Blissed out with a Magnepan, Marantz, Bryston, and Garrard system
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Marantz Model 7 preamp
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Garrard 301 turntable
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Bryston 4B
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Magnapan Tympani 1-D
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Vintage audio is underrated. The only thing that has changed is now we have a more convenient way to store and play music.
No, it is actually better. I do like listening to the top vintage stuff though.
Interesting thought....I do have a fair amount of vintage gear. I do wonder how top vintage gear stacks up against today's? I suspect very little difference.
I assume modern technology and advancements have brought quality audio to a much more affordable level; where once cheaper meant far inferior.
Daryl Loth what makes you think it’s underrated? There are tons of audio enthusiasts that have vintage audio
Thanks for waving the flag for vintage, Steve! Would love to see an honest appraisal of Japanese so-called 'mid-fi' circa 1980 - it's been overlooked for too long by reviewers, yet there are some surprisingly good items out there.
I had a Japanese Fisher ""Studio Standard" integrated amp from the mid 80's that sounded great. A/B'd against my 500c, it sounded like transisors not tubes but it held its own. When a channel went out my tech disparaged it before saying he couldn't fix it. I begged to differ. I still use its companion graphic equalizer when I play cassettes.
@@davidfromamerica1871 True, but very few comparing vintage vs. new.
@@davidfromamerica1871 its a neat store. I love spending time there.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say if most audio sales people were like Steve, more Stereo stores would exist today.
Gatekeepers made me feel like they were used car salesmen cousins
Awesome way to begin Friday!
In the early 1970s I listened to music at BARNET Brothers HiFi in CHINATOWN in PHILADELPHIA. Th e MAGNEPAN TYPAMPANI 1Ds were driven by Audio Research vacuum tube electronics, I don't have the words to describe how beautiful that system sounded OH MY GOODNESS.
At a stereo show in Atlanta (1975) I had the opportunity to hear the Infinity Electrostatic with a bass commode (before subwoofer). Each speaker was taller than a man and maybe five feet wide. They were also the best speakers I ever heard. Music sounded as if it was live.
Just seeing this now. I would be in hog heaven to listen this type of equipment, again. The Magnepan Tympani speakers opened the world of high end home audio for me. Different but still startling to me were the JBL 4330 & 4333a speakers.
☆ Love how he meticulously restored and improved the Garrard 301. Looks like a great tone arm was employed. ☆
I love your reviews of peoples systems. Many technologies remain relevant if/when they mesh well. I'm drooling a bit
Just purchased these speakers at a garage sale today for $200. Can’t wait to try them out on my own system.
Add a pair of subs cut them off at about 60hz
..you'll need space and try tweeters on the outside if you can.
It will destroy most high end systems hands down. Would be wise to rebuild them first ..
Love the quality of a video, please keep it up with this camera. Thank you for the treat.
Vintage, when restored by a qualified tech can sound amazing. Nice video and pants Steve.
Those Maggis must be one of the best loudspeakers to be ever made
As far as magnepan goes, you're correct these are in a league of their own
We'll, yeah. That's a fine and close selection of some best audio kit of the time. Some gear - very little, but some - is still pretty good. I've listened to various Tympani models and have owned several Maggie models, and listened to many more, over the last 40+ years, so I've heard how they've changed. I have listened to the Marantz 7 pre, 5 and 9 amps, and 10 tuner. I had several '80s and '90s vintage C-J amps and preamps I owned from new that I let go of just a few years ago. I have or can listen to properly tuned Snell Es and Cis, Spica TC-50s and Angeluses, various vintage turntables fitted with vintage SAEC, Grace, ADC, Shure, etc., tonearms running lovely vintage Grace, Supex, Dynavector, or Denon cartridges. I had a wider range of gear in my home and auditioned far more over the last nearly 50 years.
Yes, some of this vintage stuff can be very good - still. But I seem to well remember the vast preponderance of gear that wasn't good. The difference today is that now it's almost difficult to find something that sounds awful, and at the lower cost end of the market, there is SO much good gear. Never have we had so much easy access to so much good sounding gear, offering so much value and such convenient form factors.
I’ll put any of my old gear against anything new out there... and put it to shame. Especially in the speaker world. The 20 or so sets of speaker I own currently are testament of it
Beautiful system...I bet it's not for sale. Based on 2 video's you have shared, it is an amazing place and Fernando and team are amazing restorers as well...
