Best Speakers for hearing Linda Ronstadt

When I auditioned the Sonus Faber Olympica III's, their mid range was out of this this world great, so I'm sure that she would sound fabulous on them!

She sounds pretty darn good in the following video using DeVore O's ...

 

JBL Project K2's

 

the recommendation will greatly depend on how the 6 YARDS x 20 YARDS room is situated.

 

She always sounded great on my B&W 805D's, which I'm currently selling here in Ohio ...

NOTE: Not my video ...

 

Voices are wonderful with planers.

 

No, budget depends on how much you want to spend. Double the max amount and you'll be close.

 

Epos K1's. Seriously great speakers for vocal presence.

Linda will be right in your lap.

Here's the Absolute Sound review, which I found to be pretty spot-on (I owned a pair a few years ago). Note what the reviewer says re: female vocals.

Epos K1 Loudspeaker - The Absolute Sound

I see there are some for sale on Reverb and eBay.

 

I'm with you on Quad's but come on almost nobody can afford Kondo! Air Tight and Jadis are nice recs though.

 

I must do some measuring!

 

Absolutely exquisite! That video says/sings it all for me, Linda singing to me, perfection!

 

Yes, and in black! So might pull the trigger on a pair!

 

Whether it's Linda Ronstadt, Chaka Kahn, Gracie Slick, Barbara Streisand or even Madonna these
female vocalists have unique upper harmonics in their voices. A three quarter inch fabric dome
used as a super tweeter will bring them right in the room singing only to you.
I've used a MB Quart as a super tweeter with a .5 ufd input cap. The results were impressive.
Maybe it's just because I'm in my mid seventies now and just need a little extra kick in highs.
I'm not a big fan of aluminum or titanium dome tweeters due to cone breakup they all exhibit
at various frequencies in their pass band. even if the breakup occurs above 20khz it can mix
with a 18khz signal and produce a difference frequency due to heterodyning at around 2 khz
which can be heard and measured. Just my logic, sorry if anyone is offended.

 

well I have to inject Linda sounds great on any speakers, but I get the point...

 

I have many of her albums and she even sounds great on my mid-fi garage system.
She has a very energetic balsy voice even on a pocket radio. "You're no good" is a favorite.

 

Anyone else here feel the need to listen to Linda Ronstadt now ?

lol

 

By the time the OP figures this out he could have listened to every Ronstadt recording in his collection several times. Just play the music. That’s my motto. Lol.

M. M.

 

I want to give a shout out to the OP for creating a thread that perfectly bridges the music and hardware forums

 

It's funny you mention this because back in the year 2000 I purchased the HD 600s because I felt that you could get a high-end headphone far less than buying a high-end loudspeaker and that holds up today. Yes you lose spatial cues but for pure clarity at the listening position speakers have more problems due to room-induced problems - there is no room acoustics to deal with headphones!

When I bought the Audio Note K/SPe and later the AN J/SPe in 2003 I directly compared at the listening position to my HD600. The HD 600 were basically never used again other than when traveling abroad.

The Audio Note AX Two I would recommend if on a budget for speakers under $2,000 and the AN K/Lx or K/SPe if budget allows though these are getting into the high $4k to mid $5k (also the Rogers LS5/9) price range. And a commensurate front-end system is also required. The AX Two at 1K, if you can find a pair, is superb.

But a lot of the speaker's qualities are revealed only with quality front-end equipment. Sometimes we are not hearing so much the speaker but the room acoustics, the source player and the source recording and the amplifiers, etc.

So you may walk into an audio showroom where one room is playing the "audiophile approved GREAT quality recordings" and another room where they are playing GREAT music recorded poorly. So it's not exactly an even experience.

 

If you want to listen loud I would go with cone speakers ala kef etc. If you want to listen soft I'd go with horns like Klipsch.

 

The proper definition of stalking is "when two people go on a romantic walk, but only one of them knows about it".

Besides, she must be near 90 or so - she probably wouldn't mind one by now...

 

You're off by 16 years.

 

I applaud the commitment!!!

 

Just when I thought I'd seen it all here at the Hoffman Forums...

 

Agreed

 

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