Yes, price factor. The other company I like is Wavecor, but they are very expensive.

They are good driver manufacturer in Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, China, Philipones and Japan. I hear Indo got 1 soon. What happened to our Malaysia?

To reduce impedance increment at high frequency and reduce the nonlinearity due to inductance modulation.

You know how to appreciate it when you know its spec. When I first got a pair of it, I was stunned the performance of its price.

I used to own Ascend Acoustics CBM 170SE. They both are impressive and very well engineered, but Encore has better lower end and cheaper. Pair it with a sealed sub, they are good to go with any genre.

Sometime, a sub is required especially below 40hz. A 7-10" woofer wouldn't go very low just because you cannot defy the laws of physics.

I am not a big fan of sub either, but I truly love my dual driver Epik Legend. They are incredibly fast.

This is a highly acclaimed old school amp. The problem is you may need to take a look inside, clean all the dust, and check of any component need to be replaced. Otherwise it is a collectable.

For speaker, just get any good speaker with high to average sensitivity and low impedance will do the job well.

Wow, 5 ways?

Just curious how complicated is the design of their crossover

This post has been edited by fx20: Sep 30 2014, 10:06 AM

I have a pair of vintage denon speaker, look like kind of LS3/5a, pair with a i-dont-know-brand turntable. The mid and high sound alright but the low is unbearable. The woofers are definitely gone.

I notice in Malaysia, the rubber surround the speaker cone deteriorate easily. And if the cone was untreated, it become so fragile and you can feel powder things came out when blow it really hard. Next, the speaker used somekind of chip board as surrounding and line side lining all are detached from the main cabinet.

Definitely, I wouldn't be able to do anything on it except as collectibles.

To prolong the speaker, store your 'lovers' in air-conned room and cover the speaker with their grille and a cloth. I heard someone told me dust is acidic whenmixed with humidity.

If the cone is yellow in color, it should be kevlar as B&W incorporated the use of kevlar in 70'

Cool.

1 question, where are u gonna get your Xiaomi 4k tv? I am looking for 1 also.

Tell her you can't breath without music.

What about treat yourself a pair of XLS Encore? You can add in a center XCS Encore when you are ready.

Haha the thread was created for my friends a few years back. Most of the speakers are slightly over 1k on the market now.

Ironically, most of those who interested in those speakers are ended up with xls Encore.

Bro, you need multichannels for movie.

I have a friend who owns A-S700, higher end model compared to 500 series.
He told me once there was not much differences compared to TP60 except that A-S700 is slightly brighter on mid. He tested it with XLS Encore and Kef Q300.


This post has been edited by fx20: Dec 4 2014, 10:42 PM

The other day I auditioned BR2 with Dio's Holy Driver. The bass was kind of "boomy" and messed up and the mid is a bit darker. It counldn't articulate Vivian Campbell's Les Paul notes very well. It is a good speaker but I think not really suitable for rock music.

I believe in progression of science.
3020i is an old amp. I believe the modern amp should sound alike or better than old designs. This is true especially with the advancement of audio testing equipments which can help designer to build amps that deliver better and accurate sound.

I own a Teac A-X750 DC Integrated Amplifier, which was considered 1 of the best int amp in 80s (it has cd direct, which was a great deal then). I tested it out a couple year ago, it could hardly meet my taste today except my nostalgia love of it when it has served me almost 10 years, and of course, the high price I paid for it.

If you still fancy with NAD product, their NAD D 3020 Hybrid Digital Amplifier is pretty good. It is based on the Hypex class D design, which is one of the high end class d solution. I believe this sounds much better than the old 3020i.

Just my opinion, sorry if I offended NAD die hard fans.

Perhaps you can consider mINT,

https://wyred4sound.com/products/integrated-amps/mint

to me, they have really good bang of the buck, but most importantly, they sound really really good.

I particularly like the small footprint which I can hide it inside the cabinet.

This post has been edited by fx20: Dec 16 2014, 04:07 PM

They are having a christmas promotion, USD1099.

Both are good amps. It all depends on what do you want.
If you streamed digital music, looking for space saver, you go with the mINT.
If you have lot of analog source, your go for A19.

But the former give you 100w per channel, built-in dac, lot of balanced connectors, and much lower THD.
Most importantly, it is direct sale, no excessive mark-up. Of course, this tarnished by weak ringgit today.

What do you mean?

They deliver 170w into 4 ohms. Size? They are class d with analogous power supply.

You have not seen my 130 watt per channel power amp, they are about the same size.

They are no in the same league. Xls is meant to be audiophile speaker whereas the two are use mainly for HT.



Although it is not directly related, please read the following post and it pretty much answer most of your query,

http://www.stereomojo.com/Small%20Speaker%...ootoutPart2.htm



This post has been edited by fx20: Jan 8 2015, 08:40 AM

In addition, you can't use price to judge XLS Encore. This is because we build and distributed the speaker and the price to you is almost direct factory price.

Ya, goertek.

It is a waveguide driver and with closure. Still subject to directional and Thiel paramaters. What innovative to you?