I just got a pair today.

OMFG! They sound so, so, so detailed and revealing in the treble!

I'm in love! Plus I got 50 quid off for no apparent reason.

And these are lower-end Dynaudios! One can only wonder what the
expensive stuff can do!

I have achieved audio contentment! They sound fan-TAS-tic!

Perhaps a touch glassy sometimes with "s" sounds, but otherwise very
nice indeed in the treble, which is by far and away the part that I
care about most.

Better sell on my Mission 752Fs and Cyrus II to defray some of the
cost of these recent expensive purchases!


Martin
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M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

Fleetie wrote:
I just got a pair today.

OMFG! They sound so, so, so detailed and revealing in the treble!

I'm in love! Plus I got 50 quid off for no apparent reason.

And these are lower-end Dynaudios! One can only wonder what the
expensive stuff can do!

Their studio stuff is wonderful. Dynaudio is probably the best value
speakers money can buy - you can't accuse them of being overpriced for the
performance. Well done on the choice.

Now if only I could afford some...


--
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revolved, the mouse dissolved in a chronodimensional slip.

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:14:42 +0100, "Fleetie"
wrote:

I just got a pair today.

OMFG! They sound so, so, so detailed and revealing in the treble!

Quite so.

I'm in love! Plus I got 50 quid off for no apparent reason.

They're not fashionable.

And these are lower-end Dynaudios! One can only wonder what the
expensive stuff can do!

Actually not any better, just more bass.

I have achieved audio contentment! They sound fan-TAS-tic!

Indeed.

Perhaps a touch glassy sometimes with "s" sounds, but otherwise very
nice indeed in the treble, which is by far and away the part that I
care about most.

Well, the Contours are only *fractionally* better, and big planars
take up an awful lot of room.......................

Better sell on my Mission 752Fs and Cyrus II to defray some of the
cost of these recent expensive purchases!

Good luck - you can then afford more 52s for the rear channels, and
enjoy the only *real* advance in music reproduction in the last 20
years.....................
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:14:42 +0100, "Fleetie"
wrote:

I just got a pair today.

OMFG! They sound so, so, so detailed and revealing in the treble!

Quite so.

I'm in love! Plus I got 50 quid off for no apparent reason.

They're not fashionable.


Also, in the context of 'bang for your buck', they are very expensive for a
tiny, wee box - poor perception of VFM by the 'uninformed' and therefore not
selling too well, I suspect.....


Well, the Contours are only *fractionally* better, and big planars
take up an awful lot of room.......................


I auditioned a pair of Contour 1,1s for a few days - quite the best
bookshelf speaker I have *ever* heard and a beautiful veneered finish but,
again, not cheap.



Better sell on my Mission 752Fs and Cyrus II to defray some of the
cost of these recent expensive purchases!

Good luck - you can then afford more 52s for the rear channels, and
enjoy the only *real* advance in music reproduction in the last 20
years.....................


I hope you don't mean 'surround sound'........???

"Fleetie" wrote in message
news:cPkDc.146$MI2.36@newsfe6-win...
I just got a pair today.

OMFG! They sound so, so, so detailed and revealing in the treble!

I'm in love! Plus I got 50 quid off for no apparent reason.

And these are lower-end Dynaudios! One can only wonder what the
expensive stuff can do!

I have achieved audio contentment! They sound fan-TAS-tic!

Perhaps a touch glassy sometimes with "s" sounds, but otherwise very
nice indeed in the treble, which is by far and away the part that I
care about most.

Better sell on my Mission 752Fs and Cyrus II to defray some of the
cost of these recent expensive purchases!



How's yer new amp coming along, Martin?

(Can't be too shabby if you're talking about selling the Cyrus! :-)

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:05:52 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:14:42 +0100, "Fleetie"
wrote:

I just got a pair today.

OMFG! They sound so, so, so detailed and revealing in the treble!

Quite so.

I'm in love! Plus I got 50 quid off for no apparent reason.

They're not fashionable.

Also, in the context of 'bang for your buck', they are very expensive for a
tiny, wee box - poor perception of VFM by the 'uninformed' and therefore not
selling too well, I suspect.....

Yup, some people just haven't 'got' the sub/sat thing yet! Stick a
good sub on a pair of 52SEs, and you are up there with the best at
*any* price.

Well, the Contours are only *fractionally* better, and big planars
take up an awful lot of room.......................

I auditioned a pair of Contour 1,1s for a few days - quite the best
bookshelf speaker I have *ever* heard and a beautiful veneered finish but,
again, not cheap.

A very fine speaker indeed, but note that the SE version of the 52
uses the same drivers, so the sonic difference is not great.

Better sell on my Mission 752Fs and Cyrus II to defray some of the
cost of these recent expensive purchases!

