@bigjim2003
So please try to explain the Piega’s "Alleinherausstellungsmerkmal" to help me on, why to replace a B961 with any of these.
I’m truely interest to learn something about this suggestion of yours.
Just, like "they look nice and different" is not gonna cut it, as explained a bit earlier, um. 😎
I do know from way back, (Image Hifi Mag) these Swiss items do have a reputation to defend, like their watches maybe? 😉
Thanks in advance,
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@vonruden
Hi, the issue regarding panels, electrostats, and dipoles was already answered by me in the negative - and this NOT based on their looks dear.
Sorry to disappoint you 😢
Michélle 🇿🇦 |
@twoleftears
Oh deary me, are there two right ears around as well - perhaps?!?
So sorry, if I gave you an unwarrented early wake-up call. 😯 📢
But then again, that's just-me-too, eh?
—12" woofers in front— I dare say...
are you now talking cup- or cone-size here?!?
I'll take the latter to be most seriously the implication. Yes?☝️
@b_limo
Now you had your 🎂 Kuchen 🥧 , no?
So you be good now, dear. 😊
(And you may relax your legs of course too.)
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@gphill
Yes, it looks like the Aerial 7Ts are ticking practically most all the boxes, in my present thinking.
Even on price!
Amazing... in deed
💐
Michélle 🇿🇦
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- @dcevans
With Karma Elegance S7 I’ll go, oh yes - but now aren’t we getting way past my $20k budget limit? 🤔 Michélle 🇿🇦 |
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Also these Karma Elegance (two way speakers) have my vote for a case of:
'what looks good, works well...'
The reviews certainly give that idea too. Big time.
(Only $1000 odd over $20k...😉)
Michélle 🇿🇦
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Panels suggested YET AGAIN...
As was already suggested:
Michélle 'don't chew her cabbage twice...'
Sorry to disappoint 😥
Eish 🇿🇦
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@fsmithjack
In one word - AMAZING -
(so long you'll share her liking for some time to come...?)
Actually, quite a dizzying 'merry-go-round' of amazing items, by the sound of it.
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@markj941
Might all well be just so.
Alas, not exactly in my 'dreams'... 😏
Karma, so far could be it... if *EVER* available in here SA. Ever? 🤔
Thanks for the suggestion though. 👍
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Ok, following the test conclusion:
"The Elac Concentro S 509 significantly enriches the market for extremely high quality loudspeakers.
Visually, we rate the new design language from Kiel, which was already started with the Concentro S 507, as extremely successful.
Clear, at the same time sweeping lines, a chic base concept and not too wide due to the side bass drivers: This is what modern sound transducers look like.
Acoustically, the Kiel construction also pulls out all the stops. The immense lightness towers above everything, this spacious airiness with which the S 509 performs all tasks.
It can also push properly in the bass range and always remains very precise, but what is really impressive is the playful, sophisticated reproduction of all the tracks that we played to the speaker from the far north.
Accordingly, the Elac Concentro S 509 earned 100 percent our highest test award."
☺️
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@1971gto455ho
Fun spoil, I say. 😐
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@middlemass
Eish! Those items look like tombstone slabs awaiting inscription. 👀 👻💭
I wouldn’t have them in MY living room, however marvelous they’d sound.
Sorry, but sincd you asked... 😕
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@isochronism
Hm, makes me wonder... are you trying for first price in fuglyness? 🤔
Maybe you just kidding?
Not posting your system though, might be a clue,- that you mean it.
Now a girl could always be cajoled to part take in some blind(folded) testing in an audio-den, no? 🤔😊
So long its not my living room - it be just beholding odd stuff.
I've seen my share, without making any noises. Seriously 😊
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@shahram
Sorry too, um, retro - or maybe not enough retro for my liking?
They will sound nice as you say - as do so many...
In fact these soet of 'long boxes' ⚰, they remind me of my early German aquistion of a pair of ELACs.
Those had also good test results, but of course for recommended 'Einsteiger' hifi.
I'm sure these Spendor D series will be superior, by how much, who knows?
In any case, those plain Englophile designs are too 70s, never mind 80s... to my likings.
I then had a pair of AR7s, which I really did like (at the time).
Alas, - 'times they are a changing...' eh?
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@shahram
I agree, your speakers do look fine in your setting. 🙂
And thanks for sharing your pictures. 👍
Michélle 🇿🇦
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The long and the short of it?
"de gustibus non disputare"
In other words, there seems a strong indication that chromosomes and hormones are at work, in all of this. 💃
I rest my case. 😊
Michélle 🇩🇪💭💐
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@isochronism
Well said, - ugly as sin - but well balanced, no?
Speaker are practically always the first noted (visually) - warts an' all.
On the other hand, reversing your yin - yang setup wouldn’t really work, now wouldn't it?
So... no beauty contest, eh?
Hopefully, some day soon enjoyed again in your (new) man-cave?
