Greetings from Emsworth.
I remember Jeffries, over at Eastbourne. Bought my first Rega there. Six month waiting list I recall
From an aesthetic point of view, I wonder why Proac doesn’t make use of magnets for speaker grill attachment to get rid of those ghastly “rubberized holes” in their speakers…
They really don’t worry me and anyway I usually have the grilles on. It’s probably better to have the holes than pathetically weak magnets such as those used by PMC. Anyway, this is show us your Tablette 10s, rather than let’s criticise the Tablette 10!
Magnets seem ok on my Fact.8s grills always on nice understated badge as well😉
My pathetic PMC magnets do a stellar job when the grills are on, but obviously I can’t speak to your past PMC’s. Ops, the ghastly apostrophe that shouldn’t be there…
The reference to PMC was probably just retaliation because I criticized his current darling… It’s a bit of kindergarten here… But that’s okay — life is too short to worry about everything…
Not at all. I had a very lovely pair of PMC twenty.23s. Having overcome the fact that the magnets had been put in the original grilles the wrong way round so that they they wouldn’t stay attached, I was supplied with a set of grilles with the correct magnets. Despite that, the little blighters still kept slipping and going wonky. But certainly, if you use the speakers without the grilles it’s more elegant not to have the little holes. ProAc don’t seem to worry about these things, which is perhaps a good thing, I don’t know.
Yes, only kidding around myself as well. I try not to criticise on this forum or any other forum and try to alway be positive, it is hobby we all share after all!
Currently listening to some very small Sonus Faber stand mounters that I recon, not only look better than Proacy tabletty things but could even compete on sound quality as well, so there……
Lumina II by any chance?
My apologies if I speculated wrong!
Didn’t you change your speaker cable because they were the “wrong” black? Maybe love does indeed make blind?!
In any case, I agree that it is most important how hifi sound!
Lumina 1 as a matter of fact. Fantastic match to Naim kit.
Apologies for thread diversion!
You are of course right here. And I certainly didn’t have the intention to upset anybody. Hifi is about music, and music is about joy! Sometimes we forget this here I fear, and take things too seriously and possibly personally.
And obviously beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So it doesn’t really matter at all that I find holes in speakers genuinely ugly. And I cannot really “unsee” things; possibly an ASD trait
Quite so. The TQ Black II was very black with nasty silver writing all over them. The Witch Hats are far more discreet. I normally have the grilles on the speakers so the holes don’t matter. I only took them off to enable me to echo Graeme’s white pair. Anyway, Graeme is Mr Aesthetic so if the holes don’t bother him they are good enough for me!
The issue i have with posts like this is that i have perfectly good loudspeakers, great even, but seeing all these Tablette 10’s makes me want a pair of my own.
Whether we like it or not, or realise it, most of us select equipment with look and feel as well as what it sounds like. I’m a designer, so I suffer acutely from this dilemma. For me only a few HiFi brands hit the mark on all counts.
I’m very picky😄
well you do criticise quite a lot…
I wonder if I’m alone on this one. Personally I close my eyes while enjoying music. Grilles or no grilles, holes or no holes doesn’t matter much with my eyes shut.
I think it’s just great to see that there is so much love for a product.
Makes me want to find out what all the fuss is about.
The Tablettes are lovely little speakers but I can’t see myself chopping up my Klipsch Forte III’s for firewood anytime soon! Having now lived with these for around a year I would find it hard to re-adjust to the anaemic bass that somehow passes for ‘accuracy’ in so many small speakers.
I’ll admit that at first `I found the Klipsch bass a little overbearing but one only has to listen to a group of street musicians to realise that this is how it really is. I had been conditioned over many years listening to Kans and IBL’s into believing that their lightweight albeit fast and well-pitched bass was accurate. Well if we take ‘accurate’ as meaning ‘true to life’ then sorry, but no, this is anything but accurate - it sounds nothing like the real thing!
Surprising what realism a good large floor stander can bring to the performance. Hard to do without once you’ve experienced it.
OK I’ll take cover now! But I did say the Tablettes were lovely, and they are.