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| Best midranges... The ultimate midrange driver from 120 Hz to 3 kHz might well be a good pair of original Quads (the "57's"). Add a big dipole woofer or two for the bottom end and maybe a nice ribbon for the high treble, and you're pretty much set.The requirement t... | |
| Monitor with good midrange dispersion- I don't have a specific suggestion for an under-$1000 monitor with wide midrange dispersion, but let me toss out some things to look for.Dispersion pattern at any given frequency is largely a function of driver diameter. The smaller the driver dia... | |
| Sound Lab M-1 as L/R Mains in 2 Channel/HT System? Hello Fernando,Thanks for your kind words. I had a great time meeting you and Kevin, and thanks for the Leonard Cohen disc! Sound Lab's center channel speaker unfortunately isn't voiced the same as their big full-range panels. It works very well w... | |
| Side firing bass designs - Pros & Cons?... Sean - Thanks for posting the AR 9 owner's manual link! Great info in the room acoustics section. Methinks the folks at AR tore a page from the back of Roy Allison's notebook.Another speaker that used a room-boundary-conscious woofer system design... | |
| No Bi-Amp but tubes for Maggies -- can it be done? Well I hope you don't mind a dealer jumping at the chance to blow his horn about a product he peddles, but the Wolcott tube amps are superb on Maggies. They ain't cheap, though; fortunately, used ones show up from time to time. I was once told by ... | |
| Any insights on MBL 101 D Loudspeakers I've heard them on several occasions at the CES in Las Vegas. Admittedly this probably wasn't an ideal setting, but they do some things extremely well. The sweet spot is huge, the presentation is smooth and velvety - maybe even creamy. They have v... | |
| subwoofer for Quad 988 electrostatics Okay, to follow up on the Gradient dipole subwoofer I alluded to above...A pair of dipole woofer modules plus the active crossover made specifically to work with the Quad 63/988 would retail for about six grand (roughly half for the crossover and ... | |
| SoundLab Millennium-3 Hi Bigkidz,I used to own a pair of M-3's, and the short answer is yes they will work quite well in your room and with your amp. Now there is something you ought to know, because it doesn't show up in the specs. The M-3 is about 3 dB less efficient... | |
| Rumors of GamuT going out of business? GamuT was sold by Ole Christiansen to Rossing Nielsen Electronics, another Danish company. Ole continues to work for GamuT. GamuT is not going out of business, just changed ownership - though the key player is still there. | |
| subwoofer for Quad 988 electrostatics Hello Kjl,Most dipole owners at one time or another try adding a subwoofer to fill in the bottom octave, and most find the sub to be a mixed blessing.The reason it's so difficult to blend a sub with a dipole is the discrepancy in the radiation cha... | |
| Do Sound Labs play deep bass in large rooms? Lrsky -Brian of Essential Audio has done a superb job of covering the, ah, essentials...The short answer to your question is, yes indeed, big Sound Labs will do bass in your room. Sound Lab's specs may even be a bit conservative as far as bass ext... | |
| ASL "Hurricane" OK match w/'Logan Prodigy's? Hello Denf,I called up my Sound Lab customer who was going to try the Hurricanes, and it turns out I got things a little mixed up. He auditioned the Hurricanes, but on a pair of Quads - not on his Sound Labs. He ended up purchasing a Rogue Zeus fo... | |
| Which speakers excel at low volume? Drubin -Let me explain two mechanisms that detract from most loudspeakers sounding good at low volume levels, and then see if I can offer a few useful ideas.First, imagine you're pushing a car. Small pushes do not show up in a corresponding moveme... | |
| Speakers for Classical and Rock in large space. Bill -Wow, that's an enormous space you have there! And your top priority is reproducing large-scale classical, which is probably the most demanding music in terms of getting the tonality, textures and inner nuances right along with very good dyna... | |
| ribbon or electrostatic speakers Hello Seadogs,I'm a dealer for Sound Lab and several other speaker lines, as well as a few lines of electronics that work well with the speakers I sell. I will be a dealer for the Gilmore Audio speakers (assuming they sound really good - I haven't... |