I've been struggling to settle on horn/driver combinations to use atop my pair of sealed Altec 416-8B midwoofers. The most likely candidates are SB Audience 65 CDNT, Yamaha JA6681B, B&C DCM50 and Radian 745neoBe.   Regarding the DCM50, I seen posts such as here https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=169189.0 https://community.klipsch.com/index.php?/search/&q="dcm50" &quick=1&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy ,where it seems as if others like me also have struggled with the dilemma of owning or wanting the benefits of high res horn speakers but troubled over how your less than pristine recordings will sound on them.   Indeed, so many of my treasured 60s pop and soundtrack music-many of which otherwise respectably recorded (fairly low noise and distortion)-were then deliberately mastered with lots of compression. No doubt this was done to make them playable on cheap vinyl players, or even the SOTA turntables of the day.   But in Troy Crowe's review of these drivers, please take time to watch this video entirely from 17:15 to the end.   Notice that during his listening test ratings, Troy gives the DMC50 a less than 10/10 rating for dynamic range. My question is would the B&C DMC50 be a much better choice for playing our over compressed recordings than one with more higher sensitivity, and thus more dynamic range, such as the Radian 745neoBE?   Comparing basic specs: https://www.bcspeakers.com/en/products/hf-driver/archive/dcm50-8 https://www.usspeaker.com/radian 745neoBepb-1.htm   And might the DCM50 also be a better choice for playing compressed recordings because it uses a "composite" or paper diaphragm, rather than a beryllium one, like the 745neoBE?

Time to find a farmer selling good beef and snag ya a quarter.  Pricey but w/a freezzer you're good to go then just stockpile every thing else frozen on sale.  I'm on a mission to get mine emptied by fall since mine's already ordered.       60's around here for the next few days then ramping back up. 

Hi Emil,   Please excuse the off topic request but I'm new here and bumped into you at audiocircle while searching for current or former users of the B&C DCM50. https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=pm;f=sent#msg925359 Please share your experiences. Everyone here welcome to chime in too!

https://www.discogs.com/release/3050696-Deep-Purple-Nobodys-Perfect  

https://www.discogs.com/release/807797-Queen-News-Of-The-World  

RIP Dicky Betts, one of the great musicians of rock history!

And... Muireann Bradley... age 17, from Ireland. She started on guitar when she was nine.    

Bronwyn's guitarist on this is smokin'!    

Really need to discuss the DCM50 vs other drivers-especially drivers like the Radian 745neoBe for my build.   Please reply everyone!    

Think I will take a drive around the school yards and play grounds...