A nice journey for sure.
My son has them in a bi-amped audio research setup. To me, I just think they love a big tube amp for those mids. It really changes everything and like you said...you can sit back and hear the benefits of the line array compared to a 3 way crossover system. I can imagine these being far less impressive if Arnie had not gone with that line array decision. But that sound does hit you in the chest all the while.
And your correct---Eddie Vedder sounds like he's right there, doesn't he? What a voice, at least back then.
And they do handle tough loads w/ bass and percussion heavy electronic music. That stuff is real tough on systems and amps and everything, really. Just try cranking up Chemical Brothers stuff to other speakers and see what happens. 140 to 160 beats per minute with all that emphasis down low is murder on bass and low midrange. But you capture that and the subtle goings on in the upper midrange. Like Nudell said, that's the toughest thing for a speaker designer; powerful dynamics and then handling soft and subtle. Almost always, what you get is 1 or the other. Then again, that is exactly why I love infinites.
The only other thing I can say is that they sure do seem to respond to MIT cables well. Big open room.
It's nice knowing you are set for a while, isn't it? How many other electronic products can you say that about? So so many have come and gone. And you are sitting there with what, another 15 years? Think about that---55 year old speakers and still extracting those sounds in the year 2030. What a design and build quality. How many 2015 speakers are going to be pulling that off by 2070?
My son has them in a bi-amped audio research setup. To me, I just think they love a big tube amp for those mids. It really changes everything and like you said...you can sit back and hear the benefits of the line array compared to a 3 way crossover system. I can imagine these being far less impressive if Arnie had not gone with that line array decision. But that sound does hit you in the chest all the while.
And your correct---Eddie Vedder sounds like he's right there, doesn't he? What a voice, at least back then.
And they do handle tough loads w/ bass and percussion heavy electronic music. That stuff is real tough on systems and amps and everything, really. Just try cranking up Chemical Brothers stuff to other speakers and see what happens. 140 to 160 beats per minute with all that emphasis down low is murder on bass and low midrange. But you capture that and the subtle goings on in the upper midrange. Like Nudell said, that's the toughest thing for a speaker designer; powerful dynamics and then handling soft and subtle. Almost always, what you get is 1 or the other. Then again, that is exactly why I love infinites.
The only other thing I can say is that they sure do seem to respond to MIT cables well. Big open room.
It's nice knowing you are set for a while, isn't it? How many other electronic products can you say that about? So so many have come and gone. And you are sitting there with what, another 15 years? Think about that---55 year old speakers and still extracting those sounds in the year 2030. What a design and build quality. How many 2015 speakers are going to be pulling that off by 2070?