07-17-2012, 09:55 PM
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Location: Tennessee, U.S.A.
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Originally Posted by prepress
I did, way back in 1989. I thought they sounded really good, though there wasn't a lot of bottom end to them. It was my first exposure to the brand.
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Yeah, in 1989, I had already owned five different pairs of Magneplanar/Magnepan speakers - and I remember that my Tympani speakers all had prodigious bottom end.- But, then I'm really old!
I wonder what a pair of Tympani type (three panel) speakers with today's Magnepan technology would sound like - I'll bet they would light up Carnegie Hall.
I wish I'd kept my Tympani IVa speakers that I was happily using in 1989! They surely filled a room (both with their physical size and the music they produced)
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I have a record player and a cd player and some other stuff that sounds pretty good.
MAIN SYSTEM: . . . Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, [B]Koetsu Rosewood or Grado Statement 1 Cartridges, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric K03 CD/SACD Player, Lexicon RT-20 Universal Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System, OPPO and Cambridge Streaming Devices.
DOWNSTAIRS SYSTEM: . . . Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento Speakers, JL Audio F112 Sub, McIntosh MA7000 Integrated Amp, McIntosh MVP871 Universal Disc Player, OPPO BDP-105 Blu-Ray Player, VPI Scoutmaster with periphery ring clamp, VPI SDS Motor Drive, Koetsu Pro IV, or Clearaudio Discovery Cartridges, Mark Levinson No. 25s phono stage, Wadia 170i Transport with a Meridian Bitstream 203 DAC, VPI HW-17 Pro Record Cleaning Machine, Five Richard Gray RGPC 400 devices scattered around the two systems, Arcici Suspense Rack System, Discovery Essence and Essential Cables, 14,000 ± LPs .
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