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It has been a little wild trip from Portsmouth NH (our second home) to Montreal. The weather was wonderful and the drive was surprisingly easy. The trip in the way reminds me my audio trips from the past, with talks and thinking about audio here ...
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When I read raves from low powered amps with such speaker designs I ask myself, is it product placement or is there a different kind of listening among Americans, Japanese, Europeans...?
I made a visit to an audiophile with Lamm LL1, ML3 and Wilson ...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]Why do you care what Robert Harley, TAS or the people from Magico have to say?Why does it matter whether the reputation of horn loaded loudspeakers gets sullied in some way by these people? No manufacturer that I know of do...
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The Rockports have a very light platter and a carbon Arm....the one I listened to was the latest, it had simply no Bass reproduction, nada, nothing and the Arm resonances are also inferior to any energy transfer from any cartridge. The lead wires are...
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Personally I am not interested to talk about reviewers, because it is wasted time (they don't review something, they design a Product Placement and maybe they add that they 'like' it...)But, I really would like to know what situation they describe as...
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I do not know what fantasies Tom Martin and Robert Harley had but it looks to me that Magico Ultimate II is very much the same as Magico Ultimate I, the prefix II mean a new round of marketing BS… Here are the pictures of the Ultimate’s installa...
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hi Dominic i made myself the same question regarding the high frequencies in the orphean horn. the reason is probably because this horn has no compression, and the horn length is not so deep, and the exit diameter is 2 inch, quit big. If you read my ...
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If I went to a Ferrari dealer and "kicked the tires", they would ask me what I am doing there. In the audio world, there are a lot of people "listening" to the Magico that are not doing anything else except kicking tires.Why the dealers/reps feed tho...
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"the Magico Reference" Samuel, how can i be subtle about this.. have you searched the sight for Romy's thought sabout the Magico or Marten designs? Link Have you read Romy's Audio Rules or the Knowlege Tree to know what the discussions here are about...
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I think it is both Product placement and stupidity. Robert Harley has a room with tall ceilings and a lot of open space on the sides that suck out LF very strongly.
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/follow-up-the-magico-q7-louds...
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Samuel, I do not think that it was me, and if it was signed by me then it was one of the numerous attempts of the idiots to impersonate me. It happened many times before. I did not talk with Jonathan Valin in direct emails and I do not ever hide...
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Hi malinowski,I perfectly know about romy 'way of thinking about the magico, if Ididn't why should have post it ?I would love to have solid conversation about somthing else...But it seems not a possibilty with romy, who run away each time he feels in...
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I have no experiance of Constellation sound, but I think it should not be something special. In CES they shared a room with Magico which is unbelievably unlistenable.Best regards, Armen...
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Hello Romy!The drivers with rubber surround you saw/heard were remakes from ATD (those who manufacture the drivers formerly used in the Magico Mini). The original Görlichs have textile surrounds....
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Romy,My intention was to imply that these were companies who go beyond most in eschewing cabinet resonance, as per the context of the debate in question. I take no issue with the notion that these are companies with greatly disparate objectives and e...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have heard 2 positive comments from a people who used the Berkeley Alfa DAC. One of them is in sales and obviously off any credentials. Another person is just a user who used reportedly the DAC at CES (prototype version),...
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What did you know; I was in Barnes & Noble and bought a first for quite long time September TAS magazine. I do not subscribe audio publications but seldom buy them. Since I did not do it for as long time I though it will be entertaining. It...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
KHARMA AS THE SYMBOL OF THE INDUSTRY SONIC ASTRAY is very good illustration and I had already see the birth of the Industry high-end of the future.[/quote]I agree. An excellent illustration in fact: it looks good ...
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So i'm wrong...it's weird because he likes only horns and critizize magico mini.He has the same narrow minded way of thinking music (dynamic, dynamic and dynamic)You have an ideal of music reproduction very precise, why don't you try to make speakers...
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Dear Romy, The price is 167,000 Euro I was told. The material they used for bass cabinet at least looked like MDF. Sound was much better than any speaker I've heard in show, expect Cessaro which was wonderful. BTW Marten, Kharma, Focal, Magico and s...
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Your audiophile buddies must be deaf stitch, the Cessaro room was easily the best at the show, although to be fair there wasn't much competition, Magico sounded as if the sound was being pushed into the speakers, YG wasn't bad, their sealed aluminiu...
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...For only $ 25k: http://polymeraudio.com/index.html It is sold under the name Polymer Audio and these people also sell amplifiers called "DK design"I haven't listened to this product & am referring here to the unusual ...
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[quote user="Paul
S"] I suppose this means that
people who buy their stuff also listen to this "music", if only for
the purpose of reinforcing their self-imagined places in the crowd….[/quote]
I think this is the whole
point: the place in the ...
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[quote user="Gregm"] Roman notes:
The industry/trend/fashion goes towards "the more aggressive compliance with those sonic sliceing-choping…".
Yes, BUT I don't see this as a design trend. Manufactueres don't target that sound -- but rather a...
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Recently there was probably nothing as low in audio as the BS surrounded Kharma loudspeakers. Each single step Kharma takes is further and further in-depth Kharma into the realm of bogusness. It is not that I find that “Kharma the Manufacturer” or “K...
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So that's the story. I've never really paid any attention to the Magico speakers. I Googled their name and saw the words "Extreme Fidelity." That instantly killed my curiosity and I did not continue searching. Just anothe...
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I read the review of the Magico Ultimate and I have to say I was disgusted. I am sure there are many self-proclaimed audiophiles who took the TAS trembling into their bathrooms like teenage boys with the newest issue of Playboy to drool over th...
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Why do you care what Robert Harley, TAS or the people from Magico have to say?Why does it matter whether the reputation of horn loaded loudspeakers gets sullied in some way by these people? No manufacturer that I know of does it properly anyway. The ...
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I have quite a confidence that if you meet and talk with Joseph Goebbels or Lavrenti Beria or with Idi Amin then they all will come along like “nice guys”. When I met and spoke with Valin he seemed “normal” as well. Hey even I appear as “a nice guy” ...
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On Thursday ,trade day a variety of music was being played and you could just wander into the room, it was always busy, for the rest of the show he same handful of songs were played, the demonstration on ly lasted twenty minutes, such was the popular...
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