👍🤣
Michélle 🇩🇪 🇿🇦 ✔️
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@isochronism
Let me rephrase, it sounds so unkind me having said that.
And your restating it, makes me feel sad to read.
So, no, not ugly, just a bit, um, extraordinary perhaps? 🤔
I'm mean those are your babies, no?
So, I beg your indulgence for my 'ugly' word.
Yeah, we learn as we go. Um. 🙄
Sorry for that dear.
Michélle 🇿🇦
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Now => Extraordinary, no?! Really 🥰
Am not beyond to, um, embrace extraordinary, see? 😉
And they're YOUR (very OWN) babies, not your wifes - please note the difference, eh? 😊
I'm somehow pretty sure your wife, former or otherwise, had sweet funny Adams to do with their 'conception', no? 🤭
So my very best wishes for them, to find a happy new place! Soon. 👍
Best,
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@isochronism
Naaa... no blame - I say... so long such oversized 'babies' wouldn't be taking up residence in MY living space! 😘
🤗
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@sonicbeauty
Why do I immediately think ET 👽?!? 🤔
Thanks for the thought 💭 - alas one more 'objet trop extraordinaire'... 😏
Interesting, in as much as it looks like a BOSE 901 VI update --- of sorts? 😉
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@isochronism
Isochronostically speaking - it sounds like you made the right choice.
In particular if they sound as great, as they don't look. Kind of counterintuitive, eh? ☝️
Its still some enigma to me, how such a cupboard, or is it sideboard, equipped with drivers, can create sound anywhere near to the intended recording.
This, I'll admit, must be due to my lack of audio-engineering training.
I'd consider to rearrange them perhaps as an chimney mantel piece?
Alas, we beheld earlier, they not quite flame resistant... 😕
Ok, just flummoxed...🤔 🤭
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@isochronism
Shoosh now. 😃
All we'd come to was, that they inversly proportional in looks to sound quality ¦
SQ = 1/L ... ✔️
No more ⛽ or 🔥 is needed to solve the issue, so... now just enjoy the music 🎶 👋🤣
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@yoby
Too homely looking - somehow...
Seem too have this 'green renewable energy look' about them (why do I think knitting coarse lambs-wool cardigans now?) or made of bamboo or so? L = 1/(SQ - X) ? 🤔
Also, if more than one tweeter - mo betta have second placed in rear. ✔️
Giving those others seriously a miss.
Two stacked AMTs behind a wave-guide are fine; L = SQ 👍
But thanks, for sharing your preference!
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@davisbryant
Almost completely agree with your take/tast. My only 🤔 caveat (these days...) is their predominant use of drivers like having cermaic membrane and metal dome tweeters.
Looks and make/quality are right up my alley 😍!
As for the Rowland gear - great - ! so long its not class D... 🙄
Ever so picky, eh?
☺ Michélle 🇿🇦
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@davisbryant
Sounds all good, what else can I say? 😉
So far the best looking and I'm sure sounding alternative to my current gear.
Now I'll see if these day-dreams will concur - and strong enough to talk to my savings. 😏
Avalon and Rowland gear. Can anyone object to that?
Maybe my pocketbook?
Anyone else? 🤔
Michélle 🇿🇦 |
@audioquest4life
Holy mo!... Can not argue with the eye, nor the ear I guess, of the beholder.
Or as they already agreed to say in the ancient times in Rome: "De gustibus non disputandum est!"
And solong you also have the 💪 to move and set up these monsters. 🤗
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@tweak1
In my old home town we'd have maybe called those Emerald Physics 'e Brettle'.
Just saying, no insult meant of course.
BTW, 'e Brettle' translates into something like 'a little board'... 😉
I'm still connected to there -- a bit.
In short, colours or what else not, they wouldn't work in any case, as I have not sufficient backwall space for dipoles.
And just to mention it again, neither for panels of any kind.
Thanks though for the suggestion. ✔️
Michélle
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@hornguys
Hi, yeah, Joseph's speakers are jolly nice.
They sure are. ✔️
Now, I'm not an FB user anymore.
Seems they don't like me to look there any more...?
Thanks also, 👍
Michélle
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@headphonedreams
Oh Boenike, yes.
Looking at their design I'm tempted to concede, they must be a cut above my current items - as I'm sure and as I recall, their pricing for certain as well, eh?!
My Burmesters where 'only' in the 10—15k US$ range at the time...
Alas, I'd have to relocate to my home country 🇩🇪, before those beauties could become an option.
European high-end speakers are unobtanium these days where I now live 🇿🇦, save Sonus Faber (for all I can tell).
Thankfully my Burmester 961s are still pretty well and alive, despite there age (purchased 1996 in Munich) now may be considered vintage/old... 😏
Michélle 🇿🇦
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@mapman
Um, - Horses for courses - ✔️
Though not my course, I'm honestly saying.
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