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| Speaker Advice -- Which to Buy Okay Trip - thanks for taking the time to give us your priories, which are: Timbre, dynamic contrast, good soundstaging over a wide area, natural-sounding deep bass, unobtrusive size and visual appeal, sounds great at medium volumes, forgiving of ... | |
| Speaker Advice -- Which to Buy Well this may not be what you're looking for, but in the long run might get you closer than me just telling you what I like. First off, you will have to make compromises. What we need to know is which virtues cannot be compromised, and which ones ... | |
| New Maggie 3.6 OR 10 yr old Sound lab A-1 s Congrats, Bob! I think you're gonna like your new babies!I have a friend with fifteen year old Sound Labs (I've never actually heard his pair). He has never had a thing done to them - no upgrades, nothing. He's a much more mature human being than ... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? Interesting thoughts, Frap. In a rectangular room I generally prefer to place the speakers along a short wall, and to sit well back away from them. To me, this sounds more like what I hear in a concert hall.I think there's a reason for this - you ... | |
| New Maggie 3.6 OR 10 yr old Sound lab A-1 s If the Sound Labs are in excellent condition, they will do some things the Maggies won't do. I've only heard the big Sound Labs with the new toroidal transformer - without it, I'm not certain of how they would compare. But the Sound Labs have alwa... | |
| Are Horn Speakers good or bad or simply a complete joke? Sean -I remember well the Classic Audio speakers (I forget the model; "T" something, I think) driven by Atma-Spheres at the 2001 CES - a very musical combination. Absolutely no hint of honk. Vibrant and richly textured, full-bodied, harmonically c... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? Point conceded, Frap - a first-class brace of 12's or 15's will indeed outslam a big panel.I agree with you that very good results seem to come from running the panels full range and then using a low-Q sealed sub to add the ultradeep bass. This pr... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? Hi Sean,Great to hear from you again! Hey by the time you and I are done, we'll have all these dynamic guys lining up for either horns or 'stats...You are a true gentleman, and it is a pleasure exchanging ideas with you. Your ideas are worth way m... | |
| Need some wisdom comparing planars Greetings Timwat -So you are a musician and have fallen in love with Maggie 3.6's! I'm not surprised. The Maggies do timbre very well, and don't impose any distracting boxiness on the sound. I'm not a Maggie dealer, but... You asked about the Magg... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? Sean, what an incredible post! You did a superb job of laying out the merits of horns and 'stats without becoming "partisan". I'd like to suggest that the dipole radiation pattern of a full range electrostat is actually an asset rather than a limi... | |
| Help Quad 989 I believe what you have is a speck of dust between the diaphragm and stator, and it is being burned away. The hissing should go away with time. If you would like a more qualified second opinion, contact Ben Openshaw, aka The Electrostatic Doctor, ... | |
| The best Subwoofer It's not a regular catalog item, but Sound Lab does build electrostatic subwoofers that are probably the most accurate subs ever made. This because of their figure-8 dipole radiation pattern, if nothing else - you see, for the same sound pressure ... | |
| New Audio Physic Avanti 3's versus previous Talon Khorus I looked long and hard at both the Audio Physic and Talon line at the CES this year, and specifically at the Avanti III and Khorus. Both are very good loudspeakers, and their virtues far outweigh their shortcomings.The Avanti is the sweeter soundi... | |
| Red Rose R3s vs. Proac 1sc vs. Dynaudio 1.3SE I'm afraid the Proac and Dynaudio aren't quite in the same league as the Red Rose. Not much is. These speakers are amazingly lush for such small speakers, beautifully voiced, and of course exquisitely articulate with that ribbon tweet. My only (mi... | |
| Recommend good satellite speakers? If you are concerned with how much sound is going through the walls to your neighbor's apartment, then consider dipoles. Mathematically, for a given bass SPL at the listening position, a dipole speaker puts out 5 dB less bass into the environment.... |