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| John Atkinson's thoughts on the New Vandersteen System Nine from LA Show -- "A more hyped treble only does one thing to someone with no hearing loss - make them run out of a room."That's the type of..sorry to say...blinkered... approach to the subject that I was talking about. That's simply wrong, as plenty of speak... | |
| John Atkinson's thoughts on the New Vandersteen System Nine from LA Show BTW,The discussion as to "what sounds natural" vs "artificial, over-hyped" is one that interests me. You always see audiophiles - and reviewers - talking about some approach to speaker making being more honorable, and for those who really appreci... | |
| John Atkinson's thoughts on the New Vandersteen System Nine from LA Show erik,Your "stereophile curve" is an intriguing hypothesis...but I just don't see nearly enough data supporting it. And I very often see JA lauding a speaker when it measures very flat, so there's much counter evidence IMO. | |
| Thiel Owners oblgny,Your post reminds me that a leanness has always been the characteristics of Thiel speakers I listened to (and it's a very common description of Thiel). Virtually every Thiel I ever heard always sounded amazingly accurate, but also like it ... | |
| Thiel Owners BTW,Auditioned the Raidho C 1.2 monitors today. They would normally be prohibitively expensive but a dealer has a great demo pair deal so I gave them a listen.Very nice high end frequencies in terms of smoothness combined with subtle detail - ope... | |
| Thiel Owners robinbarour,Thanks....though your comments on the 2.7 bass sounded promising...right up until you mentioned you use a sub with them. It's no wonder you find the bass satisfying ;-) | |
| John Atkinson's thoughts on the New Vandersteen System Nine from LA Show erik,What exactly is the "stereophile curve?"ctsooner described a rising treble in many speakers and you seem to attribute this to JA, yet I regularly read JA criticizing speakers for non-linearity in the high frequencies, particularly peaks or a ... | |
| John Atkinson's thoughts on the New Vandersteen System Nine from LA Show erik,I can understand your view.And I tend to find JA's reviews less descriptive, leaving me less of a sense of what a speaker sounds like. He will tend to talk in terms of frequency response etc, whereas Michael Fremer will paint a subjective p... | |
| Thiel Owners I was just thinking yesterday "Now I see why some people get into DIY."That way you can attempt to build speakers that do the things you are looking for. If you have the talent, time and persistence (which I don’t...I have zero interest in DIY).As... | |
| Thiel Owners BTW... I mentioned earlier in the thread my interest in Kudos speakers as well. There is almost no talk on Audiogon about that brand, it seems because they are a small British company that doesn't get much word outside Britain. But a couple ... | |
| Thiel Owners nkonor,Yeah, my wife...and especially one of my audio buddies...mock me if I suggest I will end up with "the speaker." If I haven’t by now, I probably never will. I always start pairing down my speaker collection, but then build back up again. Esp... | |
| Thiel Owners Jafant...while I appreciate your enthusiastic input in to this thread, I do find it frustrating that you keep saying things like this, especially to me:-------------"a room size of 20x20, minimum, is the starting point for owning the CS 3.7 speake... | |
| Thiel Owners I will certainly report my impressions here. It would be cool if the 2.7s work out for me.After a lengthy auditioning process of numerous smaller speakers, the one left that I'm still considering are the Joseph Audio Perspective speakers - far sm... | |
| Thiel Owners Did anyone here notice that nice pair of Thiel 2.7s in ebony on audiogon a few days ago?I bought them! (Sorry to anyone who was bidding, I know it sucks to not get an item).When I first joined the forum it was right after Thiel stopped production ... | |
| What are some of the downsides of owning a Magneplanar .7 or 1.7i ? clearthink,What you are saying about getting mono sound from Maggies in the middle of the room isn't making sense to me. First, it doesn't seem to make theoretical sense. Second, in practice, I used to have Quad 63s (diopoles) in essentially the... |