The highs are great for such a BIG driver. I heard this through my modified single drivers. They are semi open and semi dipole. Mine are 5" $8 cheap FR drivers that are not original. It gies the drivers way better highs after the mod. I have boxes but the driver is half out-of-the-box to get a similar "open baffle" effect. The box gives the open sound the warmth and the bass required to be able to listen to it without fatigue (unlike a totally open cone).
I auditioned a pair of these a few months ago. They're legit. Listening room was less than 12' wide. Instantly, the walls disappeared. Remarkable Soundstage. Magical. Wide. DEEP too! You have to recalibrate what your ears hear to what your eyes see. This guy had no room treatments whatsoever. He'd gone to Decfest, the open house event where you get to audition Decware's product line in this exact room. He told me he suspected there were $20,000 in room treatments. Possibly more. I bought the Lii Audio F15's and the plans for these. I have a 4.5 watt Chinese Single Ended Triode amp (for NOW) and a CSP3 Decware preamp. I've got a honking surround sound in my living room with heavily modified Klipsch KLF 30's (103 db/watt efficient) a Klipsch center channel and some home made 95 db/watt line arrays for the rear and a 12" powered subwoofer. Wife wants to have me committed for not being satisfied and building these for my "critical listening" room in the basement. I have been searching for "the sound" for 45 years. When I heard these, I knew I'd reached my destination. Gonna sell off some of the "landmines" I have stepped on through the years and (eventually) piece together a vinyl rig heavily populated with Decware products. Listen with your ears, not your eyes. If you get the opportunity to audition these, don't miss the chance.
@Christiaan Baron I bought plans for the ZF15M'S you see on the Decware site and can demo (with headphones) on youtube. Just ordered the latest "big deal" Chinese amp, the Willsenton R8, and am SO excited to replicate "the sound" in my basement. Wife, while always pleased by the results of my meanderings, suspects she won't be able perceive the difference between these and the aforementioned Klipsch home theater upstairs. She's completely baffled why I would want anything different. She's got another think coming. These things are magical. What amp are you driving them with? What sources are using? Wife will likely REALLY crap when I start tube rolling and buying audiophile recordings of albums I already own. Audiophilia, a mental obsession.
@@davidwhitener2923 I'm about to buy the plans myself. These sound amazing. I think I'm gonna go with butcher block. It's perfect. Have someone do the cutting for me maybe. Can save a ton. Pretty excited
Those are some really beautiful speakers! love all of that wood. Awesome listening room. Getting great detailed sound in my headphones. Great choice of music for the demo!
@@Boskibrohow so? Even a phone recording has stereo information. Actually pretty good stereo info on modern smartphones. You can indeed hear the stereo separation through the recording. Obviously it's not the same as really being there... But who expected that?
Sudymont Acoustics of the 50 & 60 had resonant open baffle designs that were totally awesome. No sealed drivers at all , sounded like a real concert hall, not like sound cannons if today.
Very nice room. Although I'm not sure how a RU-vid video could possibly be a good representation of how the system actually sounds (as per the description). My old listening room used to be decked out with DIY Decware room treatments and they worked great. Of course having the room below grade with concrete floor and walls helped a lot too.
Ha. I don't know if its just me or if anyone else notice this, but there's something kinda mystical about this room sound and speakers...almost magical..them speakers are haunting...lol
The only thing I can compare these to are the Spatial Audio Lab M3/M4 series and they sound almost perfect. I would love to audition the Zen Master sometime.
Carpet gives the room better focus regardless of the speakers used, as the high frequency floor reflection is greatly reduced. The carpet has no effect on bass, however it does smooth the top end of the room down a bit which lessens the tilt.
What model of camera/microphone? Be cool to hear them with a good directional set of mics on tripods. Some of the quality inevitably gets lost on a standard camcorder.
Great speakers and sound, I love OB too. How with the low centered driver, does the music not sounding as comming from the "ground" ? Specially voices and wind instruments ?
When they are not angled, which is the typical application, it is the rear wave washing the front wall that lifts the image. If you put a box over the back to block the rear wave, the sound stage drops in height.
The speakers normal positioning is 90 degrees to the floor, so those front feet keep kids from being able to tip the speaker over on it's face (or theirs).
It sounds almost exactly like my PC speakers :-) Anyone here that thinks it is possible to show how speakers sound via RU-vid?? If it was possible you could record the sound of a really high end system, and get the same quality on a cheap sound box.
