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  1. ling_w

    Best Sounding Speaker in $3500 range

    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...
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    NYC Stores - On Vacation

    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...
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    Magnepans...any thoughts on them?

    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...
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    Best Sounding Speaker in $3500 range

    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...
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    Magnepans...any thoughts on them?

    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.
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    Magnepans...any thoughts on them?

    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.
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    Magnepans...any thoughts on them?

    Tom, As you can see in the original post:
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    Magnepans...any thoughts on them?

    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...
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    Magnepan dealers?

    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...
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    Magnepans...any thoughts on them?

    They sound a bit different. ML, being hybrids, will have bass coming out of a distortion box via a non-uniform drive cone driver. That combination will produce a sound wave direct at you and be able to knock you off your feet. Plus since it crosses over to ESL dipoles, that effect mysteriously...
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    The 'New' vs. 'Old' Technology Amp Sound...

    But those are the days when they just moved to transistors, not for sound quality sake. Many companies were glad to get rid of tubes but did not konw how to make the transistor amps sound good. The 80's wasn't so good either, with much of the THD race, but that is mostly with the mid-fi stuff.
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    The 'New' vs. 'Old' Technology Amp Sound...

    Those transistor amps from the 70's sounded terrible. It was the dark days of Audio when everybody abandoned tubes and went with the easy to own transistors.
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    Running 9.1

    Wyatt, Decoding Ambisonic is alot more complicated than that. First of all, Ambisonic is not filling extra channels out of existing ones as you described. It is taking a set of vector information and calculating what should go on each speaker at a given position. Ambisonic doesn't just do...
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    Magnepan dealers?

    If you want good freq response speakers, just pick the ones that are highly rated by Consumer Report. How do you measure freq resp with planar dipoles? Anechoic? Near field in a room? Combined speaker/room response? There is no std FR measurement method for planar dipoles, and anyone who goes...
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    Siblance- An Amp Thing Or A Receiver Thing Or A Preamp Thing

    The preamp definitely could be at cause. A preamp's gain stage in a HT processor could often have massive amount of feedback, especially when it is using run of the mills op-amps, which has an insane amount of gain and has to be tamed back with feedback. So TIM still exist in preamps.
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    Running 9.1

    Insanely amount of playback channels has always existed in Ambisonic systems. There are people out there with 24 or 48 discrete channels, with scores and scores of height channels. Channels below you is not out of the question since floor information is fully encoded into the recordings...
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    Magnepan dealers?

    Box speaker and planar dipoles sounding similar tonally? I cannot imagine that. How could the sound of speaking naturally out in the open be comparable to taking with ones head in a box?
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    Magnepan dealers?

    I think mail order of Magnepan speakers are allowed only if your state doesn't have a dealer. I wouldn't advise you to buy big maggie sspeakers if you never heard of them. Some people just can't seem to let go of that boom and bam of the boxy speakers. As far as comparision to the boxy...
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    Krell Showcase or Anthem AVM-20 ?

    Since Krell decided to name their new lower priced product as a seperate line instead of keeping it as KAV or HTS, would this thing's value drop like a rock later on? Is this the new Altair or KST? The stuff nobody wants?
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    Is it pronounced "Sue" or "Shoe"?

    In his website's main page, there are 13 references to the term Hsu instead of HSU. And on the the review page, there are over a hundred references to Hsu as opposed to 7 for HSU. Plus there is a person, Dr. Hsu, behind the company. With all those facts, how could someone even think the company...
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    FM dipole antennae

    Forget that useless antenna, build one like this, then do another of the same design using speaker cables. Then see if they are any different: http://www.mycal.net/projects/mpr/jpole.htm
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    Is it pronounced "Sue" or "Shoe"?

    If the comrads back in mainland had it their way, iwould be Xu. And Tsang would be Zhang.
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