Well I got lucky and purchased a very nicely refurbished pair of three panel X monitors, yesterday, two days before my birthday.
Happy birthday to me.
The amps were tweaked by Dan the Man of DTS, and the results are very good.The cabinets were refinished to a pristine condition by Mark.
My hat's off to both of you gentleman.
And Matt, I'll treat these with the care and respect that you would have given them.
I hope you can be re-united with a pair in the near future.
I can hear one of my long time audio buds now when he sees them the next time he visits.It will go something like this -"well, it's about time,I told you to buy a pair of these 35 years ago, think of all the money you could have saved".
Well that's what I'm telling myself, but seriously,in my large room they are a perfect fit,most speakers just can't fill the room with sound and need to be played at loud volumes and that's not how I like it.
But they will play loud, make no mistake.
How can I describe the sound?
In a word effortless.
I have a friend who has a system composed of all AA listed heavey hitters, and a sound(effortless) that I have always tried to emulate but have never duplicated it on my budget.
But, taking a step back in time with these old relics has narrowed the gap considerably.
I realize most younger audiophiles haven't a clue about what I'm raving about, but I was a hold out for many years and passed on the Acoustats of old, just because I felt that newer is better.So a lot of X monitors slipped thru my fingers.But not this time.I knew how good they can sound when set up properly,and given upscale power cords and conditioning and using front ends that are better today than back in the 1970's.Like my two friends who never parted ways with their Servo amped Aoustats.
In fact I doubt people who parted with these ever knew how good the design really was/is because of the inferior quality of a lot of front ends back then compared to what's available now.
Really,these dinosaurs retrofitted for today,are worthy of mention as "end of the line" in the search for an amp and speakers.
To better them with what is available new today, you would have to spend a great deal of money,and perhaps not be as pleased with the outcome.
For the folks with the non servo amped Acoustat's , even the ones with tweaked Medalian mods,you have never really heard how good these speakers are.
I know, because I used to own the Model 3 Medalian, and the magic is in the servo amped models.
Am I happy?
Oh yeah.
Happy birthday to me.
The amps were tweaked by Dan the Man of DTS, and the results are very good.The cabinets were refinished to a pristine condition by Mark.
My hat's off to both of you gentleman.
And Matt, I'll treat these with the care and respect that you would have given them.
I hope you can be re-united with a pair in the near future.
I can hear one of my long time audio buds now when he sees them the next time he visits.It will go something like this -"well, it's about time,I told you to buy a pair of these 35 years ago, think of all the money you could have saved".
Well that's what I'm telling myself, but seriously,in my large room they are a perfect fit,most speakers just can't fill the room with sound and need to be played at loud volumes and that's not how I like it.
But they will play loud, make no mistake.
How can I describe the sound?
In a word effortless.
I have a friend who has a system composed of all AA listed heavey hitters, and a sound(effortless) that I have always tried to emulate but have never duplicated it on my budget.
But, taking a step back in time with these old relics has narrowed the gap considerably.
I realize most younger audiophiles haven't a clue about what I'm raving about, but I was a hold out for many years and passed on the Acoustats of old, just because I felt that newer is better.So a lot of X monitors slipped thru my fingers.But not this time.I knew how good they can sound when set up properly,and given upscale power cords and conditioning and using front ends that are better today than back in the 1970's.Like my two friends who never parted ways with their Servo amped Aoustats.
In fact I doubt people who parted with these ever knew how good the design really was/is because of the inferior quality of a lot of front ends back then compared to what's available now.
Really,these dinosaurs retrofitted for today,are worthy of mention as "end of the line" in the search for an amp and speakers.
To better them with what is available new today, you would have to spend a great deal of money,and perhaps not be as pleased with the outcome.
For the folks with the non servo amped Acoustat's , even the ones with tweaked Medalian mods,you have never really heard how good these speakers are.
I know, because I used to own the Model 3 Medalian, and the magic is in the servo amped models.
Am I happy?
Oh yeah.