Diapason speakers 6 1//2
Many things, but let me try to lay down few of the most interesting and impressive things. Diapason is producing loudspeakers for over 30 years with Adamantes reaching almost 30 years of production. Over the years little has changed with these impressive monitor speakers. Upgrades were made and approved only when there was a significant sonic advantage. There are a lot of happy customers from all over the world and such a long standing product offers something, that is very rare in our fast forward niche industry. Everyone can critically question the level of proud ownership with the products being updated each few months or once per year and compare to the products like Adamantes.
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PIANOTEQ 7 - User Manual
Discussion in ' Audio Hardware ' started by Agitater , Sep 9, Log in or Sign up. Steve Hoffman Music Forums. Location: Toronto. He ordered a pair from China HiFi Audio's web site. It took exactly three weeks for the shipment to arrive. It's an eclectic mix of jazz, electronica, world music, opera, large symphony, and pop vocals that I gradually increase in volume over a period of 12 hours to ear-piercing levels.
When it's all done, the suspensions are nicely worked in and the speakers are noticeably more responsive and extended at both ends to their full range. Just to be sure there wouldn't be any criticisms though, the speakers ran in daily for another week doing all-day background music duty from either Jazz FM91 or Classical FM in Toronto.
Dumb idea. I usually stick to the Belden 5TooUP. This is the test system I used. It's a second third? It's set up in my den for both testing new gear and private listening. Amps vary a lot in this system. There's a new component of some sort coming in every month.
We'll see about that. The speakers are on 26" and 28" stands, and although the photo has compressed the depth, they're actually a good 18" forward of the rear wall, with plenty of clearance to the side walls and bookshelves that are also in the small room.
There's a underpadded Persian Iranian area rug on the floor which is engineered hardwood on top of a rubber acoustic barrier on top of reinforced concrete. It's a warm-sounding room, with a near-to-midfield listening position. There are lots of subtle differences that indicate the SA guys made a lot of small changes to accommodate the different cabinet materials MDF rather than plywood.
The tweeters look quite similar at first glance, but the differences in midrange and treble whether related to the Sound Artist tweeter or its crossover or both are very easy to hear. The Totem Sky is yet another small speaker design, this one out of the ever-creative mind of Vince Bruzesse. The SA's front baffle is recessed 13mm from the front edge of the cabinet. That also means the FA's grill frame is correspondingly thinner than the SA. The Totem Sky and Diapason Micra drivers are flush-mounted to their front baffles.
In terms of all-around musical enjoyment, the Totem Sky is hard to beat. However, acoustic instrument timbres from the Falcon Acoustics are more accurate than any of the speakers in this group and often startlingly real. The overall presence of the Sky is just as delightful as the Falcon and Diapason, but the apparent low bass of the Totem Sky seems to go deeper and deeper and deeper while retaining clarity and detail.
By contrast, the Sound Artist begins to slope downward into blurriness as it reaches its lowest frequencies reproducible with any sort of musically audible energy. The same goes for the Harbeth P3ES2. The FA descends into the lower frequencies much more gracefully, still rolling off noticeably but retaining detail and clarity as it does so - a very nice compromise that produces a very musical and listenable result.
With the SA, most acoustic bass if it was well recorded in the first place of course sounds clear enough and detailed enough, but all acoustic bass instruments sound mostly identical which basically exposes the limits of the cheaper speaker's drivers and crossover and cabinet.
The Diapason Micra has a lot of apparent low bass too, but it's the result of the very long-throw woofer being in my opinion overworked. Clarity and detail suffer. The Sound Artist battles things out more successfully in the upper midrange where it ranks to my ears almost identically in sound with the Harbeth but is quite noticeably softer in tone than the TS, DM, and FA.
The FA and the TS are the champs in the upper midrange and right on up through the treble fundamentals and the upper harmonics. The FA and TS are stellar speakers in the upper ranges, with the DM only a small step behind in clarity and natural sounding detail up there.
The Totem Sky tweeter is astonishingly good. The Totem Sky is the all-around low bass champ. Slide on over to the superbly recorded Charlie Rouse - Yeah! The Sound Artist's slight boost that I heard between about Hz puts Rouse way forward in the mix but lacks clarity and definition in that crucial range, while the Falcon Acoustics and Harbeth maintain much better linearity and clarity in the same range. The narrow frequency range is just above middle C on the piano ranging up an octave and a half - it's a fundamentally crucial part of the audible range, and all speakers have to get it precisely right.
More than anything else, it is this crucial middle of the midrange that the SA screws up. The TS is a champ here, along with the FA, but the Sky takes a very different approach with its huge 33mm tweeter that provides clarity and detail without ever producing any harshness. Once again though, the disparity between the accurate acoustic instrument timbres of the Falcon Acoustics and the dull tone of the Sound Artist was starkly contrasted.
There's simply no way around the limitations imposed by lack of midrange and bass cone area and lack of cabinet volume. Digital signal processing can do an admirable job of getting the most out of small speakers, but so far there are still too many qualities that have to be sacrificed in the process.
So I took it easy on these little boxes by using the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Bartok's piano concertos Nos. It's a superb recording but it's not usually overwhelming for small speakers.
The Falcon Acoustics was the champ, Anda's piano playing resounding clearly, naturally and accurately, with the lovely warmth of the huge studio recording venue just as clearly adding atmosphere. The direct comparison listening to the Sound Artist was disappointing, with the sound stage still present but the music sounding dull and congested. The Totem Sky sorted things out nicely, but couldn't match the midrange acoustic instrument accuracy of the Falcon Acoustics.
