ozzy62
Responses from ozzy62
| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan I didn’t have an issue with the AMT driver really. What I didn’t like was using a 12” driver to reproduce the midrange. It was a little beamy and didn’t have the realism and texture of a good midrange reproducer. The X3 is the only spatial speaker... | |
| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan I love the way @pennfootball71 comes into a thread bashing three thousand dollar speakers as midfi, and to prove his point he compared them to speakers costing many thousands of dollars (some even six figures). Where does midfi end and high end b... | |
| How to make the Focal Kanta No. 2 speakers sing? @soix +1 | |
| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan For any faults the X3 might have had, bass response and accuracy was not any part of it. Truly world class bass from that speaker. | |
| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan pennfootball71 121 posts 11-04-2023 at 03:32pm Open baffle is midfi I don’t think I can go along with that at all. Sounds like an uninformed opinion to me. | |
| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan @ricevs I was an early adopter of the X3. I paid 7500.00 and that was before the big price increase. Although they were very good speakers, ultimately they weren’t for me so I moved on. Now that speaker is where I can see a good sized profit be... | |
| New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan The way I see it, I don’t think the term is meant to denigrate, but compliment. At least in this case. It’s pretty obvious that Clayton is not making bank selling these speakers at that price. I would imagine this is an introductory offer that has... | |
| Do you think driver “break in” is real? Very real… | |
| Warm Up Time/Cost of Operation Can you hear a difference or is it just infernal bias? Darn that infernal bias… | |
| Results of Actual Hearing Test and Next Steps @mahler123 The right to bear arms doesn’t mean the right to have them for free. Same for hearing aids. You have the right to own both, you just have to pay for them. | |
| Have you upgraded from a Freya? I got the Big version with four inputs and three outputs. The resistors are AMRT from AMTrans. Similar to AMRG, but Arek says they are even better. | |
| Have you upgraded from a Freya? I tried an LA4 and I didn't keep it long. It wasn't so much as neutral as it was forward and fatiguing. I'm sure someone will chime in with the old adage that it was just showing me the true nature of my system. But a Hattor Audio "The Big" preamp... | |
| Von Schweikert Event at New Life Audio, Day 2 It’s a shame that when Albert came out with the original VR4 (and even the Counterpoint Clearfield Metropolitan before that) that he was building speakers for the average working stiff. Now the entry point is 12K for a speaker that (on first glanc... | |
| Benchmark or McIntosh.... @avanti1960 I have never heard the Benchmark amps, but what you describe is exactly what their preamp sounds like. | |
| Benchmark or McIntosh.... For a system geared more towards music, I would choose different speakers, electronics and speaker placement. But at least you are a good sport about all this. |