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In Reply to: Re: Innersound Eros posted by Mike Currie on March 27, 2002 at 05:53:30:
Mike,Thanks for the thoughtful response. Your first post opened an interesting topic, one that is presently on my mind a lot, so I took advantage of it to make the Beveridge audition opportunity available to ASOG folk. I don't think the narrow sweet spot approach to system optimization is necessarily worse than the Beveridge approach, just a different sort of limitation. The imaging detail you describe is inaccessible to me because of my left ear hearing loss. I do hear some stereo effect with most systems; the vertigo experience I had with the Beveridge was especially startling because I had become convinced no system could render a sense of space to me so well.
Since there are no Beveridge dealers at this time, the only way to hear them is to visit Rick or someone with a system in operation. I understand from Rick that there are a few hundred systems still in operation around the world.
Price is a limitation on all equipment. Rick Beveridge will supply a new pair of Model 2 speakers, including all updates in panel and enclosure construction and the Joe Curcio modifications to the power amps, for $45,000. I don't own them or have reasonable expectations of future wealth sufficient to enable me to buy them. If I were lucky enough to find a used pair and the rebuilding cost were low enough, I would seriously consider them.
This audiophile avocation should be fun, not an exercise of envy or pride. Even though I believe my system, comprising a Wadia 861, Magnepan MG-20s, Atma-Sphere MA-1s, a Bryston 4B, Silver Audio cables, and a REL Stentor, achieves the best transparency and timbre accuracy available for digital playback (an MP-1 project is in progress for analog), I've had fun and learned a lot by seriously listening to SET demonstrations with horn-loaded and high efficiency cone driver speakers, and the Beveridge speakers. I'll be the first to admit my system does not convey the dynamic life of horns or the sense of space of the Beveridges. I'm happy with the tradeoffs I've made, and I don't suggest you should abandon your Innersounds for speakers that cost much more just on the basis of your comment about the sweet spot.
I'll repeat my invitation to hear the Beveridges to anyone contemplating travel to Norther California. We also have some excellent wineries around here: Forestville is a few minutes from the Dry Creek Valley and other Sonoma County appelations. Most are still without the snobbery of the Napa Valley.
-Al Sekela
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- Re: Innersound Eros - Al Sekela 09:48:31 03/27/02 (1)
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