not quite brassy, but not smooth and buttery. They sound a little like they look, oddly enough, somewhat metallic.
I imagine some would find that quality appealing. At first it seemed like fine detail retrieval, sort of an edge to things, but I do think it would get fatiguing in large doses of concentrated listening. I say that to contrast what happens around our house a lot of the time. Music is playing as we go about the day, in and out of living room where they live but audible throughout the house. I guess that kinda defines casual listening.
From the spectral decay, I think I can gather that at least some of what I'm hearing is ringing, which I guess is often the case with metal drivers. If I understand it right, the stiffness of the metal cone is desirable, but the resonances are the undesirable side effect. As was stated in another thread, designing a driver is about making compromises, you gets to pick your poison, but no poison isn't one of the choices.
I think I might be on a speaker building binge for a while. I'm anxious to try the LGKs and do some comparisons.
Speaker building, my drug of choice.
I suppose it could be worse...