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| JA Perspecitve Stereophile review erik,Interesting link. Though I didn’t leave fully convinced of your thesis.You mentioned a typical bump at 11kHz, but that doesn’t seem to be terribly relevant to hearing loss with age, the relevant loss tending to occur between 2K and 8K.Also, a... | |
| JA Perspecitve Stereophile review erik,Can you explain what you take to be JA's preferred "high end sound?" | |
| Are spendor speakers competitive in sound quality to KEF, B&W, ProAC, Audio Physic I think so, yes.Of course if you are talking about old Spendor models, they are wonderful sounding and many will say they still do some things "better" than many modern competitors.But in terms of sheer technical prowess, advancements in accuracy,... | |
| JA Perspecitve Stereophile review johnk,I don’t see the bias you mention from Atkinson (and I’m a long time reader). In the measurements for instance he calls it as he sees it, though usually - and this is for almost every speaker - he gives a "glass half full" reading in the summ... | |
| JA Perspecitve Stereophile review markalarsen,I’m not sure what you are referring to in terms of RMAF and 10 minute listening sessions.I had the Perspectives in my own home for several days (they were trickier to set up than my bigger Thiels). Atkinson of course reviewed them at h... | |
| JA Perspecitve Stereophile review I have two JL Audio 110 subs and the JL CR-1 crossover, which I'm trying with my Thiel 2.7s. If they work well I figure I'd use them with the Josephs if I get those as well. (I also have the Dspeaker Anti-node on hand, in case I want to room-eq... | |
| JA Perspecitve Stereophile review Actually the Perspectives are tricky in smaller rooms - the bass can overwhelm and they need good breathing space. See JA's measurements. | |
| JA Perspecitve Stereophile review markalarsen,No problem in criticizing the Thiels of course, but I can tell you they certainly are not bright by nature. They are incredibly smooth, the smoothest upper frequencies Thiel ever achieved, and smoother than the vast majority of speaker... | |
| JA Perspecitve Stereophile review That review has always struck me as a bit odd. Not that it wasn't an accurate account of what John heard. But I did long auditions of the Pulsar, and then the Perspectives first at my dealer. In both cases never did either strike me as bright ... | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia Speaker Footers Yes, that's what I was saying. | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia Speaker Footers I like the idea of the Townsend bars because they deliberately minimize raising the height of the speaker - which will in of itself change the sound for a listener and may even account for much of the change people percieve in using devices like t... | |
| Revel Salon 2’s (used) or new Magico A-3 (new) ?? audiotroy wrote:the Golden Ears tend to sound a bit dark and bass heavy, That agrees with my encounters as well.I'm very sensitive to tone/timbre and I get why many people think Golden Ear is a terrific bargain. The sound is big, pretty transpare... | |
| Thoughts on the most difficult instruments for speakers to reproduce? Let's hear why piano is so specifically hard to reproduce.I'd say some reasons:1. Spans more of the frequency range than most instruments, hence has wider scope to show weaknesses in upper and lower areas of the speaker design.2. Has a combination... | |
| Thoughts on the most difficult instruments for speakers to reproduce? String sections, and yes violin higher registers. It seems almost impossible to find sound reproduction that captures the combination of texture, bite and silkiness of real strings.And most speakers tend to thin out the body of the sound as you m... | |
| Most resolving Speaker I have actually found the general concept of "higher resolution speakers" to be somewhat overblown.Once you get to a competent level of speaker design, not grossly colored so as to obscure parts of the spectrum, most speakers IMO produce most of t... |