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Bev
Mark Levinson N°390s CD Through:Atlas Elektra XLR's To: Mark Levinson N°383 To: Magneplanar .7's
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I am far from sure that Bev will let me handle her "goods".
Quick initial review .....
Quite lightweight in tonality - bass is about equivalent to a not very big standmount box speaker.
Subwoofer needed, really - and I have a small one plumbed in now. It needs that little extra tonal weight in my system/room.
But very, very lucid and articulate.
And the soundstaging .... astonishingly good - 3D with excellent depth and image focus.
I find so far that they are best facing straight ahead.
I was trying out various 'test tracks' as one does .... then I just settled down with one of my favourite albums, and got carried away and submerged in the sheer musicality of it. Which is what matters, imho.
It took a couple of hours, or more, of listening to start to adjust to the presentation, which is quite individual..
So, yes, a very good start. I look forward to the coming days of re-exploring music Podium-style!
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I am far from sure that Bev will let me handle her "goods".
Yes the Podiums are indeed "individual".... they sound like no other speaker I've heard
Enjoy Jerry....
Bev
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Jerry, do tell, we're all on tenterhooks (whatever they are)...
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When I owned mine they were alongside my Hedlund Horns with Lowther DX4 drivers. Just imagine my 'period of adjustment'
Source
SW1X Universal Music Server UMS I Signature with Power Supply Unit PSU I Signature
SW1X USB II
SW1X DAC III Special
Audiolab 6000 CDT transport
Amps
Pre amps -- Hi fi Collective twin mono ladder stepped attenuator, with Charcroft Z-foil and silver wired. And First Watt B1 active no gain buffer.
Power amps -- Welborne 45 SET monoblocks 1.8W / Decware Taboo 6W / Elekit 300B TU-8600SVK plus further improved components 9W / ICE Power 1000W
Speakers
Highly modified Endorphin P17 open baffle speakers containing both vintage and modern alnico drivers and paper cones. All silver wired - 8" Cube Audio FC8 full range drivers and vintage 15" Altec VOTT 416 bass drivers. All sat on Townsend Audio Podium seismic isolation platforms.
BK Electronics XLS400FF Sub.
Cabling
Silver mains cables, interconnects and speaker cables by SW1X
Headphones
HRT HeadStreamer and SennHeiser HD650 headphones
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i wont bore you, but my gran had a tenter
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Oh dear, I must be more catastrophic than I realised, I had to know more after your teasy reply, and find the origin quite interesting:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterhook
Woe is me
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How's it going with the Podiums Jerry...?
I loved their very different sound
In the end I decided to stick with Maggies but if Maggies weren't available I would have stayed with the Podiums and been very happy with them
Bev
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Hi Bev
I now have two Podium threads going - that's too much for my small brain to keep track of, so I've reverted to my own system blog in the Gallery section!
My latest comments on the Podiums are here -- https://theartofsound.net/forum/show...73#post1020673
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