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| Advice on replacing Vandersteen 2's Drubin -Given your friend's requirement for a small speaker with an enormous sweet spot, I'd recommend the Oskar Heil Aulos. The Aulos uses a dipole Heil driver which has an extremely wide radiation pattern, giving excellent timbre even as your fr... | |
| volume/transparency ? Subaruguru -I learned about the relationship between efficiency and thermal compression from a recording engineer who posts over at the Audio Asylum under the moniker "RBP". The following is taken from RBP's post: "Over the last 25 years, I have s... | |
| Attention to detail For lots of clean, rich detail, you might want to look at speakers with unconventional tweeters such as ribbons, Heil drivers, and electrostats. There's a pair of Heil ATM-1 speakers listed here for $600. Note that they like to be out in front of ... | |
| volume/transparency ? Streakster -I find a correlation between high efficiency and low-volume liveliness in conventional speakers, and a correlation between transformer quality and low-volume liveliness with electrostatics (although a very thin diaphragm also seems to ... | |
| Great Imaging Speakers Working against a wall? Rooze -I think the best-imaging against-the-wall speakers I ever heard were the Snell Type A's. The Type A's use a two foot wide baffle that is smoothly curved, and a downward-firing woofer. You might get busted on the sheer size, but the Type A i... | |
| Maggie 20.1 vs. Quad 989 Brian -I considered becoming a Quad dealer, but the new models to my ears don't live up to the standard set by the older ones (both of which I have owned). Of the two new models, I prefer the 988. I haven't heard the Maggie 20.1's, but extrapolati... | |
| Which speakers work well with 2A3 Sun Audio or ? Of the high-efficiency single-driver speakers I've heard, the Rethm is my favorite. It's also priced quite a bit lower than some of its competition. The thing that wins me over is it does't have the characteristic "Lowther shout" that most exhibit... | |
| Sound Lab M1 vs Magnepan 3.6 Judit -I'm a Sound Lab owner and dealer, and I used to own Maggie 3.6's. I listened for a while to 3.6's and M-1's in the same system.The Maggies are a little more efficient. The Sound Labs are considerably more articulate, especially at low volum... | |
| Opinions on why this system is uninvolving Znak -Thanks for responding to me up above; I haven't had a chance to write you a decent response before now.By "tube rolling", I mean trying different tubes to get the overall sonic characteristics you want. "Rolling the front end" would mean try... | |
| Opinions on why this system is uninvolving Znak,Thanks for writing back with so much additional information. I'm not familiar with your amps, but I am somewhat familiar with the KT-90. That's a helluva tube. Incredibly powerful and dynamic, almost impossible to kill, but a bit on the brigh... | |
| Opinions on why this system is uninvolving Znak,Any chance you can get your Snells back? The Type A was a helluva speaker, and a very, very tough act to follow. I've had several customers who tried the Revels and were disappointed in them. In my opinion the design concept of the Revels is ... | |
| It's Magnepan 20.1's or B&W Nautilus 801's Congrats, Roy! Best of luck with your big Maggies! Keep us posted.Duke | |
| Relative air humidity on electrostat performance Gpsguy -Your observations are absolutely correct.At least one practical solution is a variable bias voltage power supply. That's a feature of Sound Lab electrostats, and down here in New Orleans it comes in handy.In high humidity conditions, full ... | |
| Does subwoofer + bookshelve=full range speaker? Karls, Buggtussel will do custom frequency ranges. They're a small company enough that they're quite responsive to individual needs. | |
| Does subwoofer + bookshelve=full range speaker? Well said, Karls.I just happen to sell a sub that may blend even better than the RELs. It's the Tegmentum sub from Buggtussel.The Tegmentum is a transmission line sub with claimed response to 16 Hz. I can't independently verify that, but it does g... |