10k Towers with biggest soundstage?

 

panzrwagn

116 posts

05-10-2022 at 02:51am 

For under $10,000 nothing can come close to the Magnepan 3.7i. Add to that a good subwoofer like a REL s510. For image size, well, everything else is just some variation of a vibrating cone or two in a box. And sounds like it. At just under 6ft tall and 2ft wide, and most of that moving membrane, the ear senses the size of the Maggie. A couple 6" cones just can't create the same sense of acoustic space.

This x 1,000.

Friends don't let fronds buy boxes with cones.

how about the larger Salk towers?

I love a big soundstage.  Exagerrated in fact at times.  

I've owned a ton of speakers over the years from horns to bi-polar, to semi-omnipolar.  (Various Klipsch, Energy, OHM's, Salk, NHT, Spatial, JBL and a few others over the years)

Currently I have a set of Salk SS12's and some OHM Walsh 5 MKII's.  

The OHM's, set-up properly (live end of the room, which is the reverse of most speakers). Have a massive soundstage.  

I can set the SS12's up with an open back on the mids/tweeter also.  They still don't have the massive soundstage of the OHM's. They have a big soundstage, but not like the OHM's.  

Biggest soundstage speakers I have owned are the OHM's (a few different models) and a pair of Energy Audyssey Bi-Polar speakers I had back in the late 90's.  

Smallest were probably the various NHT's, particularly the 3.3's.  

Just different flavors.  

how might the paradigm 120h's fare?