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Cat:First off, the Silbatone Aporia is $30k/pr not 100k. You could do 6 speaker surround with Aporia for well under $100k. Hope you feel better now."So what," I say. $30k is already too much for my pocket. I am on a fellowship this year and cheapskat...
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Just got to catch up with this post and I just had to laugh at the Sissy Groupie comment =)Reminds me of the Manger Test CD. Once I visited an audio buddy with a new system, the music played was from this very Manger Test CD. I got the CD home basi...
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Josch actually I red your previous posts a couple of times to find out your point about the sound you heard, as haven't had the chance to experience Romy's system. Of course I couldn't understand you completely. Anyhow after seeing what CD you brough...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]At Munich, we cranked the Aporias up with a 20w 845 SE and they did not catch on fire but our goal for the speaker is "big horn sound in normal sized rooms"--and 8W will do that.[/quote]The Manger catches on fire with some m...
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Mani, BTW, if Silbatone-pimping Joe Roberts showed up in here then it had to be the Aporia speakers with the back-loaded single Manger were presented in the show. Why would Silbatone otherwise to drag to the show that big and expensive mastodon...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]The Manger is very different from Lowthers and other paper fullranges. It is very balanced and not peaky at all. Lowthers are lots of fun to experiment with but it seems the Manger is less idiosyncratic sonically, although i...
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I once visited a Manger addict who had an active system with Mangers and corner horns (equipped with four eightinchers, not heavy pro stuff). I found the Mangers and the horns very well-matching, and one should be glad about every Watt...
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Interesting concept but let me point out a few considerations.The diffusor does performs a mild "equalization" function if you want to call it that but it is also an aid to dispersion. It is light "EQ"...3dB might be about right. Without any diffusor...
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As the writer of the above-referenced propaganda, I am pleased to once again tweak the whiskers of the cat.
First off, this is promotional material so what the heck do you expect? Every brochure offers a new benchmark in performance or it is not doi...
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Joe,
I personally very much disagree with my own comment that for two people objectively assess a speaker would be possible ONLY with two parties are sitting in the same room and listening to the same installation. I did propose it as a “remedy” in ...
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Glad you came around to my way of thinking. Without actually hearing "X" it is kind of silly to have strong and well formed opinions about X's sound.If "Lowther" is used as a generic name for single driver speaker, then it is impossible to have a mea...
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Quickly again, for the record, and The Google:The back wave of the Manger has a much less flat response than the front wave. There are peaks out the back. It is not a symmetrical dipole. This issue is only of interest if you are using the back ...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] Interesting concept but let me point out a few considerations.
The diffusor does performs a mild "equalization" function if you want to call it that but it is also an aid to dispersion. It is light "EQ"...3dB might be abou...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]At Munich, we cranked the Aporias up with a 20w 845 SE and they did not catch on fire but our goal for the speaker is "big horn sound in normal sized rooms"--and 8W will do that.[/quote]The Manger catches on fire with some m...
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The Enable patterns are efficient on a loudspeaker membrane because there is a strong structural coupling of the transversal sound waves in the membrane it self and the additional mass and damping of the spots.In this case the situation is different,...
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Just got to catch up with this post and I just had to laugh at the Sissy Groupie comment =)Reminds me of the Manger Test CD. Once I visited an audio buddy with a new system, the music played was from this very Manger Test CD. I got the CD home basi...
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Joe Roberts continues do not do audio and coniine dedicate himself to archeology. http://www.tnt-audio.com/shows/munich10a_e.htmlDuring his last waist of Munich, when he was digging out the meaning of the word “Reinheitsgebot” and helpe to his Korean...
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Joe,
The “decoration” you described came from the fact that you wrote your message on MS Word that adds ugly formatting when you paste it into native HTML editors. I also write in Word and I uselessly before I unload my posts I paste my Word’s text ...
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Hello,i constructed a Mangerhorn 1984,manger bought the lizence 1994what i don´t understand by silbatone Manger hornNO measurement, No IMPData:• 8 ohm, 93 dB/1W, Max. SPL - 120dbi never get more than 95 dB max.and 1W1m 90 dBand the lense IMHO...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]The Manger is very different from Lowthers and other paper fullranges. It is very balanced and not peaky at all. Lowthers are lots of fun to experiment with but it seems the Manger is less idiosyncratic sonically, although i...
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At CES there were Viagra-junkie sized power cords everywhere for $5000. Around our room were $10k and $20k speakers that sounded like a wet jukebox. It was the land of delusion.Value per topology is one way to measure but let's instead start with a p...
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[QUOTE] Joe Roberts wrote: Did you actually read 1980s TAS or just thought sniff it? I think I know the answer.
Nope, I did not. I arrived in US in 1992, spoke no English and was able to read cognitively after 1994-95. [/Quote]Well check it ou...
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[QUOTE]Tone in language is entirely different from tone in language.[/QUOTE]OOPS... should read "Tone in language is entirely different from tone in music."Where's the edit button on this thing?....-----------------------------On single drivers and p...
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Joe,
Funny that imaging has very little to do what I think you do not “get”. Apparently my run about imaging was the only thing you “got” but I brought the whole “imaging thig” only as one of the illustrations. It is kind of sad that the keyword “im...
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I would agree that the Lowther is not hard to beat but the question is where and in whose mind does this competition exist? Is the Lowther, Manger, or other full range single driver in competition with different multi-driver approaches, other single ...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] What makes any particular goal higher, beyond the goal-owners high opinon of himself, his own preferences, and his listening acumen? [/quote]
A valid comment, I have nothing against it. There is however “lower goals”, or t...
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I am somewhat familiar with the dact: I used it in non controlled manner but familiar environment; it was assembled by someone else who also provided the necessary power supply; it was in two chassis about 15x15x~30 cm each (one for ps), so the equal...
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[quote user="Paul S"]It seems like many speakers that might be acceptabe at low to mid volume with simple music begin to compress and otherwise screw up when "pushed", either dynamically or with more complex music. Of course, plenty of people really ...
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[quote user="Stitch"] Well, I didn't come so close to answer your question right.I saw a few from the German DIY scenery and for them it was like the return of Jesus, best sound on Planet But probably they are still deaf as usual, because the Fre...
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Footnote for the record: evaluation music of the guest was the famous Manger Test CDhttp://tempuri.org/tempuri.html...
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