Hi Soliles,
So yes, you have several questions here.
So first up yes, everything plays a role in the listening room. Forgive me, but the subject is so extensive I’d have to write an essay to go into any detail.
With that said, if you have space (especially front and back wall) planars like Clarisys, Apogees, etc. are in my opinion more forgiving than say the Mingus Orchestra — with it the side walls play a greater role and the energy from the passive woofers can be quite high. They like high ceilings as well and I do have that working for me with the new listening space. So yeah, I’d say my Apogee Duetta is definitely filling the room with less energy than the Orchestra. Even though my new space is pretty big I felt like the Orchestra required even more space.
But more than any of this, at the crux of the matter is my preference for open baffle diopole designs over classic box speakers.
Finally, see that’s the thing — the Duettas are simply better than the Orchestra in recreating the very reverb of the space — so like I heard in the church in Paris.
They also have extremely fast transients in combination with a powerful amp like the Soulution 710 (and the punch with the help of Rel 31) so I am (in my opinion) not missing much over what I was getting with dynamic speakers. In fact, I gain more overall.
That’s not to say, however, that Mingus Orchestra is not a great speaker. It’s fantastic in almost all regards. I wouldn’t have stayed with Marten for so many years. Until I’ve heard these refurbished Duettas on the Soulution, and then hearing Alsyvox and Clarisys, I didn’t think it possible for a planar speaker to have such dynamics.
Thankfully, was proven wrong so I’m back with my preferred speaker type design.
