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Or your bromance with Joe Banana! We've tried interventions...PaulyT said:I do that all the time, just check the headphone section when I talk about amps!
PSB Synchrony One B as an upgade to Paradigm Studio 20?
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BrianZ
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Will definitely post some impressions and thoughts after a good shootout with the Studio 20's. Maybe i'll also finally take some good data on my room's LF response, cause it's kinda weird as I recall from my sub calibration and i'd like ya'lls reactions to some charts.
Anyway, so none of you has experience with the Synchrony line then? I guess I'm kinda surprised. Why not? And why was it discontinued do you think?
Anyway, so none of you has experience with the Synchrony line then? I guess I'm kinda surprised. Why not? And why was it discontinued do you think?
yromj
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BrianZ said:
So let me see if I've got this straight: You posted a question, got some responses, evaluated those responses, determined that you were own person and did what you wanted to do. Is that about right? Well :eusa-clap:
I hope you enjoy them and look forward to hearing what you think. Congrats!!
John
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(with the PSB Synchrony One B's)
So it really wasn't much of a contest between these and the Studio 20's. I set them up side by side and the instant I fired up the PSB's I heard the difference before even switching over to the Paradigms. The mids, especially vocals are just so much more real and clear. The top end is extremely similar and of course the PSB also go impossibly low for a bookshelf (IME) while still somehow retaining bass clarity and quickness.
During my time with the Studio 20's (almost 10 years now) I had occasionally noticed a bit of lower mid bloat that made vocals a bit bottom heavy, but I never would have called the mids recessed. But in comparison to the PSB's I have to say they sorta are. The result was that for HT, dialogue was just a bit harder to understand than I would have liked. Not as much of a problem with music. In fact I recall many times being a little frustrated at not being able to fully make out the dialogue in a film, but then a song would kick in for a musical non-dialogue scene and I went back to thinking, "yeah, that sounds nice". And speaking of music, holy hell does this seem like an upgrade. The realism is kinda blowing my mind. I thought the Paradigms did some real magic in making it sound like I had musicians in the room, especially singers. But the PSB's take that illusion to new heights for me. The much cliched veil has been lifted off the mids. All my favorite albums sound even more alive, and new again. All this and a very pretty design to boot. I feel like I've stepped up in to new league.
So I won't go on too long. The take away is that I am really loving these things and it was well worth the effort & expense, so long as I can get a decent price for my 20's.
Thanks all for your advice once more.
-Brian
(and I still can't imagine why the Synchrony line was discontinued. You certainly don't see many used so I'm guessing people are hanging on to them.)
(with the PSB Synchrony One B's)
So it really wasn't much of a contest between these and the Studio 20's. I set them up side by side and the instant I fired up the PSB's I heard the difference before even switching over to the Paradigms. The mids, especially vocals are just so much more real and clear. The top end is extremely similar and of course the PSB also go impossibly low for a bookshelf (IME) while still somehow retaining bass clarity and quickness.
During my time with the Studio 20's (almost 10 years now) I had occasionally noticed a bit of lower mid bloat that made vocals a bit bottom heavy, but I never would have called the mids recessed. But in comparison to the PSB's I have to say they sorta are. The result was that for HT, dialogue was just a bit harder to understand than I would have liked. Not as much of a problem with music. In fact I recall many times being a little frustrated at not being able to fully make out the dialogue in a film, but then a song would kick in for a musical non-dialogue scene and I went back to thinking, "yeah, that sounds nice". And speaking of music, holy hell does this seem like an upgrade. The realism is kinda blowing my mind. I thought the Paradigms did some real magic in making it sound like I had musicians in the room, especially singers. But the PSB's take that illusion to new heights for me. The much cliched veil has been lifted off the mids. All my favorite albums sound even more alive, and new again. All this and a very pretty design to boot. I feel like I've stepped up in to new league.
So I won't go on too long. The take away is that I am really loving these things and it was well worth the effort & expense, so long as I can get a decent price for my 20's.
Thanks all for your advice once more.
-Brian
(and I still can't imagine why the Synchrony line was discontinued. You certainly don't see many used so I'm guessing people are hanging on to them.)
