Anyone familiar with the Manger driver?

GB,

You, your brother and I are defnitely on the same page. The realism is what jumps out when you hear any Manger loudspeaker and it's unmistakable.

The Manger louspeaker has caused this SET tubeguy to re-think amplification. I can no longer accept slow, colored, mushy, bandwidth limited, rolled-off extremes, excessively expensive SET amplifiers as nirvana. Indeed, those colorations and limitations are simply unacceptable if one is pursuing pure musical reality.

As an aside, Daniela Manger (and everyone at Metronome, too) not only designs state-of-the-art equipment that is superbly constructed with quality parts, but their honesty and business integrity is the tops. All of this is a most welcomed change.

Jim Ricketts/tmh audio

GM,

I forgot to ask in my last post, which Manger loudspeaker did you hear?

Thanks!

Jim Ricketts/tmh audio

Oh, Man, you HAD to ask which model it was?? Now, you'd think I'd remember, but I don't. I remember the price was around 9k for the pair, because UPS had to come and inspect the damaged box (man, they must have dropped it from 8 feet high!).
When you hear a speaker that doesn't have any "fog" whatsoever surrounding the instruments, THAT is what live music is like. Unencumbered by any artificial humidity, aka "noise," the sound simply moves through the air. I'm used to good sound, but this was simply exquisite. It's a shame they were damaged, because I couldn't be absolutely sure of the dynamic range/contrast or bass depth or any of that, but for a broken speaker that still played, well....props to the Manger!!!!!!
Who the h is importing these??? I remember that HP, back in issue 112, talked about the Audio Physics Medeas. They were in his Editor's Choice. He found them "dazzling." They used the Manger drivers, as he pointed out. I believe he said they sounded like ribbons without the colorations...
Oops, my bad. I HAD to look it up: issue 109, page 80...
"... Joachim Gerhardt's dazzling Medea, which features on each channel three of the jaw-dropping Manger drivers..." which has "...all the speed, quickness and detail of a great ribbon (which it is not), without some of a suspended-ribbon's flexing FM distortions..."
I think he liked-ed it.

GBM,

Your comment "doesn't have the fog" is a great description of the Manger speaker including the Zerobox 109. Watch for an upcoming rave review!!!

btw, tmh audio is the US importer. More info at http://www.tmhaudio.com

Jim Ricketts/tmh audio

In my opinion,which I have held for sometime,is that every electrostatic and ribbon loudspeaker manufacturer should own a Manger in their listening setup.This will allow them to resist over playing the transparency card,which mars many a fine planar loudspeaker.
The problem with the Manger lies in the fact that it sounds bad at most times with most setups.It is a task to get them to shine,but when an experienced chap does get it right,few loudspeakers can beat the 103 in every aspect of reproduction, and those few cost at least 2.5 times upwards the price of a 103.