pwhinson
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| Listening Levels for Classical Music / Slightly electronic sound at high levels Vandersteen, Magico, Thiel (as is in other Thiels such as the 3.7 which, with two large bass drivers should be perhaps better capable for properly reproducing orchestral peaks without compression.I know the amp is not running out of steam, far fro... | |
| A New? Way to Buy Loudspeakers?? I can only roll my eyes at this one. I have no doubt that you’ll hear differences but you’re introducing another whole set of "differences" independent of what these speakers would sound like in your room. You’re listening to speakers through spea... | |
| Paradigm Persona series With regard to the idea of an isolation platform I would also just point out that I'm not sure it would be desirable to raise the height of the speaker. At my seated position my ears about 3'6" from the floor whereas the Paradigm tweeter is alrea... | |
| Paradigm Persona series Those of you who have paired SET electronics with the 9H, is tube rush an issue for you? The reason I'm asking is that oddly there was NO audible tube rush when running my Aesthetix Janus or my Aesthetix Calypso (yes I have both) yet with the 9H,... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant To be honest I'm not sure what cables they were using, it didn't look like anything most people would recognize. It was all digital with an Aurender streamer and I believe the DAC was Esoteric. | |
| Thiel Owners MAGICO A3. Just a quick note for those who have been following my speaker selection odyssey: I listened to the Magico A3 today and while its a fine speaker the overall tonal balance is decidely on the dark side of neutral. NO ONE is going to fe... | |
| Paradigm Persona series @yyzsantabarbara What kind of music do you listen to? Classical, jazz? pop? | |
| Paradigm Persona series @frozentunda. I guess I’ve not decided unless and until I decide to buy something else but its obviously not a slam dunk. I hope this speaker purchase is my last before I'm put in my own fitted crate and sunk in the ground. I’m not sure I’m ready... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel and others: what do you see as the advantages of the 3.7s over the 2.4s? Do the 3.7s go deeper than the 2.4s? Can be driven louder? More highly inert cabinet less resonance at high volumes on the 3.7s? Better coincident midrage/treb... | |
| Paradigm Persona series OK, I’ve now tried to put into words my reaction to this speaker having lived with it in my own space for four days. Its a bit lengthy. I’ve measured the speaker in-room from here to kingdom come numerous different ways with pink noise and frequen... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? The other thing I would point out is I hear live symphonic music here in Atlanta at least twice monthly and in my experience live music doesn't sound like the all that focused with regard to image localization of individual instruments as I experi... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? The most holographic imaging I've ever heard has been in a friends JBL M2's. I haven't listened extensively but the thing that is particularly astonishing is the "size" of the localized images of various instruments. This is all in classical mus... | |
| Paradigm Persona series I know what the dealer cost is. Nobody is going to go to $20K. | |
| Paradigm Persona series @yyzsantabarbara Thanks again for all this info. I would love to audition the Vivid line but alas again I have to travel from Atlanta to another major city to find those. I heard the A3 a few days ago but it was in a tiny room, poorly setup. T... | |
| Paradigm Persona series Thanks @yyzsantabarbara. I have a friend who also liked the Blade 2 but I don't have a dealer locally who can demo it. Have you listened to the Magico's? They also I think meet our preferences as well as far as being very incisive, quick and de... |