Amendment to my post above. One PAIR of Decca Ribbon tweeters.
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nyame Why stop there ? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/72/13/36/7213361b9e13336a168f4c0d98008eb3.jpg The funny thing is that when I had my Quads I was never aware, while listening to music, of any deficiency in the bass or treble. It was only when my brain kept telling me the bass did not go low enough and that the high frequencies were rolled off. My rooms are adjacent to one another. I can have the same music material running at the same time for fun. There are matrix 800’s in the adjacent room. I can tell you and so can others that there is no roll off in the HF’s with the RM10 and 100% functional Quads. The room treatments between the two rooms is also very different. Now the bass. ****************************************** Interview with Peter Walker Interviewer : For people who would like to use your speakers as mid-range and high-end reproducers - do you make suggestions about what they might add for moving- coil supplement below 100Hz, say? ***************************************** So it gives you 6 db more in the low end, and 3 db everywhere else. So it is not linear, and they still don’t play any lower than 45 hz . Peter Walker never heard today’s subwoofers. I had one occasion to hear stacked quads. Whether the setup or one of the panels was off a little, the magic I hear with two was lost. Seemed like a lot of effort and risk (multiple panels) _ to me at the time and the reason I pursued the sub route for db levels in the larger room. The secret for me in my space - to have the single pair panels elevated so they are 44 inches off the ground at the mid panel point. . ****************************************** @Kalali there is no such thing as a good deal with Quads. I would never buy any without seeing. and hearing them, along with the paperwork for when they were restored. Also removing the back panel to determine if they were a smoker. Would you buy a car that was owned by a smoker ? Cheers |
One great way to add bass to the 57 is with a pair of Magneplanar Tympani bass panels. They take a fair amount of floor space, however---each is 32"w x 6'h! That's what Harry Pearson mated with the m/t panels of the Infinity IRS to create his hybrid super-speaker. Another way is with the GR Research OB/Dipole Subwoofer, the world's only Open Baffle/Dipole Servo-Feedback Subwoofer. Very special, and very good with planar loudspeakers. But it's available only as a DIY kit. Worth the effort! |
bdp- Pearson also waxed over the maggie bass panels with the Crosby Quad 63. For one issue or so. And then he moved on. What always killed me about The Absolute Sound in the glory days was the promise of a follow up after a sneak preview, which never happened. I used to read those things religiously back in the day, along with an assortment of other stuff, Montcrieff, etc. |
Yeah Bill, Pearson had really high ambitions and aspirations for TAS, sometimes unachievable. Moncrieff had his own unique reviewing and writing style (which was to beat a subject to death, saying the same thing three different ways)---whatever happened to him? I think I heard he was in a very bad car wreck, and hasn’t been the same since. The same thing happened to the Bay Area’s leading Hi-Fi dealer in the 1970’s and 80’s, John Garland, who had the Wilson Audio WAMM speaker in his sound room! Another interesting mag was Art Dudley’s Listener, his publication before joining Stereophile. |
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