In Reply to: Orion speaker: any new owners who share opinion? read archives: Fatiguing or not? posted by soundquest on October 14, 2005 at 07:45:45:
One of the main determiners of how this unit will sound over time is not the speaker but the amplification on the active side and the pre-amp. Too often the design that requires the use of multiple amplifiers has the owner "saving" on the electronics purchases. This approach can be an issue when attached to a fine executed design with relvealing drive units.I've heard the Phoenix in two different configs. One with equal to the task electronics and another with "savings" electronics. The "savings" were noticeable in a bad way.
If you get, don't scrimp on amplification quality/refinement. Buy to the level of the speaker and great performance will be yours.
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- Re: Orion speaker: any new owners who share opinion? read archives: Fatiguing or not? - Edp 08:16:34 10/15/05 (12)
- Re: Orion speaker: any new owners who share opinion? read archives: Fatiguing or not? - ejnlmn 03:20:58 10/16/05 (11)
- workman like, but not as refined as the speakers. - Edp 10:09:33 10/17/05 (10)
- Agreed. - Rob Thomas 18:33:54 10/17/05 (0)
- Re: workman like, but not as refined as the speakers. - jimlevitt 11:10:41 10/17/05 (8)
- B.S. - mac  16:28:55 10/19/05 (7)
- Sorry mac you'd be wrong. - Edp 16:10:15 10/20/05 (6)
- perhaps - mac  19:36:08 10/20/05 (5)
- Why so confrontational? - Edp 22:02:35 10/20/05 (4)
- you mean, why so factual? - mac  08:05:06 10/21/05 (3)
- Agree with you with one slight modification - Edp 10:34:29 10/21/05 (2)
- arm-chair critic - mac  12:10:46 10/21/05 (1)
- Silly thread now. - Edp 15:18:37 10/21/05 (0)