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| "forward' vs "laid back" speakers Interesting. Quite a quest! And I totally agree with your--for the moment--conclusion. At twice the price point that I was looking at, the Liszt is extraordinary: it's more like a much, much bigger brother to the Baby Grands than it is a bigger br... | |
| "forward' vs "laid back" speakers I don’t know if anyone will be interested in this ongoing saga, but here’s an update.I recently was able to audition a bunch more speakers: the VA Beethoven Concert Grand, Focal Aria 926, Harbeth Super HL5 Plus, PMC Twenty 24, PMC Twenty 23, PMC F... | |
| Totem Forest Signature -or- Spendor D7 In other posts I've written about how little my own listening impressions of speakers square with reviews in magazines. That holds true, to a large extent, with individuals here too. If you spend enough time here, you'll start to recognize just a ... | |
| Chapman Speakers? I auditioned the T-5s a few weeks ago. Good, all-round speaker. Good timbre, good imaging, good sound-stage, good bass response, not too forward, not too laid-back. Driven by Rogue electronics, but I didn't feel the room I was listening to them in... | |
| Vienna Acoustics Liszt - Fad or Future? There are three drivers in the bass unit. I think VA is referring to the topmost one of them. The larger driver in the head unit is a true midrange. | |
| "Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers Price range? Other constraints?The usual suspects. Most Class A, plus Ayre, Hegel, etc. Since you're in Canada, you should definitely check out Sugden.I hear M series NADs sound good, but bear in mind that the digital technology is going to have a... | |
| Grover EX+'s His only other post is a PLUG (no joke) for a receptacle and plate cover. | |
| Speakers sonically similar to Sonus Faber? I've heard the Venere 2.5 and 3.0 in one system, and the Liuto in another, compared against VA Beethoven Baby Grand.The Veneres struck me as engineered for the mass market: impressive and ear-catching over the first 15 seconds of listening, but no... | |
| Vienna Acoustics Liszt - Fad or Future? I think the swiveling head is really just a matter of convenience. You can place those heavy bass boxes firing directly forward, spike them in good, and then concentrate on dialing in the midrange and tweeter.I've heard the Baby Grand and Concert ... | |
| Used 804 N or S vs New CM10 S2? I heard the series 1 CM10s (driven by expensive ClassE separates) and thought them good. They stomped all over the Golden Ear Triton 2s that were also available for audition--much better timbral texture and depth, musical instruments sounded like ... | |
| Zu Mission speaker cables Nonoise and Schubert, thanks.Schubert, have you specifically had the Missions in your system rather than the earlier Libtecs? | |
| Trenner & Friedle ART/Ella or Devore 9 or O/93? Having consumed all the reviews of the O/93, I expected that when I finally tracked down a pair and managed to hear them, that I would absolutely love them. Funny how that goes...Given by mega-buck tube electronics from Line Magnetic, the O/93s we... | |
| Vienna Acoustics Listz impressions I heard the Liszts driven by Ayre AX5 several weeks ago, and I thought them extraordinary. Superlative on all fronts. Not too forward, not too laid back, not too bright, not too dark, excellent imaging, soundstaging, full-bodied, etc. etc. If I ha... | |
| "forward' vs "laid back" speakers The Treos were driven by a Sim Moon 600i in a room on the largish size of medium.What I meant by forward, in particular, was where the soundstage started. On that day the soundstage started several feet out in front of the plane of the drivers, so... | |
| Proac problem: tweeters or crossover? Yes. I realized that shortly after I posted. In the tech's defense, we only had a telephone call, so it wasn't "eyes on". I gather that the Ansar Supersounds are polypropylene. I'm assuming, unless someone can tell me otherwise, that polypropylene... |