Howdy, Jim, I am still looking forward to hearing your CLS/SW800 setup some day...On to topic: Prodigy bass. I heard Prodigy's at my dealer and the most striking thing about the panel/bass integration was that it was familiar. Familiar in that I recognized the sound from my own listening room. I went through the same type of break-in with my SL3s. Prior to being fully broken-in, the bass went from anemic to boomy. Compounding this change, I was dancing the speakers around on a seemingly endless positioning hunt. A nudge here and a scoot there and--yikes! I'm going from major suckout to mammoth reinforcement!
Anywho, when the bass drivers finally wore in, I found the bass response less placement sensitive. I can still get a boomy-boom-boom if I want it (don't), or a light tap-tap (don't want that either) just by moving them a few inches. But, when positioned correctly, the bass to panel transition does not draw attention to itself. Certainly it is not as seemless as a single driver, but, what is?!
For the record, I have heard from "them" that the panel requires virtually no break in. The driver has a certain tension that relaxes so gradually that the change is not anything like the change noted for dynamic drivers. The electronics driving the panel, well that may be a different story.
That said, I'm going back to listen to the Prodigy's at the dealer--it's been a couple of weeks...hmmm...
Anywho, when the bass drivers finally wore in, I found the bass response less placement sensitive. I can still get a boomy-boom-boom if I want it (don't), or a light tap-tap (don't want that either) just by moving them a few inches. But, when positioned correctly, the bass to panel transition does not draw attention to itself. Certainly it is not as seemless as a single driver, but, what is?!
For the record, I have heard from "them" that the panel requires virtually no break in. The driver has a certain tension that relaxes so gradually that the change is not anything like the change noted for dynamic drivers. The electronics driving the panel, well that may be a different story.
That said, I'm going back to listen to the Prodigy's at the dealer--it's been a couple of weeks...hmmm...