So you need multiple sets of speakers to match the monitors of the corresponding era.
Or just wait for the remaster, which is probably just as much about updating the EQ to suit changes in speakers as anything.
You tell me.
So you need multiple sets of speakers to match the monitors of the corresponding era.
Or just wait for the remaster, which is probably just as much about updating the EQ to suit changes in speakers as anything.
Well said.
I'm currently smitten by my Spendor S3/5 speakers. They may not be perfectly accurate, but what they do is deliver that "sweetness" and ease to the sound. Horns have that glowing tonal quality, yet with a relaxed tone, and they do this without sounding at all "dark" or obviously rolled off.
It's the same with voices through these little speakers. They sound so darned human!
A very canny design...if it pushes your buttons as they do mine.
Big space vs smaller space?
Do you listen nearfield, like their ancestral LS 3/5a was intended to be used?
Do you listen nearfield, like their ancestral LS 3/5a was intended to be used?
No offense, Sal, but Sam fell in love on a monthly basis.Don't let a couple comments get your nose out of joint, I owned La Scala's for 32 years and never would have sold them if they would have fit in my retirement digs. Incredible speakers that do so many things right once you get used to them it's hard to live with anything else. I'm sure your aware of Stereophiles review of them in 2006, Sam fell in love.
http://www.soundhifi.com/klipsch/sam.htm
The Klipsch sound has been the recent rage at Stereophile in general so many preconceptions are changing. We have many horn lovers here, including a few M2 owners and other JBL horns.
Don't know anything about your room but have you tried getting them out of the corners and well into the room? Yes corner placement will help the somewhat weak bass (we both use subs for that) but I kept mine about 5' out and 2+' off the side walls. When aimed at the MLP the imaging was better than anything I've heard. Just something you might try?
Like has been said, I know of no speaker type that doesn't have it's weaknesses, you buy your ticket and take your ride.
About 6-7 feet away, average of under 6.5 depending on my listening position.
Having experimented a lot with listening distances, I like to sort of split the difference a bit. Too distant and more room sound intrudes on timbre.
Too close, and it seems more of a head-phone effect, where the speakers seem to become more spacious, but less dynamic. In my room, a speaker placed at the above distance tends to sound both immersive, tonally smooth, with a good sense of dynamic life.
So do all Stereophile writers, Why would you only discount Sam?No offense, Sal, but Sam fell in love on a monthly basis.
No offense, Sal, but Sam fell in love on a monthly basis.
So do all Stereophile writers, Why would you only discount Sam?
They only write about the products they like.
To hear them tell it. ???
Wrong, that was a friends house in Italy where he first heard themAgree re: Tellig...I viewed him as a humor writer more than anything.
Also, for that Scala review, the residence in question is said to have a living room 2 stories tall and like a 'Hyatt atrium'.
Wrong, that was a friends house in Italy where he first heard them
If your going to tell a story at least get it straight.
The review pair were delivered to his house by Klipsch.
It's all right there in the review if you READ it.
Quit squirming, that what the review was written on. Not a quick visit to a friend of a friend in Italy.Later in the review Sam gets delivery, but his opening comments on the sound are from the big friend's house.
Quit squirming, that what the review was written on. Not a quick visit to a friend of a friend in Italy.
That sounds like bait to me?I have delicious dim sum to go eat.
That sounds like bait to me?
I love Dim Sum , the mother in law bit I can't relate to .
2 months you say..,She's here from Japan for 2 months.
Lots more headphone listening vs speakers in the near future.
6 feet isn't technically nearfield / below critical distance in a room your size, but it's also pretty close.
Small speakers in small rooms can sound really great on small material.