$35000 to $40,000. speakers what would you buy and why?
I am contemplating purchasing my End game speakers. The ones that catch my eye are the Magico M3, Magico M project, Stenheim Alumine 5se, Rockport Cygnus and the Songs Faber Amati Homage G5. My system consists of An Aurender N20 feeding a MSB Technology Premier Dac with Premier powerbaye. Preamp duties are handles by An Audio Research Reference Anniversary and amplification is a pair of Lamm M 2.2 mono blocks. I currently have Magnepan 3.7i's. I love their transparency and inner detail but they do not play in the low registers. I do not want separate subs.... My room is mediums sized. I listen to mostly soft pop, classical and some light rock. I am trying to walk the thin line of tranparency vs musicality. I would enjoy some suggestions and some sound reasoning behind members choices in speakers. I do not want this to morph into a bashing thread. Please stay on topic.
Agree Magico"s are well engineered BUT are very sterile sounding and not musical IMHO. This after hearing them at 2 shows and a dealers. As always you must listen yourself and decide. |
Op.its either steinhheim or legacy aeris for your budget and amplifiers the lammmps are not very powerful at 18 watts the steinheims are efficient overall across all models the lagacys are perfect transparent dynamic killer bass tunable and highly efficient
DAVE AND troy AUDIO INTELLECT nj Legacy dealer |
It's relatively easy to get dynamic speakers set up in a system that will perceptually sound more articulate than the Magnepans, or nearly any dipole speaker for that matter.I reviewed and own the Kingsound King III electrostatic speaker. Even electrostats like Sound Lab can be seemingly outdone by a very capable dynamic speaker. Note well, it all depends on the quality of the system setup and configuration. It's pretty easy to make an ESL sound better or a dynamic speaker sound better if you know what you're doing. |
Chuck, forgive if this has already been mentioned; I didn't see it. Why suffer the agony of losing some characteristics of sound that you love, forfeiting them for a different set of characteristics? Know for sure that you will lose several lovely attributes of sound quality when you lose the Maggies. It is not possible for other genres/tecnologies to replicate the sound attributes of a dipole. Sure, you will get a new set of attributes, and some of them the dipole speakers cannot do. Be prepared for some let down and some excitement as you transition the system. But why suffer? If you have the room and the means, own both! Have your panel and dynamic speaker, too! It's glorious to have different genres of speakers to swap out! Imo, best of all worlds in terms of speakers. I sent you a message to discuss further, if you wish. |
