OK, so I was thinking - dangerous, I know. :LOL:
You can buy a Swans 6.1 (formerly Diva 6.1) system for $1300/pair brand new from Audio Insider. Cheaper if you shop used on Audiogon or E-bay. (Edit: just checked Audiogon under "Diva" and they're going for about $800 used.) So what do you get for your $1300? Well, you get almost $400 worth of HiVi M8 bass drivers. And you get those beautiful curved Rosewood and piano black enclosures. Everyone who has seen them has said the finish is world class. I know I couldn't build a pair of them for $900 if I charged anything for my time. So then the so-so mid and tweet are throw-aways. Replace them with, say, a Seas mid and a Seas/Vifa/Hiquphon tweet and you might have something really good sounding and really beautiful for a reasonable price. The HiVi tweeter might even be okay but that F6 mid has just got to go. Look at the impedance curve and it's about as ugly as I've seen around 1K.
Just thinking too much on a boring day....... :LOL:
You can buy a Swans 6.1 (formerly Diva 6.1) system for $1300/pair brand new from Audio Insider. Cheaper if you shop used on Audiogon or E-bay. (Edit: just checked Audiogon under "Diva" and they're going for about $800 used.) So what do you get for your $1300? Well, you get almost $400 worth of HiVi M8 bass drivers. And you get those beautiful curved Rosewood and piano black enclosures. Everyone who has seen them has said the finish is world class. I know I couldn't build a pair of them for $900 if I charged anything for my time. So then the so-so mid and tweet are throw-aways. Replace them with, say, a Seas mid and a Seas/Vifa/Hiquphon tweet and you might have something really good sounding and really beautiful for a reasonable price. The HiVi tweeter might even be okay but that F6 mid has just got to go. Look at the impedance curve and it's about as ugly as I've seen around 1K.
Just thinking too much on a boring day....... :LOL:
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