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| 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 ... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? Depends what exactly you are looking for when you want Rich Timbre.To some richness evokes a fullness of tone, where you really feel for instance the weight and presence of a tenor sax in the bottom registers or whatever, that may be thinned out i... | |
| YOUTUBE and Vinyl are gonna bankrupt me! I planned to move from my current squeezebox-based server to Roon, but that was slowed down by my dive in to vinyl which is taking much time away from my digital front end. I hope to try Roon soon. | |
| Accurate vs Musical @dawgbyte I might be able to help a bit.I’m a huge fan of Hales speakers, in particular the Transcendence line.I had the T-5 floor standing speakers for quite a while and later, when I switched my room around for home theater duty and didn’t have ... | |
| Listening Height Adjustment -- Is This Why Two People Don't Hear the Same? I'm always playing with acoustics, including listener height and position.Even just placing a small pillow behind my head alters the sound (focuses and brightens to some degree).In fact I suspect that at least some of the "component break in" phen... | |
| Thiel Owners Dan,You’re gonna get us kicked off this thread ;-)I’ve got another long thread going detailing my auditions of many speakers, often comparing against my Thiels. Most don’t fully hold up.I even preferred my Thiels to the latest Magical A3 speaker.I... | |
| The most fun you can have in audio is DIYing your own speakers You, sir, are on a mission! : ) |