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Responses from rcrump
| Transports under $1K Hey Brooksl, Last time I heard J Tinn's Dad was using the G&D/Number Cruncher combo in Ct....I rebuilt those two units a few years ago.... | |
| Transports under $1K See if you find a G&D Transforms UTP-1 as they really are remarkable and turn up used for $8-900 here. Not much to look at, but sing and will just need a new laser every five years or so to keep working fine.....Jeff Tonkin of Hovland, got tir... | |
| mapleshade Mapleshade makes great cables as they get the directionality thing correct, but think their claims are a little strong as have replaced their speaker wire, interconnects and power cords in several systems....My customers like the tightness of my c... | |
| Tenor Hybrid v. VTL MB-450 Sig. Hi Bobbyapalkovic! I have not heard the latest wiring change you made to the VSMs, but really liked the combination of Ryan's VSMs and Entecs crossed over 6db per octave on the high pass at 100hz......The combination did just everything right........ | |
| Tenor Hybrid v. VTL MB-450 Sig. Jim2, Brooks1 lives near Chicago in one of the most affluent areas so doubt his room is a closet.......I always thought it was fine for a manufacturer to offer opinions regarding something he neither sells nor makes....Sorry to be so tasteless and... | |
| Tenor Hybrid v. VTL MB-450 Sig. Just gotta laugh out loud as it so hard to even get goose bumps.....Guess if it was easy it would take the fun out of it....If I get the size and venue right I feel I have achieved something with my gear and wires...... | |
| Tenor Hybrid v. VTL MB-450 Sig. The large presentation is fairly easy to achieve as normally just need flat response to the low 30s is all........Dynamics are much much tougher to achieve as have both driver distortion problems and amps going into class B with higher order disto... | |
| Tenor Hybrid v. VTL MB-450 Sig. Venue information the Merlins get just fine........Size of presentation they don't achieve as the size of the presentation grows 30% when woofers are added.....Reason I no longer use subwoofers is they don't match with my amps in the high pass as ... | |
| Tenor Hybrid v. VTL MB-450 Sig. Jim2, I like a larger presentation than the Merlins will allow, but have friend locally that had the Merlins set up with some old Entec woofers that did just about everything correctly as the size of the presentation was life sized, about 30% larg... | |
| Tenor Hybrid v. VTL MB-450 Sig. Jim2, makes more sense to spend the dollars where it will do the most good.....Kevinkwann, to each his own and the Rockports tell me more about my designs than anything else I have access to.....I see by your other responses that you don't care fo... | |
| Tenor Hybrid v. VTL MB-450 Sig. Jim2, glad the size of the presentation of your Merlins is large enough for your tastes. Most of us prefer something closer to realistic size.......I'll stand by my comment as think the 20K could be better spent on full range speakers than a new a... | |
| Tenor Hybrid v. VTL MB-450 Sig. If I were you I would put your money towards a more full range set of speakers and forget the amps for now as the VTL will get you down the road in fine style.....What is the nonsense about a restocking fee? You are auditioning a production amplif... | |
| isolation of seperate preamp power supplies? Yes, have up to four separate supplies in a milled box weighing in at 35 pounds and it is very sensitive to what it is sited on....Control unit weighs in about the same and it is very sensitive as well....Power supply likes short aluminum cones an... | |
| Power cords,15A and 20A.What's the difference? The IEC connector on the 20a cord is about 50% larger and has a different pin orientation than the 15a IEC variety and is usually only used on very large amplifiers....The wall plug on the 20a outlet has a different orientation as well and must be... | |
| Parasound power cable question? Parasound used to include a fairly normal looking cord that said "Wonderful" on the wire itself. It was a pretty darned good cord.......It beat up an aftermarket cord that retailed for $60 in tests here and was close to the Asylum DIY cord......Th... |