Interesting experience with Stillpoints Ultra SSs

[Kuoppis]

Kuoppis,
Care to elaborate the sort of improvement you experienced? I have S3s and also ordered 8 Stillpoints SS awhile back, but the threads for S3s I ordered from Stillpoints really didn't fit in the outriggers. So I just sort of left them alone and maybe it's time I should look into it again. I'll probably order another set to threads to try.

Sure, will do my best, so here we go:

IMHO one a key benefit of Magicos is the accuracy, clarity and definition achieved by the rigid aluminum corpus and very stiff and hard membranes. In particular and in this case the S3 is able to offer more clarity and detail in the bass than usual through its double aluminun woofers. A turnside coming with the rigid materials is that Magicos can sound a tad hard. Hence people like to play them with dark sounding amps like e.g. Solution.

What I experienced when putting the S3s on Ultra SS Stillpoints is that the speakers opened up considerably, i.e. offering a finer portrayal of timbres and a warmer and more audible bass. Altogether the speakers now sound smoother.

Medically seen I'm not sure I should be hearing it (thought human hearing is bottoming out at around 30 Hz), but when I tested the S3s with the Ayre "Irrational, but Efficacious" CD I heard the bass kicking in at exactly 26 Hz, as specified. Please take note, I do have a very well acousticed room, which makes a rather significant difference in terms of what you can get out of your system.

I hope this helps, please feel free to ask for clarification in case my elaboration was not clear.

PS: To mount Stillpoints on the S3s you will need to remove the spikes and use adapter studs (available from Stillpoints) for thread conversion from the S3 footers to the Ultra SS.


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[kzhtoo]

Thanks much for the very nice elaboration. Quite appreciate it.

Yes, it sounds like it's worth a try. I've been postponing because adding Stillpoints to the S3s outriggers also mean the spikes will have to completely decouple from its handle and I wasn't sure if you could put them back together (at least I know Magico sells these S3 spikes separately) when I try to sell the S3s down the road.

Finer timbres, more audible bass, smoother. What's not to like? lol

I do notice it can sound a little hard on lesser recordings, but not sure if this the area SS can improve.

 

[Kuoppis]

Finer timbres, more audible bass, smoother. What's not to like? lol

I do notice it can sound a little hard on lesser recordings, but not sure if this the area SS can improve.

My thinking .

There is a point though that you have to remove the original spikes, I had the same concern. But then again, when spending a couple of grand on speakers I will not accept any compromises. And as you say, you can buy new spikes from Magico, they are selling them separately).

On the source material quality, to improve that you might need to resort to something smoother sounding like Sonus Faber. The S3 give out exactly what you put in, no mercy there.

But then again, I ventured into analogue beginning of this year for the first time in +30 years. The S3s do bring out the beauty of vinyl vs. even very good digital in such an obvious manner, that I have hardly touched my digital gear since .

That's the benefit of getting out exactly what you put in (if you can call investing several grand into LPs a benefit that is [emoji1]).


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