This allowed me to place the monitors for best imaging and the sub for best bass. Loved the Vandies but they just didn’t work well in a small room.
I could never live witha sub bass, grate my nerves,
I need ~~Musical bass~~, huge difference,
Subs are wonderful for HT/Star Wars movie effects,
Yeah a speaker with low distortion + a big soundstage will cause listening fatige for sure, Guaranted 100%.
You say *my beloved Vandersteens** but you also say I *can't stand listening fatigue*.
No one can.
Which is why we search, and search, experiment, test, research, til we find what we were always looking for.
I'm near the end of my rainbow,.
But back to the OP<
when jair says
Full Range.
are we to take that as a 3 way speaker, bass/midrange/tweeter or FR as in high sens point source??
See we need to define *full range* .
The older point source, Fostex, Lowther were really NOT true *Full Range* as some bass authority was missing along with some high roll off.
I will not know the ture potential of the newer point source drivers , until I get one in my system, Late September looks like.
My speaker quest has less to do with high fq's @ 12k-15k hz, as well as sub bass fq's , say 20hz-50hz.
I have both areas already covered.
My only concern now in speaker choice, is
midrange with true SHF.
.SHF = lowest distortion, near zero, = presence/soundtstage as reall as its going to get.
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This SHF in the midrange has been around since 1929.
But then came along the commercialzied speakers with big inefficient magnets and power sucking distortion xovers.
We need to get back to 1929 technology. + Field Coil technology, A design far ahead of its time. Yet somehow fell through the cracks.
Seas/Scanspeak went down the wrong speaker path.
Both will not survive , unless they jump on board. I am afraid its too late, there are 3 labs which have a good solid foyndation and thus Seas /Scan will never catch up.
Both will go the way of the dinasaur.
You know new is not always better.
