Jamming with JAMO?

There is a R909 review in which several other open-baffle designs are considered at:

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/jamo/909.html

Of those discussed I've heard Linkwitz Orion and Legacy Whisper sound good at shows. In addition to these, the Lowther America field-coil dipole is quite special. At a lower price point there is Emerald Physics, which employs digital for crossover and room EQ and IMO sounds like it.

Dgarretson

Thanks much.

I think I read thru that one, but overlooked the mention of those other units.

The Stereophile review of the JAMO R-907 ADDRESSED THE SETUP NEEDS OF THE jamo LOTS BETTER AND i THINK YIELDED BETTER RESULTS THAN THE SIX MOONS editorial on the R-909.... including stepping up the power being fed to them.

The Six Moons article left me feeling lukewarm about them and from my own contact with the R909, I felt the writer of that article missed something somewhere in either setup or placement... or that room or gear were simply not liking those speakers. IMO.

I've looked at the Legacy Whispers for years now, with thier overall size the main objection and never even considered them as dipoles. Duh.

Are all dipoles usually so pricey?

You will not be disappointed with the Linkwitz Orion. I would have them if I needed more bass and loudness, but apartment living makes that impossible so I have Quad 2805.

Prices very depending on whether you can do any work yourself, but even the $8k fully built includes the power amps.

Hey Blindjim,
A couple of other open baffle speaker designs probably worth checking out are:
-Emerald Physics various (TAS Golden Ear Award, etc) -an Underwood Wally fave.
-Tekton Design OB's (also makes the Lore).

Interesting topic!

Thanks much.

Audio is one of those things which can be talked about till you are blue in the face... uh... bluer... and until you hear what a thing can do in a at least a reasonably well put together setup, your ability to speculate, and imagine, won't usually do it/them, justice. Hearing is the only honest way.

Hearing, even if things aren’t optimized can whet the sonic appetite. Enabling one to more closely speculate… or narrow the path a bit more.

I think I’m torn at least, if not a lot more folks too, between reproducing natural lifelike depiction of the captured musical venue, and creating a reproduction which meets my preffs as well, in the doing. Albeit this last ‘preff’ faction can detract from the musical facsimile somewhat by adding a bit more romance, warmth, euphony, resolution, revelatory or stark presentation… depending on where those preffs come into play.

In any case, the look and sound of the JAMO design sure affected me. It also reinforced the notion that money often determines the level of the sound quality one might achieve when it comes to speakers in general.

In other words… I’ve yet to hear a loudspeaker system… regardless the design, that once it gets to the $7 - $10K range that you are getting very good reproducers…. Once you hit the $10K & above MSRP… you’re getting speaker systems that are still more capable of presenting the audio in an outstanding manner… naturally there are other considerations, but thus far every 10-12K and above speaker I’ve heard sounded exceptionally good, unless the setup just flat out sucked… and a couple did, although it was pretty easy to determine why… anemic power, bad room, poor recordings… etc.

From the McIntosh XR &* 360L series, Magnapan 20’s, BW 801s (less than an optimum setup), SF Cremona (bad room inappropriately powered), Focus 20/20 (powered by a Denon 75wpc Receiver), BW 800s, Avalons, AZ Adagios, Focals, Revel Studio & Salons, Wilson Sophia, Alon/Nola’s, etc, in each case, one could pretty well see despite the poor setup the speakers had promise or not. Could work in my room or not. With my kind of electronics or likely not.

These JAMO speakers were no different. Prodigious bass output in a large open space with not tons of power on tap, and a clearly defined sound field or stage set well and very tuneful. Not optimized at all, but showing much promise. There was IMHO, no need at all for a sub if music only was the consideration… it’s not though… he wants them for an HT affair.

I’ll look into the Lindquist thingys… and closer at the Emerald Physics.