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What's the deal on Alnico?


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Spkrdctr----Perhaps the outfits still making Alnico drivers are going for the cult factor, the snob factor as KT said.

Note that many of the outfits---ALE, TAD, Goto, Onken, Fostex---are Japanese and the Japanese have some ideas of their own on what sounds good and why.

And are no doubt just as prone to delusion as American audiophiles.

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For a while, at least, cobalt was too expensive. Aluminum and nickel prices may noy have changed as much. Alnico is hard to machine, but the ceramics are so easy either.

Always the cult factor...

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