tony, thank you for getting it here in the philippines
tony, joseph, red, nilo,
i'm not sure if it's really a "hole in the middle" that i seem to miss, i'll try to describe and maybe you can further your advise.
if i play Charlene's "I've Never Been To Me", Maureen McGovern's "The Morning After", Sergio Mendez and Brasil 66, the Fool on the Hill Album, any Nancy Wilson, Pat Coil, William Ackerman, Laurindo Almeida - i am in heaven. they sound really great, big, warm, lush, emotional.
but if i play the Eagle's Hotel California album for example, there is definitely something missing above the mids. Neil Young's Decade album can get by on the acoustics, but on the electric tracks, the "grunt" of the guitars are not there.
any thoughts?
joseph, i do not know the efficiency of the 406-8Y... 99dB perhaps? and the Infinity tweets are 89dB probably lower, so there you go, sensitivity mismatch.
joseph, i trust your ears and experience on your recommendations. you have perfectly given me the assurance on the EV T-35, besides they look really nice.
someone in AA called the Altec Bolero tweeters the "mystery tweeter," it seems obvious to me now why.
red, a mid horn is something that is last on my priority, although somebody in HiEff asylum already told me about that as his gut feel tells him so.
nilo, that is definitely a more viable option. another is john poscablo might have something that can pickup from 1kHz up which is also an Altec driver, it just slipped my mind at the moment.
thanks for the assistance and support.