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Exemplary Review Standard
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Posted on January 25, 2017 at 07:13:24 | ||
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That latest Magico S5 MKII review by Marten Colloms in HiFi Critic is how all reviews should be written. Very thorough with more comprehensive and detailed measurements than are given in Stereophile which never publishes distortion figures. He also thoroughly compared the sonic differences between the earlier S5 & the revised MkII. There is nothing left to chance or guess at in the review. This additional link is to a review of a completely different kind of loudspeaker than the Magico, the Dynaudio Focus 600XD, in Computer Audiophile. It too provides exhausting and painstaking real listening and testing evaluations with professional reference standards cited and described: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/744-dynaudio-focus-600-xd-loudspeaker-review/
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RE: Exemplary Review Standard, posted on January 26, 2017 at 18:37:00 | |
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What happened...Jonathan Valin's knee pads wore out? |
Help me understand why, posted on January 27, 2017 at 06:40:54 | |
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THD metrics are any more relevant with speakers than for electronics - where I find them utterly useless and often misleading. Back as a teenager, I took my AR Integrated to one of the McIntosh clinics where Dave O'Brien himself measured my unit and presented me with a fancy chart. The results were consistently below the 0.5% spec using a sine wave and I thought that was pretty cool at the time. And yet - it still sounded poor especially at low levels. The H-K Citation 11 / Crown D-150 combination that replaced it two years later (ca '74) was significantly better. If we accept the notion that speaker distortion is usually higher than that of electronics, why wouldn't that be readily audible? |
RE: Very well -- I have not heard the Scaenas or Nolas, but . . ., posted on January 29, 2017 at 06:30:42 | |
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HP heard the same phenomenon on their model 20, allegedly lessened in the 20.1. Allegedly? I cannot speak to the 20R having never heard it, but I can regarding the 20.1s I heard multiple times in multiple systems at Sea Cliff. Instead of conjecture, why not actually read what has been written by him and others? Valin reviewed the 20R here and mentioned a number of things that HP did say about them at the time. More recently, I also heard the 3.7 at Sea Cliff during a visit by Hobson. As one who highly values coherency, my primary concern with the 20.1 was that it sounded like a multi-way speaker and lacked coherence. The 3.7 (and presumably the 20.7 which Warren Gehl at Audio Research uses for evaluation) are better in that respect. Read HP's commentary here. There is mention of improved response from the current ribbon where HP thought perhaps the range was different. Diller indicated there were refinements, but not to the crossover point. You're welcome to disagree. |
Michael Hedges?, posted on January 27, 2017 at 12:23:56 | |
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Love his guitar work and had the opportunity to experience him live on several occasions! Oops, wrong Michael. :) Perhaps as JA seems to find, there is apparently difficulty associating an increase in distortion with perceived sound quality. One cannot find any such mention of such issues in this review of a two way Monitor Audio speaker. Excerpts from your conclusion: " The ribbon tweeter and woofer are proprietary designs that are merged together splendidly... Other strengths include a high level of transparency and detail along with super-extended highs that are effortless and clean. The sense of spaciousness these speakers can convey is awesome." Despite those favorable comments, the THD curve is indeed much higher at the bottom of the tweeter's range. Do you know of their current CP-IW460X suffers any issues with its three way design passing over to the ribbon at 3 kHz? Admittedly, the speakers I've auditioned and found to be excellent run the ribbon tweeters above around 6 kHz. |
Thanks for your input -nt, posted on January 27, 2017 at 14:00:28 | |
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You're welcome ... nt, posted on January 27, 2017 at 14:02:54 | |
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Actually, posted on January 26, 2017 at 10:18:36 | |
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And it would have a comment by a second reviewer. it did (p45) - and I agree. |
+1 -nt, posted on January 26, 2017 at 10:08:12 | |
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