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I use an earlier (second non-HD) version of Atohm GT1 from France. Easy to drive so I can use it with 300B SET tube amp. Time coherent. 89dB (Has anybody outside Europe even heard of this brand?)
Looks like this but mine is black:
http://www.the-ear.net/sites/default...?itok=MdKGAbfK
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/atohm/1.html
http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/atohm-gt1-loudspeaker/
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Nikhil
Jonanthan,
A good friend of mine has the MicroOne's and he just loves them.
Do you see them matching well with Joe's Triode 845M?
I assumed they needed a fair amount of power.
Regards.
Impedance
6
Ohm
Impedance Deviation
+/- 2 Ohm
Sensitivity
87dB
Minimum Amplifier Power
10
WRMS
I'm sure they'd be just fine!
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joeinid
I'm sure they'd be just fine!
Excellent candidate for your consideration ...
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wklie
My Dealer gets in Atohm & I agree, at their price point they do punch well above their weight in sound, fit and finish. Nice.
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Joe, you already have the LS50's..... sooooo????
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A man cannot survive on one, or two, or three pairs of monitors!
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Really depends on budget and partnering equipment but my all-time favorite small speakers have been
ProAc Tablettes
Evolution Acoustics MicroOne's
Raidho C1 & D1's
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RDSChicago
A man cannot survive on one, or two, or three pairs of monitors!
Ha!
Tell me about it :blush:
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Soooooooo what? Not very efficient, needs a more powerful amp.
What got me initially excited about the Falcon speakers was their 15 ohm rating and tube friendly character. I have not heard them but in reviews and comments from friends, they love them. Soooooo, I'm still a little confused as to exactly what will get my attention.
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Joe, you already have the LS50's..... sooooo????
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Shadowfax
I had the legacy HD monitor and was not overly-impressed.
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Originally Posted by
Nikhil
Jonanthan,
A good friend of mine has the MicroOne's and he just loves them.
Do you see them matching well with Joe's Triode 845M?
I assumed they needed a fair amount of power.
Regards.
Unless Joe is in a massive room, the match should be wonderful. I believe his amps are 50 wpc Class A. Should be plenty. The MicroOnes are a very benign load and extremely tube friendly.
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My room room is a decent size and I'm sure the MicroOnes would be great. I may have to give them a try. The Triode amps are 50 wpc.
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jtinn
Unless Joe is in a massive room, the match should be wonderful. I believe his amps are 50 wpc Class A. Should be plenty. The MicroOnes are a very benign load and extremely tube friendly.
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joeinid
My room room is a decent size and I'm sure the MicroOnes would be great. I may have to give them a try. The Triode amps are 50 wpc.
I am absolutely sure you would love them Joe!
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KeithR
Trenner & Friedl monitor - tiny, but sounded great on Viva electronics last Newport show
Reference 3a De Capos
Vapor Cirrus - want to hear them and they are pretty efficient
I like Dyns, but wouldn't think them to be a good match with your Tri amps.
the trenner & friedl art monitors blew my mind, its a great little speaker. I haven't heard the De Capos in long while but their ability to resolve fine details/texure will give Quad 57s a run for their money.
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joeinid
My room room is a decent size and I'm sure the MicroOnes would be great. I may have to give them a try. The Triode amps are 50 wpc.
Joe, I briefly owned a pair of the MicroOnes. They are fast, dynamic & punchy and disappear in the room, but I don't like the wrought iron stands. It looks like the stands were sub-contracted to an outdoor furniture supplier..they are horribly heavy, easily blemish & i'm told typically arrive with scratches. When I was setting up the stands/bases, I thought I was setting up a piece of outdoor furniture, surely not a pair of high end speaker stands :weird:. They were also hard to sell.
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puroagave
the trenner & friedl art monitors blew my mind, its a great little speaker. I haven't heard the De Capos in long while but their ability to resolve fine details/texture will give Quad 57s a run for their money.
