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Spatial X5 speakers

Just got mine, with upgraded crossovers, a couple of weeks ago.  I now have about 250 hours on them - mostly driven by the Voyager Gan 350 wpc class D amp and most recently by Don Sachs 65 wpc tube amp.  Speaker Cables are Griver Huffman Pharoah's and the preamp is Don Sachs tube preamp.  They are easy to set up as they come fully assembled.  Right out of the box they sound promising but the bass is cardboard like and the tweeter can sound harsh.  Nevertheless, after about 175 hours, these babies developed a pleasing midrange liquidity and nice open baffle bass.  They throw an expansive soundscape that extends beyond the width of the toed in speakers that is also deep front to back.  I mean, these speakers truly disappear as in my listening spot nothing localizes to the speaker itself.  Both amps drive these speakers nicely.  The Sachs amp defitely sounds better using the 8 not 4 ohm speaker posts.  I am now getting air with very nice detail and tonal colors.  

 

These speakers are just awesome.  They are worth every penny I paid for them.  Clayton warned me about the prolonged break in time and he was dead on the money.  I just love the OB box less sound.  These speakers are awesome.

 

I hope this thread does not degenerate into a toxic pussing contest like my Voyager Gan amplifier thread.

jaymark

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mrotino
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Jaymark, I have had the X5's for a year and a half now and they are truly amazing sounding now that I've had over 500 hours on them.

You mention you had the upgraded crossover in your speakers, are you saying that you ordered them with the VH odam capacitors?  Mine came with the Clarity Cap capacitor so it seems Clayton now uses the VH Odam capacitor or offers it as an upgrade.  I believe he did as well when I had ordered but I don't know much about capacitors and if the difference between them is significant or not.  I know I can easily bypass the Clarity cap and insert a different capacitor outboard if I want to experiment, who knows maybe I'll try that but the speakers sound so good right now I don't know if I want to even experiment.  I'm running low powered tubes with them.

mrotino
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I have the X5s and am unclear Rooze on the crossover.  My understanding is that the 12 inch mid driver is blocked at 90hz so that it isn't reproducing any frequencies below 90hz and that the 12 mid bass driver does not have any crossover parts on the top of it's range and just rolls off naturally.  The tweeter has a capacitor at 1 kz.

 

Maybe you are saying the same thing above and I apologize if you are or maybe I'm mistaken in regards to the 12 mid driver.  I know the 12 inch mid driver does not move much with heavy bass material so it seems it's being blocked at 90 hz.

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