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Post by liv2teach on May 29, 2019 16:29:35 GMT -5
Forgot to point out, I am strongly of the belief that not only do people have differing opinions and personal preferences as to what sounds good, I also believe people actually hear differently. For one example, I have smallish size ears, very flat against my head, and small ear canals. I can't imagine some guy with huge ears sticking out from his head and large ear canals hears the same. I also want it made clear, I am in no way bashing anyone for the speakers they like or don't like. Speakers are all about preference, what you need, where you are using them, what you are listening to, and how much money you want to spend. There is no perfect speaker, nor is there a best speaker. There is only a best speaker for you. The question is...are you bashing those of us with large ear canals?  |
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Post by Bonzo on May 29, 2019 16:33:28 GMT -5
Forgot to point out, I am strongly of the belief that not only do people have differing opinions and personal preferences as to what sounds good, I also believe people actually hear differently. For one example, I have smallish size ears, very flat against my head, and small ear canals. I can't imagine some guy with huge ears sticking out from his head and large ear canals hears the same. I also want it made clear, I am in no way bashing anyone for the speakers they like or don't like. Speakers are all about preference, what you need, where you are using them, what you are listening to, and how much money you want to spend. There is no perfect speaker, nor is there a best speaker. There is only a best speaker for you. The question is...are you bashing those of us with large ear canals? 😁 I would think large ear canaled people might actually hear better, but who knows. I just know mine are quite small. Only the smallest size in ear buds fit, and they are tight and don't fit well. |
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Post by strindl on May 29, 2019 19:14:08 GMT -5
[I’ve had two sets of large advents and one set of the smaller advents reconed many years ago. They were great speakers for the money. Those large Advents were the biggest selling speaker of their era, and deservedly so. I did lots of shopping around and listening before choosing them as the speakers in my first decent audio system. Add in a Marantz 2230 receiver, a Dual 1218 turntable, and a pair of Koss ESP 9 headphones, and I was a happy listener. I never reconed mine when the foam started to rot. I had sold both pairs, I added a second pair a year after the first so I could have "stacked Advents". I sold them to a couple friends when I made the jump to Magnepan Tympani 1d's in 1978. |
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Post by Boomzilla on May 29, 2019 23:22:41 GMT -5
If you have hearing impairement definitely go with the Khorns. Snark to your heart's content, pedrocols - The K-Horns are still the lowest distortion speaker on the market - period. You may not like the horn colorations, but to equate low distortion with hearing impairment is grossly unfair, and I'm sure you DO know better. If I had a large enough room, I'd definitely consider K-Horns, but "large enough" is significantly larger than any average living room. IMHO, a realistic minimum sized room for K-Horns is about 25x35 feet, and even bigger is better. Besides, in this day and age of readily-available and highly-customizable DSP, I could tame the horn sound and make a pair of K-Horns sound as delicate as Maggies. Fact. I could also make a pair of Maggies sound like K-Horns (except they'd have higher distortion). In fact, some horn speaker maker ("Audio Note" or something like that?) has done exactly what I propose - using DSP to eliminate horn sound. |
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Post by pedrocols on May 30, 2019 7:03:46 GMT -5
If you have hearing impairement definitely go with the Khorns. Snark to your heart's content, pedrocols - The K-Horns are still the lowest distortion speaker on the market - period. You may not like the horn colorations, but to equate low distortion with hearing impairment is grossly unfair, and I'm sure you DO know better. If I had a large enough room, I'd definitely consider K-Horns, but "large enough" is significantly larger than any average living room. IMHO, a realistic minimum sized room for K-Horns is about 25x35 feet, and even bigger is better. Besides, in this day and age of readily-available and highly-customizable DSP, I could tame the horn sound and make a pair of K-Horns sound as delicate as Maggies. Fact. I could also make a pair of Maggies sound like K-Horns (except they'd have higher distortion). In fact, some horn speaker maker ("Audio Note" or something like that?) has done exactly what I propose - using DSP to eliminate horn sound. Fair. |
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Post by widespreadpanic on Jun 1, 2019 9:43:01 GMT -5
 Ha, Picked these up from the Old Dominion freight depot yesterday after work. I am ordering these speaker cables, www.vhaudio.com/wire.html . What is the best speaker connection to the DR1’s and the 3.7i’s? Thank you for your consideration. |
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Post by widespreadpanic on Jun 1, 2019 10:03:16 GMT -5
That link takes you to the top of the page but the speaker cables I will be using are the VH Audio CHeLA further down that page.
VH Audio CheLA
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Post by tropicallutefisk on Jun 1, 2019 13:25:52 GMT -5
Congratulations! I cant wait to hear your impressions of the DR1 / 3.7i combo. It's the same set up I have and I love it. May you have many hours of happy listening
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Post by tropicallutefisk on Jun 1, 2019 13:46:51 GMT -5
Fyi you may want to use the 1 ohm resistors for the tweeters and midrange if you find the sound overly bright or harsh. Once I added the resistors the sound was just right.
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