Driving the Trenner & Friedl Art monitors with Quicksilver KT150 monoblocks and they are so wonderfully musical and these diminutive speakers really envelop the room with a wide and tall soundstage. Simply amazing speakers. Recently picked up the Linear Tube Audio preamp getting kickass reviews all over the Internet which is blowing away my CJ ET3SE preamp and sounds great with the T&F/Quicksilver combo. It doesn't get much more musical than this, folks.
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Depends if you only want bookshelf, or small. The Heco Direkt, which costs 2700 Euro or so, and are 95db drivable by 10 - 25w SETs, are easily better to me than many raidhos and other floor standers as well. They come to less than waist height, are flat and thick, and lean backward pointing towards the listener, and with vented downfiring woofers. Played large orchestral on them with vinyl, no problems, at an UK show. The company has been in Germany since 1949. So technically not bookshelf, but fantastic for smaller rooms.
The Evolution Acoustics MM7 are by far the best speakers I have heard, so the micro ones should be pretty good, worth checking out definitely, if similar quality flows through to the smaller model then they will be the ones.
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joeinid
My room room is a decent size and I'm sure the MicroOnes would be great. I may have to give them a try. The Triode amps are 50 wpc.
Joe, you still got some room and lonely amplfiers , Give them a try .... :)
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The active Neumann KH-120A. Pure, honest. No more Mr. nice coloring.... I use them in my kitchen in combination with a little Sunfire Atmos subwoofer and this plays powerful and clean. I love them. (picture from internet, not my set-up)
http://www.dinew-high-fidelity.de/im.../kh120a_gr.jpg
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I tried to post last week, but no luck.
T&F Art, MMMicro, Lotus Tanagra (now morphed into the French brand that Mike carries), Stenheim Alumine, Joseph Audio Pulsar, (special mention to KEF LS50 powered...I expect that will be great), The small stand mounted Horns.pl speaker...not sure what is the model number. Oskar Heil Bookshelf speaker with the Heil driver.
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I went to a demo at a person home in Orlando and they had the Nola 3-piece open baffle BRIO TRIO system, not to bad , at all.
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Typo: Tanagra Audio Lotus...now morphed into Apertura Audio.
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joeinid
My room room is a decent size and I'm sure the MicroOnes would be great. I may have to give them a try. The Triode amps are 50 wpc.
I have been after a pair of really good standmount speakers for a while and recently bought some MicroOnes. Very happy with mine, really incredible things.
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wisnon
T&F Art, MMMicro, Lotus Tanagra ...
Norman,
The T&F ART caught my attention ever since Lukasz mentioned them on Facebook some time back.
What system did you hear them with?
Regards.
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Nikhil
Norman,
The T&F ART caught my attention ever since Lukasz
mentioned them on Facebook some time back.
What system did you hear them with?
Regards.
The Art's sound great with high-powered tube amps and solid state but even my 300b Melody push pull AN300b at 26wpc drives them more than sufficiently.
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Rosso Fiorentino Fiesole and Diapason Astera; if musicality and tonality is your thing, they're hard to beat at their respective price points.
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Nikhil
Norman,
The T&F ART caught my attention ever since Lukasz
mentioned them on Facebook some time back.
What system did you hear them with?
Regards.
At a 2nd hand dealer in Lausanne some 7 years ago. Even the dealer was in amazement as he demoed the speakers to me. Since then I ran into Andreas Freidl at several shows and we talk a bit about his design concepts.
I told Lukasz about them long before he heard them. LoL
I think Geardaddy bought the Isis model.
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Melbguy1
Joe, I briefly owned a pair of the MicroOnes. They are fast, dynamic & punchy and disappear in the room, but I don't like the wrought iron stands. It looks like the stands were sub-contracted to an outdoor furniture supplier..they are horribly heavy, easily blemish & i'm told typically arrive with scratches. When I was setting up the stands/bases, I thought I was setting up a piece of outdoor furniture, surely not a pair of high end speaker stands :weird:. They were also hard to sell.
I use mine with a pair of custom made Vibex stands.
