Sound Stage and Imaging
I love speakers who 'paint a big picture' (I am literally closing my eyes and trying to SEE a picture). Therefore I THINK I like to see IMAGING and BIG SOUND STAGE. And also like DYNAMICS.
Being frugal (just not willing to spent audiophile level money on it), I love to persuit 'bang for buck' solutions in general.
With above goals in mind for a speaker: what hits the marks in the low fi (audiphile scale) $2k (used or new) budget range. (I have 2 setups: one HUGE room, one 20x20).
A hifi shop owner that got a fat stack from me recently knows how to make speakers sing. I used to stop in monthly and listen and he could take a pair of large floor standers and have them sound like a live band one time and the next visit, in the same room, same wall have them sound like mini monitors. I’ve heard him do it with every new feature speaker he demonstrates. I asked him how he does it and I get a smile back for an answer. |
@steve59 That is easy: he uses the cheap china pixeldust from Walmart at one time, and the audiophile quality $50k/pound pixeldust the other time. And uses his home made electrical current with ground rod staked into the equator at 11.11 pm on 11.11.
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kraftwerkturbo OP252 posts @steve59 That is easy: he uses the cheap china pixeldust from Walmart at one time, and the audiophile quality $50k/pound pixeldust the other time. And uses his home made electrical current with ground rod staked into the equator at 11.11 pm on 11.11. Thanks for explaining that. All this time I thought he was painstakingly measuring, moving, listening, measuring moving, listening. Spending hours using toe in and tools to get the best out of his systems. Thank god for pixiedust. lol |
@tom2015 Yeah, those ScanSpeak Beryllium seem to be the cats meow for a 2 way (I have always been a fan of ribbon tweeter, but they need a midrange, no good for under 4 or 5k). PRICEY (and hence the Kismets as well, and not very 'common' therefore no low price used around).
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