I don't find it surprising it hasn't gotten better in 40 years. We knew how to make great sound before that, at least back to 1959 (and surely before) with a couple of my favorite sounding recordings of all time created in '59 by Miles and Brubeck.
Several years ago, I replaced my 1970’s Kenwood KA3500 amp and Dynaco A25 speakers with a Marantz PM6004 amp and KEF Q100 speakers. I kept the old system and I find myself listening to the Kenwood most of the time. I think my ears aged with the Kenwood and Dynaco and find the old sound to be more appealing. Plus, I prefer the Kenwood’s silver front panel.
It have 4 magnepans including the tympani (which is my main speaker since last couple years)
With some subwoofer support on the low end, I have over 20 pair of speakers (up to price range 5000usd new priced speakers) Nothing hits me in the soul as the tympani can.
Not my kappa 9 (3k new), or top model Boston acoustics 500l (5k new) the only speaker I got that has similar trades? And I could live with, is my Infinity rsII
The tympani needs lots of patience and time and understanding (panels that hinge so you can play with phasing and time alignment physically ) no speaker has that.
It’s the best sound field I ever heard, they are not super defined in the highs (tends to roll off a bit) but it has that . Lush warm embodied inviting sound to them..
Incredible speaker, mine got refurbished but magnepan couple years ago.
Possibly the best system I have ever heard. It was about 1980. Tympani I, powered by a pair of Mark Levinson ML-2 amps with a Levinson preamp, the table was a Goldmund. I wasn't looking when the music started and at the first note my head snapped around and I just said "damn". The Tympani is one of the best speakers ever made. That Quad sitting behind it is no slouch either. That experience caused me to recently buy a pair of ML-2 amps, once I found out they could power my electrostatics. I also have a Thorens TD-124, a contemporary, and equal, of the Gerrard. Idler turntables are very solid, but I prefer newer tables, my Pink Triangle Anniversary was made in 1992. The Pink is the best turntable I have ever heard at any price with the caveat that, even though I have heard some very good and expensive turntables, I have not heard everything.
As you have read or not from prior posts, I love vintage audio. Not to say the new stuff ain't great, it is. But ,ahhhh the Marantz Blue, Dual Turntables, ESS Heil airmotion speakers, Dokorder open reel tape decks, Pioneer CT-F1250 decks, etc.
Great review would have been nice to hear it
I so wish you’d do more stuff like this. Loved it. Thanks. Would have been nice to hear it all though.
There will be for the next two weekends!
Steve Guttenberg Audiophiliac thanks good to know.
Thanks Steve, you're the best!
IMHO, one of the fun parts of the hobby is you can mix and match the "old" with "new" to put together a system that rocks your world.
That Garrard is beautiful!
As a kid I heard Timpanis at Jonas Miller in the 70s. All stems from that.
boy Im sold....I own some maggies and steely dan isnt as good as my box speakers. now Nils Lofgren is spectacular.
This trip down the memory lane would be even better with the Marantz 9 power amp...
My uncle had a quadrophonic system with these speakers - that’s four of these. His wife forced him to upholster them with an arguably pretty cloth. As a young kid I was fascinated by the design, but now I am thinking how much the sound must have gotten destroyed by the extra cloth!
In the day I sold Magneplanars and owned a pair of Tympani 1D with a ARC Sp3a1(which i still have)and a arc D350 amazing system
Ken Roseman Winnipeg Canada
very nice episode. I will certainly visit their website.
That Garrard looks a treat. Artisian Fidelity does a nice update of all the Garrard's and other idler drives. I was never a fan of the room dividers though. However, playing it through a Linn would be more period correct, although I prefer the redone Garrard's any day.
Love vintage audiophile equipment! Thanks for sharing.
wow they look amazing... it's strange that you can move the tweeter with respect to the two mids and change the orientation... with the sound coming out both front and back of each panel.... it must do very "psychedelic" things to the sound!!!! I see they have the legendary ELS quads also back there... To bad I live in Australia I'd like to check the shop out for sure.
It's the only speaker I know off you can time align physically
I've never heard Magnepans of any variety, but I imagine that shoegaze would be fantastic with them. Any first-hand experience?
I also managed to get two pairs of the original kef x300a active, non wireless version loudspeakers, both pairs for the lowly pricely sum of £500 gbp, so I could wire separately two of the four speakers independently of each other, instead of a connecting cable between two speakers.
