jeffersondavis
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| Dynaudio Special 40 or OLD Dynaudio Focus 160? The esotar tweeter is much better than the esotec tweeter. Only the floorstander of the Focus line uses the esotar IIRC.That said the special 40 is kind of a weird animal, it uses prototype Esotar3 drivers, even more advanced than what's available... | |
| Revel F228BE On AVS, he's said repeatedly the measured spins of FR and DI is what's most important. He said beryllium is just a selling point to charge more money. Of course he's also said phase isn't important and and waterfall plot ringing isn't audible, and... | |
| Replace Revel Ultima Studio with Magneplanar 3.7i (???) You might also want to demo the new PerformaBE series as well. You might end up liking them enough to stay with Revel... | |
| Revel F228BE I also like the new Revel series as well, although for some funny reason Floyd Toole (who works at Revel) thinks using the new materials (ceramic, beryllium) is mostly a marketing gimmick and doesn't seem to think it actually sounds any better. Wh... | |
| New setup Hsu subs are good as well. | |
| Why so few speakers have their price listed online Most speaker manufacturers are still operating on the very outdated dealer model. Part of the advantage of not advertising prices is allowing dealers to quote over-inflated numbers. | |
| [Newbie] What is the best i can do for under $5000 Sounds like for your use a good stereo system is a good start. Perhaps reserve 2/3 or so or more of your budget to a good pair of floorstanders or bookshelf + sub plus 1/3 budget on a receiver or integrated.You definitely can get much better value... | |
| Let's talk Tweeters! Probably true for a 3 way, but in a 2 way with a larger woofer if you cross a large woofer over too high, it will start beaming. If you want a more full sounding 2 way with a bigger woofer and not trade off imaging and soundstage (with a 2-way, th... | |
| What is the best USED Speaker Under $10,000 The Ultima 2 series trades off air for linearity in the mids. You can see on the off axis graphs the output above 8.5KHz drops off sharply past 15 degrees. | |
| Let's talk Tweeters! I agree plasma tweeters are hard to beat. But short a driver that needs piping in large tanks of gas, the Seas diamond tweeter is easily the best I’ve ever heard. IMO it’s better than the Paradigm or Revel Be tweeter or the Raidho or RAAL ribbon t... | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers @Skyscraper Please give your impressions after you hear the speakers...I would love to hear your impressions of Aerial 7ts. | |
| 3 best 10k speakers now imho I would add the Aerial 7t. A while back there was a shootout with the Revel Ultima Salon 2 on AVS and pretty much everybody preferred the 7ts over the Salon 2s, which was surprising since the 7ts were using some relatively inexpensive Vifa drivers... | |
| Advice for killer desktop speakers The MM-1s have pretty audible hiss IMO due to the DSP unit. |