Greetings Cdwallace;
First my apologies as I'm currently well outside your budget of ten thousand dollars, didn't read your initial post before responding.
While I'm sure we could all spend more to obtain that next best component or upgrade, whats important to me may not be important to you or others.
Fair enough, now in terms of whats important to me in the context of my system and its overall performance relating to both movies as well as multichannel...
Full range sound with appropriate dynamic scale for both musical content as well as the movie effects...
To keep the main channels, center channel and surrounds cone driver properties identical along with amplification for final voicing for seamless surround....
A wide dispersion speaker for various listening positions off axis very conducive to hometheatre minus the penalties of sweet spots...About all I feel it gives up are pinpoint imaging and perhaps it doesn't reach the heavens in uppermost frequencies the way a ribbon Magneplaner will...Although separation and general location of performers is rendered complete..
Plenty of Quality power on tap along with plenty of cone drivers to handle the power and deliver proper SPLs, Plenty of headroom available for dynamics...And with two Bag End 18 in. subs along with a Mirage BPS400 for .1 effects....
The performance really speaks for itself and is really a must here for final listener dependant specifics, but safe to say in my world it truly satisfies with excellent renditions of performers playing , instrumental tones along with what I feel is tremendous dynamic shading, suspending disbelief, allowing you to really become immersed in the recorded event, be it multichannel movies, concerts or two channel listening.
The combination of tubes in my sources and Plinius amplification are almost magical and very satisfying never imparting any sense of fatigue. System involvement takes on a new level as many instances it becomes hard to remove yourself from the afternoons playback, turning it off almost induces a feeling of regret.
Now with that being said this system is a labor of love on my part that took many countless hours of research, auditioning at various dealers, and final tweaking of speaker placement, tubes nos, interchanging and mixing of cables, powerline conditioning, etc... and is very much a sum of all the parts synergisticly performing as one to achieve my desired results. Not to mention the cost which incidentally was substantial as I prefer buying new, knowing very well I wont be letting any of this go. Hows it sound?
Very musically satisfying as well as involving, TREMENDOUS!!!
Regards /// Tim W... ///
