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In Reply to: RE: Elizabeth is somewhat notorious for playing her system at one of the lowest avg. dB levels on this forum. posted by cfb on July 12, 2012 at 12:23:02
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Elizabeth, I say this with all due respect since I believe you are a particular and careful listener, based on your posts. However, I can't contain my amazement that you chose any model Maggie speaker given your listening levels (which I don't remember reading previously).
I love many things about Maggies but one criticism I have about them is their need to be played at a minimal level above most other speakers before they come alive. But that is my own thing. ;^)
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As i have noted before, i am just 'visiting' this dump while our spaceship is awaiting repairs.. It is a bitch to get service out here in the boondocks of this 'backwoods' galaxy..
until they are above 85dB. They do not show any verisimilitude at 70dB and below. At that low a level one might be better served by an electrostatic say the Quad or Stax F81. In fact for low level listening I do not know of anything that surpasses the Stax F81 except for maybe the F83.
nt
which is higher than the Apogee but then the Apogee has a 2 inch ribbon midrange driver and Magnepan only has the tweeter ribbon. I have the Tympani models I and III which do not have a ribbon driver and the Tympani IV which does have the ribbon tweeter, along with the Full-Range 3-way large Apogee and some experimental ribbon drivers for comparison. I still think my SoundLabs which are electrostatic do a better job in the very middle of the midrange especially with vocalist material at lower listening levels, read that as below 80dB, than the planar magnetics can. At 85 to 90dB the ribbon midrange and electrostatics are about equal in sound quality, different in character but both offer a high quality midrange. The ribbons can go slightly higher in maximum output than the electrostatics but even they, the ribbons, have problems at very high levels, say mid 90dBs or above at the listening position. That infamous dancing ribbon, visible side to side movement of the ribbon driver is disconcerting and distracting; makes one feel uneasy as if the speaker is going to be damaged so one tends to back off on the volume.
nt
Yeah, she might as well be listening to a table radio as to listen to maggies at that level.
Oz
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
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