Best sound quality ever..........

[toohuge]

I spent two weeks at mission on a work experience placement... I was a real hifi nerd then and catalogued their entire spare parts list in under a week 😄 anyway whilst I was there I auditioned a set of pilastros with musical fidelity electronics and the results were spectacular.

The pilastros were sealed but had numerous passive radiators installed which was interesting.

I personally prefer sealed speakers myself and still undecided on the ribbon tweeter thing....

I've also never been a huge valve fan myself, but I suspect this is a generation thing.

[Crackie]

Esseesse said:

open baffle/electrostatics have something about them

+1.

Edited by Crackie on Saturday 4th October 20:39

[Troubleatmill]

This, by a country mile. No other media comes close.
http://www.tapeproject.com/machines/machines.htm

Coupled with a low powered headphone valve amp.

[DavidJG]

Crackie said:

+1.

Edited by Crackie on Saturday 4th October 20:39

Agreed - I spent many hours in listening rooms to find my speakers. At a realistic price point, I couldn't find anything to beat a set of Martin Logan electrostatic hybrids. I've had them over 10 years now - I've yet to find anything that comes close in terms of clarity and responsiveness, apart from newer electrostatics. The only downside is that you need a fairly heavyweight power amp to drive them. Their impedance curve on mine is nasty, dipping as low as 1.1Ohm at certain frequencies.

[Crackie]

DavidJG said:

Crackie said:

+1.

Edited by Crackie on Saturday 4th October 20:39

Agreed - I spent many hours in listening rooms to find my speakers. At a realistic price point, I couldn't find anything to beat a set of Martin Logan electrostatic hybrids. I've had them over 10 years now - I've yet to find anything that comes close in terms of clarity and responsiveness, apart from newer electrostatics. The only downside is that you need a fairly heavyweight power amp to drive them. Their impedance curve on mine is nasty, dipping as low as 1.1Ohm at certain frequencies.

It is very difficult to engineer 'conventional' cabinets which do not compromise a speakers output in some way or another; radiation from cabinet panels, edge diffraction, baffle step, internal resonances, internal standing waves etc. Companies such B&W, Wilson Audio, Rockport, Magico, Avalon, Vivid Audio engineer these problems away but it is a very costly exercise; open baffle designs do not suffer these issues to anything like the same degree. All imho of course.

[Esseesse]

Crackie said:

DavidJG said:

Crackie said:

+1.

Edited by Crackie on Saturday 4th October 20:39

Agreed - I spent many hours in listening rooms to find my speakers. At a realistic price point, I couldn't find anything to beat a set of Martin Logan electrostatic hybrids. I've had them over 10 years now - I've yet to find anything that comes close in terms of clarity and responsiveness, apart from newer electrostatics. The only downside is that you need a fairly heavyweight power amp to drive them. Their impedance curve on mine is nasty, dipping as low as 1.1Ohm at certain frequencies.

It is very difficult to engineer 'conventional' cabinets which do not compromise a speakers output in some way or another; radiation from cabinet panels, edge diffraction, baffle step, internal resonances, internal standing waves etc. Companies such B&W, Wilson Audio, Rockport, Magico, Avalon, Vivid Audio engineer these problems away but it is a very costly exercise; open baffle designs do not suffer these issues to anything like the same degree. All imho of course.

I agree, and I think it's why generally I prefer infinite baffle to smaller sealed enclosures.

[WCZ]

full linn klimax system including linn klimaxs solos - not sure how many of them there were, but enough to make the cost of the system near 100k

in an acoustically treated room

magical stuff.