mapman
Responses from mapman
| Magnepan, Ohm, Spatial or ?? Yea the Ohms with the Walsh style wave bending drivers where the sound is emitted from the rear of the driver are kind of a open baffle hybrid design where the cabs come into play primarily for bass delivery. Pretty sure the design is patented and... | |
| Magnepan, Ohm, Spatial or ?? Although the Ohms in both those rooms are only a few feet apart, the soundstage extends wall to wall, a good 18-20’ in both cases with players very well located specifically within with most all recordings. Good mono recordings will image with a v... | |
| Magnepan, Ohm, Spatial or ?? Not sure I agree about Maggies having better detail or image specificity. I will say that Maggies and Ohms both have unique presentations.Also that Ohms especially will deliver what you give them and respond to upgrades upstream and tweaks. No t... | |
| Magnepan, Ohm, Spatial or ?? The web site has not been updated in a while. Glad to hear that’s because business is good. | |
| Magnepan, Ohm, Spatial or ?? I am in Baltimore County MD. Generally open to provide a listen to those interested. | |
| Magnepan, Ohm, Spatial or ?? Wow 4-5 months is long for Ohm. Pandemic I suppose. Glad business is good. Ohm usually closes most of July and runs sales prior ie around now. So now is usually a good time to buy ( I did) but this year might be different. | |
| Magnepan, Ohm, Spatial or ?? That amp should do quite well with either I would expect. For me getting the right speakers to fit the room is job 1, then amp match job 2. The thing the Ohms do uniquely is the very large sweet area. They will do soundstage and imaging coh... | |
| Magnepan, Ohm, Spatial or ?? @coot I would expect to be able to tame that room using the adjustments right on the 5000s. Mine are in an L shaped room. Also what gear is upstream? That makes a big difference in resulting sound as well and most tweaks as well. I had Maggie’s, r... | |
| Sam here again.Is new remastered vinyl fake vinyl? The only reason to buy new vinyl is for the nice packaging. That’s the main reason records survive. The source material that goes onto records these days is generally not the same as in the heyday of vinyl. It’s digitally remastered like all... | |
| Sexy singer(s) and/or song(s) In could listen to Natalie Merchant sing the phone book. | |
| Is there a Solid State amp that can satisfy a SET guy? Class D amps Can have some attributes of tube amps but not SET. | |
| Is there a Solid State amp that can satisfy a SET guy? I have not observed that zero feedback necessarily sounds like SET in my limited experience with those technologies. | |
| Loudness - Why has the industry stopped producing amplifiers with this feature any longer? I will say the 4 3-way levelSwitches on each of my Ohm F5 speakers is a godsend for helping get things tuned into a room just right. That’s 3^8 or 6561 different combos. | |
| Loudness - Why has the industry stopped producing amplifiers with this feature any longer? Maybe vendors would rather have people have to buy more new stuff when things don’t sound quite right which is almost always in audiophile land. | |
| Which one to choose between two 80K$ tube amps? There seem to be a lot of line magnetic units on the used market these days and rumors of counterfeiting right on the vendor’s website so be careful there. |