The Harbeth P3ES2 labored on this recording, though it still did better than the SA, but hinted frequently at congestion as soon as the orchestra got into forte and mezzo-forte levels. The Diapason Micra III NW disappointed with this recording as well, and although uncongested sounded strident especially with the strings and unnatural treble piano. I have some problems. While imitation is often touted as the sincerest form of flattery and while lots and lots of companies have always ripped off each other's intellectual property over the years, it is only in recent decades that the internet provided the means with which to suggest to lots and lots of people that the clone product is just as good as the genuine article.
Cabinet quality is amateurish, including poorly cut joinery, and poorly finished joints and bargain basement-quality staining and exterior finishing. Hardware findings are low grade, and the three-way connectors on the rear panel have cheap plastic bodies.
The "Sound Artist" labels on each grill are actually cheap tape with the lettering stuck on the back. Better to go the Falcon Acoustics route and do without a badge altogether. Contrary to a couple of well-liked reviewers, I don't hear anything that approaches the overall quality and enjoyment to be had from the FA or Harbeth.
The blurriness of the SA was starting to become noticeable by the time I reached the end of the listening comparisons. I was happy to get back to the Falcon Acoustics. The speakers don't excel in any area, but they also don't offend in any area.
The dullness of tone except for the upper midrange is palatable but below the quality provided by the other speakers in this group. There are likely plenty of audiophiles whose hearing is slightly different from mine and who may not be bothered as much by the average tone of the speakers. Agitater , Sep 9, Location: Brooklyn. Great comparisons, thanks. Build factor of course is a difference, but other thoughts?
Or perhaps is it just that the FAs and the Totems are in your experience subtly better than the Harbeths, while in turn the Harbeths are just a different level than the SAs? Trying to get a sense of scale of the differences you heard. Location: Northeast. What do you think of the balance between Falcon and LS50? Of all the speakers you've reviewed those are the only ones I know well so it just gives me a frame of reference. I found they had a bit of upper bass bloat in writing this sounds harsh, but that is the best way I can describe it with some middle to slightly into upper midrange suckout followed by some treble emphasis and not the most refined treble.
Location: Milwaukee, WI. That is a fantastic review of really all those speakers! Phil Thien , Sep 10, Agitater , Sep 10, Phil Thien likes this. Location: Newport Hills, WA. Great review, Agitater! I haven't heard of the Diapason Micra before; is that something still in production?
Totem Sky I'd love to hear someday. Last edited: Sep 10, Agitater likes this. Location: Corvallis, Oregon. Art K , Sep 10, Echoes Myron and Agitater like this.
Location: Chicago metro, USA. Ivand , Echoes Myron and Agitater like this. Here are a few shots of the crossover, drivers, and the cabinet interior. The crossover from two different angles: The cabinet interior. There are no markings backplate, magnet, basket, or anywhere else on it of any kind. The same goes for the tweeter buried under the crossover.
Hopefully, an SHF member will recognize the woofer and post the ID: It just goes to show that a clone built out of completely generic, unsophisticated, and average-to-poor spec parts can still sound passable. That's probably a major credit to the original design.
Meaning of "diapasonal" in the English dictionary
LOG IN. This got me thinking about my long journey to get here. Bless my wife for putting up with the many many many speakers that have passed through. Then we traveled down a long road of speakers and systems.
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Performed on the historic Opus E. Recording session dates: May , ; November 15, ; May 8, ; May 7, Novus, the new. But the organ has been reasserting itself as a voice in contemporary music over the past two decades, with new concert halls sporting ever more sophisticated instruments and new commissions from world-class composers. I offer this album in hopes of continuing this resurgence. The included works shatter the still-common modern associations of the organ with churches and staid liturgical music. This last requirement deserves some further explanation. As a performer I am particularly attracted to works by non-organist composers, as they tend to refreshingly avoid the well-worn gestures and techniques oft overused by incorrigible organists.
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Diapason Italia. You know, the legendary one based in Brescia and led by Alessandro Schiavi. Was wondering whether any of you have had any experience with the models Asteras OMG the looks! Looks like great stuff. Yet another reason to go to Munich for the show.
DIAPASON DYNAMIS REVIEW
Discussion in ' Audio Hardware ' started by Agitater , Sep 9, Log in or Sign up. Steve Hoffman Music Forums. Location: Toronto. He ordered a pair from China HiFi Audio's web site. It took exactly three weeks for the shipment to arrive.
Sound Artist LS3/5A speakers aren't too bad (but there's a catch or two)
Forum Rules. That appears to be the rub and clearly some history most know nothing about. That's unfortunate.
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The definition of diapasonal in the dictionary is relating to or resembling a diapason; sonorous. Educalingo cookies are used to personalize ads and get web traffic statistics. We also share information about the use of the site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. View details Got it. Download the app educalingo.
Correct mutual position of acoustic systems, enclosing constructions and listening zone can be an important tool to help reduce room resonance and achieve realistic sound stage. In order to correctly place acoustic systems in a rectangular symmetrical area, we recommend using acoustic calculators for each of the three typical cases:. Loudspeakers are placed along the short wall. Loudspeakers are placed along the long wall.
Came by chance on the forum and saw this topic. I can help you with advice.