Phase Linear! Now, that's a name I haven't heard since the early '70s when I had just gotten out of college.
To get back to the Maggies discussion, I find having ASC Tube Traps to be extremely effective in damping the back wave, and I am quite certain they will allow the Magnepans to shine gloriously.
The 'traps allow one to tune them quite finely, so that a turn of 1/32" can either produce profoundly good effects - or bad ones. Once, someone was doing a review of the Audio Artistry Dvorak speakers at TAS, and we were doing it together. The other writer observed that the transient attack was "off." I knew he also had Tube Traps (I'd had mine since 1988), but he came to his around 1994 or so. I suggested he rotate one or two of them at the first reflection point a tiny bit. And I emphasized tiny. He took the suggestion well, and when we next talked, he found the attack wave had improved over his earlier experience with them. His room had still been "in play" as far as the sonic results he achieved.
Tube Traps are phenomenal, but people rotate them much too much, in my experience. They rotate it 1/2" instead of 1/16" and - depending on the room size - can do as much damage as they can improvement. I don't think I mastered them for quite a while. My former audio dealer in New Haven never mastered them at all. His room made WATTS sound quite ordinary because he couldn't take the time to set up the room correctly. But I expect, when my Maggies arrive, that will not be a problem I cannot solve.
To get back to the Maggies discussion, I find having ASC Tube Traps to be extremely effective in damping the back wave, and I am quite certain they will allow the Magnepans to shine gloriously.
The 'traps allow one to tune them quite finely, so that a turn of 1/32" can either produce profoundly good effects - or bad ones. Once, someone was doing a review of the Audio Artistry Dvorak speakers at TAS, and we were doing it together. The other writer observed that the transient attack was "off." I knew he also had Tube Traps (I'd had mine since 1988), but he came to his around 1994 or so. I suggested he rotate one or two of them at the first reflection point a tiny bit. And I emphasized tiny. He took the suggestion well, and when we next talked, he found the attack wave had improved over his earlier experience with them. His room had still been "in play" as far as the sonic results he achieved.
Tube Traps are phenomenal, but people rotate them much too much, in my experience. They rotate it 1/2" instead of 1/16" and - depending on the room size - can do as much damage as they can improvement. I don't think I mastered them for quite a while. My former audio dealer in New Haven never mastered them at all. His room made WATTS sound quite ordinary because he couldn't take the time to set up the room correctly. But I expect, when my Maggies arrive, that will not be a problem I cannot solve.
