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that's what I heard as well. When I say warm I'm talking of something relative in comparison to the Ayres - probably should have been clearer. I see you had the Alexia - another super demanding speaker. |
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Ayre is superb in its own right. I’ve owned the KX-R preamp and have auditioned Wilson with KX-R/MX-R combo. I’ve also owned Sophia 2, 3, Sasha and Alexia with the Wilson surrounds for theater and the Polaris center as you saw in the video. When D’Agostino created the Monentum monos, the first time I heard the Wilson/D’Agostino combo I knew this was the sound I was dreaming of all my life.
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You will have same "fat sound" with other amps.Just better controlled. The key is to find amp which will be lean ,fast, open tight in the bass, but not very technical in the mids. Not an easy task to combine those two values. Not speaking about DAC which should be very airy (maestro very top ocatve abit mellow, I still hear up to 17khz and 12-20khz in Maestro is not airy as Sonus fabers)
but the worst combo when with amps which is polite, slow sounding. Then speakers just sound uninvolving and boring. Fast, vey open, upfront "in your face" kinf of amps does trick. This is for normal audiophile records , listening on moderate levels. When listening electronic music and volume is cranked speakers opens up with most amps.
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I also realized why I'm liking the tweeter on high setting - the tweeter on the Maestro is shelved down in the brilliance region (6khz - 20khz) (red trace): |
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It was a nice color indeed. The room was built from the ground up with two layers of drywall damped by ASC isolation product that kept the drywall resonance to virtually zero. The walls added no coloration of sound of their own. The theater room was over a concrete slab that was poured extra thick when I was building the house. All the external acoustical treatments, I worked with my local dealer and ASC to come up with a design that was not overly acoustically dead nor too lively sounding. The 2 channel performance was outstanding. When I was watching movies at realistic levels, my theater room was absolutely rock solid with bass punching me in the gut. It was the rest of the house that shook according to the rest of the family...
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