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In Reply to: RE: Roger Sanders and other dipole stuff. posted by 13th Duke of Wymbourne on June 07, 2016 at 15:55:36
Yes, I had the same problem with the DEQX room. Worse, actually, since they were having trouble firing up the system so I basically only heard the horn demo. But Alan Langford did give me some very useful information about how to set up the DEQX with Maggies, including custom builds. It turns out they have curves for many models. Otherwise, he recommends measuring them out of doors (or in a large space like a gymnasium) at 3 meters.
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Anybody have the time to check out Analysis Audio, if so how did they sound?
I did.It sounded good, but not $22K good. As always show conditions are poor, and music selection is often poor so a true test isn't always possible. I think it had better low bass than my MG 3.6, but I felt the maggies might have better midrange.
I thought the Sanders 10D---biamp with electronic crossover---was the best sound I heard over all rooms.
Partly because they had diversified large orchestral music which is, in my opinion, a more stringent test, but it was just overall great.
Other than the narrowish sweet spot---it was wonderful, clear and true in tone.I didn't hear many rooms of course, but my top three independent of price were MBL 101, the Sanders, and a big surprise to me, the PTE Phoenix SG internally self-powered/biamped speakers.
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I wasn't able to attend this year, but I did in 2015, and really liked the Sanders ESL's---best sound I heard at the show. The Vandersteen/ARC room (by Santa Monica retailer Optimal Enchantment) was "eh", as was Magnepan's. Okay, but not great. The other good system I heard was the EAR/Townshend/Marten---really, really good. It should have been---the Marten speakers (Coltrane model) retail for a hundred grand!
I did -- I'll post my impressions and what I learned later today.
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