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Martin Logan Request

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Actually I use horns for the home theatre and magnepans (planer) for music only.

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Planar Quasi Ribbon - Tweeter/midrange Planar - woofer Why is it in so many speaker reviews you see over the last 3 years or so the reviewer at some point (almost like clock work)will state that the cone speaker under review sounds as "fast as an ESL" or as "extended as a Ribbon driver". People who listen to Planars everyday know that this is very seldom based in reality. I think reviewers should stop making excuses for cone loudspeakers and start acknowleging Planars for their superior attributes (no matter how much more difficult they may be to drive).

Having owned several other ESLs as well as dynamic/cone speakers over the years, I enjoy my Sound Labs the most by far. Until someone produces a safe, easy to drive, massless driver full-range speaker (hah!), I have no plans to change.

I feel that the sweetest, most accurate sound available, is from Ribbon speakers. If music isn't truly enjoyable then why bother listening to it at all?

B&W CM4

For the past two years I have enjoyed my pair of Swans M-Series Speakers made by Swans Speaker Systems of Monterey Park, California, formerly from Canada. They combine a five-inch woofer with a true isodynamic ribbon tweeter. I tended to be very unimpressed with the current crop of shrill-sounding dome tweeters on the market. They are fantastic on classical, jazz, soft rock but can be too laid back, dynamics wise, for hard rock. Unless you spend thousands of dollars for a pair of speakers, there will always be a compromise. Mine will be a loss of macro dynamics. What I do get and enjoy very much is the resolution. Combine them with a good subwoofer or two and you have a great speaker system. My thanks to Stereophile for bringing this question back from the archives after three years.

Actually electromagnetic panels from Magnepan.

I am increasingly leaning towards ESL as my next speaker purchase

I am still waiting for a single driver that covers the full frequency range. Meanwhile an electrostaic with hybrid and sub is my choice. I like the detail of an electrostatic midrange and my hearing over 14K is dead, so sizzle is not a problem. I still find the bottom end needs a sub and trying to find a reasonable match in phase and rhythm is what a hobby is all about.

After having lived with my Maggies for some time now, I can't help but hear the box in all the dynamic speakers I have heard since, and I can't stand it. I've been spoiled by the open, even, natural sound of my quasi ribbons.

Incredible performance, great value for money

Actively amplified in digital domain

Cadence Amaya's 91db with nice flat impedance curve powered from a Cayin EL34 PP Valve Amp (in triode mode) @ 17w/channel - FANTASTIC

While many of you audiophiles will scoff at my modest system, my Klipsch Forte speakers and NAD electrics (amp, pre and cd player) have brought me years of musical (if not "audiophile") pleasure.

If you want REAL bass reproduction you need dynamic drivers (large ones) with a cabinet to match: B&W-801. End of story!

A B&W believer!

Not having the room or money for several ssytems, I find that dynamic speakers cover the spectrum best. This includes big/small classical, jazz, rock, and pop... and movies. I currently use B&W N802 (front), B&W HTM1 (center), and Infinity RS4b (rear).

25 year old Bang and Olufson, so I assuming they are cones.

Electrostatic/Dynamic hybrid. Martin Logan all around.

I use both Acoustat 2+2's and a Velodyne Sub.

Have had my MartinLogan SL3 hybrids for 5+ years now and still love them.

I'm compared my N805 to Martin Logan's $2k system, I prefer N805 much much more than ML. Sound is more "full bodied" so called.

Snell C/V - still the best, most natural speaker I have ever heard.

Martin Logan reQuest

Love to have something exotic, but hey! I'm middle class America!

the only loudspeaker that can reproduce the sound of music. the others, its a long way to go.

Oops, technically speaking I think you left out planar, which I guess we could include Eminent Technology products in (i.e., they're push pull.) Have a go next week with a modification of the same question?