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| Talkin' 'bout my De Capo's Hey all,So - a brief update:When the BE tweeters came in, they were already wired - as in, wires already soldered to the positive and negative leads on the driver itself. Hmm. I called Tash and he said once I took out the original tweeter, II coul... | |
| Recommend a recording that shows of soundstage Took response34's advice and played Madonna's "Vogue" and was blown away by the soundstage. It did indeed extend beyond my de Capo's horizontal plane! In fact, much of The Immaculate Collection post 1984 is immaculately produced. Thanks for the ti... | |
| Advantages of monoblocks I could consider them, but my budget won't allow them. In fact, that's what I ran up against last time: for what I can spend on a DAC, I may as well keep the 1072.Also, @Tbg - I had the LSA Signature which I sent off over the winter to John Tucker... | |
| Advantages of monoblocks Actually, I was wondering about an external DAC. My digital source is a Rotel 1072 - an acknowledged giant killer, but still the weakest part of my system. I looked into DACs about a year ago and nothing came up that people said the Rotel couldn't... | |
| Talkin' 'bout my De Capo's Finally got around to soldering in the beryllium tweeters last night and tightened in everything. Will be breaking them in over the week. Update towards the end of the week. | |
| Hum from one set of IC, but not another I believe Paul made it as a common line level. I'm going to follow Czarivey's advice with troubleshooting and see what happens. The same Clear Day IC's running from the cd player make no noise at all. | |
| Monitors that compete with quality floorstanders?? The Sjofn (the clue) claims to measure from 28-33Hz to 42KHz - that more than competes with most floor-standers. | |
| Monitors that compete with quality floorstanders?? Part Time Audiophile raves about Sjofn speakershttp://parttimeaudiophile.com/2012/09/19/second-thoughts-digging-in-to-the-clue-from-sjofn-hifi/ | |
| Advantages of monoblocks These are the responses I was looking for. With my budget, there's no way I'm going to improve on the LSA in terms of monoblocks AND the requisite pre. If anything, I'll take Bvdiman's advice about improving what I have.I'm running Clear Day cable... | |
| Advantages of monoblocks I agree, Chayro. I'm tire-kicking a bit here, but monoblocks have always intrigued me in how dedicated they can make each speaker be. | |
| Monitors that compete with quality floorstanders?? Overpriced is relative. Something's worth whatever you pay for it. To call the de Capo's "overpriced" without having had them in your system is a bit myopic. I've had everything from Triangles to Maggie 3.6s to Focal 1027 to Devore 9's to Totem St... | |
| Advantages of monoblocks Well said, Bvdiman. That should be a truism of hi-end audio, along with being happy with what you have as long as it's making you happy. | |
| Nola Boxers vs. Reference 3A Dulcets I have the Reference 3A de capo be's in my 10'x14' carpeted room and they fill it beautifully. I'm not sure the smaller Dulcets would do the same compared to the Nolas, though. | |
| Monitors that compete with quality floorstanders?? Reference 3A de Capo's. They go from 42H-40K. beautiful, open, punchy monitors. | |
| Usher Tiny Dancer 2 - opinion Rb - thanks for the information. I'm about to install beryllium tweeters onto my de Capo monitors so I won't be in the market for new speakers for a while. However, when I do, info like yours still points me to Ushers! |