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http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue74/audience_one.htm
I have no financial interest in this product though I confess to some affection for John McDonald and admiration for his work.
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I almost always learn something from reading or watching or listening, even if it's drivel.For example, without self-important, pompous, wanna-be new-age philosophical writers masquerading as audio reviewers, how would I know where "1" is on a scale of "1 to 10"?
Now I know.
:)
Edits: 07/07/14
Well it would seem the majority feels it's not worth a read. Maybe I'm just gullible.
seriously, i enjoyed the article and learned alot.
yet, $1,000 might be better spent on finely made all-rounders selling for $2,000 new - buying them used. i'm thinking, for example, of superior parts and full sound and a cross-over that's put together by a big name (Ellis speakers, for example).
roger wang.
You still sell blue circle and reynauds? I heard them. I thought they were definetly excellent. I would have bought the cantabile ( I think that was the name) if I could have afforded it. One speaker I definetly remember .....( although I felt I came up short in LF extension and total output for my room..
When you pointed us to that baroque gaudy article all I could think is that if you believe it, then your past descriptions of reynauds equate them to that 3" driver's presentation.
I believe that maybe those speakers may be very good....with thw caveats of Limited LF and HF response, SPL output, directivity ec etc etc....
I pointed you all to the review because it sounded interesting, sort of like a FaceBook post. Probably a dumb thing to do but what the hell.
I've never heard them so I am neutral on their value.It appears there is some relevance to the IT thread above when it comes to small speakers. As for me, I'm not in the market for computer speakers at the $1k level. In my office, I use the in-house system using GRS full range 8" drivers purchased from Parts Express for the princely sum of twenty five bucks for the pair.
For my thousand dollars, I want more. Right now, I'm listening to the garage system using Acoustat 1+1 electrostats. I bought them used for about $350, put on new spandex socks and had a former Acoustat engineer named Roy completely rebuild the transformers. Coherent? Transparent? Absolutely. As Audience suggests, I supplement them below 50hz with a powered sub.
My guess is that few folks are willing to spend that amount on tiny speakers.
Edit: forgot to mention Reina also gives them a good review in SF for computer duty.
Edits: 07/02/14
I had a pair of these at home. Most over priced speakers I've ever owned (and not for long, I sent them back).
Seriously, I thought they were some kind of joke.
"The problem with quotes from the internet is that many of them just are just made up."
-Abraham Lincoln
Yes, the price would be a major deal breaker. There are a lot of speakers at or below that which I would look at first.
PeterZ
It's an (admittedly) nice 3" driver, a pair of three dollar speaker connectors, a passive radiator and a box that is probably made in china for ten bucks.
Seriously.... there's nothing there. And yes, my Silverline Minuet Supreme Plus's sound better (although I give you that's a personal preference thing).
These are a tiny single-driver speaker. Problem is... that is EXACTLY HOW THEY SOUND. Like a tiny single-driver speaker.
"The problem with quotes from the internet is that many of them just are just made up."
-Abraham Lincoln
. . . apparently sound and measure quite well. The raw drivers USED to be available from PE - see link. Reasonable sensitivity and power handling, nice flat response on-axis, high 16 Ohm impedance allowing use of 2 or more in parallel for higher sensitivity. They could be used as nice midranges in a 3-way configuration, either covering an exceptionally wide band or with more conventional crosspoints (say 300 to 3K) and a true first-order crossover. Think MMTMMWW, with a really efficient tweeter.
Only trouble is they cost too much ($170 each!) and you can't get 'em anymore.
The way it was written?
The product?
What to Avoid?
"Palpable vivacity".......
sigh
Sorry to make you sigh.
I read the first three or four paragraphs and it didn't appear to be going anywhere fast. Perhaps you can provide an inclination as to why you think it's worth reading.
Best regards,
John Elison
"Maggie 3.6 speakers cost five times what the sneaky-good small footprint Audience monitors cost. While there are differences in the presentation each makes, the truth of our mutual experience was that EACH was splendid; BOTH were vibrant, accurate and sonically engaging. A discerning listener might prefer one over the other, but no one I've given an audition of the "One" pair has offered anything less than surprise, pleasure, and a degree of outright amazement that such a small speaker can create such three-dimensional power, musical richness and dynamic complexity."
That, my admiration for Audience and John McDonald, and the price.
Ah, yes. It's a pleasure to own exceptional speakers. I love mine, too.
Thanks,
John Elison
Yes, It was going, and it went nowhere fast...
the superlatives are at odds with the definitions and the concepts of this hobby.
I say that because there is no context as to where and how they were used.
As headphones? Then I do believe the review....as headphones.... as desktop ??? Monitors? What is the meaning of monitors? missing two lowest and a some of the upper ocatve?
accurate, power, palpability.... really?
what is that? a 3" driver? I have yet to find any driver who managed to circumvent physics.
sorry, making dinner. forgive the typos and rant
It doesn't circumvent physics.
Even with 12mm of excursion and a $9 Peerless passive radiator it runs out of puff at 91dBspl max.
Overpriced tosh.
Thanks! for sharing.
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