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wisnon
At a 2nd hand dealer in Lausanne some 7 years ago. Even the dealer was in amazement as he demoed the speakers to me. Since then I ran into Andreas Freidl at several shows and we talk a bit about his design concepts.
I told Lukasz about them long before he heard them. LoL
I think Geardaddy bought the Isis model.
Stereodesk is selling a pair of Art's for 50% off (with stands) for Black Friday. That's $2,500! If I didn't already have a pair in beautiful Zebra wood I would jump all over these. Here's a link. No affiliation, of course: http://stereodesk.com/collections/bl...nd-friedl-arts
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Stereodesk is selling a pair of Art's for 50% off (with stands) for Black Friday. That's $2,500! If I didn't already have a pair in beautiful Zebra wood I would jump all over these. Here's a link. No affiliation, of course:
http://stereodesk.com/collections/bl...nd-friedl-arts
Yup, MUCH better price than in Lausanne:
http://www.abc-hifi.ch/enceintes/
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Graham Audio standmounts are nice too:
http://www.grahamaudiousa.com/ls58/
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You want fairly high efficiency for the 845s if you can. I've heard the Omegas (well the Alnico Monitor, i.e. single driver version of the one you pictured) and it's absolute heaven. That version would basically cover the rock genre that the older versions were challenged with (and high energy classical). I think you would be hard pressed to go past those with a sweet single-ended tube amp, especially for the price.
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:exciting:
I can only imagine. I love Alnico drivers and would love to hear the Omegas. Thank you.
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Arcade
You want fairly high efficiency for the 845s if you can. I've heard the Omegas (well the Alnico Monitor, i.e. single driver version of the one you pictured) and it's absolute heaven. That version would basically cover the rock genre that the older versions were challenged with (and high energy classical). I think you would be hard pressed to go past those with a sweet single-ended tube amp, especially for the price.
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Price from low to high:
ELAC 310 (the smallest in size)
SONUS FABER MINIMA VINTAGE
RAIDHO X1
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Has anybody heard the Trenner and Friedl Sun? Amazing review in the latest Stereophile. Even smaller than the Harbeth p3esr and designed for easy placement. Reviewer says it is the best standmount he has ever heard....
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I've never heard a Trenner & Friedl speaker that isn't wonderful and the Sun's are no exception but for approximately $1,000 more I would go for the Art. The Art is also diminutive in size but plays louder and in a wider frequency range.
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thanks, RDS. I am also interested in the Art. I was assuming in my very small 9 by 11 room, the Suns might be better. I also thought coaxial driver might be better for creating a wider sweet spot/listening off axis? How is either speaker at low volumes?
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Have you heard the Legacy Audio Studio HD's? Impressed me enough that I bought 2 pairs to go with 2 systems that I'm putting together....Check out their website.
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Best I've heard are (in random order):
Raidho D1
Dynaudio C1
Dynaudio Special 25
Totem Mani-2 sig
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My favorite small speakers right now are -
- Joseph Audio Pulsar
- Penaudio Cenya Signature
- Franco Serblin Accordo
- Magico S1 Mk2 (floorstander)
All very different in character, but I could enjoy every one of them. If I had to take just one bookshelf speaker home, it would be the Penaudio Cenya Signatures. If I had to take just one floorstanding two-way, the S1 Mk2 no question!
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Just picked up a pair of evolution acoustics Mmicroone's. On the stands they look and perform wonderfully. I can see what all the hype was about.
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Thanks Randy. The integrated stands really make the speakers look good and sound great. I know some here have trashed the stands' wrought iron appearance, but to me they look very modern and utilitarian, yet angular and stylish.
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RDSChicago
Just picked up a pair of evolution acoustics Mmicroone's. On the stands they look and perform wonderfully. I can see what all the hype was about.
Very cool, would love to hear those some day.
Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
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I got to say, the more I listen to these Music Culture RL21's the more I like them. I really wish they would distribute them in the US. It appears as if the RL21's offered today are exactly the same as the ones Wolfgang Meletzky designed when he sold MBL and started MC a few years back.
http://www.audioshark.org/attachment...id=18587&stc=1