Solypsa, thanks for your kind reply.
The struggle for quality sound reproduction with old components is very hard and no one I know has achieved this easily. Its not like you just put a deep wallet out and go to your audio dealer to purchase a system that fits the individual needs, let it install at home and have that angel like sound. I know, after some decades experience, that its possible to have such a thing like high end audio nirvana with those components, but for many those achievements for a complete old audio system are too much struggle. You need to have extreme energy and being driven to strive towards that goal. And you need a special musical mindset that wants exactly that kind of sound. Asians seem to have a different mindset, compared to europeans and when that comes together with the drive and force and the financial backing, it could be achieved. But money spending alone, I mean stupid money spending on the big brands of the ancient audio times isn't enough. One will end still with a mediocre sounding system, don't know how to setup correctly. I mean, were talking about a science, that had its profound knowledge base even in the early ages of the 20th century and still the audio amateur of today hasn't all the knowledge that is necessary to setup big cinema systems like Western Electric or Klangfilm. They aren't plug and play and even todays system aren't plug and play but many think they are. To get the best results out of a given system needs experience in setup, in acoustics and in electronics. I had the favour to study on that field, but never had I thought to end up with cinema audio components. Because I never had a chance to audition them in an excellent setup. When I had the chance, some decades ago and after a long struggle with modern audio, I was lost forever for the modern audio market and took a deep dive into the backwards train.
And then I learned, how hard it is to bring those old dinosaurs into the modern world and to DIY speakers, amps, sources of music that compare to those standards we once had in the pro- and studio branch before mass audio and its cheap production methods led to the downgrade in quality we see today. That doesn't mean that modern components don't have their own intrinsic qualities of audio reproduction. But they lost in almost any cases the ability of credibility of the reproduced sound. They often just sound harsh to me, with overpronounced highs and too much on the detail side without the ability to integrate.
What we hear with such a Klangfilm speaker is, that even the choice of wood is clearly audible. But that leads to the question, should a speaker as a reproducer allow the cabinet to alter the sound or not? Modern theory says its the complete wrong way, they strive towards less resonance on the cabinet walls. A cabinet with zero resonance means less distortion of the speaker system, thats the way to go. Ask in any modern audio forum the community, what are the goals in speaker design and the majority will tell less distortion of the cabinet. And with the Klangfilm we see, maybe there is another way to achieve good sound. Maybe the cabinet can be treated and designed like a good instrument, with a controlled resonance. And with minimum damping or no damping inside at all. To kill all backwards energy that every speaker radiates into the cab is the modern way to minimize the distortion of the cabinet. Why not work with this energy, use it like in an instrument to promote the sound of the driver, make it more colorfull sounding? Thats exactly what we hear with this Klangfilm baffle, it promotes the drivers to sound best. Anybody know what kind of wood is being used for that purpose best?
Thats the fundamental problems with old audio systems, we have lost the knowledge on how and why they sounded that excellent decades ago the word audio was invented.
