What's Most Responsible for Rich, Lifelike Tonality? Speaker, Amp, tubes, Output Transformer, other?

caesar

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Some systems have richer, more lifelike tonality than others. A Sadurni horn system driven by BAT at Axpona comes to mind.

What is most responsible for that? The speaker? Amplifier design? tubes used? Amp's output transformer? Other things?

What's the contribution of each?

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Stairs: the bottom first stair tread is the Source / second tread going up is Preamp / third tread is Amp / final tread is speaker; make any inferior and you have trouble. Now let say everything is great till you get to the final speaker tread, and the quality is just not their; all is lost - it hurts when you fall off that missing tread - you might break an ear.
TONE: "Rich, Lifelike Tonality?" - I Vote for speakers. I vote for the upper bass and midrange having old fashion style paper cones [some horns with beryllium diaphrams will also WORK].

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