Pair of Proprius monoblocks for sale

Graham Slee wrote: ....seems everybody has gone quiet around here. They've probably been abducted by alliens... either that or I've brought them all so much musical satisfaction that they're all in a trance

That will be me Graham - I listen via Bitzie when I wake up or when I am travelling, Reflex/Lautus/Spatia in the evenings and ULDE late at night. I'm listening now in fact...it's all wonderful

What more can I say?

Might it be an idea to wait until after the roadshow before making the final decision on disposal of the Proprii. The demonstration should reveal what can be achieved with a speaker set up.

BackinBlack wrote: Might it be an idea to wait until after the roadshow before making the final decision on disposal of the Proprii. The demonstration should reveal what can be achieved with a speaker set up.

Thanks Ian... The reality is that neither headphones nor speakers can truly capture the recording atmosphere, but you can get really close to it. Just because the speakers don't live-up to your headphone experiences doesn't mean the speakers are wrong. The BBC and others trusted the LS3/5A design for years to get the balance right on outside broadcasts and studio monitoring - often you'd see a recording desk being used to mix down a live program in the back of a van parked outside a venue - the engineer relying on the LS3/5As either side - no 1 metre spacing there, just lots of sculptured tiles stuck to the van walls.

Having said that, they often EQ'd +3dB of bass on live rock but not necessarily because the LS3/5A lacked low bass - they tended to do it for the cheap transistor radios teenagers listened on (70s era).

I'll probably not be able to give you really deep bass at the show - more likely 'flat' to around 75Hz, but I'll be concentrating on sound staging. I can use and will take the AB2 bass extenders but the price for bass is timing (the loss of it). In my experience you need low compliance (stiff) 18 inch drive units to obtain bass that can keep up with the music, but hi-fi goes for high compliance rubber roll surround units, and tries to force bass out of 8 inch or smaller cones using porting... the problem here is it results in the boost of only one frequency - hardly natural.

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Edited by Ash - 12 Jan 2015 at 4:53pm