Sibling Rivalry: Sonus Faber Maxima Amator VS Olympica Nova III
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The Boys Are Back and offer their thoughts on how the newest member in Sonus Faber's lineage, the Maxima Amator, stacks up against a perennial favourite, the Olympica Nova III
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Enjoyed review, but what electronics did you use? McIntosh? What?
Mike is like a surgeon, he takes his scalpel and dissect the speaker in a way we understand very well how it is playing music. I like his comments. Thanks
I'm sorry but is this a speaker review/comparison? Louis is prattling on endlessly about his history in musical taste. I've already heard it, more than once. Please, mahn... get to the point - the speakers! Thankfully Mike was able to not only address the speakers but also used music of which I'm familiar. However, I have to disagree with Mike. Townsends's guitar is hard right. (Because I just went and listened to my newer and gorgeously re-mastered version.) That was nice because my 'cheap' Tannoy Revolution XT-8F speakers was quite clear with Keith Moon's machine-gun roll-off. Otherwise, I would have liked to hear about orchestral music as part of the comparison. But take my opinion with a grain of salt as I enjoyed your prior employee (not CC), Vilip, the guy who could come across as so brusque. Yeah, I liked him. LOL
agree they should bring brusque back (never were we told why he was let go)---and CC was just--Im not ashamed to say--yummy for the eyes--and a sweet voice too.
@@petekutheis3822 Agree to an extent. CC didn’t know jack about audio components, as far as I could tell. I didn’t understand her involvement.
Not how I expected this one to play out. The guys who love Dagostino,, Martin Logan and Wilson audio end up picking the more romantic speaker… I wouldn’t have bet that. Did you try a range of amps on both and did you get different outcomes? Anyway, thanks for sharing.
Also talk about the electronics as well. Differences between SS and tubes
I wonder why no one used classical music to compare those speakers.
The first dude, the older one, mumbled on and on. I felt kind of suffocating, trying to figure out what he was trying to say.
Just relax and enjoy the conversation! There are plenty, i'm sure, sites that will go on endlessly about measurements that in the end depends on the music you listen to..
@@ferrisburgh802 Are you trying to force me to enjoy things that I find not enjoyable? Good luck, man!
Yes why no classical musical
Great review. Next time when Adrian talks about cars, please post a picture of the car with Adrian’s smiling face pasted on top!
Smoother and more refined, Maxima Amator or Guarneri G5? I also left this question in the Maxima Amator video. Very interested in your feedback. Thank you.
No overall conclusion.
Growing up in Vancouver in the 70’s and 80’s, I purchased most of my albums at a popular record store called a&b Sound on Seymour Street. Back then, Black musicians were segregated into the R&B section, which I found odd because many artists, like the Stones, admitted that they were influenced by Black musicians.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
@@theredboneking I’m not going to instigate a divisive discussion. I am just sharing my own experience. 1973 I attended my first live concert. The acts, in order were; ZZ Top, Earth, Wind, and Fire, then Uriah Heep. Music didn’t have any racial-ethnic bounds. Even radio stations had no categorization like that. And no one cared! It was about the music!
@@zizendorf absolutely! Many bands had mixed races within them. Such as the Doobie Brothers, Santana and many more. However the fact remains, if you wanted to buy an album of a Black artist, like Lionel Richie, who sounds similar to many white artists, you had to look for him in the R&B section. I think Micheal Jackson’s Thriller album changed all that.
In my first comment, I did mention that many white artists admitted that they were influenced by Black artists, so it’s not the artists themselves.
No chance against Bose!
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 of course...
I love your channel. I love your reviews, but Louis needs to stop talking in "round about". He's a terrible reviewer. He never gets to the point and he spends more time on his musical tastes than the product he's reviewing. He loses himself in his own talking.
Olympica is a good all-rounder, flat response and pretty punchy but lack a bit of finesse. Maxima is more for acoustic or classic music, lacks punch but is very refined at the top end.
I have to say I love when Mike is on the show. He’s very decisive and can articulate what he’s hearing very well. I get a better sense of the speaker when he is describing it. It would be hard for me to choose one of those speakers. I love the Maxima. It’s looks it’s elegance but in the long run do I want everything romantic or a little bit sub, dude I don’t know if I could live with that for a long time.
Welcome back Mike……, as I read into your description of both speakers, one offers an old school type of related signature, whereas the Nova is a more modern sound which spotlights inner detailing and tonal shadings more freely.
I sure wish we could have a review of Accuphase class A combined with Magnepan .7!!!
Awkward interview / review. Couldn’t watch
Love your channel and the conversations. You can't please everyone so don't even try!
What happened to Vilip???
Betty Carter
@@harrycornelius373 Adrian nailed it when he mentioned Alison Krauss.