A friend bought a pair of Magnaplanars, he had them for awhile, he was driving them with two Trio mono blocks and the Trio preamp that went with them. He couldn’t get used to the speakers, he changed them for a pair of Infinity RS 2.5 which had large ribbon tweeters and 12 inch dynamic woofers, they ...

Don’t use electric heaters on extension chords, was it a physical "pop" or an audio pop through your monitors?

Look at any musician or producer that is doing well financially and they are the ones with points or writing credits and not those that have worked for a flat fee. Absolutely correct, if it wasn’t for song writing credits a friend of mine wouldn’t be in such a good position, he’s never worked for a ...

Sometimes, just the mere presence of someone in the studio can make them a producer.

I’ve been a long time Reason user, wonder if there will be any changes to anything?

Strange I never use interface preamps, it’s either a mixer or an external job.

tbh, I think they are "over-rated" - seems every second record has a list of "producers" a "mile" long! haha. Same with song writing - I read that two (mebbe 3) of the Grammy song of the year have ten writers, ten!! How all the extra producers and writers actually contribute anything is beyond me ...

Someone like Johnathon Miller as an opera producer can change something radically, his contribution isn’t subtle. It’s a bit like the way we can say something on one way, and then say it another way and completely change the meaning. As for a musicians interpretations, that’s just what we prefer, IMO ...

I don’t know, increased input levels, calibrated using the oscillator in my MixWiz, all green lights lit no distortion, but decreased the output levels to a reasonable level on my MixWiz to around 0dB, no distortion, the output levels on this Eclipse are very hot, more than I thought. But, no d ...

Went to an Audiojumble a couple of years ago, didn’t find anything, most things were over priced, or non-working, impossible to get good bargains at these things now. Wait until the end of the day. Right near the end I spotted a power supply that would work with my Neve modules. I was told that I c ...

And the price of a pair of current Quad electrostatic speakers is £10,000-£14,000. You can get some magnificently transparent, 'faultless' conventional speakers for that kind of money, too. There was a pair of original Quad ESLs being offered for £250 at the end of an Audiojumble a few years ago. U ...

Hugh, my brain works in mysterious ways.
For some reason, because I reduced the input level by -3dB I imagined a -7dB input level, from 0dB ??????? look, I just can’t handle stuff like this

OK, I’ll feed it from two aux sends, see what happens.

They were one of those speakers you could listen to without being drawn to any faults, that is not common today, by any means, unless you spend thousands. And the price of a pair of current Quad electrostatic speakers is £10,000-£14,000. You can get some magnificently transparent, 'faultless' ...

I can get over this distortion by lowering the input levels so that they don’t peak more than about +7dB, but that’s crazy, never had to do that before. Of course it will distort if you go above 0dBFS but the meters on the Eclipse don't go above zero so I don't know where you are getting your +7dB f ...

If you're duplicating the inputs with a splitter, any effects program that sums the two inputs to mono will be receiving 6dB more signal than the metered level. Also, by paralleling the inputs, the input impedance will be halved which could, possibly, upset the sourceby loading it too heavily ...

Yes, after owning this for awhile, didn’t take much notice, thought it was program related, or levels, but there is an unwanted distortion sometimes, on programs that shouldn’t have it, looked at a few posts on the Eventide forum, similar complaints, but with no definite resolutions. One Eventide guy ...

I’m very interested in the role of producer for classical music. Having read John Culshaw’s autobiographical writings, I’m sure the quality and vision of Decca’s Ring Cycle lies in the way Culshaw was there to tie the admittedly great technical competence of Decca engineers to the concept of capturi ...

I don't question their support response, but I've spent innumerable hours attempting to make one of their drivers work on a friend's Mac. Latterly, he attempted to follow the latest support instructions by himself, including base level programming using terminal, which I'd never go near myself ...

Bottom line for me was that if I hadn’t had to sell them for my friend I would have been very happy to live with them. They were one of those speakers you could listen to without being drawn to any faults, that is not common today, by any means, unless you spend thousands.

Sam Spoons wrote: ↑Tue Jan 06, 2026 10:31 am £6.5k for a pair of Chinese speakers

That’s the economy pair!



Can’t say anything bad about Quad though, there’re overhauling my amp for £160 inc labour.

Theee most important thing for me isn’t anything to do with the musical side of production, the most important thing is, am I going to like this person! You can tell straight away as soon as they walk through the door if you’re going to hit it off, there shouldn’t be "any" efforts made on both sides, ...

Always willing to give a thumbs-up to any company that gets it right, just needed to know about drivers for my new interface, got straight through in no time, and was dealt with promptly by a friendly chap who gave me exactly the information I needed to know straight way, no drama, that’s all, and t ...

I tried a Thomann Devine mixer, just a small 6 input job, in preference to the Behringer, and found it superior in some ways, much better build quality, sturdier knobs, just chunkier, with similar sound quality.

Searching the SOS index I can find no reference to such speakers, so I'm guessing they are mainly for hi-fi enthusiasts and not used in commercial music production? Just wondering if anyone else here has encountered this technology or uses it and would like to comment on the viability of using it ...

I love rack gear like this, I can’t give up the ability to flexibly adjust levels and have decent meters, that’s why I don’t use pedals for these things.