01-16-09: Acoustat6
"the acoustic ambience of a panel that radiates forwards and backwards (nice for chamber, church or low level classical music)-"
Yes, electrostats (or any dipole for that matter?) are bad bad bad bad bad for any other type of music particualy rock, progressive, symphonic, punk, be bop jazz, straight ahead jazz, electronic, dance, orchestral etc, well you get the idea. I am not even sure why they make these things. Thankfully I like Ann Murry, Carpenters, and churches without organs music.
Acoustat6, Can you tell us more about your extensive experience with electrostats, planar, dipole, etc. speakers? My speakers can play, with authority, everything you throw at them, of course except anything bellow 30hz. I have also heard non-boxed speakers play loud and well anything from rock, punk, symphonies, ... |
the spendors and many other speakers having drivers in cabinets have cabinet colorations.
the differences between spendors, proacs, rogers, etc., and quad 57s are huge. while there is no explanation for taste, i find it surprising that anyone who loves the virtues of quad 57s can appreciate a cone design. i have yet to hear one that i would want to own, especially after listening to quads.
i recently reviewed a decent monitor speaker, using a modified heil tweeter. they were no match for quads. |
Your loss. Its wonderful to find someone with so refined a taste that he can tolerate only one kind of speaker. I like the Quads, but they have faults of their own. I am amazed that you would have expected the Heil tweeter to sound good. I remember when a store in Chicago sold 14 pair of the original Heil speakers and got every one of them back in trade in a short period. I will call it to your attention that when the European national radio networks stopped using Quads as monitors they replaced them with Spendors. Of course their only concern was fidelity to the original sound , not maintaining their pose as an audio guru. |
most "box" speakers sound "boxy", whereas panel speakers do not have box calibrations.
i guess one man's trash is another's treasure.
for the record, i could live with any panel speaker, from magnepan to martin logans, apogees, audiostatic, analysis audio, and other panels. cones have colorations which i find annoying. |
most "box" speakers sound "boxy", whereas panel speakers do not have box calibrations. I agree in the sense that a great panel is wonderfully devoid of coloration in the midrange. However, MrTennis how would you describe the sound of kick drum and toms? To me they naturally sound "boxy".... All I am saying is there is "bad boxy" sound from cabinet waffle and "good boxy" sound from instrument resonance... |
