This continues to make me chuckle.
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End Game Speakers - The Quest Continues
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These were certainly on the short list at one point, right up until I saw the cost, too rich for my blood. I would expect them to sound spectacular though.
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Well saidThe key to good end game speakers for me, is trying out a bunch of different things, over analyzing everything and endlessly considering other options until you're just bored of it all, and stick with whatever you currently have that is probably perfectly fine.
Probably not useful info for op but perhaps a prediction of their future
… but, this will not be the end result for me in the case of the speaker quest (my JBL 590s are excellent, but I can do much, much, better), but fully understand what you are saying here, has certainly happened to me (and I expect many of us) in other cases. “Grass is always greener”, in the end you determine the “best” was sitting in front of you all along. I suppose sometimes we go on these journeys to in fact prove to ourselves that what we already have is all that we need. Sorry, got a little philosophical there - Thread Starter
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Fully agree with this! So many times in this hobby you see folks forgetting the reason for all this gear to begin with … the music!
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Someday, someday ….
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Thanks for the recommend, was aware of Meadowlark.
Ironic Meadowlark going active, good for them! I was always a big fan of Pat McGinty (class act and a decent transmission line loudspeaker designer, quite popular speakers 90s to early 2000s). Sadly Pat’s factory flooded in upstate New York early 00s and destroyed all of his inventory/factory and he shut the entire thing down. Great to see him making a comeback. I would expect his speakers to sound very good.
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I think these would be high on my list if i was going to spend 30k in speakers:
Duntech Audio Senator
www.soundstageaustralia.com
Duntech Audio Senator
SoundStageAustralia.com - Duntech Audio Senator Loudspeakers
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These are pretty cool
Arendals top line or Perlistens are end game for me, with a Denon A1H or Cinema 30.
Have now the smaller 1961 Arendals in atmos setup with a Cinema 40 and 5x12 inch sealed subwoofers.
11hz flat inroom sounds amazing, enjoy it very much.
Have now the smaller 1961 Arendals in atmos setup with a Cinema 40 and 5x12 inch sealed subwoofers.
11hz flat inroom sounds amazing, enjoy it very much.
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I was also a fan of Pat’s speakers back in the day. They tended to have a warm timbered spacious sound that was to my liking.
My main issues is that I was never quite sold on the Meadowlark implementation of transmission line. Wasn’t as tight as I would hope. Also, some funky things would happen in terms of tone and imaging when you moved your head due to some cancellation effects from the implementation of the first order crossovers and trying to achieve time and phase coherence (one of the few at the time along with Thiel and Dunlavy).
I had the Meadowlark Heron-i speakers in my home for a while to test out and they were quite nice. But Meadowlark went under just at that moment. So it’s nice to see them back.
(In fact, I began to worry that I was the kiss of death for manufacturers. Not only did MeadowLark go under when I had their speakers , right after my review of the waveform Mach Solo speaker, John Otvos folded his speaker business. Next: Paul Hales’ company went under while I had their Hales Transcendence speaker in for review. Probably best for the industry that I got out of reviewing.
….)(Searching for some Tektons to send MattHooper to review…)I was also a fan of Pat’s speakers back in the day. They tended to have a warm timbered spacious sound that was to my liking.
My main issues is that I was never quite sold on the Meadowlark implementation of transmission line. Wasn’t as tight as I would hope. Also, some funky things would happen in terms of tone and imaging when you moved your head due to some cancellation effects from the implementation of the first order crossovers and trying to achieve time and phase coherence (one of the few at the time along with Thiel and Dunlavy).
I had the Meadowlark Heron-i speakers in my home for a while to test out and they were quite nice. But Meadowlark went under just at that moment. So it’s nice to see them back.
(In fact, I began to worry that I was the kiss of death for manufacturers. Not only did MeadowLark go under when I had their speakers , right after my review of the waveform Mach Solo speaker, John Otvos folded his speaker business. Next: Paul Hales’ company went under while I had their Hales Transcendence speaker in for review. Probably best for the industry that I got out of reviewing.
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Thanks ... researched these many months ago, I assume they are good based upon the deign/specs (never heard them and likely never will), but not up to the level of my ultimate criteria. Not to mention @Purité Audio had a lot of experience with the HEDDs and in the end preferred other speakers, and I trust his opinion (Keith and I have very similar criteria for what we consider to be the "best")
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Thanks ... Never heard the Arendals, but have heard the Perlistens on multiple occasions. They are decent, but not for me
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In this case (kiss of death), please don't purchase Soundfield or D&D speakers! LOLI was also a fan of Pat’s speakers back in the day. They tended to have a warm timbered spacious sound that was to my liking.
My main issues is that I was never quite sold on the Meadowlark implementation of transmission line. Wasn’t as tight as I would hope. Also, some funky things would happen in terms of tone and imaging when you moved your head due to some cancellation effects from the implementation of the first order crossovers and trying to achieve time and phase coherence (one of the few at the time along with Thiel and Dunlavy).
I had the Meadowlark Heron-i speakers in my home for a while to test out and they were quite nice. But Meadowlark went under just at that moment. So it’s nice to see them back.
(In fact, I began to worry that I was the kiss of death for manufacturers. Not only did MeadowLark go under when I had their speakers , right after my review of the waveform Mach Solo speaker, John Otvos folded his speaker business. Next: Paul Hales’ company went under while I had their Hales Transcendence speaker in for review. Probably best for the industry that I got out of reviewing.
Hedd Main Towers had issues which hopefully they have sorted, but I haven’t been impressed with their after sales, earlier expensive active speakers from the same designer with seemingly no schematics , poor slipshod couldn’t recommend.
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