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Magico - Wide vs. Narrow
Hi Everyone,
I'm not looking to buy, but I am a big fan of wide baffle speakers. I realized recently that Magico had a history of making wide baffle speakers (like the M5) which they seem to have gone away from in the current generations.
I'm curious if any fans have had a chance to hear both and if they have a preference, or impression especially in regards to being able to hear the recording space and imaging.
Thanks!
Erik
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Cardboard is not a good speaker baffle material. Cardboard is very noisy in and of itself. Just putting my mouth near a piece of cardboard and humming lowly makes the cardboard vibrate like crazy, adding all kinds of resonances. Just a side note, I was trying to replicate an experiment where you stretch a balloon tight over the top of a glass to make a trampoline surface that a ball will bounce on for a long time. That didn’t work out very well. But what it did do well was add a lot of reverb to my voice if I talked in to it. The kids were highly amused. So stretched balloons also do not make good speaker baffles. Maybe something more dead, like a piece of carpet tile or mass loaded vinyl would be better for the experiment. |
@mark200mph wrote: "The wings on the infinity had rear firing tweeters and they did that as well on the genesis 200 model.my new fr 30 has a rear firing tweeter." Ime a well-integrated rear-firing tweeter can contribute to "being able hear the recording space". Incidentally, the superb Snell Type A-III mentioned by @erik_squires also had a rear-firing tweeter, if I recall correctly. |
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