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especially since I specifically remember that that one's been posted at least once before...Model/Brand/Manufacturer....
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They were probably mentioned already, but look-wise Harbeth M40 are one of my favourites. Never heard them unfortunately.
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I like them too for their stately old-school look.
I’ve heard them a couple times and the last time I heard them in a big room they produced some of the most astonishing sound I’ve heard. It was just a female vocalist, a stand-up bass and a trumpet as I remember, but the dimensionality and the corporality of the sonic objects in the soundstage, along with the human unmechanical presentation of the vocal, it made a huge impression on me.
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In a way, it shows you don’t need massive fridge-sized speakers to get proper, realistic sound, and the box doesn’t need to be completely dead-sounding either. It also means a speaker’s real charm is in how it sounds, not how it looks, and its job is to play without causing any bother.
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German Speakers from the 80ths
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They should use this for the Rubber sequel.
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Love these. It’s got my inner McGyver working overtime. Can’t take on the project immediately but what would be better for the garage/workshop man cave?
Thanks for sharing!
Very professional, less DIY. Highly interesting and appreciated.
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I’m reposting the speaker again because I have a question that has been occasionally spinning around in my mind.
It’s the Waveform Mach Solo:
As I’ve said, it was one of the best loudspeakers I’ve ever heard in my room.
Still kind of haunts me. For many years afterwards, I owned a pair of the Waveform Mach MC monitors, which is just the egg portion with the mid range and tweeter, though with a port on the back helping extend bass response. Just like the larger Mach Solo, they came closer than any other loudspeaker to the “ disappearing and imaging” qualities of my MBL omnis that I owned. Plus the Mach Solo was just super dynamic and very “ live” sounding.
So here’s a fantasy that is never going to happen, but I’d like people to chime in as to whether it is plausible or not:
I imagine getting a hold of one of these Mach Solo speakers, and if I had stupid money to throw at it, I asked some talented speaker designer to do a hot rod version: for instance, upgrade all the drivers to the very best available or possible. And I assume that would mean re-jigging the crossover.
For instance, I seem to really like the sound of the SEAS excel drivers, so I wonder about replacing them with those… or something else that’s also more modern and might be more high-performance.
So what would be involved with that? What are the chances of improving the design by hot rodding it that way?
Would it be a hassle trying to find drivers that fit within the existing driver holes in that speaker?
Or is that something where it would make sense to have a speaker designer just copy the design, and expand whatever is needed to accommodate new drivers?
It’s the Waveform Mach Solo:
As I’ve said, it was one of the best loudspeakers I’ve ever heard in my room.
Still kind of haunts me. For many years afterwards, I owned a pair of the Waveform Mach MC monitors, which is just the egg portion with the mid range and tweeter, though with a port on the back helping extend bass response. Just like the larger Mach Solo, they came closer than any other loudspeaker to the “ disappearing and imaging” qualities of my MBL omnis that I owned. Plus the Mach Solo was just super dynamic and very “ live” sounding.
So here’s a fantasy that is never going to happen, but I’d like people to chime in as to whether it is plausible or not:
I imagine getting a hold of one of these Mach Solo speakers, and if I had stupid money to throw at it, I asked some talented speaker designer to do a hot rod version: for instance, upgrade all the drivers to the very best available or possible. And I assume that would mean re-jigging the crossover.
For instance, I seem to really like the sound of the SEAS excel drivers, so I wonder about replacing them with those… or something else that’s also more modern and might be more high-performance.
So what would be involved with that? What are the chances of improving the design by hot rodding it that way?
Would it be a hassle trying to find drivers that fit within the existing driver holes in that speaker?
Or is that something where it would make sense to have a speaker designer just copy the design, and expand whatever is needed to accommodate new drivers?
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The question is, what technical aspects of the Waveform Mach Solo gave them the subjective sound qualities that you heard/remember?
Whatever those aspects are, they would have to be preserved through any modifications.
And "technical aspects" could be things that would be regarded by most today as flaws, eg something like a BBC dip can sound good on solo instruments and/or voices, because it compensates for too-close miking (which is why the BBC had it in their speakers in the first place!).
Whatever those aspects are, they would have to be preserved through any modifications.
And "technical aspects" could be things that would be regarded by most today as flaws, eg something like a BBC dip can sound good on solo instruments and/or voices, because it compensates for too-close miking (which is why the BBC had it in their speakers in the first place!).
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