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In Reply to: RE: New Advents in garage / Acoustat 1+1 in HT -nt posted by E-Stat on November 28, 2015 at 15:53:20
Electrostatics make excellent front HT speakers, as you know. For a while I used a pair of Martin Logan Arius....and now I have a pair of Spectra 11 in the front. Of the ESLs I have, 2+2, 1+1, ML Arius....the 11s are my favorite speaker for all I listen too. I'd love to hear the 2+2s on the HT, but they're in a different room, and not going anywhere.
side note: I rarely use my HT system....maybe three times a year
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
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the 11s are my favorite speaker for all I listen too. I'd love to hear the 2+2s on the HT, but they're in a different room, and not going anywhere.
Agree. I ran 2+2s in the main system for twenty plus years and am quite familiar with them. Their chief advantages over the 1+1 are increased sensitivity and better low end response. On the other hand, they beam horribly and are less suited for covering multiple seating positions. I use a 300 watt / channel Emotiva amp in the HT and high pass the 1+1s at 80 hz to dual subs to address their compromises.
I rarely use my HT system....maybe three times a year
Wifey is an avid videophile (it's really her system!) so ours gets daily usage. She always has crawlers adding content to the DVR and both of us are movie buffs. We were just watching the Downton Abbey sixth season preview special last night.
I can also stream content from the music server via the Oppo 103. Which works great since the dipole radiation also feeds the kitchen and office behind them. :)
2+2's and a Velodyne UDL-18 sub, driven by a Nakamichi stack (Stasis amp)was the high end system at Audio Associates when I worked there. It was very impressive with incredible dynamics. Full orchestra was something else. The Telarc of Saint-Saens Organ Symphony (No. 3)with Eugene Ormandy conduction and organist Michael Murray was one of my favorite demo discs. Another was the Telarc of Alexander Nevsky with Andre Previn conducting. I particularly liked the Battle on Ice. Both are excellent performances and recordings that demonstrated the full dynamic range and bandwidth that this system was capable of. When someone came into the store saying that they could not hear the difference with a good stereo, I would take them in to hear this system. Not one of them made that claim after hearing this system.
Dave
Some things have been added, but the speakers and amps still sit as seen here. One of the 1+1s needs a cleaning (hopefully). It snaps lightly. I bought those 15 years ago and have yet to use them. The 2+2s have been the main speaker in this room for about 15 years. The Polk SDAs in the corner are now underutilized as rears for a HT system that doesn't get used.
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"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
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