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| Final-Audio New Series electrostatics @madtrader The 2+2's could produce bass but the quality of the bass was poor and unnatural. In addition to a deeper, more nuanced and precise soundstage one of the key positives of the M35 is the quality of the bass they produce where they excel ... | |
| Final-Audio New Series electrostatics @madtrader I owned a pair of Acoustat 2+2s. When I auditioned them at a friends house I thought they sounded fantastic and asked the guy how much he was selling them for he said $2000 and without thinking or any further research I ended up buying... | |
| Final-Audio New Series electrostatics @clio09 I agree that the M35s don't need to be played as loud as my Magnepan 20.7s in order to open up, but that doesn't mean that they don't sound good at higher volumes or can't play loud. I think you need to be careful extrapolating from the o... | |
| Final-Audio New Series electrostatics @madtrader Arcing is one of the common problems with electrostatic speakers and modern designs, including Final Audio, typically include various protective measures to prevent that. In the case of my M35s one of those protections is a fast blow f... | |
| Final-Audio New Series electrostatics @pindac Just to be clear, you haven't heard any of the Popori or Final speakers, and I'm guessing you haven't heard the latest models of the Clarisys, Diptyque or Alsyvox speakers, but you somehow feel qualified to express an opinion about the sup... | |
| Final-Audio New Series electrostatics I have no idea about the demand side but production on the M35s and shipment into the US has been very slow. I believe the first M35 was delivered in December and I got the second unit towards the end of January. I suspect there are still only a... | |
| Final-Audio New Series electrostatics @madtrader I'm not really sure it would be responsible of me to share the two tracks that caused arcing in my M35s. I have no idea if there is something specific about that music/recording that might damage other speakers. It is possible there i... | |
| Final-Audio New Series electrostatics I believe I got the second pair of M35s sold in the US. They have replaced the Magnepan 20.7s I was using previously. Sonically these are great sounding speakers with some limitations. I have had trouble with arcing in the panels playing classi... | |
| Gustard X30 disappointment I've owned the X26 and the R26 twice and I've never had any problems with Gustard. Great sounding DACs for the price. They are fairly high volume products sold world wide so it wouldn't be surprising if even 1 in 500 failed and those unlucky own... | |
| Puget Sound Audio Club bump | |
| Your favorite Cello recording This is a string quartet but if you like contemporary cello music it is hard for me to imagine you won't like this. Brooklyn Rider Four Elements | |
| Evoluition Acoustics at THE Show this year The System Three was my favorite speaker at the show. How much of that was the room and the associated electronics I have no idea but if I could spend that kind of money on a pair of speakers they would be on my short list. I felt they had elect... | |
| Anyone have experience to share regarding the Ortofon Cadenza Bronze MC cartridge? I own both the Cadenza Bronze and Black and I like the Bronze quite a bit better. But the cartridge I use now is Andy Kim's modified Denon DL-103 cartridge. In my system it outperforms all the Ortofon, Audio Technica, and Koetsu cartridges I ow... | |
| PS Audio BHK300 didn’t work this morning. I blew one of my BHK 300's back in December. Totally my fault, I apparently sent a massive static discharge through my system that also took out a couple of tubes in my preamp. I'm grateful the BHK 300's protection mode stopped it from getting t... | |
| DDC or Better Streamer? Personally I use an Innuos Pulsar even though I hate the Sense App. It simply sounds better than any other streamer I have tried and much better than Roon which is incredibly irritating since Roon is a vastly better interface. I use the Holo May... |