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Only when Mr. B is here. Mr. Y says it's ok, but I think it would drive him crazy.

Well, I have used both M2 and M22 (both v2s) as computer speakers paired with a Paradigm PDR10 sub. I had them on stands just past the edge of the desk, for a total of about 3' distance (I know that danmagicman7 uses M22s as computer speakers and has them right on the desk alongside the monitor). I found the M22s to be a significant improvement over the M2s. Didn't really take notes on the comparison, but as soon as I hooked up the 22s I had no interest in trying an A/B. The M2s are certainly clear and precise, but the fullness, even with a sub, just wasn't there.

I just got the part and rebuilt my own tweeter today.

It sounds the same as the right one, because I didn't get solder caked to the driver like the guy who rebuilt my last one.

Excellent. :]

Hey, right on, man!

Now the right tweeter stopped working. And I have a feeling the midrange driver on the right may not like me that much anymore. It takes higher level than it took for the old tweeter to distort for me to notice, but it does, on Andre Rieu's Greensleeves. Outside of that it's golden. That song around 1:45 in ruins every speaker I've tried it on.

Time for tweeter #2!

T? Greensleeves is a beautiful and rather quiet composition(around 1:45 and elsewhere). How is it that the version by Rieu has that effect?

It's probably during one of the quiet passages where someone in the audience coughs.

*pop goes the tweeter*

It's not the composition that does it, it's the recording of it.

A lot of classical that I listen to seems to be recorded to be an accurate representation of what was played. With pop and lots of rock music, it's more like you're creating an illusion, or a state of disbelief. Like technicolor, or a funny cartoon. The recordist makes his own reality for the track.


Andre Rieu's Greensleeves is very full in a kind of fake way that makes every speaker I've tried to make reproduce it at the volume it deserves to be reproduced at, cry. I've taken it to some other systems and there are so many speakers I THOUGHT were fine that had a F'd up driver somewhere when I played this, and the amp clip lights were never coming on. It's now my test for whether or not a system has a worn driver.

If anyone is interested in a clip of the recording, send me a PM here.

This recording doesn't sound like it's done to sound exactly as if you were in the room. It's really amazing.

My other tweeter is on its way out, but the midrange seems a bit conky as well. The tweeter's definitely gone but the midrange seems like it's just on its way out if something hits it at the right frequency and volume. It breaks up completely. Fun.