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Here you go.Thanks for the report.
Is it possible to have a picture of "unveiled" Magnepan room?
That's what they said for the center. And yes, they wanted to simulate the sound of a line array with the stack.Or make sure it sounded OK for all the people walking around.
It seems to me that there are a couple of Magnepan .7 model on each side (one inclined and one straight) and possibly a 1.7i in the center.Here you go.
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It was pitch black in there so I really had to turn up the gain on my camera to make them visible. Pretty haphazard stacking.
No. I think it is the same stack as the one by the camera.Amir, did you notice any extra panel on the far side by the wall?
I heard the tri center at Magnepan and it was stunning. They didn't see it as a product that many would buy but Wendell Diller, their director of marketing, felt it was such an improvement over two-channel that he had to offer it. One odd and unique thing about it is that after you've listened, regular two channel stereo collapses into mono until the next day!Seems strange. Memories of the old stacked Quads (HQD) and Acoustat ESLs come to mind. I also quibbled over their "tri-center" approach for various technical reasons but have never heard it. Maybe they just wanted to ensure a floor-to-ceiling line source? Or make sure it sounded OK for all the people walking around. Hmph.
Giya
This was on LP. Great ambience and dynamics.
The sidelit woofers show turntable rumble very easily as they modulate back and forth. Someone asked what it was in the audience. Interesting that so much "jitter" goes on in analog but folks have not witnessed it objectively. Fortunately it is low frequency and harmless.
Vinyl playback issues that things like the Shure Dynamic Stabilizer were marketed to address.Strictly speaking the pumping is caused by warps or eccentricity being near the natural frequency of the cartridge/arm effective mass on the cartridge compliance, not rumble. This can be a big peak if the cartridge doesn't have a lot of damping (and in seismic transducers damping reduces accuracy over their proper working frequency range).
Indeed. The "correct" place for the damping in a proper seismic sensor is between the stator and the excitation, in this case the cartridge body and the groove. Here the record surface is near enough the groove, and certainly massively better than the damping at the cantilever which is the "wrong" place but a necessary compromise given the way record player assemblies evolved.Vinyl playback issues that things like the Shure Dynamic Stabilizer were marketed to address.
These kids don't remember anything. LOL
"Dynamic Stabilizer: The Shure exclusive viscous-damped Dynamic Stabilizer maintains a uniform distance between the cartridge and the record under difficult playing conditions, even those caused by warped records or mismatched tonearm mass. When such stabilization is not required, the stabilizer brush can be locked up into its detent position, which, under ideal playing conditions, can provide even better sound quality."
https://www.shure.com/americas/products/phono/m97xe-audiophile-phono-cartridge
Stacking device and brackets look to be a "Primitive Pete" kludge. Fugly as sin L brackets and hammered together stand, hope it didn't look as cheesy in the light as it comes off in the ramped up picturesTwo speakers stacked on top of each other for Left and Right and a center channel. A processor was used to produce the 3-channel output from stereo music. Was an odd configuration that played most of the music from center channel.