I'm OK with Mark Audio Alpair 10s

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Posted by andy evans (A) on March 12, 2012 at 01:54:12

In Reply to: Ditto ... posted by danlaudionut on February 17, 2012 at 08:50:00:

I can't live with horns at all, and ideally I'd be using panels - stacked Quads, Maggies or Apogee ribbons. I've had all of them in the past. I need the space in my living room, so settled on single drivers in a tall thin cabinet.

Yeah, difficult. I miss the bass and the body in the lower mids - I'd love to have a 12" or at least 10" unit for that, and then a ribbon tweeter. I hate subwoofers - never heard one I preferred on to off. Compromises...

I went the way of Jordan JX92s as you do - couldn't live with the hard upper mids, drove me mad in the end. Replaced them with Alpair 10s. Instantly found them musical and I liked them. Big improvement over the Jordans. The mids are very nice, the highs are a little soft but smooth and the bass is OK. This is the best solution I've found. I listen to a lot of classical music and I absolutely must have smooth strings - hard upper frequencies are not an option, entirely unacceptable. I haven't found better yet in a small speaker - because it's a single driver there's a lot of detail and the sound is very coherent. I urge other SET users (I have a 300B) to try this unit or the Mark Audio range in general.

Andy

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Topic - Who here is running their 90 db speakers with ~ 2 watts? - Iczerman 09:00:48 02/16/12 (13)

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RE: Who here is running their 90 db speakers with ~ 2 watts? - Stuben 14:00:22 02/18/12 (0)

Not enough power, IME - Jay Buridan 08:42:14 02/17/12 (0)

RE: Who here is running their 90 db speakers with ~ 2 watts? - grindstone 00:08:35 02/17/12 (0)

RE: Who here is running their 90 db speakers with ~ 2 watts? - Paul Joppa 10:23:15 02/16/12 (0)

Climbing uphill - Jon L 09:06:27 02/16/12 (7)

True, but.... - Frihed89 00:02:03 02/17/12 (5)

Count me as a non-HE fan as well.... - KT88 16:05:06 03/05/12 (0)

Hate horns? - Jon L 11:09:46 02/17/12 (0)

Ditto ... - danlaudionut 08:50:00 02/17/12 (1)

I'm OK with Mark Audio Alpair 10s - andy evans 01:54:12 03/12/12 (0)

if you hate the sound of all the horns you have ever heard - bwb 08:27:08 02/17/12 (0)

RE: 99dB & 3 watts here......Enough in 14 x 20 room....nt - Neff 20:04:30 02/16/12 (0)

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