danbyrd
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| Maggie 1.7i's lack detail. Ideas? Stereo spread is over rated for I think it discombobulates the sound to some degree. Try listening with tweeters 4 feet apart and tow slightly inside of straight toward you. The purpose is to get the ambient field focused. You get richer timbre... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Lots of good recordings out there: Toscanini/ Philadelphia in Schubert's 9th Sym; his Brahms 1st Sym with NBC; all the Pierre Monteux on London/Decca, RCA, and Philips, especially his Swan Lake excerpts, Elgar/s Enigma Variations, and Brahms Sy... | |
| What speaker – under $10k – has the best timbre and tonal qualities? Before you buy more speakers, place them between four and five feet tweeter to tweeter and tow them to get a coherent ambiant field on a simply miked classical record. Over spread whitens and weakens the timbre and discombobulates the image of t... | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings Seems to me orchestras I see on youTube are afflicted by numerous microphones much as society is afflicted with the virus--they are everywhere. So there's all this mixing which means some of the subtlety of the sound gets lost. There's a reason... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? Hi, there may not be a problem with your speakers or system. Jim Smith's book points out that bringing the speakers closer together riches the timbre. I find tweeter to tweeter should be inside 5 feet with speakers towed straight at you and exac... | |
| What are some of the downsides of owning a Magneplanar .7 or 1.7i ? I am a Maggie user for over 40 years; my secret is to place the speaker 4 to 5 feet from the back wall and place the tweeters just within 5 feet apart. This brings coherence, bass coupling, and rich timbre. It's about hearing the acoustical spa... |