bullitt, it must be painful looking at those boxes without being able to
move them until tonight. Looking forward to hearing you impressions of
those beasts. Steve McQueen would be proud of such speakers!
Ulfs are in the garage and they can't get out! They are indeed going into "Bullitt Theater". Large Bullitt poster in there too. My daughter actually found a french one just to be different. I still have my DIs too. Eric actually wanted me to do a comparison before I sent the DIs back to him. I need to get some hours on the Ulfs first though. Such drudgery! But some sacrifices must be suffered. |
@mac48025 The car in the movie was Dark Highland Green. When they released the first Bullitt Edition Mustang in 2001 they offered it in the original DHG, a medium blue and black. Mine is black because dark green ranks just ahead any shade of yellow as my least favorite color. I still enjoy the movie. The part fits Steve's real-life, anti-social, don't bug me, personality perfectly. Sgt. Friday he wasn't.
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I auditioned the MZ2 with the standard PS and the 10 with the new. upgraded power supply. They were impressive. Thing is, you can buy the upgraded PS for the MZ2 later for what not much more than the upgrade costs initially. So I was going to buy the standard one and upgrade later if I felt so inclined. Then you basically have a spare PS. Call and talk to Mark if you haven’t done so. I’m sure he can give you some insight and is a wealth of information, and fun to talk to anyway. Plus it looks like they are on sale right now.
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I've figured out how to make the DIs look small. Put an Ulf next to it!
Finally got them upstairs last night and in break-in mode. So far, I'm very impressed.
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@lmswjm I have a friend who’s a weight lifter. Not kidding. Really is. We strapped the box to my heavy duty hand truck. He pulled the hand truck up the stairs a step at a time and I lifted from the bottom. Still wasn’t an easy task. He got to pick the first music to christen them. I think he was more excited to hear them than I was.
@mac48025 I have some pictures of the Ulfs, the DIs and my B&W 804s in the room. I would have posted them already but the Agon forum software is not user friendly for posting anything but words. I think the 1990s wants it’s software back! I’ll also post my impressions after break-in and living with them for a bit. I’m interested in an A/B with the DIs myself. Hopefully Eric will allow me to keep the DIs for a couple more weeks. Plus my wife is wanting them, and their associated boxes, out of the house before the family arrives for Christmas. I’ll get to it though. All said, I still think the DIs are awesome. Especially for $3K.
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Nitrobob, the Ulfs will do what you want and then some. But Eric developed 1812s specifically to reproduce clean concert level output if you want to go for the ultimate. Hope you have some room in your room!
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Nice!! Car flies. People think Audiophiling is expensive? My wife refers to mine as the black hole in the garage into which we pour money. But she actually enjoys it and is always there with me as pit crew. This is a video of my street legal 2001 Bullitt Edition Mustang. I don't really compete with it. I just go to open event, T&Ts etc and have fun. I was wishing the BendPak I have in the garage was in the house when we were trying to get the Ulfs upstairs! https://youtu.be/WekWPfvbtGw |
@nitrobob, I have a pair of B&W 804s in the same room as the DIs originally and now the Ulfs. After reading all the fluff-up on the DIs on another site, I waved the BS flag on all the folks who were trashing the speaker and had never been in the same room with them. So, not to be them, I purchased a pair of DI with the upgrades to A/B with my long loved 804s. To my surprise, the DIs displaced the 804s handily. Just a comment on what I found with my Tekton/B&W comparison. That doesn't mean you won't like the 7 series. But I do know in the clean/loud mode you seek, I can't imagine you thinking the 7s will do a better job. But I also couldn't imagine the DIs displacing my 804s either!
And I'm also a drag racer. Not nitromethane, but twin turbos. If you're running nitro, you must really be into the "hobby"!!
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Oh, and if you have a Hauler, you really are into the money. I am the guy on the cheap with the open trailer behind the F250PSD.
Also, Eric was also pretty heavily into drag racing one time. When/if you talk to him again, ask him about it if you two haven't discussed it already. He was a Plymouth guy if my memory serves me correctly.
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Oh, and Eric ALSO did the car audio thing. I think his hobby is collecting hobbies too.
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mac48025 Subwoofers? Why? Those cars make some of the most beautiful music known to man. LOL 1400 wheel HP at WOT and twin turbos. It's quite the crescendo.
But I did compete in IASCA car sound competition with out 1996 Impala SS. Strangely enough, it had an all digital front end using Alpine components. Rare in those days. So now with the Lyngdorf my home audio finally caught up with my 1996 car audio system. :-)
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I had a great customer service experience with LTA also. Awesome products, but we chose the Lyngdorf over all other gear we tested, including the LTA products. But dealing with them was an absolute pleasure. I actually felt guilty sending the hardware back. Just the opposite of my experience with Odyssey. If it weren't for the exceptional capabilities of the Lyngdorf, I would still have the LTA on the front end. I may actually buy LTA in the future just for variety sake. The ZOTL transformer-less design is really in a class of it's own for tube amps.
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Your recent amp adventures; are these Lyngdorf 2170? Am much intrigued with this option, especially since KDude has embraced the efficient design. Cannot reconcile, however, my discouraging experience with Class D amps last year. @craigl59 the 2170 isn’t a class D topology. At least not what you’re thinking of as class D. Kenny and Bill encouraged me to audition it against some pretty good tube and SS separates. I didn’t expect what I heard from it and it remains in my audio rack and the others were returned. I encourage you to give it a trial if you’re in the amp trail stages. Both my DIs and now my Ulfs absolutely love it with Digital and, unexpectedly, Analog inputs. I was especially flabbergasted when the 2170 sounded better than an LTA system on Analog. Digital, I could get my head around. But not Analog. But there was no doubt in my mind. But if you love tube warmth/distortion as opposed to detailed, analog accuracy, it won't be your cup of tea. My favorite description of is is a wire with gain. Everything in front of it and the Ulfs is reflected in the final sound characteristics. Even playing with USB cables and hearing the difference was a blast. |
Welcome to the Lyngdorf/Tekton family. I tried a number of amps with Tektons and the Lyngdorf bested all. I now have the Lyngdorf powering a pair of Ulfberhts. I find that an amazing combination. I hope you enjoy yours. I agree with "stunning".
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