In Reply to: RE: "Maggie woofers for the midbass, Acoustats for the mids, Maggie ribbons for the highs" :-)) ... posted by josh358 on March 17, 2012 at 15:36:41:
Yes, you did mention your Hprowitz experience, obviously made a deep impression on you. I was a child when he retired so I only know him from recordings, of which I have some dozen from scarlati to liszt Rachmaninov and Chopin.
I don't think you can get any more than that level of mid power out of Acoustats, definitely not 115 db. I can't tell whether the issue was the near clipping of the Transnovas or the speaker, but I am inclined to think it was the speaker. Coming to think about it, that listening session at loud volume was the first time I noticed the kazoo noise from an ESL, and the only time it was a bother.
I think the Martin Logans have even less headroom than the Acoustats. The CLS with its big surface never managed to do midbass as well as I heard from the acoustat 2+2 with or without the sub.
So till someone does a better than Kingsound stat, then Acoustats (4 to 8 panel models) are pretty much all there is in ESLs that do good midbass and believable bass - but for the giant soundlabs.
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- RE: "Maggie woofers for the midbass, Acoustats for the mids, Maggie ribbons for the highs" :-)) ... - Satie 16:26:50 03/17/12 (1)
- RE: "Maggie woofers for the midbass, Acoustats for the mids, Maggie ribbons for the highs" :-)) ... - josh358 16:51:08 03/17/12 (0)