The new coax design from Technics (SB-G90M2, ~5k/pair) sounds shockingly good for any speaker under the 10 to 15k price point. I recently got to audit it more seriously at my friend's house, who has it paired with ~40k in electronics. It would be safe to say that the engineers at Technics know how to innovate/design a coax driver better than the guys at KEF and Tannoy (rinse repeat of older driver designs with the same crappy sound).
Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience?
Should say "hype vs. reality" in the headline.
Coaxial speaker design has been around in one way or another for a long time. I often think I’ll be absolutely blown away by them, but in practice traditional vertical layout speakers often have sound as good, or have other features that make them sound better.
Thiel, KEF, Monitor Audio, Tekton, Seas are among the many players attempting such designs, but none has, by the coaxial drivers alone, dominated a segment of the market.
What are your listening experiences? Is it 1 coaxial speaker that won you over, or have you always preferred them?
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@kokakolia Focal and Tannoy continue to be rehashed legacy designs. I had the KEF ref 1 bookshelves for about a year before I sold it. Clinical sound and i could never get emotionally involved with any tracks no matter what electronics I tried. I could say the same about Magicos. It is just not my kind os sound (The latter is quite effortless with TADs and the new Technics that i audited). Yamaha is also the biggest manufacturer of musical instruments. It would be safe to say that their engineers understand more about music in addition to core engineering. |