Bose or Bosssse

[Lord_Magnepan]

Quite interesting. Look similar to Infinitys (good days) EMIT tweeters. Its a close design to Infinitys IRS systems. Maybe i get lucky one day and hear them. But then again, i dont miss a thing from my 3.6s Ill post pictures tonight if i can find the stupid cable for my digi cam.

[E-Stat]

Quite interesting. Look similar to Infinitys (good days) EMIT tweeters. Its a close design to Infinitys IRS systems.

Twenty years ago, the same reviewer had the IRS system. While similar in configuration, I found them to have a weakness in the midbass - the transition from the midrange ribbons to the servo woofer towers was too great.

But then again, i dont miss a thing from my 3.6s

Agreed. The ribbon tweeters on the 3.6 and 20.1s are wonderful. The 20s just do a bit better on the low end.

rw

[Lord_Magnepan]

Yeah the 20s,3.6s are really nice. But they do need a large room(especially the 20s) to sound their best. I will go the Active route with my 3.6s to extend it to 25Hz, sooner or later.

[E-Stat]

Yeah the 20s,3.6s are really nice. But they do need a large room(especially the 20s) to sound their best. I will go the Active route with my 3.6s to extend it to 25Hz, sooner or later.

If by the active route, you mean subwoofers, I will offer my thoughts. First, I find the bass of the 20.1's qualitatively better than the Alons so long as we're not trying to reproduce 16 hz organ pedals. Although I have not heard the big Soundlabs electrostats, the 20.1s bass is the best I've heard from any planar. I used subwoofers in my system for a while and later moved them to the HT system. That necessitated getting higher power amps, but similarly I find the qualitative results better. There is a fun cut in the soundtrack from the latest Harry Potter movie called "Double Trouble". It is a chorus of kids singing lyrics from Shakespeare's Macbeth. There is a wonderful concert drum in the piece that really shows off the bass capability of a speaker - not only for the range, but for the timbre and harmonics as well. It has been my experience that with the best planars, you can not only hear the fundamentals but the "skin" of the drum as well.

Coincidentally, I just found a larger pair of Acoustats than mine for sale on ebay - and the seller is but 10 minutes away from my house. I'm heading there later today to give them an audition. The Spectra 66s are capable of pretty darn good bass.



rw

[Lord_Magnepan]

Very neat, i mean by "active", to use a active crossover and use different AMPs for the bass and trebble section. I will aim for Pathos InPower Monos.

Cheers