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In Reply to: wilkommen, posted by late on August 15, 1999 at 17:34:13:
found that I pretty much disagreed with their entire conscensus, but without significant regularity to rely on it, thus rendering it sufficently useless. I don't know if that's still the case.I was looking for an audio quality firmness (which seems to only occur when a single driver reproduces a signal) rather than an artificial spacious feel (usually accompanying di-/bi-polars & D'Appolitos which these mags seem to find them irresistable).
Don't get me wrong spacious ambient sound is cool, but on dialog it's just plain problematic with undeniable interference patterns (as found in generic horizontal D'Appolito center channels) that garbles pronunciation ... not to mention just not right. That's why I eliminated the back wave from my Maggies ... even in the rears. I want it fast, tight, delicate, clean, and smoooooooooooooooth ... with plenty of character & image depth.
If you know of a mag with this POV, I'm listening.
Hi,
i heard an elctrostatic home theater setup once. It was at goodwin's high end in mass. Think the speakers were martin logans. They were the only thing i have seen that i would call an audiophile home theater. The salesman played the diva scene from Fifth Element and she gave me shivers and goose bumps. Of course the price of that hometheater would also get you a Lexus....
Sometimes, the background music overwhelms the movie on my sytem. I simply do not know why that is. But i suspect i have balanced the system too much towards music. BTW, high end liquidity in gunfire sounds quite silly. ANY dual purpose system will have very real compromises. The company that balances the two things the best, IMHO, is Linn. Hope you find what you seek
I've heard the fronts from a modest M-L system that had a dynamic 6.5" cone woofer on the convex sides & a dynamic 1" dome tweeter on the convex center, but not the rears. In fact, I've never even seen the rears. Although, I've seen an advertisement for a concave center with dual symmetric outer 5.25" cones. Maybe this would sound less confused than the one I heard. The character & voice mismatched as the sound switched from dynamic monopoles to static dipoles as the sound migrated from on channel to another & having them powered by McIntosh didn't help. These did confirm my predilection that they sound like prime candidates for tube amplifiers though.Thanks for the tip on Linn. I'll try to find a preamp to listen to.
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