I have had the D18s now for around 5-6 weeks, and they are surely burnt in as is the M2, they have been left on continuous play for days when I was at work; for sure I canot hear any change in sound over the last week. truth is I miss the smoothness and staging of the spennies; the 'Acs have a great forward sound that bounds along, but when you turn it up as I fo often I find them getting shouty, where the soens just got louder. At low/med vols the D18s sound "better", but at more lifelike levels they seem to fall apart a bit.
It's not the M2 if only because it was driving the spens for a week before I sold them. I'm tempted to swap out the 18s for A6.
Now before I do all that, I have noticed that the 'Acs wobble like mad on their spikes. The spens on the other hand were rock solid. Now I had a similar expoerience a few years ago with a pair of standmount B&W DM602 S3: on my 1986 apollo stand they were great, on atacamas pants, so back to the apollos where they were much more rigid. The spens felt planted, whereas the proacs wobble a bit: same floor set up, both on native spikes.
Any ideas?
Otherwise here comes an A6 trade.
It's not the M2 if only because it was driving the spens for a week before I sold them. I'm tempted to swap out the 18s for A6.
Now before I do all that, I have noticed that the 'Acs wobble like mad on their spikes. The spens on the other hand were rock solid. Now I had a similar expoerience a few years ago with a pair of standmount B&W DM602 S3: on my 1986 apollo stand they were great, on atacamas pants, so back to the apollos where they were much more rigid. The spens felt planted, whereas the proacs wobble a bit: same floor set up, both on native spikes.
Any ideas?
Otherwise here comes an A6 trade.