Recent content by gn77b

FWIW I thought it's worth reporting on this. I listened again to the MC Systems M3 speakers in my friend's room but with some changes, he added furniture, speakers were moved further apart and away from the back wall, almost zero toe-in now and the soundstange/imaging is much better now, I was...

Yeah, the alto is the cheapest kit, one would expect that. They lack soundstaging but tonally they are acceptable. I see you're from Germany, have you listened to other Visaton kits? The Satorique webpage looks very interesting too.

The floorstanders I've mentioned were the best I've heard in absolute terms. It's simply o coincidence that the only times I had the chance for extensive sessions with my own music it was with very good fronstanders. Other bookshelves I've heard were also very good but by matter of chance the...

Doesn't matter. Everything I've owned (Dynaudio Audience 52, Dynaudio Confidence 3, Morel Octave 6) were leaps and bounds above anything I've built. Look, I don't understand what you're getting at. My point is that what I've built was below mediocre. Almost (there are exceptions) everything...

Best I've heard: Triangle Magellan and Raidho X2t Spectacular soudstage, detail without harshness, dynamics, everything. All that I've built (see above) were jokes that were beat by sub EUR 1000 speakers.

Good question, maybe EUR 1000 in drivers alone? Definitely not aiming for a budget design. Oh and one more thing, even though I want to try a bookshelf, by my definition lack of acceptable bass extension is a show stopper. All my commercial bookshelves had more than enough of it. OTOH bass...

Yeah, I'm absolutely aware that it's not cheap. Thing is, take for instance the Seas Idunn kit I mentioned above that I built for a friend. At the time I owned Dynaudio Audience 52 s which were almost their lowest level speakers at the time but the Seas sounded inferior in bass and that with a...

Were you on your psychedelics when you replied? I'd be interested in dose price vs soudstage width ratio.

Interesting design. The tweeter reminded me of a kit I built for a friend and it seems still have the pics, it was the Seas Idunn. I remember it sounding nice but not really wow. OTON that was 13 years ago.

I'm not looking necessarily at a kit, I can build them myself from scratch, I'm just not willing to design them myself as it's time and energy consuming. What I'm looking for are tried and tested (auditioned) designs.

Talking about Germany, I built these a long time ago https://www.visaton.de/en/products/2-way-speakers/alto-ii For the price very respectable sound, I'd recommend them for someone on a budget any day. Nothing wow by any means but very balanced, not too much of one thing and not enough of...

Long story short, I built speakers in the past, I have the tools and the knowledge, access to shops with CNC machines etc. Being short of time and not that willing to turn my house into a workshop as I once was, I want to try a pre-existing design and only take care of the building part. My goal...

I do believe you're right but sometimes changing for the sake of change isn't a bad thing, unless it's financially irresponsible. When I changed my speakers recently I thought why the hell did I postpone this for so long and I still think that, it's definitely not honeymoon syndrome. I have a...

My current setup consists of: Morel Octave 6 speakers, Audio Refinement Complete amp and Auralic Vega DAC. Everything was bought used. Speakers EUR 1600, Amp EUR 400, DAC EUR 1000. It's a funny coincidence that it costs exactly EUR 3k. I don't think you need that expensive a DAC, it was kind of...

This is a very good example of hand-waving. You didn't convey any actual information, you just wrote something akin to some stuff is more stuff-ey than different stuff that is less stufff-ey. Yeah, there's a lot of recent science about the gut-brain connection. I do believe it's true and it...