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RE: The baby Maggie-----Best sound of the show!!

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In Reply to: RE: The baby Maggie-----Best sound of the show!! posted by joeljoel1947 on January 12, 2009 at 12:55:32

Is there any way we can get your impression of distances?
between speakers
to sidewalls
to rear wall
placement of subwoofer
location of gear relative to audience & speakers
distance from speakers to audience

Any clues to interconnects or speaker wire? Any specifics about recordings you were listening to?

Thanks.
Did you hear that?

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Placement and recordings used - joeljoel1947 08:19:49 01/13/09 (12)
Well, you can get a feel from the pic above about placement. The "woofers" need to be placed close to walls to get boundry reinforcement.

We were about 9 feet back from the speakers and they were about 9 feet from their front wall. Lots of room to breathe behind them! They were about 4 feet from the side walls as well. Distance between was approx. 8 feet----a good size spread.

As for cables, I have no idea.

Music wise, they were playing some rare demo stuff. Nothing I had heard before. The "Amazing Grace" cut was from a sampler disc from a manufacturer whose name I could not recall. I held it in my hand and told Wendell, "well, thats not going to be easy to track down now is it?" He smiled. The drum track was recorded by what I can only gather was a friend of Wendells. It is not even available. This drummer designs microphones as well according to Wendell and this was I guess his personal demo disc. So, bottom line, the stuff they were playing wasn't anything that you could easily recognize. That was the only part of the skepticism that remains with me today. Fed the right material, in the right room, you can make almost ANY loudspeaker sound good, but perhaps not THIS good. I still wish I could have played my own cuts. Maybe someone else at one of the demos got a chance to do so and I would be interested to hear from them.
Regards,
Joel
- RE: Placement and recordings used - Jwm 05:30:35 01/18/09 (4)
  Amazing Grace came from An Usher CD sampler that was given out 3 years ago I believe at CES for free. I have it.
  - Willing to share ??? - EmailTim 19:47:32 01/18/09 (2)
    Jwm,
    
    Willing to rip the CD or the track?
    
    Thanks,
    Tim
    - RE: Willing to share ??? - Jwm 08:03:53 01/19/09 (1)
      Send me an email and I will make you a copy.
      - RE: Willing to share ??? - EmailTim 08:42:04 01/19/09 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Willing to share ??? posted by Jwm on January 19, 2009 at 08:03:53
        
        My email is emailtim@adelphia.net. My email can only handle @ 9MB attachments. If you need to snail-mail it or ftp it, shoot me an email and we can work something out.
        
        Thanks,
        Tim
  - They were playing hip hop? - Cory M. 09:03:23 01/18/09 (0)
    To demonstrate the capabilities of the new mini mags?
    I never knew Usher had a sampler CD.
    Just kidding, I know, the speaker company.
    What is Usher considered anyway- soul, pop, hop, rap, ?
    
    Cory
- RE: Placement and recordings used - Simm55 19:52:29 01/14/09 (6)
  The cables were Kubala-Sosna. Someone posted that the Brystons were clipping. I didn't see any evidence of that (they put out over 1000 watts each into 8 ohms, more into 4 ohms). J. Winey's son said they didn't need such big amplifiers for the sound, only for the illusion of a big speaker system being played (the amps were visible while the speakers were hidden).
  - RE: From John Atkinson/Stereophile website - Travis 07:40:33 01/15/09 (5)
    When I went into the Magnepan room at T.H.E. Show, the speakers were hidden behind a curtain. Magnepan's Wendell Diller ushered me into the sweet spot and started playing some sounds on the all-Bryston front-end: BCD-1 CD player (which LKG raves about in our February 2009 issue), BP-26 preamp, and a pair of 7B-SST monoblocks.
    
    Hmm. The sound was spacious, with a well-defined soundstage. The balance was a little lightweight, though lows extended down to the mid-bass. The system was having to work hard to produce high spls, as the Bryston amps' red clip LEDs were occasionally flashing on snare-drum transients, but there was no other signs of strain.
    
    Imagine my surprise when Mark Winey drew back the curtain to reveal a pair of these tiny panels that he is holding in the photo. Yes, they were being helped out below 300Hz by a Magnepan subwoofer module, but they were still punching way above their class, Provisionally dubbed the "Mini Maggie," the speaker combines a ribbon tweeter with a small Magneplanar panel. Price is still to be decided, but the Mini would make a superb desktop speaker,
    
    "If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
    - RE: From John Atkinson/Stereophile website - Simm55 15:59:30 01/15/09 (4)
      I thought the amplifiers were the 28B SSTsquared. I didn't actually read the faceplates, but they looked bigger than the 7B SSTs. Both are quite powerful.
      - RE: From John Atkinson/Stereophile website - Travis 16:41:51 01/15/09 (3)
        
        In Reply to: RE: From John Atkinson/Stereophile website posted by Simm55 on January 15, 2009 at 15:59:30
        
        Does the 28B SSTsquared (gotta' love that model number) have lights indicating clipping?
        
        "If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
        
        RE: From John Atkinson/Stereophile website - Simm55 18:03:08 01/15/09 (2)
        
        In Reply to: RE: From John Atkinson/Stereophile website posted by Travis on January 15, 2009 at 16:41:51
        
        No , neither does the 7B SST.
        
        RE: From John Atkinson/Stereophile website - Simm55 18:15:30 01/18/09 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: From John Atkinson/Stereophile website posted by Simm55 on January 15, 2009 at 18:03:08
        
        Travis e-mailed me a copy of the Bryston 7B SST manual. It does indicate clipping via its front panel light. I stand corrected.
        
        RE: Dayam. I want some of what JA is having! nt - Travis 18:08:55 01/15/09 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: From John Atkinson/Stereophile website posted by Simm55 on January 15, 2009 at 18:03:08
        
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        "If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok

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