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| Differences between Harbeth, Spendor, Graham, etc. ? As someone who owns Spendor, And has owned the Harbeth SuperHL5plus, and now Joseph Audio Perspectives 2 I can attest to what @helomech wrote. | |
| Active Speakers Don't Sound Better Whatever the technical advantages in active designs, I’ve yet to hear a paradigm changing moment, listening to an active design. To me, they just sound like “yet another speaker” - They sound very good but not wow this is something new. I au... | |
| The Horror That’s interesting OP and unfortunate. Over the years, I’ve observed the experience for most audiophiles attending shows is actually the opposite of yours. Most of us go, perhaps expect to be blown away by something, A lot of surprisingly unimpre... | |
| Thiel Owners Sounds excellent! Thanks for the update Jafant. | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant How is your system? Is it up and running and what gear are you using? (More curious about amps, source etc, not cables...) | |
| Worst Speakers Ever?? The worst "high end" speakers I've ever personally heard are: Every McIntosh Speaker I've ever heard - the ones with the multi tweeters. Just bland, awful sound and a lot of it. Some big expensive NEAT speakers a local dealer demoed for me. He... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Remember when the Tekton Double Impacts were the new "flavour of the month" and (some) reviewers and audiophiles were "dumping their Wilsons" and other more expensive speakers for the DIs? Seems the heat of all that has worn off. Still, it's goo... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? Not a coincidence ;-) | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? I'm of two minds about this question. On one hand, I do want my speakers to measure well. It suggests good engineering for one thing. Also, if something is too colored I think it will bother me either immediately or over time. So I always look... | |
| Thiel Owners I've owned the 3.7s and 2.7s. Like most speakers, toe-in increases the high frequency content, toe out reduces it and mellows out the sound more. I toe them out somewhat, not to just forward facing, but enough to have a smooth balance and to inc... | |
| SabrinaX vs JA Perspective2 Graphene @panerai557 That's great. I'm looking forward to reading about your impressions. If you want put them in my Perspectives (and other speakers) thread. Or of course wherever. | |
| MBL Owners: The "Why" Behind Our Choices and the Search for the Ultimate "Wow" Factor I'm a long time fanboy of MBL. First time I heard them was at an early CES - the 101D I believe. I heard what sounded like actual live music coming from a room, entered, and saw the unbelievable looking pods-from-mars. Some jazz piece. I coul... | |
| ....and just when you thought you could Finally afford that pair of MBLs'..... Admittedly I can't understand the OP. But I heard what was either a smaller pair of the Ferguson Hill speakers at a Toronto show, or perhaps it was another manufacturer doing the same thing: basically lowther-type drivers surrounded by big plasti... | |
| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice Well, looked at the very specific individual level, it's a fools game. You can't know for sure. But if you want to take a more rigorous look at the question, where you can come to some justified conclusion about the ODDS of someone hearing pleas... | |
| What would your "perfect speaker" sound like. A perfect speaker would reproduce some of the most important characteristics (to me) that I hear in live instruments: timbral complexity, richness, full, with dense, palpable imaging and presence. And yet with a sort of combination of clarity an... |