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| Your Side by Side Experience With Best Vintage vs Newer Expensive Hi Tech Speakers The problem with the argument of the advance of technology and how it has been to the sonic betterment of modern speakers largely roots in how it relates to different speaker principles when comparing different eras here. Vintage speakers, certain... | |
| How do SVS subwoofers compare to REL? @bi0drain --May I remind you there are some Crazier Monsters out there now.. the Marianna 18/ 24 from Deep Sea Sound, the Quad 18 inch S-7201, JTR Capitvator 4000 ULF....We are getting into some extreme subs... single digit output for all of them.... | |
| Wide dispersion + high efficiency + detail + coherence in a speaker? As the OP goes:...Vandersteens have a tiny sweetspotMBL are lifeless and are not coherent at all.Ohms lack in dynamics and detail.A rather unambiguous way of stressing the importance of efficiency (i.e.: liveliness and dynamics), as well as implic... | |
| Wide dispersion + high efficiency + detail + coherence in a speaker? @zuio --Perhaps some older Tannoy Gold 15" dual concentric drivers would do the trick. Simon Mears Audio makes Tannoy Autograph replications with these drive units, refurbished and all, and they provide you a uniform dispersion pattern (much more ... | |
| Waiting on 802D3 to arrive -- Will I need a sub? I’m with @mr_m on the preference for a sub or two, regardless almost of whatever main-speakers may be used. And I wouldn’t skimp on the size of the sub(s) either as I feel you really can’t overdo capacity, but any sub capacity can be dialed wrongl... | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) @taww --+1 for Belles amps. Quite a few Pass amps I've heard err on the side of a slightly dull or boring sound (though they're obviously highly resolved, refined and perhaps too smooth), whereas I feel Belles (i.e.: the SA-30 and SA-100) are more... | |
| How do SVS subwoofers compare to REL? @lowoverdrive --Using the SVS SB16-Ultra myself, but have no experience with REL. From what I’ve read of the latter they’re very musical subs, and integrate extremely well with the main speakers - depending of course also on ones ability to proper... | |
| Dynamic compression in speakers themselves? @mtrot --To reiterate your initial inquiry a later clarification: The primary audio characteristics I want to achieve in my system is an open, uncompressed, unstrained, and highly dynamic presentation. What I don’t know much about is how much spea... | |
| Dynamic compression in speakers themselves? @mtrot -- I guess I should clarify that I’m not looking for high SPL playback. I’m just looking for that big, relaxed, open, uncompressed sound. I want dynamic crescendos in classical music to get my attention, but with a sense of ease, if that ma... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? @kosst_amojan -- Siegfried Linkwitz is the guy out there making foolishness out of all the "narrow dispersion is good" silliness. Maybe it's good in a PA, but not a living room. This crowd here deliberately avoids and ignores anything that disagr... | |
| Dude, where's my bass? Oh, lost to stiffened rubber surrounds...who knew? @johnk --... system I am running as I type uses drivers from the 1950s 60s 70s all are orignal all are in spec. They sure dont make it like they use to.Would you expect new, more or less equivalent drivers with the same diaphragm (i.e.: paper) and... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? Let’s get down to brass tacks here. Most haven’t really heard horn speakers at all, let alone very good horn speakers. Those that have have heard hybrids mostly, and though hybrid solutions can sound wonderful they are, in their less dedicated ite... | |
| high-efficiency loudspeakers @bache This speakers is huge. WAF-is almost zero I’m not aware if you’re referring to any particular of the mentioned speakers, but yeah most of them are not necessarily what you’d call spouse-friendly :) I’d wager though there may be exceptions... | |
| high-efficiency loudspeakers @bache What is the best high-efficiancy loudspeakers? If you have it, are you happy ? Don’t know what’s the best out there, or to whom, but some of the better of the crop true high efficiency speakers (>95dB or, as suggested by poster atmasph... | |
| What are the best loudspeakers under $4000 to re-create lifelike piano @joeschmoeI can understand why you, or anyone else for that matter could be discouraged reading this thread, but for my part - with my post above - I’m trying to get after what it would take to approach a fairly realistic(!) reproduction of the (g... |