Post by Owen Y on Apr 12, 2018 13:14:14 GMT 12
Former Martin Logan co-founder Gayle Sanders comes out of retirement & is launching at AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) outside Chicago, starting today,,,, (Gayle Martin Sanders and Ron Logan Sutherland founded Martin Logan in the late 70s-early 80s.) A brand-new speaker company called Gayle Sanders Eikon. Their first loudspeaker system Image 1 is priced US$24,500 - a lot, but includes DAC, preamp, amp, loudspeakers with external DSP-based Eikontrol unit. All you need is analogue or digital source/s & ios/android mobile device or computer, for fine-tuning control. (No detailed specifs yet that I have seen.) The PR says the DSP “analyses energy buildup in the amplitude and time domain.” to control & achieve overall uniform frequency response.  (Photo: Darko Audio) 
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Post by michaelw on Apr 12, 2018 15:32:48 GMT 12
no 'stats ?
looks complicated ...
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Post by andrewp on Apr 12, 2018 20:02:32 GMT 12
Dont worry about the speakers or stats...Hes clearly got it together as hes sitting in an Eames!..lol
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Post by Owen Y on Apr 13, 2018 0:09:14 GMT 12
And we can tell that he's a music aficionado, because he has the obligatory guitar alongside 
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Post by Owen Y on Apr 13, 2018 10:00:34 GMT 12
And I thought Linn had a licence on using the letter 'K' in naming hifi products
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Post by foveaux on Apr 14, 2018 12:12:24 GMT 12
Its just great how theres seems to be an explosion of new products, if only we could easily listen to them! I'd like to hear this system. Gayle has reversed by own personal pecking order by releasing this active system. for me its: 1. Electrostatic (active) - per my Sanders system (Roger, not Gayle); 2. Active, as this Eikon system; then 3. anything else... If I was to go back to box speakers, it would be Harbeth - I've heard their Super HL5plus' - and they were exceptional. I was taken by a recent comment in the Audiophiliac article: "Nothing gets older faster than high-tech, but the Harbeth P3ESR sounds so good you may never want to replace it with another speaker. That's no hype -- we know audiophiles still using similar speakers originally manufactured in the 1970s."
www.cnet.com/pictures/the-audiophiliacs-top-10-best-sounding-bookshelf-speakers-pictures/15/
Must be showing my age, I do get nostalgic for the many excellent sounding speakers I heard in the early 80s, when I 'bothered' many dealers in London... (I did bring back Mission 770 Freedoms, that I wish I'd held onto)
anyway, its always positive to tolerate new mousetraps...
"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]
"Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young" [Paul Rodgers]
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Post by LinnBoy on Apr 14, 2018 18:53:46 GMT 12
And I thought Linn had a licence on using the letter 'K' in naming hifi products We do.
I am a non-recovering audioholic, and Ivor is my higher power.
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Post by foveaux on Apr 15, 2018 9:35:43 GMT 12
"...I did bring back Mission 770 Freedoms..."
anyway, its always positive to tolerate new mousetraps... Sorry chaps, I'm mistaken...they were 717s, third down the line from 770, 727. As I say, showing my age. At their price, I reckoned the 717s got convincing close to the sound the various BBC 5/8 monitors (e.g. Rogers, etc) f
"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]
"Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young" [Paul Rodgers]
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Post by Owen Y on Oct 9, 2018 20:34:06 GMT 12
From RMAF 2018, Darko gets a technically informative interview with Gayle Sanders. A nice, amusing guy it seems. He talks about the advancements in technology & how he came to return to the high end industry after selling Martin Logan 10 years ago. He explains the pros & cons of panel speakers & why he did not use panel drivers this time. He backgrounds the concept of the Gayle Sanders Eikon system, multi-amped active speakers with digital crossovers, DAC/DSP, in-room optimisation, streaming. " We are marching inexorably towards a new world of how we going to experience high end audio.... Actives make so much sense conceptually. "
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