Plus! I wish all speakers sounded focused and transparent like LS3/5a’s or vintage Quads. I also want them to be uncompressed and play large, with window-shattering power and floor-shaking bass. And while I’m wishing . . . I’ll take a little glow and sparkle and voodoo magic as well.
Unfortunately, few loudspeakers do all that. And the ones that can cost crazy cash.
But there might be hope. I have discovered a radically engineered floor-standing speaker that maybe, just maybe, does a lot of all that—for a lot less than crazy cash. That speaker is the Manger p1, manufactured in Mellrichstadt, Germany. It costs $14,995/pair to $18,995/pair, depending on the finish.
The Manger sound transducer
1925: General Electric engineers Chester Rice and Edward Kellogg introduced their radical “Hornless Loudspeakers,” which featured a conical paper diaphragm attached to a coil of wire energized by a large magnet structure.
1968: Vexed by what he perceived as the inherent limitations of loudspeaker cones, Manger Audio’s founder, Josef Manager (1929-2016), began developing a new coneless type of loudspeaker driver. His first finished design—a flat, low mass, wide-bandwidth, multilayered, impregnated-textile disc—appeared in 1974. Manger described this membranelike disc as “highly elastic in its plane but inelastic in bending.”1 Unlike most loudspeaker drivers, the diaphragm of the Manger Sound Transducer (MST) does not operate historically. Instead, voice coil excitations generate transverse waves along its flat surface, like ripples in a pond.
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RABBIT HOLES
The best Christmas gift in history was George Bailey being shown what the world would be like without his being born, courtesy of Angel Second Class Clarence, in the classic 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.
REVINYLIZATION
As one of the first live albums to be recorded in the hallowed space that is New York City's Village Vanguard, Sonny Rollins's A Night at the Village Vanguard (recorded November 3, 1957, released in 1958) set the template, proving that recording in the odd, triangular club could not only work but could also produce distinctive, satisfying sound.
AURAL ROBERT
Recording music is complicated, and without the crucial assistance of producers and engineers, a lot of great records-not to mention successful musical careers would not happen.
Linear Tube Audio Aero
This paragraph from Linear Tube Audio's website description of their new Aero DAC sets the tone for the story I'm about to tell.
PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid
Hybrid\" technology-specifically, mixing tubed and solid state in the same amplification device-stirs a deep desire for many enthusiasts.
SPIN DOCTOR
There once was an ugly duckling
BRILLIANT CORNERS
Stereo is the most successful audio gimmick of all time. While dashboard record players, quadraphonic LPs, and MQA have gone the way of Ron Popeil's hair-in-aspray-can infomercials, stereo remains king. And I am guilty of loving it.
Franco Serblin Accordo Goldberg
As founder and chief designer of Sonus Faber, Franco Serblin designed and manufactured many loudspeakers of acclaimed high quality, mainly in box form.
Grimm Audio MU2
For several months, my wife and I had been living in a cozy studio apartment in New York's Financial District while our apartment underwent substantial renovations.'
GoldenEar Technology T66
Loudspeaker company GoldenEar Technology was founded in 2010 by audio industry veteran Sandy Gross¹ after he left Definitive Technology.