Good luck - you can then afford more 52s for the rear channels, and
enjoy the only *real* advance in music reproduction in the last 20
years.....................


I hope you don't mean 'surround sound'........???

I mean multi-channel sound, which makes a *huge* difference to realism
if you have a good system - and some decently mastered recordings.
Even good ol' DSOTM takes on a new lease of life!
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote
Yup, some people just haven't 'got' the sub/sat thing yet! Stick a
good sub on a pair of 52SEs, and you are up there with the best at
*any* price.

Well, the Contours are only *fractionally* better, and big planars
take up an awful lot of room.......................

I auditioned a pair of Contour 1,1s for a few days - quite the best
bookshelf speaker I have *ever* heard and a beautiful veneered finish but,
again, not cheap.

A very fine speaker indeed, but note that the SE version of the 52
uses the same drivers, so the sonic difference is not great.

Well, it's good to hear that it's not just me who thinks they're
amazing.

Can't remember if I said this already, but as soon as I switched on
the CD player and got the first track going, and as I was moving away
from the CD player to stand and listen in the proper position, I
instantly heard all this "airy" sound coming out of the speakers, a kind
of airy ambience. The track was Fleetwood Mac "Storms", and there's quite a
bit of "breathy" background stuff going on, and it really did come
through fantastically.

I love 'em! Felt even more decadent just now, cos of course now I've
got the TV hooked up to my new amp AND sexxy speakers. Listening to
TV through that lot?! A bit overkill! Sound quality of TV really is
naff!


Martin - happy
--
M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

I love 'em! Felt even more decadent just now, cos of course now I've
got the TV hooked up to my new amp AND sexxy speakers. Listening to
TV through that lot?! A bit overkill! Sound quality of TV really is
naff!

Is that via analogue or DTV?.....

--
Tony Sayer

"tony sayer" wrote
I love 'em! Felt even more decadent just now, cos of course now I've
got the TV hooked up to my new amp AND sexxy speakers. Listening to
TV through that lot?! A bit overkill! Sound quality of TV really is
naff!

Is that via analogue or DTV?.....

--
Tony Sayer

Derrm, well, it comes ultimately from my NTL set-top-box. Sometimes
I hear compression artefacts.

There's a hell of a lot of compression on the video as well. If I sit
near-ish to the TV, it's very apparent that the pic is divided up into
basically "boxes", near-squares, perhaps 1cm x 1cm. Especially, not
surprisingly, when the scene suddenly changes, or there's fast
movement.

A couple of times, while I've had this PC running, and it went to
check and receive email, it's ****ed up the picture and the TV pic
just stopped completely! Broke up and froze! Obviously there was a
bandwidth shortage and the PC was hogging it while downloading the
email! Not good!

Also, the colours/levels of shading show very apparent compression.
In, say, a sky, where the colour changes gently from, say, top to
bottom, you can see it's rendered as wide-ish bands of the same colour,
rather than a truly smooth progression.


Martin
--
M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

In article ZMADc.69$%c3.24@newsfe5-win, Fleetie
writes
"tony sayer" wrote
I love 'em! Felt even more decadent just now, cos of course now I've
got the TV hooked up to my new amp AND sexxy speakers. Listening to
TV through that lot?! A bit overkill! Sound quality of TV really is
naff!

Is that via analogue or DTV?.....

--
Tony Sayer

Derrm, well, it comes ultimately from my NTL set-top-box. Sometimes
I hear compression artefacts.

There's a hell of a lot of compression on the video as well. If I sit
near-ish to the TV, it's very apparent that the pic is divided up into
basically "boxes", near-squares, perhaps 1cm x 1cm. Especially, not
surprisingly, when the scene suddenly changes, or there's fast
movement.

A couple of times, while I've had this PC running, and it went to
check and receive email, it's ****ed up the picture and the TV pic
just stopped completely! Broke up and froze! Obviously there was a
bandwidth shortage and the PC was hogging it while downloading the
email! Not good!

Also, the colours/levels of shading show very apparent compression.
In, say, a sky, where the colour changes gently from, say, top to
bottom, you can see it's rendered as wide-ish bands of the same colour,
rather than a truly smooth progression.


Martin

Welcome to the wonderful world of digital broadcasting

Personally I wouldn't give cable TV house room, if you must have it get
it off either freeview or satellite. However ntl are useful for the
broadband though.

DTV is transmitted at 256 kilobits on the sound and on the old analogue
its 728 NICAM which is faster still!. However the digital pictures are
still very poor compared with good analogue signals. Odd really in that
the actual transmitters are fed with very high rate digital and then
coded to PAL, which still offers the better picture.

No doubt I'll have Dave Plowman along shortly to contradict all that!...
--
Tony Sayer