Freesole, congrats on your purchase of the Spendor D9’s. They were high on my short list to audition before I purchased my Magico A3’s recently.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t get their USA distributor to provide me any location to audition the D9's closer than a eighteen hour drive from Roanoke, Virginia. They did have a distributor with the D7’s in Baltimore, which I considered going to, but in the end decided against taking a chance on the D9’s without actually hearing them. Similar issue with auditioning the the Joseph Audio Perspectives prof likes, their closest dealer being no nearer than somewhere in Pennsylvania.
I’ll be very interested in reading your impression of the Spendor D9’s once you have them set up, and how they compare to the Magico A3’s you listened to.
Also if you feel they have a warmer sound that the A3’s could you explain what that means to you. The concept of warmth is lost on me. I’ve been many live performances and concerts and none of them had any sound I’d describe or understand as being warm, so I don’t understand what that means in terms of sound reproduction. Maybe I’m just dense. I’ve listened to a few very expensive speakers like some $35,000 Focals, that maybe were warm sounding, if I understood what that quality was. I just thought they didn’t have enough clarity. Maybe I’m warm deaf, because I just don’t hear it.
To use an analogy, what I do hear is the difference between looking at a crystal clear aquarium, and actual snorkeling and swimming with fish in clear Carribbean waters. To use an audio analogy, maybe analog music is warmer than digital. I don’t know, but I need a reference of some sort to make the concept understandable.
Maybe the Devore, Focal, Vandersteen and other speakers I listened to were warmer than the Magico’s, (I have no idea) but all I could hear was their being more like a beautiful aquarium than the Magicos, which removed some indescribable clear glass barrier. That’s one of the man reasons I liked the Magico A3’s so much. I still would of loved to audition the D9’s and Perspectives though. Maybe they would have revealed to me what musical warmth is.
Mike
Unfortunately, I couldn’t get their USA distributor to provide me any location to audition the D9's closer than a eighteen hour drive from Roanoke, Virginia. They did have a distributor with the D7’s in Baltimore, which I considered going to, but in the end decided against taking a chance on the D9’s without actually hearing them. Similar issue with auditioning the the Joseph Audio Perspectives prof likes, their closest dealer being no nearer than somewhere in Pennsylvania.
I’ll be very interested in reading your impression of the Spendor D9’s once you have them set up, and how they compare to the Magico A3’s you listened to.
Also if you feel they have a warmer sound that the A3’s could you explain what that means to you. The concept of warmth is lost on me. I’ve been many live performances and concerts and none of them had any sound I’d describe or understand as being warm, so I don’t understand what that means in terms of sound reproduction. Maybe I’m just dense. I’ve listened to a few very expensive speakers like some $35,000 Focals, that maybe were warm sounding, if I understood what that quality was. I just thought they didn’t have enough clarity. Maybe I’m warm deaf, because I just don’t hear it.
To use an analogy, what I do hear is the difference between looking at a crystal clear aquarium, and actual snorkeling and swimming with fish in clear Carribbean waters. To use an audio analogy, maybe analog music is warmer than digital. I don’t know, but I need a reference of some sort to make the concept understandable.
Maybe the Devore, Focal, Vandersteen and other speakers I listened to were warmer than the Magico’s, (I have no idea) but all I could hear was their being more like a beautiful aquarium than the Magicos, which removed some indescribable clear glass barrier. That’s one of the man reasons I liked the Magico A3’s so much. I still would of loved to audition the D9’s and Perspectives though. Maybe they would have revealed to me what musical warmth is.
Mike