Hrodulf

Good stuff!

It feels nice to turn a dead hunk of matter into something usable.

My BW2 is in for a similar service - I hope I'm as happy as you are when it's done!

Is that cat available in silver?

@BillOhio maybe when it's older!

Smeagol must keep warm.

Beautiful cat!

How does the output from the ADI-2 compare to the Jotunheim?

So at risk of poisoning the well further (I legit had zero interest in these to begin with, fancy glass being concave or convex aside), Sennheiser really did shoot themselves in the plug?

Have you tried the Elegia yet or still hanging onto the PM3?

@Poleepkwa still sticking to my PM3's for outdoors listening. For the office the NDH-20 is a bit more sophisticated. I might cave in once the PM3 falls apart and go for a an ANC can.

Full conversion time

They need to match price with the likes of ScanSpeak oval and Accuton. For 200 € only geeks would notice.

@Priidik you can get Accuton mids for half that price. Ellipticor sounds more like it.

They do seem to be very interested in class-D, DSP, so I assume they want to develop drivers that can benefit from that. Prices thought is not very DIY friendly.

@Lyer25 let's not get aHEDD of ourselves!

It’s ADAMn shame.

Plenty of room for further spin offs. Snake speakers, Satan headphones... Even God speakers? Although I don't fancy speakers that are want to keep me ignorant and stop me having fun.

Fig leaves!

It's a marketing attempt. I suppose they deserve credit for pushing these things forward; I do doubt they are the first ones to do it. There are 'clever' surrounds way back that have attempted to negate the 2H issue. The motor thing sounds quite vague. There is one huge thing they 'forgot' to address about BWC: efficiency.

Yes @Priidik, Putzeys is still trying to sell those lame Kii things too.

I just hope they're not 500EUR a piece. For that money I'd get a nice Volt dome and die happy.

Cool surround. Looks like the 1 kHz surround problem has been spread out to 2..4 kHz range.

It was strong enough to blow roofing into car doors. https://i.imgur.com/EN8RgiH.png

Drausmīgs!

Drausmīgs indeed. (I googled).

I wonder what sort of amping they need. Under 2k doesn't mean much if you can't get them to sound good for anything less than 2 Aegirs or sth.

AMT? Same tech as the Obravo stuff? Hopefully it isn't tuned like them.

AMT like hedd/Adam/emotiva/etc, and apparently also Obravo, though I hadn’t heard of them before :P

@westermac PM-3 has been my current daily can for 3 years. NDH 20 is less neutral uncalibrated, but outresolves the Oppo.

I did not make the connection before (been distracted). Didn't you ask us to drop the MOT title because you were no longer with SW. And now this? WTF dude! Did I miss the memo where you tell all admins that you are back with SW?

@ultrabike I’ve been back at SW since December. I guess I forgot to ping the admins and someone just changed my title. Go figure...

Thanks for the heads up. I bought it but had to remove the restrictions to read it with google translate. Macke HR824 version 3 is a "well-done monitor" but only 1/3 for sound :) I heard that one a few weeks ago: 0/10 sound in the next room being heard through the wall level bad.

I agree with the two-way editorial recommendations I've heard for their sizes. It's pretty much impossible for the hyped monitors to beat them as normalish sounding tracking, mixing, and listening speakers in their respective sizes and prices regardless of the later review scores.

They show the HR824 MK2, which doesn't look too good to me measurement wise. Mids are ridden with resonant trails and directivity doesn't seem too controlled. MR824 looks a tad better.

That tweeter! 2300hz 1st order like a boss! Those danish engineers behind the Satori line are truly awesome at what they do.

I would put L2 on a different orientation. But looks good. Nice drivers.

Sweet

Is the Empyrian a closed can?

@m17xr2b Nope, it's fully open. The bass, however is crazy good. Need to see if the THD holds up at higher SPL's.

Crazy good is a bit much, but I agree it's a very satisfying bass. From my short audition I remember not finding any faults with it except price but prefer it over the verite.

Also the soft dome tweeter doesn’t have any AMT weirdness or off-timbre either.

How is the KH310's compared to 8050's ?
Could you live with them wihtout subs?

@Jokko The biggest improvement is in mids and treble, when listened loud. I guess I could live without my subs, but I'd prefer not to.

@Taverius I used the same ones. For anything less than the insane 10AWG screw terminals are plenty good.

shit, no crimping?

@Cspirou NL2FX use screws for sane wire gauges. They sort of mention that crazies can tear the screws out and just solder the 10AWG.

"They also let you enter the world of active speakers at reasonable prices: their cheapest model, the Xeo 2, costs only $1299/pair" yeah ok fuck you

Hey now @spwath, high MSRPs keep flippers in business

I'm a bottom of the barrel flipper though. I never spend more than 200-300$