2:59 is that a Quad speaker below your forearm and to the left (on screen) of the Garrad? I posted on a uk channel (I’m in London UK) that I have a very old Garrad 301, quite literally components that would need to be restored/sod for parts and two Quad speakers…
Instant Replay!: The more things change ... the more they remain the same..
Sound and build quality were more readily available to most consumers at affordable prices 60 years ago.
The problem now is: "Would you want to build your entire system with antiques that will inevitably have parts that wear out sooner, go out of spec and/or fail and .. you have no way to find exact, functional replacement parts?". Even after having my early 60's Sherwood S 5000 ii restored, this is a concern.
Truly excellent, thank you
Great "moment"! Great SME tonearm, couldn't distinguish the cartridge. What makes the experience d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t between planars vs. horns?
Carlos Bauzá well first off magnepan are line source speakers, horn speakers are not. Magnepan are di pole, horns are not ..
Inherent different designs with each their pros and cons
I still have Mirage m3 bipoles. Good stuff.
The price of over $20K+ for the system seemed over the top until I realized (as a photographer) that the Hasselblad H6D digital camera is more than twice the price and doesn't even include a lens lol.
Perspective is everything. It certainly is a gorgeous system.
I had never cared for recorded violins but my first set of Maggies changed all that..- Those things played so sweetly they could literally bring tears to your eyes.
Unfortunately, mine were stolen in '92, presumably by someone who loved them even more than I did. (?!)
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Az Usmb May have been mistaken for a sheet of drywall. It happens..
@@JEG6919 Ironically, for years new guests used to ask me, "I don't see the speakers -- Where are the speakers...??" Haha.😛
PLAY IT!!!
Heard them at Lyric w two Janus dubs and all mark Levinson I believe each panel individually amped - the idea was if you couldn’t buy the tympani s you’d get I think it was 1.6 w Ampzilla
Hello ! how are you ? Sorry for the audacity, I want to ask you a question: will the Brystol 4B get along with JM Labs 920.1? what do you think ? Thanks a lot. best regards
What's changed mostly is a reduction into the electricity bill due to more efficient components.
I'm unsure of the Magnepan's appearance.
The camera doesn't convey color accurately.
The lens distorts perspective.
TH-cam video is compressed.
There is no scale for reference. Is it large or small?
Can you describe it for me so I understand?
They are 6ft tall by about 4.5feet wide.
The off white speaker cloth indicates never rebuild before.
Today you can get socks for them , in black, and white (pure white and better stretch cloth) of you see Maggie with off white ?! Never been touched before 100 percent.
Not sure if magnepan still rebuilds them today . But you can get entire rebuild kits for them. It's tedious , but not impossible, mine was rebuild by magnepan somewhat years ago. And I have them in black ...
Can I suggest Steve, (not as a demo), but just to reduce that horrendous echo, that you actually play some music thru the gear you're reviewing. It's not for your viewers to sample the true sounds from the gear, as that would not be possible in a mere TH-cam clip, but just to pick up the overall character and content contained within. Maybe you could say....ambience.
Sure we are here for the content, but I feel with minimal effort the overall presentation can be taken to the next level. After all....it's almost 2020!
Keep up the great work. Cheers!!
Yes, I'm sure the "good parts" of that system are very good indeed. My old Stax SR-3's from the same period still impress me....in some ways. But listen a little longer, Steve, and I'm sure the warts will reveal themselves. Those Magneplanars totally blew me away in the mid 70's too, when I first heard them. But,the dealer warned me that they were incredibly inefficient and needed huge amounts of amplifier power, along with very awkward placement requirements due to their dipole radiation. And even then the bass really required augmentation with a subwoofer. And let's not forget how much better modern Magnepans sound than these original designs. There has been lots of improvement. As for the preamp, well first off, it's a mismatch for that Bryston amp whose 50kOhm input impedance is too low for the preamp, and it causes bass rolloff.By today's standards, a Marantz, 7 for all its supposed mythical qualities, is a very mediocre preamp . As for the 301, well no comment, except that I couldn't help but notice how far off speed it was running in the video. I know, you can adjust it. But I also know that oldie design is prone to speed drift....and rumble. We have indeed made a lot of progress since the '70s.
