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| Magico S1 Mk II - The First Review Maybe this would help. By comparison to the Wilson Sasha Mk 2s or B&W 802D’s (last ones I heard) the Magico’s missed nothing. The B&W’s and Wilson’s I’ve listened to by comparison made me feel the treble kind of stopped too soon or I was m... | |
| Magico S1 Mk II - The First Review By comparison, I think the Magico's are far better built than the Focal's, which is why I was so bent out of shape. Bent pressboard cabinets, miniature, underdamped tweeter motors and crossovers deliberately designed to create a low impedance in t... | |
| Speaker Pricing and Reviews I wanted to post something else. I make really neutral measuring and low distortion speakers. I don't sell any but my designs are free and on my blog. One thing I've noticed, is that music lovers love my speakers, and when they listen they want to... | |
| Speaker Pricing and Reviews gdhal,What I don't believe is that a speaker as non-neutral as the B&W 802's or Golden Ears are being touted as the best available. As other critics have written, my ears hurt from listening to treble boosted that much. So, either the speakers... | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive There are exceptions to the rule. I'm just saying that in general, this is how they seem to line up, the blanket reason being business, marketing and making money. Not that I'm against any of that. I'm against low value, juiced speakers being tout... | |
| Speaker Pricing and Reviews No, not at all, but it's a lot cheaper to buy a nanoDIGI to alter the FR for $170to match your hearing loss than to buy a speaker for tens of thousands of dollars. :) It's also not nearly neutral, so don't sell it to me as such. Best,Erik | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive I did a lot of research on this subject. The answer is, roughly, driver prices and gimmicks. For most high end speakers (and I use the term pejoratively) the final cost is between 20 and 30x the cost of the DRIVERS of one speaker. I know, you’d th... | |
| Speaker Pricing and Reviews Doh! Sorry, too many "http" strings. http://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2016/05/stereophile-reviews-data-doesnt-lie.htmlhttp://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-cynical-introduction-to-speaker.html | |
| What makes an expensive speaker expensive Hehe, I just posted about this. Please see my blog entry on a Cynical View of Speaker Pricing as well as the Stereophile Reviews - The Data Doesn't LieBut to answer your question in two lines: Driver cost * 10Must match the Stereophile Curve, whic... | |
| Audio Research Dac8 question ARC recommends a ridiculously long burn-in time for the DAC as well as each input. No idea what components they are using that are so fussy unless the WIMA caps are like that in general. I'd let the input burn in for a while and then compare again... | |
| Passive/line stage HT preamp? My experience with the Oppo has been that the output levels at full range are pretty damn low. It's worth trying first, but for me there was just not enough volume by itself. Also, it's single ended outputs only. Aside from super-expensive amps w... | |
| Parasound P7 Bass Management I measured it indirectly, while measuring speakers. It's 12db/octave. | |
| Upgrade AVP or separate preamp/DAC for 2 channel? ARC preamps with HT bypass have an input or remote button labelled "PROC" for "PROCESSOR".I build my own speakers, so do a lot of in-room measurements. The two places where DSP / room correction turned out to be critical was the subwoofer and cen... | |
| Is the parasound p7 really worth $1150 over p3? I haven’t directly compared the two sound-wise, but I can tell you that looking inside the two appear to be completely different class of construction. The real questions isn’t whether the P7 is worth $1150 over the P3, it should be why the P3 cos... |