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Post Subject: EdgarHornsPosted by drdna on: 12/4/2005
Now I have had the EdgarHorns in my system for a number of weeks and have been moving them around the room and moving things in the room around to make them sound their best. So far I have come to this problem: when I have heard many other speakers that are reasonably good, they reproduce the sounds but do not make resonant sounds so the speakers "disappear" in the room. This is not the case so far with the EdgarHorns. So I think they are fundamentally resonating in an undesirable way, which makes it very easy to locate them in the room. This is more true with the lower midrange than the upper midrange, so this makes a weird effect: as the range changes, I can hear the soundstage moving from one position to being sort of sucked toward the speaker cones.
The other thing missing is the "magic." The liquid iridescence of Sound that is so emotionally attractive to me and allows me to think about what the musicians were thinking instead of how the stereo is sounding -- this is missing for some reason. I have heard the Edgar speakers before in Gardena and it was there in spades, so it must be something to do with my system, not the speakers is my first thought. It is really a frustrating state of affairs, because everyone who hears my system says it is the best thing ever and they are totally amazed and saying it sounds so lifelike, but I am very dissatisfied personally.
However, because I had some of this magic before with my old speakers in my system, I am also thinking it must be the Edgar speakers at fault. Perhaps it is actually the interaction of the speakers with the rest of my system and I need to find a way to modify this.
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