Speakers The single most critical component
Long waste of time and space. Have your dealer set up a pair of Magneplaner’s correctly IN YOUR ROOM, forget all this stuff, and LISTEN. I don’t care what measurements you do, boxes distort and Maggies give you what you feed them. If you don’t like what you hear, change what you are feeding them. Enjoy! |
I've been looking at the Seas Exotic at $800 each. That driver has been around quite some time, Whereas the engineer at Voxativ had worked for Lowter, took Lowther to a whole new level. I am quite sure the Seas Exotic is a fine speaker, but my budget only allows 1 choice. Will be Voxativ in 2022. Besides you can not find even 1 YT video on the Seas Exotic, nor have i read even 1 **WOW** review on the Seas FR model. Whereas on the Voxativ, at least 1, maybe a 2nd comment left on Voxativ's speakers perforamnce at 2 different audio shows, one in Montreal claimed the Voxativ was the very best room at the show. Seas puts all their engineering in the old dianasaur models, whereas Voxativ is working on bringing the audio community the very finest in 21st Century High Fidelity, This is why I chose to ignore Seas. |
Room+Speakers get my vote. The whole system is an ecology so the "everything is important" argument is powerful. But, the question of "which is the most important component" provides the frame in which the question must be answered -- and the "everything is important" answer, to that frame, is tendentious and argumentative. So is (yet more) verbiage about "embeddings," which at this point is approaching a religion. If the room is not a component, the the OP is right -- it’s the speakers. |
Just typed in Voxativ audiogon's search engine seems there already exists atopic on Voxativ, There you can read the commenst, which backs up conclusions i;'ve arrived at independently, although no actual live experience, all my hunches are confirmed in the comments comming from those who own /auditioned the Voxativ. It is the battle of the Dinasuars vs Full range/TI Horns in the early 21st Century, My guess the war will be over come 2030-2040. There will not be any production of 93less db/under, traditional box/xover designs. All maket speakers will be Full range/Compression Tweets. 100% come 2040 You can get glimpes of this zeitgeist now, witness box/xover designs sitting on audiogon/ebay month after month. No one wants them even at half price. I'm lucky if I get cents on the $ for my Thors listed. Whereas try to find a high fidelity used FR. Don't exist, folks do not sell when they know its the speaker they;'ve been searching for all their life long https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/anybody-listen-voxativ?highlight=voxativ |
