mihorn,
Unfortunately this is not the cleanest most natural sounding system in the world, sorry to burst your bubble but there's a much better systems out there.
Looking for the next level in imaging...
I enjoy my system every time I sit down and listen. But as we all do, we get the itch to seek improvement! I am intrigued by Omnidirectional speakers such as MBL’s, German Physiks etc. and breaking free from the head in a vice sweet spot to get better imaging throughout the room and better the imaging in the sweet spot! I believe changing the speaker will deliver on this quest! What speakers would you look at? Or would changing a component yield the result? Has anyone gone from the traditional dispersion speaker to an omnidirectional?
current speakers are Martin Logan Ethos
budget $20-30K...could stretch if something is exceptional
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@jhnnrrs Something else we have in common. Love of ESLs. I've owned Martin logan in the past. Kept them for 20 years. Now running a set of SoundLab Majestic 745s. Coming back to my main point, a speaker can't produce anything that is not embedded in the recording. The engineer crowds everything into the center, no speaker can magically spread the soundstage out. Likewise with depth of field. If it's not on the recording, it's not in your listening room. That's not to say some systems aren't a little better than others at reproducing soundstage, I'm simply saying that any exception that new speakers are the answer to creating it, is pure folly. IMHO. Cheers. |
My stereo system has great imaging. How great, you ask? Well, one time I spilled my drink and I thought would get a cleaning bill from one of the performers. Ba Da Bump. But seriously folks... Try playing Alice Cooper’s, "Blue Turk". It has a large, deep and spacey soundstage with instruments all around the stage front to back. Plus the guitar at the end goes progressively lower typically transitioning from the midrange to the bass driver. See how well your speakers integrate that. And then play, "School’s Out" just because they played that song on the radio every spring through the 70’s. |
I’ve been yapping about angle of dispersion; initial reflections; alternate toe-in for single or two listeners; and importantly for home theater: wide dispersion. Just created this virtual system to illustrate my beliefs/advice based on many years Toe-In Alternates: Stereo and Video btw, viewing anybody’s system, open 1st image: top right corner, ’toggle full screen’ gets rid of the ads and shows image captions, and use side arrows for a slide show. |
It is possible that my system is not the cleanest and the most natural sound system in the world. There can be many better sounding systems which I have heard yet. Please kindly let me know what and where is that clean and natural sound system. Alex/WTA |
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