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In Reply to: RE: Magnepan Tympani IVA......Am I Nuts?!? posted by kentaja on April 07, 2017 at 07:43:55
Wow, that price is insane! Even if you didn't want them and just turned around and sold them on Audiogon you'd make out like a bandit.
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Just it was steal and even if that had been beat to death. But beyond the crossover issues these speakers are pretty much mint boxes too!
That's really amazing -- they just didn't know what they had. I paid something like $1600 for mine and I gather that they go for over $2000 now -- which is still a steal, if you have the room.
Have you considered doing Satie's Neo 8 mod?
Got them at an on-line estate auction here in KC which made an already incredibly sweet deal even better. They were local.
Don't think I am interested in doing any mods. As incredible as these speakers are I am still a stat guy. One of the reasons I bought them was to potentially use just the bass panels to augment the bottom end of the Quads. I have done this before with 1-D bass panels with excellent results.
If I had an infinite amount of space, I've always though that that's the way I would go -- Tympani bass panels with electrostatic mids and highs. There was someone else here who does that, he had Tympani bass panels, Martin-Logans, and a rotary woofer!
However, I hear from everybody that the Neo 8's have almost the transparency of stats, and the Maggie tweeter is still as good as anything out there, so for me it seemed a more practical way to go.
Now if only I had the time to build something from scratch -- it would be a stretched out ESL-63 -- a line source with delayed segments for ideal dispersion and power response -- or a triple ribbon -- tweeter in the center between aluminum barriers, 1" ribbons on either side.
"Now if only I had the time to build something from scratch -- it would be a stretched out ESL-63 -- a line source with delayed segments for ideal dispersion and power response -- or a triple ribbon -- tweeter in the center between aluminum barriers, 1" ribbons on either side."
See if you can get hold of a Stax F81 or F83.
Interesting, I see they did use a delay. Didn't Acoustat use delay as well in the Spectra? Doesn't look though like there are enough elements in the Stax, dispersion seems to be poor above about 2 kHz (in the F81, anyway). You really need about two segments per wavelength, though the ear will tolerate some spatial aliasing at high frequencies so maybe not quite that.
Dispersion in the Stax is not great. But imaging and focus are fantastic.
For once, exactly what I'd expect from the design. :-)
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