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RE: Another as good as it gets speaker and proper electronics.

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In Reply to: RE: Another as good as it gets speaker and proper electronics. posted by josh358 on September 19, 2016 at 18:44:00

It was for the mid-bass I got the T-IV's Josh. I had a pair of T-I's back in '73-4, and I missed the Tympani's abilities with drums, piano, and acoustic bass shortly after I sold them (to get Fulton Model J's). My T-IV's came up for sale in Portland, OR, where my sister lives, so I snapped them up to use as (sub)woofers for my Quad ESL's. I had the seller deliver them to my sisters house to save the cost and possible damage of shipping, figuring I'd bring them back to S. California with me the next time I was up in Portland. As it turns out, I moved up instead! My room here is smaller than my one in CA, but sounds WAY better. That one was 13' X 19' (with a 10' ceiling), but with a bay window, and the room had severe echo flutter and high frequency ringing. Worst room I ever had. Though smaller, this one I have now sounds much better.

Like you Josh I may end up placing the two woofer panels staggered behind the M/T one. And I'll be trying the woofer panels with both my Quads (original 57's) and ET LFT-8b's, as well as with the T-IV M/T panels, bi-amping with a First Watt B4. Fun!

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RE: Another as good as it gets speaker and proper electronics. - josh358 04:42:37 09/20/16 (2)
Sounds like we're both coming from a similar experience -- I had a pair of I-D's for years. Then I moved and didn't have a large enough room for them, so I lent them to a friend. And I couldn't fit them here either but I figured I could use the IVA's in split configuration.

I've always loved the Tympanis because they seem to me a great compromise between the superior clarity of electrostatics and the superior bass and dynamics of dynamic speakers, and because like other Maggies they have an overall musicality that I find lacking in many speakers.

The LFT-8b mids might be a good match, I'll be curious to hear how it turns out. Not so sure about the Quad 57 just because of the difference in radiation pattern, but I'll be curious to hear. Someone here has combined the Tympani woofers with Martin Logans (and a rotary woofer!). I think if I were doing a hybrid system (which I'd love to do in another life). I think I'd try mating them with the Acoustats, since they're another line source (I was just reading an interesting thread on the Planar Circle by a former Acoustat dealer who said that the DD servo amps sound much cleaner than the transformers).

Meanwhile, though, I understand that the Neo 8's are just short of electrostatics. I'm going to have to lay in some new amps before I try mine, though.

meanwhile, I'm wondering what would happen if I filled the gap between the Tympani woofers and the ceiling . . . mine is only 7' high . . . and I'm losing some deep bass because a radiator prevents me from putting the woofers against the wall.
- RE: Another as good as it gets speaker and proper electronics. - Satie 08:58:40 09/20/16 (1)
  Re space the radiator leaves to the wall can be filled in with a styrofoam board cut to fit the space. Just wedge it in for starters.. .
  - RE: Another as good as it gets speaker and proper electronics. - josh358 17:17:55 09/20/16 (0)
    Good idea. I'd thought of a barrier there but hadn't thought of using styrofoam. Much experimenting to do . . .

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