On the floor bounce thing, of course, everyone is correct that line sources would not generate much, if any, floor bounce.
When I first started with the temporary Magnepan system, and the old, screechy Sony CD player, I had the sense that the carpet pieces over the wood floor helped ameliorate some of the edginess. But it might very well have been my imagination.
At the moment, however, my priority is grabbing low-hanging fruit like getting the turntable powered off of something other than a legacy dirty electrical outlet, and getting the towers approximately the same distance from the sidewalls.
It is a wide-band positive neutrino generator made by a small company in The Netherlands. The neutrinos are believed to impinge upon microstructures in the eardrums and improve the linearity of high frequency hearing response.
At the moment, however, my priority is grabbing low-hanging fruit like getting the turntable powered off of something other than a legacy dirty electrical outlet, and getting the towers approximately the same distance from the sidewalls.
That's the easy part. I wonder how this guy from the Netherlands created a portable proton accelerator. Ron's electric bill is going to require him to sell his new system if the superconductor magnets are really in there!
Indeed. The system looks like it will just sound spectacular. I'm very jealous. Looking forward to seeing the updates. And more pictures are always welcome.
(Also, Ron, you give me hope that my system will one day get put back together after 2+ years in storage. If only I could find non-criminals interested in moving a shipping container's worth of household goods from Denver to David, Panamá. The non-criminals are almost completely uninterested in the current shipping environment.)
No loudspeaker is perfect. Each of us has to identify our sonic priorities and find a speaker which solves our personal sonic equations.
Listening yesterday for nine hours, basically straight, easily breaks my all-time music listening in one day record. So that's a good sign.
It's a little bit hard to explain, but "planar people" will understand this. It's kind of the sound conceptually that I am used to from 27 years of planar loudspeakers. I was somewhat concerned, but not terribly concerned, but it was a relief to feel this way, considering the reality is that I auditioned the Pendragons at Gryphon in Rye, Denmark, for only three hours -- and that was seven years ago.
I am tempted to say that planars maybe are more predictable sounding than other types of speakers, but I'll probably just get myself in trouble for that one.
I bet the Martin-Logan Statement E2 and the Pendragons (and Gary's Genesis Prime) sound more similar to each other than either one sounds compared to any other system.
Milan, would you like to send your Statement E2 system over here for a visit and we can compare the two systems together in the same room?
As a Martin Logan owner with my (small) Statement setup - I truly understand exactly what you mean… it IS a very special sound with panels or planars.. Maybe not for everyone, but one do as ones heart say, right?.
Yes Milan - ship your system over to Ron’s, so he can do an A - B test… for the sake o hifi, haha…
Joke’s aside… but it would be a neat thought tough.
Not just a planar. Also a dipole. Very room dependent. I seem to recall moving the e2 is a big deal. Maybe you can work out a trade.
Have you optimized room temperature and humidity? For the Gryphon not you.
Yes! The temperature and the humidity here are auto-optimizing. The temperature (about 60°F to 74°F) and the humidity (low) about 330 days a year are not merely optimal but ideal for the speakers.
Of course, the speakers, coming from Western Denmark, are not used to sunny, clear blue skies. But I think they will acclimate over time. It is annoying how easily transplants here get spoiled about the weather.
