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| electrostats vs ribbon drivers Nandric: I am not quite sure that i can follow you. Please excuse my english, it is not my native language. I am a German who lives in Switzerland. My pair of Grands is in my house as well as all the other speakers. I just use the Grand as my main... | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers Nandric: Yes, the Grand is indeed my pride an joy. We used to live in a sort of palace but moved close to Switzerland and out current house does not have a room to do them justice. But thats ok, one day they will get another room. Here is a pictur... | |
| Apogee Scintillas and how to change from 4 to 1 oh Hello there, you need to rewire them internally. There is no jumper for that externally. The absolute best resource is Graz in Australia from Apogee Acoustics. (www.apogeeacoustics.com). You can find a link to the crossover schematic here (http://... | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers Nandric: Hello and thank you for your response. Yes it seems that the best always die too young or go out of business. Which one is my baby? Well, i have 3 babies: One pair of Apogee Grands, one pair of Apogee Calipers and one pair of Apogee Stage... | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers Hello Nandric,sure, i can give you a bit of an overview: The first model was called the "Fullrange" which is until today the largest model they made which employes only ribbons (or planar magnetic bass / people agree to disagree on this point). Th... | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers just to give you a bit of correct history. The only patent issue Magnepan had with Apogee Acoustics was with regard to the Apogee DIVA ribbon tweeter. This was circumvented by backdating the serial numbers on the DIVAs. Apogee did not go out of Bu... | |
| Magneplanar 1.6 QR's problem The only possibiliy i see, apart from a broken resistor or connection in the crossover is the cable which runs from the crossover to the quassi ribbon section. Easy to analyze, just unscrew the crossover plate and tilt it out. To see the connectio... | |
| Apogee Duetta vs Mangnepan 3.6r I had Maggie 0.5, 1,6, and 2x 3.6's then Apogee Scintilla, DIVA, Duetta, (parents have Calipers) and i own an Apogee GRAND. The Maggie is less trouble, simpler to drive, move, mainting and easier on the pocket book. But when it comes to absolute s... | |
| Apogee slant 8s compared to larger apogee models? We knew that already Vince ^^ I had/have Centaur Minors, Calipers, Scinitllas, DIVAS and Grand's and heard very extensively Duettas.My fav. from the list of "buyable" speakers is the DIVA, then the Scintilla, Duettas and Calipers. The C-Minor is O... | |
| Apogee vs Soundlab The Grand is a fully active 4 way system. It needs 8 channels of amplification, 4 are build into the speaker. 2 Monos for the Subwoofer and 2 Monos for the Tweeter (all 4 are Krell KAS) with external power supply. Onboard displays and computers al... | |
| Apogee vs Soundlab I would say in terms of resolution they are about equal. Dynamics and sheer power, definetly the Apogee. Ultimate coherency the Soundlabs win. Both are top notch speakers. | |
| Which Super Integrated Amp to drive planars? Musical Fidelity KW500 if i am not mistaken. | |
| Shortening my short list Thiel 3.6 vs VMPS rm30? I vote against the RM30, i had a pair and the build quality, resale value and bass response is sub par. They also miss midrange bloom. Cheers | |
| How to insure shipping large speakers? I am not really sure if this helps. I helped shipped a speaker for my friend which comes in 5 wooden crates with a combined shipping weight of aprox. 3200lbs. We used BaxGlobal and they insured it too. Granted, the price was quite insane but they ... | |
| What speakers can b considered as world reference? Do we mean "reference" as in none-home audio? |