What is going to be your endgame speaker?
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Mine would be a replica WE 13A like from:
What would be the price, does someone know?
Matt
I am happy with Lansche 4.1 driven from 120 hz up using active crossover.
After adding pair of Rel 31s, the soundstage got wider and deeper.
13audio seems to make replica.Mine would be a replica WE 13A like from:
What would be the price, does someone know?
Matt
If you want to taste WE replica at reasonable price, you shall try Line Magnetic.
The Tymp..1D are excellent speakers..... try bi, or tri amping them.....View attachment 111250
This magnificent Magnepan Tympani-D is also available around Seattle, I may go for auditioning this speaker.
Go for it.....with the right amps, and a good crossover to roll off the Quads below 100, they will amaze you......View attachment 111240
Wow this Quad stack is available at Ebay.
I had longed for Quad for long time.
Shall I add this one to my collection?
Same here. When I want to stretch out and listen to music without the crazy audiophile in me rearing its head, the Quad ESL-57 remains my forever end game speaker. As a very well paid IT executive in the San Francisco Bay Area, I can pretty much write a check and afford any speaker on the planet. Sadly, more money does not get you a better speaker, IMHO. So, the 57 is still unmatched for me. You can’t listen to it as an audiophile speaker. It’s not a boom boom sizzle sizzle kind of hifi sound popular these days. It’s got lots of limitations, but what it does it does beyond compare. Even the later 63 based Quads don’t sound as good to my ears, even though technically they are superior.
When I want to revel in the sound of a glorious 1 watt SET, I turn to a pair of Klipsch La Scalas. These are as intoxicating as the 57s, but with a completely different sound. They play as softly as you want, but go effortlessly loud on very low high quality power. With the best tubes money can buy, e.g., vintage Western Electric 422a rectifier and Western Electric 300Bs or 421a triodes, the La Scalas sound gorgeous. You’ll need a very high quality tube DAC or first grade vinyl to hear them at their best.
Nothing else interests me as far as speakers go. I have zero interest in buying a large dynamic speaker with half a dozen drivers whose sound is stitched together with a complex crossover.
The hifi world is waiting for its next speaker genius, after Peter Walker and Paul Klipsch. No one seems interested in designing low distortion speakers any more, after these two brilliant designers. Now all you have is boom boom sizzle sizzle.
Yes I am intrigued by this beautiful piece.
The only problem is tha I already have too many speakers.
If I get this, I shall set up another listening room on the thrid floor.
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I'm "only" 53 so I'm hesitant to say that what I have now are my endgame speakers, reference system speakers anyhow. I still continue to set up systems in our other rooms, spaces and properties.
The VSA Ultra 11s do it all for me. They have configurability, have stat like mids (I own Quads and Stax 'phones so yes I know stat sound) and do what few other speakers can and that is to deliver a unified pressure wavefront. The price to be paid is that they will not reach their potential with modest power. Quality high power that do what low and mid power tubes and pure class A SS are very, very rare and expensive. In return, none of the weird effects of trying to fight the laws of physics.
If the question is, If I were forced to downsize and or have a system in a none dedicated space, I would really really have to think very hard about that.
The VSA Ultra 11s do it all for me. They have configurability, have stat like mids (I own Quads and Stax 'phones so yes I know stat sound) and do what few other speakers can and that is to deliver a unified pressure wavefront. The price to be paid is that they will not reach their potential with modest power. Quality high power that do what low and mid power tubes and pure class A SS are very, very rare and expensive. In return, none of the weird effects of trying to fight the laws of physics.
If the question is, If I were forced to downsize and or have a system in a none dedicated space, I would really really have to think very hard about that.
My true end game would be muotple speakers and a headphone.
an electrostatic headphone.
an electrostatic speaker
a ribbon speaker
a horn speaker
a dynamic speaker.
I would listen to them in rotation.
an electrostatic headphone.
an electrostatic speaker
a ribbon speaker
a horn speaker
a dynamic speaker.
I would listen to them in rotation.
To a large degree this is also true of my friend's Magico M Project speakers. While you can get good sound with less intense amplification, only his powerful CH Precision monoblocks could make those speakers really sing with great life and dynamics (both micro and macro), next to natural, warm tone. It's indeed a price to be paid, but it's worth it.
Me, rich? lol
I could do it for less than the price of a Magico M6.
I would love to hear the Sony SS G9 again. I liked it very much at the time 95 db/1Watt suitable for tubes. I would like to lock myself up with him for several days and listen. like in a museum, that everything is in perfect condition. I think he owns equipment worth several million euros.
Use headphones
Use headphones
You know Al, this thread got me thinking. If I had a decent sized family space to set up in, my initial thought would be to go back full circle and build myself a sub-sat system. Then I figured there have been some open baffle speaker systems that I have really enjoyed yet of all speakers save field coils this is something I've never really had a chance to play with. They typically like to be closer to the front wall than all other usual suspects but retain the openness I like from dipoles and super-cardiods, Those I've liked like Spatials and Emerald Physics before they went active, have also tended to play well with amplification in the 30 to 100 wpc range. That's A LOT of good amplification to choose from. These are the two types I would most probably choose from. The sub sat because I know for sure I can get the results I want and the OBs because of the challenge.
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