Recent content by ling_w

Lee, Besides the primary designer, they have to have a design philosophy that is unchanging (but not static) and not fad of the week. Anyone who zig zags in their design are just someone who is still learning along the way or who doesn't design with core beliefs and devotion. I can't imagine...

My experience in Lyric have always been so-so. But it was always to check out Magnepan speakers, since they are the only ones in town. I wish they did try to make a pitch on me for better maggies, as they tried to do to Michael. Subsequent conversations with people in Magnepan indicates that to...

Arvin, The MGCC2 need special handling. Magnepan recommends you either get a dedicated sub for it and cross it over at 160hz, or use the Outlaw ICBM magnepan edition, which would reroute the bass to the main speakers. Sub integration is also a issue since the dipole planar bass is hard to...

Don't bother spending money on speakers that tries to simulate a line source with either mini-line source or non-uniform drivers. Or when most of the money goes into making the box not sound like a box. Go with the magnepans. The 3.6 is slightly more at $4200, but practically all the money is in...

Chu, Is it intent or ignorance, besides the scheme that would have had to been created to keep Soc Sec afloat if it was ever privatized, with all the current receipients having to receive their payment out of some virtual pool. Plus there is a difference between intent and malicious intent.

Dynamics doesn't mean deafening SPL. It should be determined by how accurate it reproduces the front row at a rock concert. If it is, then the car audio competition guys wins hand down. There is dynamics even in music that peaks out at 90dB.

Tom, As you can see in the original post:

Tom, We are not here to talk about tastes, as the original poster asked, he wanted to know how Maggies are compared to Martin Logans. I don't think he is coming from a megaphone background, so I don't know how relevent your information is to him. Plus, at least I heard of some recent top of...

Tom,

Larry, I know there are better versions of putting ones head in a box. I've heard quite a few. But it does not come without a price. With the billet aluminum, corian, granite, lead laminate enclosures of high end spekers, the cost of the enclosure probably approaches 90% of the total speaker...