I got 4 magnepans of which two are newer models... none of them come close to what the tympani can do
You can listen to your hifi dealer all you wish, I got 20 pairs of speakers including my the notorious infinity kappa 9, infinity qe, infinity rs2 and a 500l lynnfield (5000usd back in the 90ts) so well 20 years or so after the tympani
I gladly invite you over, I had a guy like you the other day walking out with his phone in his hand. Looking for a tympani to replace his sonus Fabers with after a session at my house.
Many have no clue how good these speakers can sound. Also many have no clue that magnepan CAN REFURBISH them and bring them up to somewhat better standards. It destroys anything I threw at it (not just by my own account including Audio friends of mine that brought their own gear )
You’re not wrong on low end support needs. However I take a subwoofer any day over the low end of just planar.
Subs are designed to produce low end, it exceeds floor standers by a mile no contest. Especially today with the majority of brands offering really good budget intended subs that perform excellent. I am so sick of audiophiles trying to sell the idea a sub is inferior, it’s superior to a shared box with drivers period
Give it that, and spacing is not a problem at all .. you can crank these planars up to level insane and still talk to the guy next to you .
Just make sure you understand acoustics
Also how did you conclude on the video it’s running fast. You can’t, as the frame rate of the camera is what you’re looking it so your point on that is hilariously flawed
I'm quite familiar with those speakers as well as the Marantz preamp which I fed into an AR amplifier.
Great sounding equipment.
Think of how much it would cost to make the good vintage stuff? Support these techs who fix and make better the vintage stuff.
Why aren’t idler drive decks made anymore, especially when the Garrard 301 (and other decks like the 401, etc., etc.) are regarded so highly? I’ve even got an old broken Philips idler drive in need of an idler wheel, plinth, plus a lot more, but the mechanics of it seem beautifully made.
The 301 is going back into production by SME! www.stereophile.com/content/garrard-301-turntable
wow
Wish you would play something.
Quad hiding in the back
Where is the sound
Have you heard direct driven Accustats. Makes Maggies sound broken....ha ha ha
First off it’s acoustats , also they are esl speakers. Not Magneplanar and you clearly never heard a good setup tympani.
It would destroy acoustat without even trying .. go ahead start the debate I gladly do it
i though i would listen :(
You got me curious about these huge speakers, but then you didn't play even ten seconds...
Because you cannot really capture what they do. But I have a recording on my channel , made with my phone.
I have an old pair of IMF 50s and have heard the TLS 80s.....holy crap they are fantastic
Fried really understood TLs
Mr. Flim Flam The cleanest, tightest, most robust bass I've heard is from TL speakers.
@@bjorn2run I 100% agree. Dr Fried was a genius. It's sad more people havent been able to hear some of his master pieces. I would put some of his speakers against many new hi end speakers and I believe alot of people would be amazed. The TLS 80s were insanely good and that's 1970s tech. I havent heard any of his RSPM or his SACM but the drop to 7hz!! Linear frequency to the point they were used for Scientific audio experiments.
I would imagine they would hold their own with any new speaker made today..... steve!!!!!....you have to hear them if you haven't.
@@myfagan the late and great mr Fried (the genius he was) actually was just the importer of IMF and a great spokesperson for tl designs. In later years he actually designed his own after losing the imf trademark to the real designer, John Wright. Unfortunately he never got the recognition he deserved. I own and have heard multiple tl speakers but IMF always comes out on top! i agree that Steve should check them out.
@@geertwijma8178 thanks for the info. They are insanely good and I would be thrilled if Steve could do a comparison with higher end IMFs with anything made today.
Wow! I listened to Aja on my LRS Maggie's last night. I cant imagine what a 3 panel Maggie would sound like. I would love to hear them!
They are incredible,I never looked back
I never forget how great an album ASA is, no matter what it's being played on!
I heard the 1D’s back in the early 70’s (71-73?) at a HiFi Shop in Milwaukee called Wacks . They played Stevie Wonders “ Living for the City”... it is still the most memorable audio audition I have ever heard and I’ve had a lot of high end gear!
The 2 speakers that I remember from way back them are the Klipschorns and the Tympanis.
That brings back another memory: Thelma Houston and Pressure Cooker.
thats a magic system right there , i have auditioned many turntables and owned far too many , my garrard 401 is the one i always go back to , magnepan would do well to make a new timpani , maybe even a smaller version using their entry level 0.7 panel as the basis for a baby timpani
"Oh, Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more," a young grad student walks into Golden Gramophone and leaves awestruck.
How could this be possible? That is the lure that got me hooked, line and sinker. Audio can be art.
