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In Reply to: RE: How about listening to a Magnepan dealer, Magnepan, and two reviewers ... posted by charles1dad on September 11, 2012 at 07:13:40:
I am not saying that some of those high sensitivity speakers don't sound good...some sound very good; however, there are things a good planar speaker can do that they cannot and for many people's preferrence then a planar is a better choice. My point is that you CAN get stunning results from planars with lower power amps of the right design.
I have heard the Horning speakers and they are very good but if I was to go to that kind of speaker I would buy the Odeon No. 28 or 32. I have heard these with Einstein OTLs and it was one of the best sounds I have ever heard. I had for a while when I lived in a smallish flat in London a pair of Odeon's small bookshelf speakers, the Orfeo. It was a superb little speaker and of course mated will with my KR Audio VA350i. However, it doesn't have that special something I get from big planars.
I now have a pair of Genesis VI speakers and they do the planar-like thing but with an incredible bass foundation (given that it is fully active and servo-controlled it shoud be) and this probably has mostly to do with the fact that they are dipolar and use extremely good drivers of their own manufacture. They also work well with SET.
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- RE: How about listening to a Magnepan dealer, Magnepan, and two reviewers ... - morricab 07:43:07 09/12/12 (3)
- RE: "I now have a pair of Genesis VI speakers" - rick_m 08:00:10 09/12/12 (2)
- RE: "I now have a pair of Genesis VI speakers" - morricab 01:19:51 09/13/12 (1)
- RE: "I now have a pair of Genesis VI speakers" - rick_m 09:15:18 09/13/12 (0)