Re: Help me pair speakers for a PrimaLuna tube amp
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Hey!...for the first published review(Audioholics)in quite a few years, it's good to see that the M3 hasen't lost it's edge to the competition!
Thanks for bringing it to our attention!
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It was a good read, the M3s did great in this review.
Rick
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Re: Help me pair speakers for a PrimaLuna tube amp
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Yes, but the competition in this shoot out was weak. I would have liked to see a comparison between the M3 and the PSB Alpha B, Epos EL S3, Usher S520, Monitor Audio Bronze B2 (in the $250-350 range) and heck, throw in the $900 Totem Rainmaker, $1500 Dynaudio Audience 52SE, a Wharfdale bookshelf and a KEF.
Now, that would be a shoot out!
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Re: Help me pair speakers for a PrimaLuna tube amp
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While we're at it, I hope our good friends at Axiom have a big shoot out of their own ... as part of a development program of a new book shelf speaker. My hope, collect the following:
FOCAL JMLAB ELECTRA 906 $2200
DYNAUDIO AUDIENCE 52SE
VANDERSTEEN 2CE $1500
PROAC TABLETTE REFERENCE 8 $1200
SPENDOR SE3/5 $1100
TOTEM HAWK $2300
PSB PLATINUM M2 $1995
REFERENCE 3A DE CAPO MMI $2500
SONUS FARBER CREMONA $4500
Make an Axiom bookshelf which sounds as good as the best of these and sell a pair for under $800, and that would be a giant killer I'd be all over.
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You're heard all those speakers? You've been busy!
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My BestBuy doesn't have any of those, 2x6.
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Yeah...compared to the speakers tested in previous Audioholics shoot-outs(like the earlier one for the M22)the competition wasen't nearly so up-scale.
Rather unfortunate
A couple points they did make were somewhat interesting, however:
An "agressive tweeter"
Hmmmmm......somehow missed that one with my three M3s
And to refute the long lasting impression that the M3s and M50s are "laid-back":
They stated that the M3 was slightly foreward of neutral!(can't get much better than that!!)
So I guess the "laid-back" Axiom speakers are laid-back only in relation to the "other" "more-foreward" Axiom speakers!
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I agree on the Dynaudio 52se. I have a pair, and they are my absolute favorite monitor speakers. No disrespect to Axiom. I do love the 3Mtis I have (and M22tis, and VP150, and QS8s), but there are clear differences with the Dynaudios.
And if Axiom could come up with a contender @ $800, I agree that it would sell well.
Hmmm, I wonder if I could convince Amie to swap an EP600 for my pair of Dynaudios so they can have them for their development team?!
Rich
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Well, considering the significant price difference between the Axioms and the Dynaudio, I would hope for an improvement in sound quality.
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I guess I'd feel pretty stupid if I had spent that much $ and didn't think they sounded better! I've always loved the Dynaudio sound. I wonder if I'd gotten 5 pairs of M3tis and stacked them up if I'd get the same/better sound?!
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