My listening test since 1983, which only Magnapan speakers have been able to pass, is a vinyl recording of Rudolph Serkin playing Beethoven's Fifth piano concerto with the New York Philharmonic (th-cam.com/video/yj3JgJNOBUU/w-d-xo.html). The test is can you, with a blindfold, hear that the piano is IN FRONT OF the orchestra. I demand a sound stage with depth as well as left-to-right orientation. I still use my Magnepan Magnaplanars, from 1983. Although not nearly as expensive as the ones you feature, they provide the same complete clarity and transparency. The rest of the system that passed this test was a Crown IC150 preamp and Crown DC300 amp. Sadly, the amps are long dead.
I have not yet found a digital audio source that is able to provide the phase/temporal accuracy needed for this test. I welcome any suggestions.
lost me at the Bryston 4 B -sorry garbage owned one for approximately 3 weeks and it was so overrated. Just the 20 year warranty was a good marketing tool but this would let down that system in a big way. Compared to an ME 750 or ME 850 it was just flat out killed - i actually carted down my ME 850 and the store staff just couldn't get over how much better it was. I also owned many other amps at the time 1985-91.I am sure they are better now
It's a "good" record? Dude, "Aja" is a little better than that. That shop looks like what Heaven would look like. I can completely understand your obviously joyous mood.
Steely Dan sucks. Buncha coked-up session hacks.
Amen Steve. How much better has it really gotten? If any
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Those turntables are just too old for me, especially at 8 grand. The rest I would love to have.
True at those prices you can get better for sure . There are so many vintage tables that cost lot less and sound just phenomenal too
BRYSTON!!!👍🇨🇦
electrostatic speakers sounds magic!but you need a lot of watt to drive them well
Forget the technical difference but Maggie’s aren’t, and don’t sound like electrostatics (the departed apogees, Martin Logan, etc). Apogees were horrible bright and forward (something a lot of people like apparently), Maggie’s aren’t. I love Maggie’s, not any of others.
@@Scottlp2 agreed also lot easier to drive
I heard these speakers driven by tube amplification in the early 80’s and it was responsible for getting me into tube amps which I have used ever since.
I've had various Maggies over the years but have never heard the Timpani. Hope I get a chance someday.
My first "Revelation" nothing has made such an impression as when I heard them in 1980.....
You’re always welcome , I am one of the very few out there that also has a entire magnepan tympani home theater setup ..
I’ve had and still own about 20 pairs of speakers . Nothing comes close to the warmth and size these speakers can produce sound.
great devices especially the Marantz Model 7 preamp and Garrard 301 turntable, also the quad speakers
Vintage used audiophile gear........restored...Steve I am your age....i agree there is a certain mystique about vintage quality audio components. Not saying modern gear is bad, it is not...in fact in digital media, streaming, DACS, DAPS, portable amps, IEMs, streaming devoces, servers, WIFI and latest BLUETOOTH tech....with hi rez music files in FLAC, ALAC, DSD, etc....blending vintage w modern audiophile gear....gotta tell ya....it is a fun time to enjoy great music!!!
I recall listening to the Timpanis back in the 70's at a Hifi Shop called DKL Labs, which was located in Silver Spring Maryland. I was in my 20's at the time and was in total awe and astonishment! As you said Steve, a wall of stunning sound and clarity that I still remember.
There are some equiment i have never seen in the video they as probably never imported to Sweden but it is nice seeing something new.
I am realy in to vintage audio but i mix with diy. my current system is Altec 604E in my own cabinets ,thorens 150, TD125 homemade LB, Lenco sort of L75 idler, tube preamp, Dynaco ST35 or EL84SE. When people visit me they are suprised how god it sounds and don't belive some parts are more than 40 years old.
This is a great demonstration of how really excellent sound was eventually achieved by the mid 70s, but really even by maybe the early 60s, for a price. Have things gotten any better? Well prices certainly have gone down. But for vinyl reproduction I don't think we've surpassed the best that was available by the early 60s. CDs do surpass vinyl as a source for excellent low noise and dynamics, but they don't really improve the enjoyment levels of vinyl done well. What CDs and modern speakers do is sound and fidelity that are about the same for a small fraction of the cost. Vinyl on a bad turntable isn't really a treat. CDs on a "reasonable" player still sound really good.
