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I know right now I need to stay my course, but when I can I really want to get back on the road to some shows to hear the great stuff happening now. It is very cool to see makers are mixing things up and trying out different setups. I know it often happens behind closed doors, but getting the word out to people of different combinations of gear that works well together with first-hand accounts is something that I think is a somewhat untapped strength of the audio show model of marketing. Not very many people have the opportunity to put so much gear in one place to try out different things and see up close what genuinely works well together unfiltered from the general "it does everything great" ad copy.
Just ordered a pair of M3 Turbo S's. Should be an interesting comparison with them and the Odyssey Lorelei's and Nola KO's. Unfortunately have far to many amps to try with them from the Music Reference RM-10 on the low side to the mAMPS on the high side with the Kismet's in between. I suspect the mAMPS which Clayton used to sell along with the Nuprime ST-10 will be good matches.
A comparison to the Lorelei would be great, if possible. I've been following Odyssey equipment discussion as closely as possible for a few years, and now the Spatial M3 have really piqued my interest, as well.
These are two very different speakers.
A comparison should be easy since they are so different. Rocket Ronny
Fine. Both are warm and punchy within their respective genres of speaker design. One is medium efficiency. One is high efficiency. One is open baffle, one ported box. Biggest question is whether you like OB sound over boxed sound in your room/system, and depends on whether your electronics like high or medium efficiency better for your tastes. In other words, good luck getting meaningful feedback for actual decision making if you don't yet know your OB and electronics personal preferences and synergies already, and those of the person commenting. Better to just take Clayton up on his trial period and hear them in your own system.
My own system doesn't exist. I'd be new to higher quality audio, since I've only ever used AudioEngine 5 and 5+ speakers.Don't think I'll be getting out to any shops or shows either to audition anything...If I went the Odyssey route, I'd likely get a complete system from them.
The Spatial will likely be more versatile longer term in terms of matching with electronics. But being open baffle, they will want quite a bit of space from rear walls, and potentially side walls as well, to hear what they can really do. Lorelei's will also want space from rear and side walls, but for very different reasons. Spatials will be more placement flexible in my opinion, as long as you can get them out into the room plenty while listening. The benefit with them the way Clayton has designed them is that you can easily stow them up against walls when not in use and move them out into the room when ready to listen. Lorelei's would be pretty heavy to do that with, and difficult to get them in their optimized space again.
Regarding distance from walls, would room treatment allow for closer placement? Thank you.
When I heard the M3s at Axpona, they were truly amazing in the sweet spot, comparing favorably to far more expensive rooms. They weren't bad outside that, but if the average speaker can be said to sound twice as good in the sweet spot, these were more like 4 or 5 times better. Hopefully someone who owns them has played around with positioning.
Oh, one more thing that came to my mind. For those who had a chance to listen to both, Spatial M3 and Harbeth (best case SHL5 plus), with LIO could you give some words of comparison, please?
Would it be a problem for the M3 owners to post some pictures of their setup?Given their size, it is kind of hard to imagine how much space they occupy in a room.
