steve59
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| Your Forever Pieces? What and Why? I’m tempted to paint my SDR Ducati red, think anybody’d notice?Straying for a moment I came very close to a 2014 multistrada when my dealer had the annual fire sale, but I got caught up in the hype of the sdr and never even took the MS for a demo.... | |
| Paradigm Persona series I could be wrong but I thought the mid and tweeter were the same thru out the range? same with the front baffleAre we still talking about these speakers? They HAVE to be something special for all the attention they get. | |
| Ears hurt when listening after changing speakers I liked the suggestion that the different way a panel speaker loads a room vs a conventional box speaker has the owner listening at higher spl. | |
| High value, giant killer speakers? Maggies sound AMAZING, but are a bit limited in spl. | |
| Looking for a good full range floor stander The speakers also have to be childproof and be able to play insanely loud in a large room without damage and be satisfyingly musical in the evening? There's always something better and the only way to own the 'best' is to decide you like what you ... | |
| High value, giant killer speakers? Most all modern speaker cabinets come from china and even the most ambitious have some box resonance. I put my max at $10k then listened to the top 3 new offerings the C60, Kanta 2 and 3, and persona 3f, then started looking at what $10k would get... | |
| What is wrong with a sub? Idk, I spend a fortune on a pair of full range speakers and that’s what I expect. I had the salon 2’s and couldn’t get smooth bass from them below 60 he as common in this room, I get the dolly and bring my bipolar sub out of the ht and within a ha... | |
| Salk Audio Sound There was at least 1 room with Salk speakers playing at axpona this year and they are beautiful. The little hotel rooms keep me from putting much stock in what I hear there, but I would agree they’re on the musical side of neutral other than clini... | |
| Are Martin Logans considered polite? Martin Logan are painful to listen to. Tweeter had several returns of a large full range modek the saleslady was offering me at 60% off and I couldn't do it. even in the damped listening room they were putting out way too much hi fq information. t... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? Tough question since listening is subjective for one, then you have the room acoustics and components that can make the same speaker sound much different from room to room. Most overrated speaker has to be the KEF LS50. No speaker has gotten so mu... | |
| Kef vented tweeter Kef has come a long way with that tweeter! my R105/3 tweeter wasn't much bigger than a bottle cap with a pole to accept the mounting screw attached to the center of the back of it and the spl and resolution it was capable of was really impressive,... | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr Martin Logans make my ears bleed, Maggies otoh sound quite natural. | |
| Why HiFi manufacturers don't make active crossovers anymore? Bryston had an active dsp xover at axpona with a couple of their amps. The showman was claiming their approach was so much better than just slapping a couple 'plate amps' on the back of a typical speaker and calling it active. Their dsp xover list... | |
| Looking for a good full range floor stander I reread and you are shopping in the $12-16k range. My first listen would be the Vienna acoustics ‘the music’ your rooms big enough to handle the bass from the 3 9” woofers per box. | |
| Paradigm Persona series I think the point about cubic feet, and room acoustics is valid and waf. But I think if somebody’s in deep with a mark levinson or any other ‘premium ‘ brand i would definitely avoid starting over. Thats where audiotroy just plows straight ahead, ... |