I had Tympani's with an SAE X25A Amp, a Nikko Beta 3 pre amp and a Mitchell Focus One Turntable with a Dynavector Ruby Cartridge it was magical for sure
I wonder what those Magnepans would sound like going through that tucked away McIntosh C1100
2-Channel Vacuum Tube Preamplifier
That's what I'm talking about! No idea what the amp is but the rest is awesome I'm curious as to the TT platter weight? Keep stepping back there's so much more to be rediscovered...
I still own by original 4-panel Maggies (branded by Audio Research) and still love the sound. They are boa led with vintage AR gear.
Steve, what are some of the other albums you played over and over in the 70's? I need some inspiration for my vintage setup.
Why do you and others never talk about vintage Technics? Want to see some speakers check out the sb-9500s.
The SME arm isn’t period correct! I doubt it’s got a V15 type 2 mounted either
I HAD AFRIEND WITH THESE PANELS PROBLEM IS THAT FRANK SINATRA GOT A MOUTH THE SIZE OF A WHALE !! THEY BECAME UNLISTENABLE IN THE END
not true... they must have been set up wrong. Tympani 1D's set up correctly will out image any speaker on the market with pin point vocals. I run them fully active bi-amped with 1 amp channel per driver.
Absolutely not the speakers , if you set them up right ... The instrumental seperation alone is RIDICULOUS, vocals smack in the middle human sized. It has timbre and clarity and doesn't loose composure on any volume level either.
What you describe is pure lack of amplification. They are not hard to drive impedance wise (resistive load) but they do like current because they are low sensitivity speakers.
You guys clearly didn't bother getting some what better equipment on it and/or failed to give these the space they really need. Also playing around with setting them up plays a key factor in their behavior.
I have my tweeters on the outside , as my room allows it space wise. It creates a soundfield , that's not rivalled by any of my cone speakers (and I got a shit ton of those) including a infinity rs1b (!)
Steve stop talking and demo it.
Drink that big black cow!
Rockin the golden age.
Would you review the Nola Brio Trios?
very nice, wish I could hear it
Started my high end with Quad 57s and although I loved them I bought the Tympani IVa (first tympani to incorporate the true ribbon tweeter) upon hearing them once. I still have them and are still my favorite speaker despite all the challenges (auditioned possible replacements for over 30 years). Actually did buy a pair of 20.7s but although they are quite good do not reproduce the magic of the Tympani. I power mine with Krell 600e evolution amps and do admit it takes quite a bit of time and patience to set them up and properly position them in the room. But once done right you get the highest, widest, and deepest soundstage possible. I won't try to describe them you just need to hear them. I see pairs of 1Ds on eBay for as low as 1500 and occasionally IVas for 3000.
Same here I have a plethora of cone speakers from rather cheap to really expensive (I have tons of infinity speakers in my collection , including the mighty rs1b, kappa 9, renaissance 80 and more)
Nothing compares to a magnepan and most certainly not with a Tympani. Mine has been refurbished by magnepan , I also got a mgI , mgII and mmgw and had a mmgi .
I will never go back to pure cone, I do feel they require subs to really rock . But man ... magical! I had a quad esl57 on jadis orchestra reference tubes about 20 years ago now.
Great speaker but to small and beams like crazy (super small sweet spot)
And you're correct set them up correctly (tweeters OUTSIDE NOT INSIDE) goes for the Tympani I. Add some subs ,I have mine active crossed over at 60hz or so .
The open soundfield you get, instrumental seperation, that mid range timbre of voices on these speakers are insane.
I will only upgrade to a Tympani 4 or 4a I have pitted so many speakers against it, they are in a league of their own.
Lost for words!
When you own Maggies, you will never own a box speaker again.
It's indeed true, I never went back from planar . I do use subwoofers. But a point source speaker? No thanks
What kind of foods should you avoid while beeing an audio celiac?
Anything that comes with a Rapper.
Mihai Mereu ...noisy ...
Beans...
'Wish I was there...'
Would love to hear you demo systems Steve...even if we get to hear over TH-cam it's better than nothing! :)
You can I have a video up on my channel, restored and upgraded magnepan tympani I speakers.
In this video they are not rebuild , the tweed socks on them is a dead give away. It's a incredible speaker to hear and listen too . Even recorded with a phone on my channel
Hello; The links to equipment are appreciated but, ...would you please, provide a link to the description of the Steely Dan record you've mentioned? Thanks in advance.
Aja, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aja_(album)
@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac; Thanks a lot for your kindness Steve 👍-