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Woofers are Scanspeak 8 inch 21W/8555-00, The Midbass is 7 inch Scanspeak 18W/8545-00. The tweeter is a Focal.
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i have as much contempt for wilson as i do infinity, the brand that got me into audio with their $100 a pair 4 1/2" 2 ways that wowed me with their speed, detail & lack of distortion every boxy sounding speaker i'd ever heard before couldn't impress me with and boston acoustics for ALL selling out to the ported & distorted devil.
i used to lust after watt puppies when they were REAL hi-fi tools. now, wilson is just another ported hack brand to be ignored
"wowed me with their speed"
Please, define "speed" in your context.
exactly that... bass that THUMPS and doesn't boom like the dreaded "giant marshmallow" sound of distortion boxes, i mean ported speakers, and treble that doesn't take the edge off metallic percussion.
taken to the "ultimate", i'd guess i mean maggies where you might even get too much of a good thing in the treble. the alarm chimes on my harvest dark side of the moon were like getting stabbed in the ear on larger maggies (i like their smaller models like MG12s better... less aluminum ping sound) and for everyone that COMPLAINS about how "weak" magnepan bass is, to ME, it's THE ULTIMATE.... lightning fast with zero port OR box resonance.
a nightmare system for me is all tubes with 15" ported speakers with overly polite softdome tweeters (or shrieky horns) and no midrange.
i just can't wrap my head around how anyone can associate the slop of bass reflex with "high fidelity". i'll take 4 1/2" sealed minis over that every time... screw the extension... quality over quantity EVERY TIME
"bass that THUMPS and doesn't boom"
It seems that you like a slight bump in the range of about 125 Hz to about 250 Hz, and maybe a more well-controlled very low end.
This doesn't have anything to do with so-called "speed", but rather, frequency response contouring and well-designed LF cabinets.
no... i'm ABSOLUTELY talking about speed and NOT tone. i don't like warmth at all. i'm talking about TRANSIENTS... the cone snapping quick, stopping quick, and reversing direction quick... in other words... the nice TIGHT thump on bass drums ports just can't match with their out of phase delayed resonant artificial bass DISTORTION, or as i like to call it... "giant marshmallow bass".the SPEED, detail, and TOTAL lack of both cabinet and port resonances in THE BASS of a buddy's pair of the little infinitys pictured is what got me into hifi. it was that *THUMP* big sloppy ported speakers can't EVER match as bass reflex, is BY ITS NATURE a form of distortion. it was the KICK DRUM sound (and imaging, and lack of cabinet and port resonances too) that blew me away, in $100 giant killing then pooping on the dead giant minis that rocked MY WORLD.
my ears screamed:
"that sounds so much more real than speakers that SOUND LIKE SPEAKERS!"they had "no sound"... they were just transparent with their only sin being the OMISSION of bottom octave bass which is better than ADDING fake harmonics that slopify kick drums into sludge
bassheads just can't wrap their heads around the concept that someone would actually think a sealed 4 1/2" mini is a TASTE of bass nirvana where the quality is more important than the quantity.
to me, the "ULTIMATE subwoofer" is a maggie... again... speakers that are criticized for their rolloff, but to me, are the ultimate "snap with utter authority and lack of resonance" bass. yes... there's rolloff, but they sound more REAL and uncolored than ANYTHING i've EVER heard, and i've heard $20,000+ B&W 800s & vandersteen 5As and a range of everything in between.
when i say speed, i mean EXACTLY that... zero lag or slop
the same thing applies to treble where any tweeter that can't get it up on a cowbell (soft domes) is unacceptable to me.
my tastes, as far as bass goes, are in the extreme minority, especially when i also probably like a few dB of bottom octave rolloff too.
i wouldn't call maggie MG12s the ultimate party speakers by any stretch (or imaging champs... but AWESOME at "staging reality") but i could easily live with a pair and never feel i was missing anything in the bass as their bass is clearly audible with zero slop. where regular speakers hit you with big balloons of bass, maggies, and to a lesser extent, small sealed woofers kick you with hard sole shoes.
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I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Nice, yes. Gorgeous, no.
I've never cared for exposed drivers. Too industrial, techy, and inappropriate for a home living room, where visual asthetics should be a high priority.
And, too bad about the cables laying around.
Who is Matthew_Ridgway2002?
Cheers,
SB
HI
Does anyone know where I can get plans for the top section of the Wilson Watt speaker? I have the bass binss (the Puppy)
Cheers
Trev
Another pic of speakers.
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