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RE: REVIEW: REL Acoustics Stentor III Speakers

Posted by pushpulltriode (A) on November 6, 2011 at 12:58:15

In Reply to: RE: REVIEW: REL Acoustics Stentor III Speakers posted by Croc on November 5, 2011 at 22:12:42:

I don't really agree.

I've deal with high end subwoofer from Entec LF20 (master and slave system), and then Mirage, REL (yours and stadium), Sunfire........

You're wrong about the concept of subwoofer, the Paradigm sub 1 or 2 actually cancel out the cabinet "vibration" through their driver arrangement with least coloration as a result. The concept is really close to Ian Paisley's BPSS-210 introduced in 1994 but the Mirage could not play very loud, however, very low distortion. However, the Mirage BPSS210 doesn't have room eq for correction and very easy to get "boundary impression" in the room. I have the Sigtech room correction at that time, so no panic, but most people had a hard time to play with the Mirage.

I have electrostatic speaker (such as Quad 63 and 57, and Audiostatic ES series) and most subwoofer back to the 90s including REL and Entec could not blend with the ESL perfectly when crossover at 91Hz or above. Until the Gradient SW subwoofer hit the market (not the one having ESL 63sitting on top but a panel like instead introduced several years ago) that specially made for Quad ESL. But I have tried the Mirage with ESL 57 (stacked) with great success during late 90s'.

The concept of subwoofer should be moving air without too much influence to the signal from the cabinet since it will introduce the distortion and coloration to the low frequency recreation, and causing damage to the sound of satellite to a degree.

One of the lovely thing about the Paradigm sub series is that it cancel the cabinet distortion also come with bass / room management for 100% blending to the system and avoid boundary impression. This is a subwoofer I wish existed for my electrostatic system back in 90s.

A subwoofer should behave in a system to improve the dynamic, you should not hear they are playing. Since you switch it off, the dynamic, harmonics and soundstaging is degrading.

Personally, I like the REL Stentor more than the Stadium since the Stentor is faster.

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