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Best speakers out there for Midrange and Highs
hi fleschler, I'm guessing you'll have the same experience I'm having. My Polk floorstanders sounded really good to me, powerful with lots of dynamic punch and everything sounded good even poor source material. The maggie LRS is completely differe... 
Best speakers out there for Midrange and Highs
hi jmarshak thanks for the nice response. I’ve been an audiophile for a long time and I’ve figured out that much of what audiophiles claim to hear from amps and CD players is actually a product of their own imagination it’s just that they’re unawa... 
Best speakers out there for Midrange and Highs
I'm now listening to a new pair of Maggie LRS speakers and a new Schiit Vidar amp and this is the best mids and highs I've ever had. I've got the bass routed to a sub with the crossover set to 80hz so the maggies are freed up from the heavy liftin... 
Talk but not walk?
hi orpheus, yes I agree the Heil AMT speakers I had sounded excellent. Of all the speakers I heard back in the day they were my favorites. And that included the KEF 105 and the Dahlquist, the one with five drivers mounted without a box around them... 
Talk but not walk?
My only complaint about the speakers I've had is the tweeters.I've had Polks, B&W, ESS Heil ,(which had a high frequency driver called an "air motion transformer"), Infinity, JBL, (which sounded unlistenable because of their brightness) and I'... 
Looking for Recommendation for AVR
the newest yamaha aventage AVR's are real nice. I just bought one and have had it for about two months. So far it's been perfect. My listening is about 50-50, music and movies.Everything is two channel stereo, no surround. I find it disconcerting ... 
Talk but not walk?
I just read a white paper written by a Roger Sanders! Is this the same Sanders you mention? The paper gives a very good explanation of why most amps won’t work with ESL’s. He says that ESL’s act as a capacitor while conventional speakers act like ... 
Talk but not walk?
I believe I said that I HAVE heard electrostatic speakers.I do plan on hearing magnepan speakers if I can find a place where they have them. And the difficult load thing with ESL’s is established fact, not "made up because I read about it". And no... 
Talk but not walk?
It seems common sense to me that the driver which is utilized in an electrostatic would be superior to a dynamic (cone) speaker in every way.Only thing is, I'm told I would need a very good amp because ESL's present a very difficult load for an am... 
Talk but not walk?
I have heard electrostatic speakers in the past and my experience of them is that nothing else can match them in terms of detail and transparency. The design principal of them seems good  to me. Just as my new Honda Accord seems an excellent car t... 
Talk but not walk?
well I must have accidentally assembled a perfectly tuned system WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING WHAT I WAS DOING!!!! Almost every song I listen to on it sounds amazingly good. (unfortunately there really are a few poorly mastered recordings and no amount of...