A good panel speaker will be better than compromised horns.
Natural Sound
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A good panel speaker will be better than compromised horns.
With members like you that status is easily earned
I had three pairs of Acoustat (1+1, Spectra 2200 and Spectra 4400), STAX ESL-81 and Audiostatic RS100s. Also had some Apogees and a ribbon hybrid of my own design (still have that in the cellar). Until i moved to horns I was a planar guy. I never found them to get boring though...even with transformer coupling.
If you can't take it don't try to give it. You don't last a sentence without aggravating yourself
I never liked those (not reliable) but the Stax i think (not know) should have been nice (Acoustats are very strong, maybe not the best sounding but reliable and therefore my choice).
Mozart didn’t have his own band, but he sure could write a tune ..
They were my first stats...very transparent but uneven response got annoying.
Yes, there was a DD amp and upgrade...
Twin OTL - Twinstatic Audio
It is a kind of competitor for me .... so we are not on speaking terms
For more info please PM me or we can start a different thread....
Great idea. Please move all of this SET/Horn talk over to the SET/Horn thread and PM each other about your specific system chat. Thank you.
Except that's electrostat / OTL they are discussing. It's natural sound though
I think that all topologies here can be naturally sounding, as we all agreed to disagree what that may be...
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Or come here and you'll shock them
Great idea. Bonzo can visit those in the Boston area who have not posted videos. Shocking would be one way to describe those encounters. Bonzo would increase his exposure to non SET/horn systems and digital and enlarge his video collection to include such systems.
Peter
Are you trying to get your system sound as realistic as it can be? Is that perhaps a more accurate word? or not sexy enough? Transparent, Zen like - plenty of descriptors to cover how a hifi system sounds.
A violin can sound beautiful, it can sound aggressive but it cannot sound natural as it is man made.
Beauty is natural, the beautiful countryside is natural - hifi is not. It is a reproduction of what is on a record, cd or file. There is nothing natural about it. that is my point.
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Often (rather most) times people "only" upgrade within the brands they own
Sure it gets a little better every time but at what expense
People should be MUCH more open to other options, like Peter became
That was me, for sure.
I finally gave up because Bonzo was giving me a wedgie. When he started twisting, I cried uncle and promised to switch.
Any instrument that you hear "as is" or in other words, the real instrument, must by definition be natural sound. Just because it was not sound "made by nature" doesn't mean it is not "natural" sound.
XV-1, I chose not to use the word "realistic" for the title of this thread. You could use it and start your own thread to describe the sound of your system. You could explain what you mean by the word, how you arrived at your component choices, and share all of that with the forum if you want. It would be interesting. I promise to not write on your thread that what you write is not true. It would be fascinating to read which of your turntables sounds the most "realistic" to you and why. I would enjoy that.
Well, keep in mind that his "chosen system" has only settled on horns and SETs in the last year or so...before that it was Apogee Grands and some others. You would think he has been an advocate for the horn sound for the last few decades...if you didn't know any better.
How would you contrast a natural sounding saxophone to a realistic sounding saxophone? To me the two SHOULD be one and the same.
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