What is the most highly resolving speaker you have ever heard?

[Alexis]

i agree with tad...

 

[MrAcoustat]

I wish to inform you that my wife would disappear before my Acoustat's and that's the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, i'm from the old scholl, it's my way or the highway.

 

[andromedaaudio]

 

[NorthStar]

-- Andre, are you going to hide some eggs for the kids tomorrow? ...Well, later on today.

Because it is Easter Sunday right now; Happy Easter Sunday Andre! :b

 

[Buch73]

Most resolving speaker for me is Raidho speakers.
Their new D series with Diamond cones are very resolving/revealing and gets every little detail out.

Buch

 

[MrAcoustat]

Most resolving speaker for me is Raidho speakers.
Their new D series with Diamond cones are very resolving/revealing and gets every little detail out.

Buch

I agree i heard these at the Montreal show a few weeks ago EXCEPTIONAL so is the price 28k US for a bookshelf that's good money I WILL KEEP MY ACOUSTAT'S.

 

[bestman]

I'm pretty partial to my ALS Platinums. Haven't heard anything better for less than $10K.

x2 on any of the Carver Amazings....the ribbon panels are WAAAAY fast.

IMO, they are the best speaker VALUE on the planet.

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

They're in this room:



But while they are incredibly revealing, there's something about the sound of them that I don't prefer. I'm a subjectivist.

For the resolution of detail, though, they're hard to beat.

Tim

 

[hvbias]

Some custom built horns I heard last year. Even playing just at a bit higher than whispering conversation level the detail was incredible. The amp was probably only putting out a handful of milliwatts.

 

[MrAcoustat]

Can you adopt me! Who says big isn't better?


I recently got the Sanders Sound ESL that comes with a 10" woofer, bi-amped. While it may not beat plasma and it does have some quirks like narrow listening area, it does have a lot more wonderful properties - microdetail (flies, drum squeaks, violins breathing - given to me by a Broadway actress). It also has very good bass. surprisingly, partly because it is so directional, it does not have a lot of issues with the room set up. In fact it sounds better asymmetrical. That may also be because I am a little asymmetrical.

With speakers, as some of the other esteemed members noted, is one part of the equation. Amp + source + interconnects + active crossover + speaker cable = sound. I am sure I left something out. Ohhh where is Einstein when you need him.

Some descriptions of what I hear. Of course all the detail. The music is much more present, compare to ML, Quads which I have heard. The dimensionalality (not approved by Oxford dictionary) is much larger as is the image height.

My perception (which is obviously not reality) is that the accuracy brings about brilliance rather the a rounded, smoother image, richer (higher) mids which lose some detail. My time is up, I have to get back into my straight jack now......$%*@&)S

Hi just to give you an idea of the performance of those DIY Acoustat Spectra 8800s the Martin Logan Clx,s at 25k DON'T even come close when whe compared the two speakers it wasn't even close the ML,s with subwoofers couldn't compete with the Acoutats without subwoofers now imagine with two JL,s F-112 in the picture i know hearing is believing and i have heard them many many times they don't call me MrAcoustat for nothing.

 

[SoupRKnowva]

They're in this room:

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But while they are incredibly revealing, there's something about the sound of them that I don't prefer. I'm a subjectivist.

For the resolution of detail, though, they're hard to beat.

Tim

I would have said the same thing but it wasn't a speaker so I'm not sure it qualified. But yeah, I have never heard an audio transducer put out as much detail as the Stax Sr-009s do, and that was on an A-10 with a boulder 1021 cd player. I can't imagine them on a Head Amp BHSE instead...

 

[MrAcoustat]

Lamhorn 1.8 with Consonance 18 watts per channel mono blocks how very sweet it was YES i'm pro panels BUT when it's good it's good no matter if it's panels or boxes and that my friends was VERY GOOD.

 

[andromedaaudio]

I wish to inform you that my wife would disappear before my Acoustat's and that's the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, i'm from the old scholl, it's my way or the highway.

 

[mep]

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Lamhorn 1.8 with Consonance 18 watts per channel mono blocks how very sweet it was YES i'm pro panels BUT when it's good it's good no matter if it's panels or boxes and that my friends was VERY GOOD.

Are those the dreaded Lowther speakers with their peaky beaming treble that keeps interior wall paint companies in business?

 

[MrAcoustat]

Are those the dreaded Lowther speakers with their peaky beaming treble that keeps interior wall paint companies in business?

Well to me even in show conditions they sounded real good.

 

[rbbert]

Are those the dreaded Lowther speakers with their peaky beaming treble that keeps interior wall paint companies in business?

Apparently the enclosures can be used with Lowthers, but the preferred drivers are the AER MK I or REPS R-1.

 

[mep]

Those cabinets are big enough to be 1/4 wavelength transmission line sub cabinets tuned to 20 Hz flat. That is a pretty heroic effort to get some decent bass response from some speakers that probably don't really have decent bass response. How do the other drivers you mentioned differ from the Lowther drivers?

 

[rbbert]

I have no idea, only that the manufacturer specs them as preferred. I'm the wrong person to ask, I don't like this type of single driver speaker. Even the Voxativ's didn't thrill me, although they were certainly better than most (or maybe all) I've heard.

 

[MrAcoustat]

I have no idea, only that the manufacturer specs them as preferred. I'm the wrong person to ask, I don't like this type of single driver speaker. Even the Voxativ's didn't thrill me, although they were certainly better than most (or maybe all) I've heard.

Liked those to but at 28k compared to the R.L. Lamhorn 1.8 at 10k i choose the Lamhorns.

 

[mep]

Liked those to but at 28k compared to the R.L. Lamhorn 1.8 at 10k i choose the Lamhorns.


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These speakers look like they were designed and built in a high school wood shop class from the 1950s.