fredgarvin
Responses from fredgarvin
| Alternatives to Dunlavy SC-IVA??? The Vmps line would be a great alternative. | |
| Audio Physic Spark v. Joseph RM-22 sigs Neither will provide the transparency you are used to. Vmps will give the best of dynamic speakers and planar. Sweet ribbons with solid, tunable bass. | |
| Quad 12L, PMC TB2, or Harbeth Compact 7ES-2? I would say phasecorrect is just that. You have to decide which camp you fall into: Transparent, airy (tubies call it bright) or warm, musical. (tansparent types call it rolled off and soft). If you prefer transparency go with the Quads if you lik... | |
| New Meadowlark Ospreys The new Kestral 2 is featured on the Meadowlark website. I n the picture it looks like they may have switched from the Scan-speak tweeter to the Vifa ring tweeter that has become so popular. no-one is home to answer my email, they are aLL at CES. ... | |
| Tell me about Pinnacle Classic Gold Towers excellent bass extension, true to the rated( 27hz?), I believe. Solid, deep and not wooly. Very good soundstaging with heigth and width, not as much depth in my set-up. Airy Vifa aluminum domes I beleive the same ones used by Hales and others. I l... | |
| Paradigm Studio 80 ver1, Upgrade to what next? Three speaker lines come to mind that would bring a step up in speaker quality, VMPS ribbon monitor series can be had within your 2000 dollar budget as well as Von Schweikert VR3.5 used and Silverline Sonata and Sonatina, used at about the budget ... | |
| Maggies or Martin Logans? I would suggest you look at VMPS, dipole ribbons and without the placement problems of ML and Maggies. I love the ML speakers, but they need to be about 5 feet off the wall and require subs for bass. VMPS has excellent bass can be close to the wal... | |
| How many here heard the "Wall of Sound" Dead 70's I saw them in Portland Or. in about 1974, the sound was very good and in fact contrary to the usual festival 'standing' in those days, they actually seated the crowd! The Coloseum was notorious for echo, but the Dead sounded sweet... |