The most important aspect of GMA speakers to me is that they sound more like performers in your room, than a just a good pair of speakers playing music in your room. Exciting is exactly how I would describe them. And bass response is world class when you move up to the flagship. The monitors will give you sufficient bass for what they are. Shakey |
Bombaywalla, That was one of the best responses I've ever read here at Agon. Very well said and with good info. Just one error though....... Meadowlark and Thiel ARE time and phase coherent speakers. JMLab definitely not. Only a couple Dynaudios are capable of being, and only then IF set-up very strictly speaking. Either way. The Meadowlarks and Thiels are the one that were designed to be phase coherent. |
03-28-12: Prdprezyeah, I know that Thiel does advertise that their speakers are phase coherent but I do not believe that to be true hence my statement the way it was written. Here is some proof to back up why I do not think that Thiels are phase coherent: http://www.stereophile.com/content/thiel-cs6-loudspeaker-measurements This is for a Thiel CS6 speaker. Look at Fig 1 which shows the impedance & phase plots. The phase is all over the place going from -45 deg at 45Hz to +22.5 deg at 20KHz & every phase angle in between. IMHO this is hardly phase coherent! http://www.stereophile.com/content/thiel-cs24-loudspeaker-measurements This is for a more recent Thiel CS2.4 speaker with the review done in late 2005. Again, look at Fig 1 which shows the impedance & phase plots. It's worse the older CS6 speaker as there's even more phase shift in the 20Hz-20KHz audio band!! Once again, hardly phase coherent; au contraire, it's quite phase incoherent. In comparison, look at the impedance & phase plots in Fig 1 of an older Green Mountain Audio speaker - the Diamante. This review was done in 1998. Look how flat the phase response is in the 200Hz - 20KHz range. Very nice indeed! Now, this sort of speaker is distorting the phase minimal hence far, far more phase coherent. There is a dip in the phase to -30deg at 70Hz due to the bass enclosure (the bottom rectangular box). http://www.stereophile.com/content/green-mountain-audio-diamante-loudspeaker-measurements |
GMA has a white-paper on its web site concerning time allignment and phase coherance and the relationship between the two. About half way into it, they make the point that time coherance is the condition for phase coherance-- not the other way around as mentioned above. http://www.greenmountainaudio.com/time-and-phase-coherence/ I recently had a two-week audition of the Eos-HX monitor. The HX reportedly reduces phase shift to +/- 1 degree across a wider frequency range than with prior Eos iterations. I liked these speakers very much-- particularly good value at their $4K MSRP. |
