There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
Avantgarde had a large room but even with the speakers seeming to be way too big for the room, it was probably the best speakers at the show. Gayle Sanders (guy who used to own Martin Logan) introduced his whole system approach with built in dedicated amplifiers for each of the four drivers in each speakers. It was then fed by an external electronic crossover/room EQ processor. Not cheap but not crazy either. Legacy Audio again had a good showing. They too used the same room processor that Gayle Sanders used but with their own proprietary curves.
Now I'm seriously thinking of getting a room EQ processor since I think they really helped those two manufactures achieve excellent results.
I think DSP has great advantages, but then you have to worry about the D/A and power amps per channel. Have you ever had the chance to hear a Linkwitz LX521? That system has analog processing per channel.