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Omega Super 3 or Axiom M22Ti on Sonic Impact T-Amp

Hi all,

I'm taking my first baby step to become like one of you! ;) I'm coming from a pretty bad sounding (IMO) 15 years old Kenwood Rack System. I already bought the Sonic Impact T-Amp after reading sixmoon's review (actually 2... one for spare in case modding doesn't go too well!) ;) I've tried the speakers from the Kenwood rack system and the little T-Amp does give me some surprises. It really is clear, pretty detailed and have a WIDE soundstage compared to the amp in the rack system. I believe the problem is the Kenwood speaker - it is somewhat muffled and the bass isn't accurate and tight, so this is what brought me here. I want some advise on the above speakers to go with the T-Amp. (I'm also open to other suggestions - but let's set a budget of $600 for a pair of speakers)

The source will probably be my CD collection in Monkey's Audio format (a lossless compression format) that's stored in my quiet harddrive playing back via the Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 soundcard with onboard 24-bit 192kHz D/A converter, 106dB dynamic range and a pretty flat frequency response across the whole frequency spectrum. I might use the 2nd soundcard (Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS 7.1) on my computer to play some DVD-Audio disc - but I do not own any DVD-Audio at this moment. The speakers will be in a small to medium size room.

I wish to find out how those two speakers compared to each others (if they can be compared) and what characteristics do they have. Also do these speaker do well in the Home Theater area (since I didn't read much about this area - but that's not my primary concern at this moment) Thank you in advance for reading my lengthy post and for any responses that you may have. :)

-=SGI=-

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sgi

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gmood1
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SGI..you can go to Madisound.com or through the Fostex website and get basic speaker plans for single drivers. I had a long conversation with Louis of Omega yesterday. Really great guy! He admits being a big tube fan..but loves the low wattage tripath based amplifiers.

The single drivers aren't for everyone. I personally love them. If your a bass head or dynamic freak. These are not the speakers for you. If you want pure and transparent sound.With the source being heard for what it is good or bad..this maybe your speaker.

Good Luck!
gmood1
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I forgot to add Louis's customer service is great! All of his speakers come with a 10 warranty. I bought mine used which had a couple of small cracks in the veneer.Louis is refinishing the speakers without question. He even asked if I wanted a different color or laminate. When they return, the Grande 8s will be Red Maple Parisian instead of Sapele with all the new upgrades. Basically I will have a new pair for the cost of shipping..customer service doesn't get much better!

The Super 3s are light on their feet as Miklorsmith
says.They will not give the fullness of a larger cone though. As always there will be trade offs with any speaker.You have to pick your poison. For the record the 206Es get up to 18 khz. This is above most human males hearing. All of these speakers take forever to break in.
I don't think mine leveled off till past 200 or 300 hrs of of hard playing.

Louis let me in on a little secret. For those who want more upper freqs on certain single drivers. You can go to madisound. Buy two LPG 25 NFA textile dome tweeters $37.00 a peice. Also pick up two LPGTHW Hinged Wedge mounts for $7.00. You can mount them anywhere on the speaker's cabinets and swivel to your needs. You also need one 1.5 Microfarad capacitor (per tweeter) to put inline on the positive lead side of the tweeters.Between the speaker wire and the positive terminal. Total cost under $100 dollars. This should give you all the air you will ever need for cheap.

Louis also mentioned a new smaller speaker for $349.00.
This may be something to look at. It uses a 4.5 inch driver if I'm not mistaken.
gmood1
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Good idea Finnegan..I really wanted to hear this model.The last time I tried the dealer only had one speaker.LOL
I don't know what happened to the other. What a bummer! :-)
gmood1
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Cool..LOL..Finnegan. I will keep you in mind.My inlaws live in MA. You know we never did find that other speaker.:-)
For the life of me I couldn't understand how they misplaced the other.
I found the joke funny!
Pete you best keep them doors locked..remeber your no more than an hour from me!

All the Best!
gmood1
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No problem Pete as I will bring it up once your speakers breakin.I'm having it modified further..It and the ClariT or what's left of the ClariT. I must come up with a new name for my tripath amplifier.

It's going in a custom wood chassis designed by yours truly. It will also have eight 12 volt SLA batteries. 4 for the tripath boards and 4 for the paralleled buffers.The buffers will be hard wired directly to pure silver captive interconnects with Eichmann Copper RCA bullet plugs.These will connect directly with the modded toshiba.The captive interconnects will also be hard wired directly to my passive volume control .One pair of RCA input connectors has been completely deleted. I should have 500 mA per channel of drive before the the volume pot. The buffers will also connect to the stereo sub outputs by way the passive volume control. It will have 3 separate chargers and switches for fast recharging. Everything will be star grounded. All wiring will be 24 gauge pure silver in cotton tubing no plastic or teflon covering.

Hopefully I can get the hand wound silver chokes installed.
Original resistors will be changed to Caddocks.Bypass caps will be changed to Rubycon Zl/ZA. The binding post will also be changed to Eichmann Cable pods. I have decided to have a second tripath board added and run dual mono in the new chassis.This configuration should give me 48hrs of solid playing time before a recharge is needed.

I'm like a kid at Christmas waiting.At the same time trying to figure out the next move. I'm looking at changing the passive shunt volume control over to a transformer based volume control that uses no resistors.This is kinda expensive it may have to wait a while!

Ozzy and Pete... Bob must be working on your speakers at the same time! If Ozzy lived any closer he would have to keep them doors locked as well! :-)
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