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| How do you move HEAVY speakers with sharp spikes without lifting? mr_hosehead,I used (and still have) a dolly or "hand-truck" to move around my big Thiel 3.7 speakers. As I had to move them often enough, this got old pretty fast. It was necessary to get them from one room to another. But if I were only movin... | |
| narrow and wide baffles and imaging one of the reasons i like to own several speakers w widely divergent design philosophy but from competent designers....Same here.I own Thiel and love the first order/time/phase coherence aspect of the design.But I also enjoy owning diverging desig... | |
| How do you move HEAVY speakers with sharp spikes without lifting? I had to move big speakers quite a bit. Herbie's gliders did the trick. | |
| Is It Possible? I do think part of the "shock" of hearing electrostatics like the Quads comes from the utterly boxless quality of the sound. It does help electrostatics sound very detailed, but I do think that even the perception of transparency detail is somew... | |
| Is It Possible? whart,Yep I agree.My desire for the palpability factor would probably lead me toward horns of some sort (though Lowther speakers can have this factor as well). And in fact I'd love to be able to try some. Unfortunately horns are just a bad fit ... | |
| KEF blades 2 or Dynaudio C4? audiotroy,I agree you are in a tough position when giving praise to speakers like the Kef Blades which you sell. As you say, many high end dealers choose speaker lines that they are personally impressed by, and can feel good about selling. So n... | |
| Is It Possible? Not too surprised by myaudio168’s experience.It’s not for nothing that so many speaker designers, including those who design dynamic speakers, have held the Quad up as a sort of paradigm for the type of sound they are going for, in terms of midran... | |
| narrow and wide baffles and imaging In the wider baffle speakers I'm familiar with, a consistent impression has been a bigger, more full sound especially in the midrange, vs the typical narrow profile speaker. That's certainly a big aspect of what attracts me to the Harbeth and De... | |
| narrow and wide baffles and imaging I don’t know the answer here, but simply on some personal experience:The wider-baffle speakers that I’ve become acquainted with and auditioned - I’m thinking the larger Harbeth models, Devore and to some degree Audio Note - all have impressed me b... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? cd318,Yes I think we get what each other is talking about.I haven’t spent a lot of time with much of the Tannoy line, with the exception of the Tannoy Dimension TD10, which my pal had for a while.They definitely had the "warm woody" thing going fo... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? audiotroy,This is a ridiculous post. There is no such thing as a speaker that is good at reproducing timbre.Sure there is.All sorts of speakers can be better or worse at reproducing accurate, or realistic instrumental timbre. If you play a good re... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? fsonicsmith,Excellent comment!I believe I know just what you are talking about in terms of a "woody" timbre and compensating toward real life.I'm pretty nuts about correct, organic sounding timbre so that's always been job one for any speaker I ha... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? inna,It is remarkable that many don't understand that cables are components, they are equally important. Everyone understands cables are a component. You don't get sound without them, and they have to be matched at least in the most basic sense t... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm always happier with a company designs speakers to be used with grills on. This is because I'm not a fan of seeing the speaker drivers.When I see the drivers, I can't help but become more conscious of the process producing the sound I'm heari... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? cd318,I find that Classical music and Jazz really become captivating when it’s easy to distinguish the sound of the instruments rather than just the notes they are playing. That describes exactly what the Joseph speakers are great at. Pretty much ... |