If you run that kind of power into a 1.3" HF voice coil at 1KHz, yeah it's gonna fail.

(Unless they've somehow managed to repeal the laws of physics.)

Well i guess numbers do lie...i always thought the more power a driver had the less likely it is to fail at high sound pressure levels....but as i said im just a kid...i wish some equator guys would come here and explain the technology a bit better...

So do I. Walter Dick is a damn good speaker designer, but I think he had a lot of constraints handed to him when he was told to update a 50 year old speaker design and make it a lot smaller..

check these

those look like the dynaudio tweeters...but they can't be seeing as the dynaudio tweeters dont have that much power

Perhaps go do something useful with your banned self?

Perhaps you should make posts that help the thread...heh

"i swear some people should have ended up in a napkin....or on the floor...or the wall...or down a throat" Brix

....to help your 'experiment' about seeing if you get banned again? Couldn't help that quip, as it struck me daft and obnoxious to state all the thread was there for was to stir it up anyway. No interest in 'helping' such a thread, sorry.

So anybody else hear or use these? I always had a soft spot for the old Urei's.

I tested the Q8s...

Aja sounded terrible on them...

T...

I heard the Q12. All I can say is: if you don't own these monitors then you're listening to shit.

I had the opportunity to spend a week with them a few years back (Q10), decided to pass.

War

Interesting. I wasn't aware that the Gearslutz moderators had a stake in Barefoot Sound. Of course, being the huge corporate conglomerate that we are, it's difficult for me to keep track of all our covert infiltrations. heh

Hey, I think I saw you on Youtube. Sorry your hearing is so bad, but it was kind of funny watching you promote studio monitors wearing a huge hearing aid.

Yeah, I'm almost 74 and my low level hearing has gotten worse over the years. At higher levels, my hearing is still pretty good.

It's almost comical at trade shows, where I can still hear and name crossover frequencies, out of polarity speaker pairs, mismatched level controls, peaks, and subtle distortions, while everybody else around me (with "good ears") seems to miss those little details. I guess working as a speaker designer for over 55 years, I don't need much time deciding on the merits of a speaker design.

I do need hearing aids for low level conversations, but I take them out for recording, playing live, or critical listening. That's why I bought the cheapest hearing aids possible, and they're really big, and clunky, and dorky looking. But, yeah, it is funny for a speaker designer to be wearing hearing aids.

Actually, I spent a year just thinking about the design of the HG3's, and another 6 months measuring speakers, so hearing the finished speakers was just the final phase, and I got guys like Ed Cherney, Al Schmitt, Chuck Ainlay, Frank Filipetti, Bob Olhsson, Brian Tankersley, and George Augspurger (and many others) to confirm what I was hearing.

Getting old (and deaf) sucks, but being dead (with good hearing) is worse.

Very true. And worse than death is the Old Folks Home; you're far from there.

Best wishes for all your endeavors.

Well, I'm working on two new speaker designs right now. We'll see how that goes.

I have a pair of Q15's that I use for near field monitors and they are great. They are huge and trick you into thinking they are bass monsters but have a real flat response. I use them for hours with little or no fatigue. The sound is open and detailed. You can't beat them for the price. Until you hit higher priced monitors like PMC there is little difference. In my opinion.

Love my Q8's! Compared them against Dynaudios and JBL's and just liked the Q8's better. Had 'em for a couple of years now and am not thinking of getting anything else.

I have been offered some so I had a look through all the threads I could and I haven't learned a damn thing. Might stick with original plan to get JBL 6328s

I think harvey doesnt know enough about speaker design. The equator Q series are basically the same exact design as the presonus sceptre series. Both coaxial horn loaded compression drivers with dsp. Harvey here never once mentioned dsp. The guy who designed the sceptres is the same guy who designs the speakers for fulcrum audio. Ive had my Q10s for like 6 or 7 years. Thats the longest time ive kept any speaker. Ive had a lot. Im currently in the process of replacing my near fields and have been hating everything. I had jbl lsr305s then m audio m3-8, then krk rp7g4, mackie xr624 and now have a pair of fluid audio fx80s that I will be returning as well. My next monitors will be either the tannoy gold 8s or presonus sceptre s8s. Also I heard everything guitar center has to offer, many times. Even their best ones a7xs just sucked. Too much top end and a boost in the upper midrange. The Q10s I have are being used mid field. These speakers made me realize I love horns and the power of dsp. To me they are a warm sounding speaker. When some people mentioned them being honky because of the horn, i trully believe it was in their head because they knew they were listening to a horn. These speakers have such a sweet top end. Slightly laid back and rolled off but not all the way because the very top is still audible. This makes them detailed but so smooth and opposite of fatiguing. The titanium compression driver sounds nothing like say aluminum dome on the mackie xr624s which rang like a bell to me or even the beloved yamaha hs series. Both those speakers hurt my ears after 5 min. The midrange on the q10s is their greatest strength. Very full and warm sounding. For example the a7x midrange is the opposite to me, very thin and sharp sounding. And then the bass. It has a shallow roll off and sounds similar to all the sealed subwoofers I used to build. In general also warm sounding like the rest of the speaker. And of course theres the superior imaging of a coaxial design. In the room correction software there is one setting that changes everything. Time alignment. Simply measuring the distance from head to speakers and imputing it greatly changes their sound but not only that, makes them versatile and able to be used near to far field. The best way I can describe what time alignment did was it made the sound separate from the speakers and float right in front of your face. Like moving the speakers to near field. Their biggest con is they hiss. At around 9 ft away where I have them I cant hear it. Also these cant be towed out. Maybe this is the reason some people didnt like them and thought they sounded "horny". They have to point either directly at each ear or how I like them, right in front of my nose. Other than that after all these years Im still in love with them. I may never sell them. I see the 8s up through the 15s for sale on ebay and even guitar center. Ive thought about getting the 8s but why would I want the same speakers in both my rooms. If anyone is thinking about trying these out, dont hesitate. The tweeter will not blow on you. Its a horn loaded compression driver that gets pretty loud. The sceptres are powered the same exact way. Equal wattage to tweeter and woofer. Also maybe it was in my head but their sound changed over time. I trully felt like they had a very long break in period, Anyway I know its an old ass thread. But I just found some of the things said here about the Qs strange and wanted to give my point of view.