Unfortunately, my Time Machine ran out of fuel after my last trip.

Trying to figure out the going rate on the used market for the BaseOne25s.

You might need to top up your flux capacitor with enriched uranium!

Hardly ever see used BaseOne's or BaseTwo's for sale
Especially in the UK/EU

By what mechanic does cable 'settle'?

Does it settle whilst coiled in 100 metre rolls in a warehouse for 6 months before its sold? Or does it need to be sold to a customer first for this magical settling process to occur?

Or is this something that happens when magical electrons start propagating through the cable?

How does the cable know when to start settling? Why does it need 50-100 hours? Why not 10? Or 200? What is obvious physical and hence measurable process is happening over the 100 hour period?

Is it a linear process? Or does it follow a curve? Does leaving it twice as long sound twice as good? Or leaving it only for 25 hours result in a 50% improvement?

What about copper on the pcb's? Does this need to settle as well? If not why? It's made from the same materials. How is it different? What magical properties does it contain that cables don't?

Why not use the same no settling required coppers for both cables and pcb's? You must be able to explain why this is the case. I mean your using science right?

How does this work? I mean you must be able to explain it right? It must be a tangible physical process and not just woo woo and magical man in sky thinking.

Why do only audio cables need to 'settle' why don't signal cables used in military applications or space applications or satellites or any other demanding signal require 'settling'?

Why do low bandwidth easy to transmit audio signals need to special treatments to work correctly?

It's all hog wash.

Cause that would be crazy right.

Go, Robb.

I mean this genuinely, I know my post is full of sarcasm and doubt.

BUT! I am willing to be educated. By science. IF I am wrong. Then show me how. With peer reviewed science.

I love learning new things. Prove me wrong. Please.

The onus on proof is on those making the claims.

Robb will school you in a while I'm sure. I am staying out of it. Have fun.

LOL.

If you swap out Grimm TPR going into your Amphions from another cable - in my case it was redco - you will hear a difference immediately. There is no "hmmm, am I hearing something?" The change is there 100% and it's extremely evident that there was a change for the better. The people who have done this know exactly what I'm talking about and it's the people who've never tried it who are challenging it - so I say **** em' - it's not even worth the time to explain it to them. And it really doesn't matter at the end of the day -- people are going to do what they want to do regardless. I'm not on this forum to change anyone's mind on this topic - only to give my impressions on my experiences.

I removed my Amphion cables from my Two18's and didn't replace them with anything

I have pretty average hearing but I definitely detected something was now missing

They seemed to be suddenly lacking 'sound'

Seriously though, if you haven't got Ghost Analog between your convertor/monitor controller/mixer/whatever you have and the amps for those Amphions yet, you are missing out. In my humble experience.

No posts offering gear for sale please
Pop them in the Classifieds

Sorry mate, I thought it was rare enough to let it be seen here.

Still rocking One12 and One15 here, gorgeous tools!

No problem at all

Just have to be careful with people offering stuff in threads as they are public facing and shown in google search results (Classifieds are not) so you could end up with a bunch of random weirdos/scammers trying to make contact

Got it! well the classified ad is up, just now.
Cheers

Been looking at NAMM images of a set of One25a's atop a pair FlexBase's (yeah a pair not a single unit)

I've heard the One25a's a few times now and sonically they lacked for absolutely nothing
But pairing them with base extensions is making my head spin at the thought of how they could sound

I imagine this is my monitor end game if I ever moved up from Two18's and BaseOne25's

I have to hear this set up asap!

Yes it's a pretty surprising set-up, a new crossover under 100hz? I guess flexbase must work with the crossover at 35hz, or the next position ( around 50hz). Taking care of ultra-lows.

You get a crossover setting down there to play with, a dedicated volume control for the ultra lows (flexbase), and One25 has its own "boundary control system" setting allowing to gently tilt the low curve of the monitors up to 1k, a very wide and smooth curve.

It's a lot of tweaking options, and spl down low, compared to the mains only. It must be quite an experience!

Kii did something similar with their Kii Three BXT. You get reduced distortion and better room response via adding more drivers in the low end.

More importantly there seems to be a market for these 30k+ systems. Why should Amphion leave that on the table? Heck Strauss charges 80k for their MF-2.1's.

Not to speak of the prices now being asked in the Hifi-world. 100k seems to be the new mid-price region for every major speaker company. Even 500k is not rare anymore. A German hifi dealer told me he doesn't carry even high end mastering grade studio monitors cause they are "too cheap."

He carried Kii including the BXT tough. Only had a quick listen but I found it more of the same as the basic Kii and not my cup of tea. It's like listening to Optimus Prime making music.

Hi. Do you have the analog or analog+? I'm trying to figure out if the + versions are worth the bump. Cheers

Self soldered Analog with standard Neutriks here.

Cool thanks

Like Barefoot MM45's / FP03

For tracking too as well as mixing.
Compact active and superb sounding for half the price.

The One25s + Flexbase system on the Amphion stand at NAMM

I am so intrigued to hear this pairing

Pretty cool ! let us know what you think.

I guess two Flexbase in mono each? One25's woofer crosses so low I wonder where the Flex crossover would be like 35hz, 60hz?

I did exactly this. One18 user here for the last 6 years. I felt that the One18 needed a bit of help on the bottom octave. This was in a larger room than a typical home studio (24x13x12).

I added a Dynaudio 9S Sub and have never looked back. Just a subtle blend of the bottom octave and a bit of experimenting with placement. Things translate so well!

Look like im getting Amphion One 18. Im moved to a smaller room and my Adama S3V are to big for my room. I got an offer for a used pair with an Amp 500 and Amphion cables. Im just afraid I will need a SUB.

I like the idea to get the KH750 Sub with MA1. Someone use the Amphion together with a Neumann Sub. Or what other Sub would you suggest?

Including myself, there are four people around me who use Amphion (One15, Two15, Two18), but none of us use a subwoofer. Everyone works on EDM and current pop music and is pretty picky about the low end.

Personally, I think Amphions don't need a sub, and I prefer checking bottom FR with headphones these days. It feels like people who find it easier to work without a sub have gravitated toward Amphion in the past. This ultimately comes down to personal preference, workflows, playback levels, familiarity, etc..

For myself I maybe don’t need a sub. But for customers and artist when I’m recording I feel like I need it. Maybe I should buy a cheap Kali sub and call it a day.

Any more Neumann KH750 DSP with MA1 combo with Amphions, like one15 info at all? Tempted. More for the correction without a plugin and at reasonable speed than the sub as such, but will take the sub. Also a bit concerned whether going through the sub will peeve me as in lose some magic on the Amphions.

I'm using a Focal Sub One + One15, and it works perfectly.
(just realized they are both called "one")

On paper you do not need a sub for these speakers, and definitely not for the 18.
IF your room allows it.
I have a very bad SBIR thing going on, so i had no choice, cause i was not only losing the low lows, but some of the bass.
Dirac corrected it though, and it had plenty of low end, but it needed a +14 db boost at 40hz, which choked the speakers a bit. So went with the Focal, and after a few measurements it works great.

PS: im still using VSX for checking the subs, but the last word on the mix is always from the Amphions, no question

Hello,

Also very interested by this option!!

Regards
Sergio