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In Reply to: Re: I know all those speakers quite well posted by greg7 on April 8, 2007 at 10:02:57:
:-)Please don't take my comments as some personal attack to you, your speakers or your taste for sound. Mine are just opinions, personal, biased for my own taste and goals which aren't necessarily more correct or better in any way than yours.I went to my friend's several times. I think his room is big enough for the S8s, it's about 13x17, maybe larger, and he just uses that room for the stereo system. He has a big rug, lots of bookshelves on the walls... the room is quite correct sound-wise. Speakers were well away from the side and back walls and I helped him to find the better positioning. In fact we managed to get some decently sounding bass. They disappear and they have many of the virtues you mention, but bass correctness wasn't one of them. At least to my taste, and my friend's too, he finally traded the S8s for a pair of SP1/2. Maybe the problem was he mainly listens to classical music. Things that listening to pop, rock or jazz aren't an issue, with classical and opera, for someone who frequently attends live concerts, can be. In any case I also like better the S8s than Dynaudio, B&W and many other "modern sounding" brands.
I agree that MF isn't very good to get decent bass from underdamped speakers, but the tube integrated we tried, which is mine, is VERY good in that regard. My friend also had an Avi Labs integrated with them, but couldn't have the kind of sound he was looking for. I didn't listen the speakers with the AVI, so I don't know for sure, but I think this amp has some similarities to other PRAT-capable brands like Naim, Densen, Sugden, etc. Funnily when he got the SP1/2 he went back to use the MF and sold the AVI. I've recently visited him and we were listening to some opera and his sound now is way more natural and enjoyable. That's my impression and his too, but of course this is not a universally valid law.Regards
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