What's the best system you've heard?

[Pharos]

For me FM is often better at the weekends, especially Sundays.

[SW1X]

Quite recently I heard a very expensive system consisting of a stack of top end Soulution gear, feeding Maxonic TW1100 field coil speakers. Those speakers are curious looking things, very shiny and even ugly to my eyes, but what a sound! My host played an old DG recording of David Oistrakh which I have at home and am therefore familiar with; and in a moment I was utterly captivated. Never before have I heard such a natural sound, such purity of tone, such easy breathing musicality. Some of that is of course down to the (very expensive) electronics, but those speakers stole my heart. I'd seen pictures of them before and never realised that a big, old fashioned driver with a rectangular plastic horn stuck in the middle, and a fireguard attached to the front, could sound so sublime. Such expensive equipment is always difficult to justify, but maybe one day when my ship comes in ......



The feet on those speakers took me back nearly 50 years to the days of Bleep and Booster

Greetings,

Nice to see that some people go back to the old technology. There is nothing better than a properly designed field coil based acoustics.

As with all active devices or components (whether field coil drivers or active I/V or similar), the sound is heavily dependent on the power supplies.

S

[paulf-2007]

The voxativ field coils sounded better with 12v car batteries than voxativ's own power supplies

[Barry]

The voxativ field coils sounded better with 12v car batteries than voxativ's own power supplies

That doesn't surprise me in the least. Why should someone replace a source of a steady constant magnetic field, i.e. a permanent magnet, with a field coil powered by an AC derived power source, and expect it to sound better?

Can someone explain this to me?