jon_5912
Responses from jon_5912
| Your thoughts about ATC loudspeakers My philosophy is to build the most accurate system possible and then if there are situations where I want to deviate from neutral for one reason or another, deal with that separately. You can get a digital equalizer that can be used to improve lo... | |
| Your thoughts about ATC loudspeakers I have no problem with dealers talking about the brands they sell. You'd expect them to be knowledgeable about them and since they picked them they should be enthusiastic as well. As long as they're not hiding anything what's the problem? | |
| Current speaker threads are boring I don't know what the parameters for "great" are. How many people have had opportunity to really get to know the crazy expensive speakers? You can't really tell at shows, you can get a taste at a dealer but how many dealers have 200k speakers on... | |
| Help with room treatments Years back I built a ton of bass traps and misc. panels to try to fix the bass response in my basement. I built 27 cylinder bass traps and quite a few panels as well. If I walked into my basement listening room and just sat there for a few minut... | |
| Your thoughts about ATC loudspeakers I have a pair of custom built active 110 ASLs that I bought from an orchestra. It was part of a portable stage setup. I had always wanted some ATCs since I first heard them in a shop in Chicago in 2001. They are a very matter of fact speaker. ... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? I have a lot of speakers on my list that were never in my main system. I've always had a few extra little systems that I kept around for fun and comparison. I tend to buy stuff when it's deeply discounted so the list price of what I've bought is... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? I graduated high school in '95 so this is pretty much everything I've ever had. I still have a lot of these. I'd like to have the Infinity 2.6's back. I can live without the rest of what I got rid of. I've had the Thiel 3.7's for 5 years now an... | |
| thiel 3.7 owners I went from the N802s directly to Thiel 3.7s back in 2012. I thought the Thiels were better across the board. They have less bass but the quality is unquestionably superior. The midrange was clearer. I definitely heard/understood things throug... | |
| When people upgrade from Thiel I had B&Ws for a long time. First the N804 and then the N802. While I had the 802s I bought a pair of used, old Thiel 2 2s to try them out. I really liked them so a couple of years later I replaced the N802s with Thiel 3.7s. In my opinion ... | |
| Thiel Owners If you go over to Thiel's facebook page there's far more interest in older Thiels than in recent models. Lots of pictures of systems with real Thiel speakers and people talking about how great they are. Virtually no interest in the current stuff... | |
| Has anyone considered rebuying a speaker you once owned?? I miss my infinity intermezzo 2.6s. I upgraded from them to b&w n804s and it wasn't really an upgrade. The infinities were better. I couldn't admit it at the time but even then I realized that there were things the infinities did better. I... | |
| When people upgrade from Thiel I wouldn't say that I upgraded from Thiel but I would say that I augmented my available speakers by buying a big pair of active ATCs. They don't make me like my Thiels any less but they do some things that the Thiels wont, like play very loudly. ... | |
| How would you get into the biz? I think we've reached a time when speaker boxes should consist of tapered tubes that are the theoretical ideal for absorbing the back wave. B&W and Vivid have made very expensive speakers with this feature but I think it's high time more comp... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm curious if anyone has bought or knows anyone who has bought a pair of post Jim Thiel speakers from Thiel. There is a 4 store chain here in Chicago that was a Thiel dealer for decades but they aren't any more. Does anybody know if the new spe... | |
| Full range or subwoofer with bookshelfs for best bass at low to moderate volume? In my experience if you listen mostly to small scale music then a sub/sat approach is best. If you like large scale music - symphonies, hard rock, maybe big band, then you'll prefer full range speakers. Small woofers aren't satisfying on really ... |