johnk

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What are your favorite speaker finishes?
Dust some of the best loudspeakers I've picked up where covered with it. 
Kendrick Sound JBL 4350 for music Bar
Consider Line Magnetic they make fine WE replicas 
Kendrick Sound JBL 4350 for music Bar
JBL is boring consider Western Electric, RCA ,Klangfilm, Altec, Vitavox etc. Why buy into a over priced JBL replica. 
Monolith III's or CLS IIZ's Pros and Cons
costly to replace panel and most are in need of it due to age 
Monolith III's or CLS IIZ's Pros and Cons
both are old enough to require a replacement stat panel and ML has greatly increased the cost of those. 
great dynamics at a med-low volume?
http://www.silbatoneacoustics.com/labsystems.html 
A seperate Mid with punch?
http://www.silbatoneacoustics.com/labsystems.html 
Best products for baffle material s ?
Chobham 
What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker?
http://www.audioheritage.org/html/profiles/lmco/shearer.htm 
Beryllium Tweeters
Acurus “Hofman’s Iron Law” and it offers you any two of the following: small cabinet size, deep bass and high sensitivity. No Omegas exist as you discribe and your idea that it depends how you define it is very wrong. Also would seem you feel that... 
what drivers are best? thinking of a DIY project
206en in a nagaoka cabinets a good sound but use nagaoka's design not others 
Altec A7 What to do
Only you can decide a forum can't do it for you. 
Beryllium Tweeters
92db is not high efficiency 
Beryllium Tweeters
The baffles are all overly small and require BSC to compensate but sometimes the BSC is omitted and manufacturers rely on owners care with placement close to room boundary. Toss in many require powerful amplification and its subsequent thermal com... 
What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker?
Linaeum66 Yes missing something, a basic law of loudspeaker design = Hoffman’s Iron Laws of Speaker Building1) Bass Extension2) Efficiency3) Small EnclosureThe law is that you can only have two of these three