What speaker would you like to have back?
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Kal, You are the expert in this area but I would have thought that dipoles would further expand the surround experience. In a concert experience sound seems to come from everywhere.
Well, there's sound from everywhere and there's sound from the right places. To get the best from a dipole, you need it spaced well from room boundaries in order not to create false spaciousness and, for MCH, that means all speakers. I have heard a great example at a show with Audio Research and 6 large Magnepans but the listening area was a fraction of the room and made the rest almost useless. Besides, the spaciousness generated by the reflections from the rear radiations is not a proper recreation of the correct ambiance. FWIW.
Hmm. I remember playing on my dad's rug while he played his AR3as. I wonder if the east coast sound brought us where we are today Gavin even if what we're listening to now is very much different.
Yep east coast sound would describe it...ruler flat for it's day and what we've settled in on would certainly be a refinement of that goal..
Tried the ARs which were ok. The Infinity 2000As, one step down from the Servo Static 1s, were superb. They used the same electrostatic tweeters which were to die for. The mid-range was well integrated and the transmission line bass supplied as solid, and clear a bottom end as could be expected from any 12 inch driver.
Wouldn't they have been Dynaco A25's? I also went from these speakers to Advents in 1971, then to double Advents in 1974, driven by a Phase Linear 400. By the time I went to Citation electronics (in 1975) I had switched to Gale 401 speakers (in the wood cabinet, not the aluminum), then in '77 to the Acoustat X. I stayed with various Acoustats until the mid-90's.
The 2000As were manufactured between 1968 and 1972 with the electrostatics. These were the only speakers Stereo Review ever gave an A+ rating to that I recall. They were pretty rare.
http://www.infinity-classics.de/models/Electrostatic-series-since-1968/index-Electrostatic.htm
http://www.infinity-classics.de/models/Electrostatic-series-since-1968/index-Electrostatic.htm
I heard the A25s circa 1969 and remembered being dazzled. I'm sure by today's stds they wouldn't impress but back then especially for the money they were da bomb!
Von Schweikert VR8's. Way too large for my listening room ( at the time), but they had a little magic in them!
Apogee Duetta Signature that I had used from 1988 to 1998.
If I had more room at that time I would have kept it for my life.
But now it is difficult to go back to planar speakers since I prefer tube amplifiers to SS.
If I had more room at that time I would have kept it for my life.
But now it is difficult to go back to planar speakers since I prefer tube amplifiers to SS.
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