How fun and a great resurrection of a thread.... Johnny R is indeed a treasure:-) |
CT i might have a good home for the Basis, arm, cart.... send me a msg on FB messanger Darth's Dad...
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I had 3a Sig for a decade in a much larger room....you dont say how close to back wall you will be? Do they come with the IMO essential big sound anchor stands ? Do you have an amp that can control the formidable low end ? I would much rather get the best current model II vs unknown used model 3 in a small room Just my buck fifty.... |
Ricks27 congrats !!!! you are in for a real treat
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Rosewood is stunning also, as my 5a were
CT - my first hit is free crack addict creating Audioquest dealer in Atlanta loaned me a set of WEL top of the line balanced from ARC pre to Ayre power amp when I had the 5a i sent them back.... the detail was stunning but I thought they overemphasized pick and finger noise at the expense of musicality - having said that ignoring the $ on certain material they were crazy good... like how can I send my dude $100 a month under the table so to speak.. good
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CT check out just about anything 2L put out - the massed choral works are to die for as a coherancy and detail test. Oh death will destroy you and Himmelrand is amazing many available as free teaser downloads and in a massive variety of formats for same recording...this helps to evaluate different high rez formats, resulutions including MQA
YES !!!!!! Heavy Fuel, I had that cranked up early in the day...something like low 40's on the ARC....
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Or try:
The Wailin Jennys Firecracker The Devils Paintbrush Road
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For those of you itching to try out your bass tuning give
The Wailing Jennys Bright Morning Stars Storm Coming...
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I should clarify the ARC75SE was a short term loaner .... my VX-R is 300 ish wpc at 4 ohms... i rarely tax it
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Musicman - how cool that we get to enjoy a bunch of musical gear!!
i think with the powered bass and low pass filter the need to really big power might be somewhat overstated.... having it is good. I ran the 7's in my medium size room and at moderate volume levels ( which is most of my critical listening ) with an ARC 75 SE. 30 Watts of Pass power is different ! When my Ayre died and I was considering an upgrade to twenty I flirted seriously with picking up the 60 watt Psss monoblocks..
i do like Ike the idea of trying the MC275, just make sure you adjust the filter dip switches for the amp AND experiment with which output tap sounds best ! I ran my model 5a for many months with a 1961 MC240 in a massive room - glorious midrange...before I got the Ayre...
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CT
iF I move to a crappy thin wall condo you can juice yourself into mine....
all this talk talk has me thinking the Apogees need to go and put a set of Quattro Wood in the gun room...
You can imagine the VERY long pause when I told RV about hauling them out of storage for background music in my hunting and fishing room....
he grumbled a bit and said well you should have just bought a pair of thirty year old Dynaco A-25
i always do listen to him, so I did... they are crap - out in the garage as third string...
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To be fair Treo are like 3x the best model 2
but the basic Vandersteen design tenets are alive and consistent thru the line:
first order filters for time / phase accuracy minimum baffle easy load - no bizarre phase angle or impedence drivers are highly pistonic no ringing in the audible range of the driver / filter time aligned cabinet resonance well controlled
gets better as you go up the line
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talking about staying up late..... listening to music..... and enjoying fatigue free tunes !!!!
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Patrick he is like that... the new 2 sig are pretty special... i have heard them properly setup in San Diego and well driven by VTL stereo amp and the sound stage was amazing.... |
He does answer the phone... but he expects you to have looked at the website first - he takes and answers hundreds of recurring questions there... ugrades are not just driver and crossover swaps...IMO kind of amazing he does it at all. The crowd he runs with do same: Aesthetix, ARC, Ayre.. CT he shares the DBS patent with Low. i always look forward to his calls
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Eagle Eye from Server to DAC Niagara balanced DAC to Pre and pre to power amp filters have sky pigtails speaker wire is LFD ( internal) biwire - will do for now - waiting to get the wire with RV's amp
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Yep i am pretty sure he never sleeps he works harder than me that is for sure !!!
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CT aka Carbon Tweeter Pete !!! congrats..I wonder when we will get an easy FB style Audiogon interface so we can easy share photos - oh well the run in is going to be what it will but With the 7 was never a strain.. glad to hear they are working in your room - 11 bands of analog bass EQ is a game changer... about the fuses - I don't think a guy like Richard is dogmatic at all - otherwise carbon/ balsa drivers and a host of other innovations would not exist! i do think he would listen and measure IF you sent him a set. good example is his binding post - his reference is a laboratory buss bar with gas tight connection. What makes it into production must do well against the reference AND provide good value.
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