melbguy1
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| Speakers that can be placed close to the back wall Marten and Avalon can both be placed close to rear walls. That is due to their down-firing ports and crossover tuning. Marten actually advertise the fact their speakers have been designed to be placed close to rear walls. Avalon perhaps a bit less... | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE 04-01-13: MulvelingI also think that the Prestige models are more coherent sounding from top to bottom than the S5. The Tannoy bass is better integrated into the music, in my opinionMulveling, I can see you are a big Tannoy fan, but I am perplexed... | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE 03-29-13: BhobbaMagico is of the accuracy detail type and, to some like me, can come across as perhaps a bit brittle, dry and uninvolving, but due to the very low resonance fast, very uncolored, and articulate.I am not sure which amps you heard th... | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE I would recommend the S5's in your room with the Hegel amp. Imho the big Tannoy's need a large room to fully open up. Your medium sized room is better suited to the S5's imho. That said, these are completely different speakers, so that has to be w... | |
| Avalon Compas 03-30-13: WattsperchannelTidal Contriva Diacera for 25% off. What's not to like?And you would be a Dealer? The Compas Diamond is using newer generation CELL concept drivers which offer superior sound and coherency. | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE 03-30-13: Akg_ca+ 1 for the TANNOYs ...hands down!You're making that recommendation without knowing the OP's room dimensions or taste in music? There is no such think as 'one size fits all'. | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE Aprica, can you provide dimensions in meters of your room and describe the layout (ie: dedicated lounge room or open living/dining) & what type of music you listen to? That will enable us to advise you which speakers would likely best suit you. | |
| Magico S5 review @Peterayer, the Pass xa.5 amps are very nice indeed. I could imagine the XA160.5 would have good synergy with your Mini 2's, and the XA200.5 even moreso given the Mini's 87db effiency. As for the S5's, Magico have been quoted as stating an 87db fi... | |
| Magico S5 review @Aprica88, the Vacs have a bit of an advantage since Magico voice their speakers with Vac amps, though in general the S5's sound best with high quality amps which are either tubed, or tube-like and have good power and control. The big Vitus amps, ... | |
| Best Sounding CD / SACD player under 15K Imho, cd drives (no matter how good) are going the way of the dodo and have now been superceded by high res music streamed from servers via AES3 and NAS over ethernet. For example, with proper buffering in the dac, streaming over ethernet does not... | |
| Best Sounding CD / SACD player under 15K 03-24-13: SyntaxEMMLabs CDSA-SEVery interesting unit, right from Tone, excellent Soundstage and it doesn't make you cry while listening. I bought it.A very impressive cd player indeed Syntax! Emm are not warm & sweet sounding like Ayon however... | |
| Magico S5 review Aprica, your brief commment leaves it open ended as to weather you liked, or didn't like the S5's. If not, then would you care to elaborate what you didn't like about them? | |
| Diamond drivers Mordante, I only have experience with Accuton ceramic and diamond tweeters, so i'll comment from that experience. Firstly, the Accuton Diamond tweeter in its various versions is a significant improvement in clarity over the Ceramic tweeter. Likely... | |
| Avalon Compas Hi Sidekick, I was able to confirm the Compas is using the very latest Accuton OEM CELL concept drivers, including either a BCC or optional Diamond 1" tweeter & 4.5" BCC ceramic midrange. And over and above the OEM specification, Avalon furthe... | |
| Avalon Compas Sidekick, I think your thread was a bit early as the Compas was only debuted at the Hong Kong AV show in August last year. I got some feedback that the standard Compas (with ceramic tweeter) is competitive with the Eidolon Diamond which is impress... |