I can't take exception with MBL as a principal contender--they're magnificent!!
Even in show environments, from Denver to Munich, to Vegas, they always sound remarkable to me.
Open, spatial, tonally right, dynamic. The only issue some have with them is the fact that they have to be cranked, to sound right. I would say that they, like most speakers have to reach the acoustic output of the instrument's dynamic range. Not necessarily soft to loud, because I'm not sure that any speaker can do that accurately, and sustain tonality, but to the higher side of the output that an instrument can achieve. |
IMHO, it speaks volumes about the respondants, not the question. |
Tvad,
"...and keep you guessing..."
Pretty funny, though, if anyone got it, no one responded. |
Who here other than me doesn't get the same level of soundsaging from horns that other speakers give?
I've owned the Sound Labs, obviously a 'stat speaker--they offer remarkable soundstaging--so I'm not 'tied to' dynamics. But, I've never heard a horn sound quite right,(to my ears obviously) in terms of just raw staging.
What is it that I'm missing? And which horns can and do stage accurately?
This comment is not meant to illicit an angry of defensive response, but more of a simple question. |
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Not me, I am too old and have a bad back. I could bite I suppose, but then I don't know where Paul has been! |
Ok Atmasphere,
Most horn devotees snarl when we mere mortals speak of 'horn sound' or 'horn artifacts', as if that phenom doesn't exist. I'm not sure that I do either, but they definitely have their own 'flavor'.
You say that these have the same imaging and detail as the SL's, wow, that's saying something. The Sound Labs, even to most who don't like 'stats, are still revered. They are virtually colorless and VERY, to my ear, lifelike, both texturally and tonally. Low level res is rediculously good.
And as I've said, I have an enormous listening room which they filled with no problem whatsoever.
How much are these jewels? |
Paul, have you heard the Sound Labs in a serious audition? |
Atmasphere,
Just read about field coil technology. Everything old is new again.
This makes incredible sense to me.
Since loudspeakers are the greatest producers of distortion, essentially due to a lack of control over the moving mass--(over simplification but the basic idea is there), the field coil acts to virtually eliminate it with greater flux density, aka, magnetic strength. I know you know this, I only mention it to help others understand the basic principal. I know I was not aware of these beauties.
Wow, I'd love to hear these things. I'm not in the market at this moment, but, who knows. |
But...I thought I too, loved music... |
No one mentions MBL much, probably because they have limited appeal, due to price. But they are truly remarkable loudspeakers. If I could, that's still my fantasy speaker.
Anyone here heard the Magico 5's that Valin has waxed poetic about for a month now? |
Let's see...just because I have the money to afford more expensive audio products--I don't love music.
Submit: A 12 year old boy who listens to (read: falls asleep to Nancy Wilson, Joanie Sommers (who sang What's New with Big Band arrangements), played his first gig, playing Alto Sax, his heros being Charlie Parker, Paul Desmond, Cannonball Adderlery--and at the age of 13, went to hear Miles Davis live in Louisville at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, even when HE WASN'T ALLOWED TO STAY THERE!!!!, went to a radio station to discuss Jazz with the Jazz jock of the day with Terry Adams of NRBQ, who I thwarted playing with because he played 'crap', not jazz
I, WHAT?, don't love music?
Someone get a hose, and hose this site down...NO ONE, not any reviewer, from Clement Perry to Jon Valin, loves music and audio more than I do!!!! |
