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09-22-10
Coincident pure reference extreme doubled up. best i've now ... Montejay
09-22-10
Aztec athena 2 a Straud7
09-26-10
The von schweikert vr-33's just recently released july 2010. ... Doug52
10-04-10
Best i've ever heard were focal grand utopia's. my son and i ... Guystp
10-05-10
Guystp - see if they have a pair of the focal diablo utopia ... Mceljo
10-07-10
The best speakers i have ever heard now have to be the vande ... Platinumplus
10-07-10
i do and have done such with my x-1 series lll, x-2 series ... Oneobgyn
10-09-10
Did anyone mentioned tannoy westminster royal?if you like be ... Mikedimitrov
10-09-10
A friend has the huge tdl reference speakers and they are so ... Mcgarick
10-09-10
Very true mcgarick. i owned the tdl monitor for years, bough ... Roxy54
10-11-10
The 800 series with diamond tweeters by bowers and wilkinson ... Shiitaki
10-13-10
I have heard: ml clx (without subs which i've heard make a b ... Lloydelee21
10-14-10
The best ive heard is the paradigm s8's, this is from a choi ... Docks
10-14-10
The proac d100. Leogon
10-15-10
Easy it has to be the one that brings you closest to the hea ... Audiojoy4
10-17-10
Wow, people have listed some amazing speakers here and i've ... Aewhistory
10-24-10
The big corner klipschorns. i listened to a pair at a local ... Rel2
10-24-10
I have owned some different speakers but the ones that for m ... Lucy25
10-25-10
Having heard and owned horns, electrostatics (many), electro ... Roydavis
10-25-10
Tidal contriva diacera-se....my guess is that the more expen ... Calloway
10-26-10
I agree about the contriva diacera ses. when i first heard t ... Tbg
10-26-10
Hello roydavis, the coincident pure reference , is a name ... Weseixas
10-31-10
Take a look my speakers which i have bacheaudio model strea ... Bache
11-01-10
Tidal sunray, without a second thought! Argyro
11-01-10
Argyro, perhaps you have had better demonstrations than i, b ... Tbg
11-02-10
Having heard all tidal speakers on many occasions the past 3 ... Argyro
11-05-10
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11-16-10: Magnefan
Easy!! IMHO, that depends on 6 simple, elegant criteria:
(0) How good is your hearing? Has it been tested lately?
(1) Is your target live unamplified music or highly engineered rock-type sound? Do you own a variety of instruments you keep as reference, to ensure you don't end up barking up the wrong tree?
(2) Do you want musical transparency, or sheer power that will - or at least can easily - shake the walls?
(3) Do you want to feel like there are instruments playing in front of you, or do you want "an awesome stereo, dude!" that might well exude details?
(4) Does your available space have appropriate acoustics, either to recreate the feeling of a concert hall, or to simply accommodate a 5-piece instrument orchestra?
(5) Do you have others who can blind/double-blind A/B with you, and whose opinions you can use as confirmations or refutations of your hunches?
(6) At what budget? Seriously, I doubt that any $500 stereos will blow away $30,000 audiophile set-ups.
The "correct" answer will depend on your combination of choices from questions above.
I don't proclaim to be an expert, but I will say this:
I have heard many fancy sound systems in many places, and found most sounding horribly unnatural, requiring (re)training, i.e. listening until your mind plays a trick on you: your hearing apparatus adjusts (which may take about 15-30 min). I won't have any of that.
To me, not much matches the realism of Magneplanars; when different guests have avoided walking into my house in fear of 'disturbing people practicing music inside', I knew I had to have been doing something right! Especially when it was none of the baby grand, drum set, lute, guitar and other goodies sitting there that were doing the trick! Having gone through 4 pairs of Maggies over a quarter-century, I am now comfy with my Tympani IV's, driven by a relatively clean and adequate Harman/Proceed "ML" 431 workhorse, a Mark Levinson LNP-2 preamp, a Bryston BDA-1 DAC transforming various digital sources.
In a 45-ft long space consisting of a 14ft wide living-room extending straight (other than a peninsula) into the kitchen, there's a lot of space for my 9ft x 6ft "wall of sound"-waves to harmonize.
Is it live or is it Memorex? My friends get the discerning challenge when I blend live instruments with recordings played at exacting life-like levels. The answer? It's both!
There may be better stuff out there, but I am not jealous.
Hope this helps.
Magnefan (Answers | This Thread)
11-16-10
Rel2, get the ampeg reel and tape instead, they cheated .. ... Weseixas
11-21-10
The newer tad reference one. very hard to find a us dealer ... Audiologic
11-23-10
Wilson audio sophia's Rilands
11-23-10
I agree with audiologic. i listened to the big tads at rmaf ... Vladimir
11-23-10
Audiologic, how are the jbl's ? beautiful looking speake ... Weseixas
11-24-10
Easy...mbl 101 extreme. unreal. then again, for a quarter of ... Manoterror
11-24-10
A comparison at audiologic between the jbl and the tad would ... Vladimir
11-25-10
My theil 04a's that i restored, first speakers to ever give ... Scorchin34
11-30-10
The latest version of the vaporsound cirrus. in my 26 years, ... Timtim
12-01-10
I was at the ces in chicago in 1976 and saul marantz gave me ... Hotmailjbc
12-01-10
Hotmailjbc, i believe you are thinking of the huge infinity ... Bbro
12-02-10
Harbeth m40 on 4 post sound anchor stands. Rjhalla
12-05-10
One saturday i went to audio connection looking for a cd pla ... Mike_barnett
12-06-10
Mike_barnett, it is the high point of richard's speaker deve ... Tbg
12-06-10
The best speakers i have ever heard are the ones i have owne ... Oeiras99
12-07-10
Im a skeptic. i dont think that just because a speaker cost ... Paimei
12-07-10
Not to go off topic but i've compared exotics to the psb m2s ... Oeiras99
12-07-10
Oeiras99 - what does purchasing have to do with making a spe ... Mceljo
12-07-10
Mceljo. i will buy the mementos only if they sound better in ... Oeiras99
12-07-10
There are a lot pages to this. which psb's do you have now? ... Paimei
12-07-10
Psb m2 platinum monitors exhibit great energy, excelling in ... Oeiras99
12-07-10
I agree with paimei, the psb synchrony one floorstander can ... Mr_bill
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