mapman
Responses from mapman
| What matters most in speaker design? Shadorne, I suspect you are right assuming the target audience is the general population. No doubt that beauty is the ultimate marketing tool. | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? Axel,You have to listen to the whole work from start to finish for proper effect, so give yourself some time, it is LONG, about two hours or so (Mahler's longest symphony I believe), but well worth the investment!I may do the same tonight as well.... | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? Spin a good recording of Mahler's 3rd Symphony as an emotional acid test for your system.if all is well, you should at various points be frightened, relaxed and experience a gamut of various other emotional reactions as well. | |
| What matters most in speaker design? Its like asking "What is the most important organ in the body: brain, heart or lungs?" You need them all working together properly! | |
| What matters most in speaker design? The overall design matters most, and how well it is realized in practice, which entails all of the above. | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? Nope, haven;t heard the "latest and greatest".Latest for sure.Greatest? Technical improvements on paper seemingly but I haven't heard them so I can't offer an opinion. It's always a matter of opinion I suppose in any case.Supposedly more efficient... | |
| Ohm Walsh 4 Month Home Trial Money-Back Guarantee? The newer CLS driver that replaced the original full range F and A drivers back in the 80's are now in their 4th generation of revision.Original OHM Fs and As were unique in that they used a single physical Walsh omni driver with no electronic cro... | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? "Mapman, what about Ohm speakers? Do they deliver?"Yeah, I would say so.They are not horns nor do they utilize field coil technology drivers, nor might I be able to afford them if they did.Feed them sufficient power and current though and they def... | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? "High Emotion Audio"The name would seem to imply that!How about Shindo speakers that also use field coil technology drivers?Wide dispersion and very good sensitivity and dynamics would seem to be two common traits in this category. | |
| Why buy cheap speakers?? "as my system improved my attention would be drawn by the increased realism to what was right about the recordings, not to what was wrong."Me too. | |
| Who's your guitar daddy now? At the moment, after spinning his "Travellin" album, its Chet Atkins. | |
| "Frightening" or "Relaxing" sound quality? Its not hard to try to squeeze too large a system or too much sound into a typical listening room, which is much tighter quarters than most concert halls. In this scenario, it is not hard for dynamics or other sonic attributes of any system to hav... | |
| Why buy cheap speakers?? Yep, either it works together and sounds good or not. There are no cost ratio rules worth banking on. | |
| totem arro I've heard the Arros sound as "big" as and competitive with speakers from PSB, which I also like very much, and McIntosh that were significantly bigger and cost 3-4 times as much. They are definitely overachievers for their size. They do seem to l... | |
| Budding Audiophile in San Diego Needs Help At a glance your right speaker looks to be too close to the wall for good imaging (due to early reflections) and same imaging might benefit further out from rear wall as well. Toe-in might need adjustment in conjunction as well.How far in front of... |