Recent content by BrianBeck

Thanks Dave. My wife is amazingly cool with me having these giant slabs of speakers in her family room. Yeah, they're both keepers. Proud, but objective owner comment: These speakers are the best I've ever heard in my 40+ years of audiophilia, and that includes the biggest Wilsons, Magicos, MLs...

New love My new love. (The speakers.) My wife is my "old" love! The Apogee Full Range speakers replace my Apogee Divas. And, yeah, they are better.

The Scintilla LOOKED like a two-way with a single cavity holding the midrange ribbon flanked by four smaller tweeter ribbons in what they called a "coalescence" array. The tweeter ribbons were wired in anti-phase front-to-back so the tweeter pattern was cardioid. Very unusual, but I guess it...

Not to mention comparisons with the Diva, Scintilla or original Full Range, all of which are three-way designs with extended high frequencies ("speed").

Ouch! Banished by guys who listen to Saran Wrap instead of Reynolds Wrap... :ROFL:

Burson opamps test poorly PC claims a lot of things in their ads. This may be old news, but here are tests of many opamps. Unfortunately the Burson fares quite poorly in these tests. Yeah, yeah, I know, listening is what counts, but this data gives me little inducement to try Burson discrete...

No apologies needed! This is all in good fun!

You probably forgot that you had asked me that same question about a year and half ago: http://www.martinloganowners.com/forum/showthread.php?14186-Apogee-Comparison&p=152047&viewfull=1#post152047 I guess some suggestions are worth repeating if they don't sink in the first time ;) My views...

Yes, I am, bi-amped with lots of tubes ;) I am still dealing with overly-reverberant room acoustics, but the sound is the best I've achieved in my 40 years of audiophilia. I also need to design my own version of a DAX to use tube buffers and get rid of all those opamps. Although I did mod the...

I think that this notion that "pure" aluminum ribbons must necessarily result in "purer" sound is a conflation of concepts. There are several potential advantages to using thin Kapton film backings: 1.) Constrained-layer damping of the aluminum foil to reduce resonances in several vibrational...

Bernard, I appreciate your tip. While I have been aware of Burson modules for some time, I have not tried them yet. I have already purchased several hundred dollars worth of OPA627 opamps, which I like very much despite their high (~$18) price tag. I use 2mA current-source "diodes" in the...

I certainly would look forward to that opportunity some day. For now I'm going to wrestle these touchy Divas into submission! I now have two Audio Research D-250 amps so I can bi-amplify with 4 x 250 watts of these space heaters. I'm modifying the DAX crossover with new opamps and supply...

There have been a handful of speakers over the decades that stick in my mind for having given me a glimpse of musical reality. I agree with Gordon; the big MBLs are on that list. The Js of course. The Quads, both types. The big Sound Labs, though dark flavored, had a certain magic. And then...

Those highs again... A bit off my own topic, but I want to ramble a bit more about the reproduction of highs. To my ears, with most speakers, this is an area of significant departure from reality. A story: I also own old Fulton J Modulars, big beasts with Fulton-modified RTR ESR-6...

Thanks for the welcome Bernard and Hocky. The more I read in this forum, the more I realize that you guys are indeed quite open-minded to speakers other than ML. I have also seen User211 in the Apogee site, where the users are generally NOT quite so open-minded to other speakers ;)