Consider this.
The front/rear baffle of the Alsyvox design is like a sieve.
That's a compromise of dual sided magnets WRT the membrane.
In the Alsyvox design, the front panel is far more compromised than an Apogee or Magnepan. It loses a lot of essentially free radiating area due to this design element i.e. front and rear mounted magnet arrays.
I would also argue it causes diffraction effects that are clearly audible. I am pretty certain I heard it as a non-homogenous incoherent element of the design in the 2019 Hi-Fi Deluxe demo. A bit like everything has been split up into tiny pieces.
Unsurprising.
I am just saying the design is compromised, as any sensible engineer would know it is. As indeed any design is.
WRT to the earlier harsh sounding criticism by the Apogee owner and elsewhere. C'mon - any speaker that can't or doesn't or won't ever sound harsh is almost certainly rubbish i.e. is inaccurate and incapable of telling the truth.
But then again no speaker is capable of telling the truth. Just as in politics.
With harshness my only recommendation is to try and find the levels you feel to be in line with your expectations and adjust your equipment accordingly.
The front/rear baffle of the Alsyvox design is like a sieve.
That's a compromise of dual sided magnets WRT the membrane.
In the Alsyvox design, the front panel is far more compromised than an Apogee or Magnepan. It loses a lot of essentially free radiating area due to this design element i.e. front and rear mounted magnet arrays.
I would also argue it causes diffraction effects that are clearly audible. I am pretty certain I heard it as a non-homogenous incoherent element of the design in the 2019 Hi-Fi Deluxe demo. A bit like everything has been split up into tiny pieces.
Unsurprising.
I am just saying the design is compromised, as any sensible engineer would know it is. As indeed any design is.
WRT to the earlier harsh sounding criticism by the Apogee owner and elsewhere. C'mon - any speaker that can't or doesn't or won't ever sound harsh is almost certainly rubbish i.e. is inaccurate and incapable of telling the truth.
But then again no speaker is capable of telling the truth. Just as in politics.
With harshness my only recommendation is to try and find the levels you feel to be in line with your expectations and adjust your equipment accordingly.