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In Reply to: RE: Here you go posted by BDP24 on July 11, 2017 at 02:17:52
I remember listening to those recordings on my AR-11's. By the time I had my 1-D's, digital was happening and the emphasis has shifted to things like the Telarc 1812 -- also spectacular, but missing the purity of the Sheffields!
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I should say, the AR-11 were something else at the time. In those days, I had a love/hate relationship with the New England Sound. Then, I heard the AR-11 and things changed.
You've may have seen me talk about the Telarc 1812 LP several times along the years. In its own league, it was spectacular. I even pre-ordered pairs of woofers in preparation for what would sooner or later happen...boom they went in pieces, yeah baby! The one thing I probably never mentioned is why I kept ordering those same woofers.
The very same woofers that could take 1812 cannons on for only a few plays, were requisite for top SQ on the finer recordings. It was because of Sheffield, Mobile Fidelity, the direct-to- disc and other exceptionally well made LP recordings. Better power rated woofers could not deliver what these more accurate woofers could.
So, when you mentioned the "purity of the Sheffields" my mouth still watered with those delightful sonic flavors. So good, that I could not sacrifice them for a more powerful woofer, for more Telarc 1812 "cheap thrills".
Which - come to think of it now - is really what most of us decided by going for planars. First and foremost more of the purity, then the rest.
Yep. Growing up. For me the revelation was in college when a friend scored a pair of KLH-9's. I'd been kind of proud of my AR-11's, but this was a different experience entirely -- detailed, natural, airy, three dimensional. I bought my 1-D's sight unheard, and never looked back.
But really, those 1-D's could rock! I blew many a fuse listening to the 1812. The IVA's can play loud, but they sound more stressed and you have that ribbon tweeter to worry about.
Right out of college and having already known that I will one day be a planar man, I was still pretty much the kid out for cheap thrills on my symphonic spectaculars. So JBL Centuries is where I went to get them. A tweeter upgrade to Yamaha NX1000 beryllium domes made for a great improvement towards resolution, but left me with a very dynamic mid and somewhat ripe midbass. Still very exciting. I still had delusions of obtaining a CLS resolution and imaging and dynamics of an Altec VOT with the tight bass of a multiwoofer tower in one speaker at some point in the future without swapping my house for it.
LOL, Satie, right out of college I was not that mature, or smart enough. Still unfamiliar with planars, and even dipoles, I pretty much had given up on finding something "good enough".
You spend your life living with live music almost every day and as a result become a slave of it, in a real way. Box speakers, at that time, had been a major compromise for me. In my philosophy of those days (and still today) they were an additional instrument. One that you ADD to the music, inevitably turning it all into something else. Enjoyable, yes, but not close enough to the real thing. The very good speakers did help you evoke some of the good moments, at times. But the illusion never lasted long enough.
Years later I learned about planars. And later still, long story short, a pair of Acoustat 2+2 visited me for 2 weeks on demo.
Suddenly for me, the speakers were trying very hard NOT to be part of the music. Well, I grew up and matured STAT!(pun intended :)
Then I wanted to cry like baby when the owner decided to keep them after all.
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