kingharold
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| Do Your Speakers have LEVEL CONTROLS or EQUALIZERS? (Vintage or Modern) ??? When I designed my DIY triamplified horn speakers a DEQX DSP was an integral part of the design. I wanted bass folded corner horns back in the corners and midrange and super tweeter horns well out in the room where they could image better. The ... | |
| SET Lovers, what's the one solid state amp you love(d)? I was amplifying the mids and highs of my triamplified DIY horn speakers with Cary Audio 2a3 SET monoblocks then I bought a pair of First Watt F3 single ended, single gain stage, class A stereo amps with VFET output transistors to replace the SET ... | |
| Concerning high end audio names in new cars I find the JBL system in my Toyota Tundra to be quite listenable. | |
| Disappointing On Mcintosh......help My amplifiers are Pass Labs and First Watt but in 1972 my wife and I bought a McIntosh MX110 preamp/tuner and MC2105 power amp. The 2105 has never been serviced but here over a half century later it is still playing music in the basement party ro... | |
| The Snob Appeal Premium For those of us with the skills and tools many of the posts in this thread are good arguments for DIY speakers. | |
| Creative Sound Solutions I too am a fan of Dayton drivers. I use their anodized aluminum cone rubber surround 15" subwoofer drivers in Bill Fitzmaurice designed HT Tuba 25 Hz quarter wave folded corner horns, and the SQ is outstanding. | |
| Klipsch Jubilee & Klipschorn Experience I have had triamplified DIY horns in my main system for the last nineteen years. I initially used a tube/SS hybrid amp on the bass and Cary Audio 2a3 SET monoblocks on the mids and highs. I ended up with a Pass Labs X150 on the bass and two Firs... | |
| what speakers do you consider "energetic"? Fully horn loaded(including horn bass) speaker systems have an energy that I don't believe can be matched by direct radiators. Needless to say I have such speakers but in the past I've owned and played sealed and ported box speakers, ESLs, Magnep... | |
| concrete (cinder) block tower with wood chopping block for turntable stand I agree with the efficacy of high mass for turntable stands. My DIY stand uses a section of sixteen inch diameter white oak log as a central pedestal. Three large lag screws in the bottom of the section of log serve as feet and allow leveling of t... | |
| Burn in vs perception I find this thread to be reassuring. I've always felt a little inadequate because I couldn't discern any difference in electronics after they burn in other than the difference that warming up makes. I definitely can hear burn in with phono cartr... | |
| High end speakers at low volume ricco275, if I had your desired criteria for speakers I would definitely look at horns. Very light diaphragms powered by strong magnet motors coupled with the minimal excursions required of diaphragms boosted by the impedance matching augmentatio... | |
| Amplifier for Cornwall IV I use First Watt amplifiers with my DIY horns, and I think they are an excellent choice. They replaced Cary Audio 2a3 monoblocks, and the improvement was obvious. | |
| Integrating speakers into contemporary decor - can WAF ever be overcome? Any time the subject of spouse acceptance factor is raised I immediately think how lucky I was in that regard. One of the first times I met my girlfriend and wife to be was at a teen hangout where she invited me to join her in her new 1968 Chevell... | |
| horn or line array? Horns, unbeatable when properly designed and built. Also remember horn bass is the icing on the cake. | |
| horn or line array? Horns, unbeatable when properly designed and built. Also remember horn bass is the icing on the cake. |