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| Rowland PC1 PFC on Capri pre early findings I'll be starting the Continuum thread any minute. I just got back from a 3-hour preview of my new baby. I'll take delivery on Friday afternoon.The first impression, with only 100-hours on the new amp, is simply WOW. If it gets better after a few h... | |
| SS Amp for natural vocals Well Rafael, not exactly. The Jeff Rowland Design Group Continuum 500 integrated amp is only $8800, with 1000 watts into 4 ohms. It handles the DALI's very nicely. (I literally just walked in the door from listening to the Continuum driving the DA... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? She buys baskets, boxes and furntiture, cooking crap and the occasional car. Also, her travel budget is several times what it'd be if it were up to me. In exchange, I buy trumpets, guitars, two-channel audio and fast cars. Much as I am occasionall... | |
| Rowland PC1 PFC on Capri pre early findings I'm scheduled to go down to the factory on 5/29 with some others to meet Jeff, tour the factory and go over to the shop where the build the chassis. By then I should have me Continuum 500 decently burned in. I'll write a review when I get the 500 ... | |
| SS Amp for natural vocals The DALI 400s benefit giantly from a great amp with lots of power and damping. I heard it with three amps and was blown away with the 400s driven by Rowland 501s. I think you'll experience night and day difference. The first I heard the DALIs with... | |
| How do I "compromise" speaker placement No Bob, it's sound pressure level instead of distance. With the sumiko Master Set the distances are rarely equal, because of the room annomalies. The Master Set takes into account multiple interactions at once.Dave | |
| How do I "compromise" speaker placement Yes Bob, very similar to that, but not exactly. With phase you can have speakers literally pushing a pulling against each other. With IMD it's more about timing of the direct signals arriving in-phase but not at the same time. It's easiest to imag... | |
| How do I "compromise" speaker placement IM distortion is also caused by speaker-to-speaker timing misalignments. If you think it's important for the drivers within a speaker to be properly time aligned, then you'll likely agree that getting both speaker firing in sychronicity will also ... | |
| Rowland PC1 PFC on Capri pre early findings 04-16-08: Guidocorona said:"Excellent Dave, keep us posted. It's almost time to start a dedicated thread on the Continuum 250/500 integrated amps. I am just waiting for JRDG to post some official info on the jeffrowland.com site."Yes, I'll start a... | |
| How do I "compromise" speaker placement Bob, you can get the EQ "right" at any listening position, but if you left the IM distortion in then it'll sound like CRAP, no matter what speaker you use. Go to any audio show and you'll hear it in room after room. (Harsh, edgy, grating sound fro... | |
| Rowland PC1 PFC on Capri pre early findings BTW Guido, I'll pick up my Continuum on the 25th or 26th.Dave | |
| How do I "compromise" speaker placement Bob, let's not get into that 83dB stuff again. We'll NEVER agree on that, but you're having fun with it and are welcome your concept.As for measuring your way to proper setup, I was thinking of tape-measure, not SPL. Indeed, SPL can help, but only... | |
| Rowland PC1 PFC on Capri pre early findings Uh huh... ;-) | |
| How do I "compromise" speaker placement Most people think that you can measure your way to the best placement, but it doesn't work. See the following thread for something that actually works:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?rspkr&1197744079&openmine&zzDcstep&4&... | |
| Rowland PC1 PFC on Capri pre early findings Wow, given the Capri's performance and the 501's performance and the PC1+ potential, it seems like a hell of a bargain to have all that rolled together, for not that many dollars more than the old Concerto. I'm thanking my lucky stars that I waite... |