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This is a question I have been asked
Why would you spend that kind of money ...when you can get a bluray player for a hundred bucks???
Nice purchase
Not to rain on anyone's parade (buying gear is fun), but I see a BR as a transport. It gets the bits off onto HDMI. Since I wouldn't use the DACs or any of the fancy stuff, I use a $130 Sony. If it breaks, I'll buy another. It's going to be obsolete within 5 years anyway.
I agree most Blu-ray players are transports, but BDP-105 can be used both as a Processor and DAC with better results than most High Processors and DACs.
Purchase:
BDP-105 -$1,200
Sold:
McIntosh MX-132 +$1,250
Bel Canto DAC3 +$1,325
$+250 Did not need to purchase Transport level Blu-ray and cables for wife's room, she has to struggle with Oppo BDP-95.
= +$2,825 more cash plus better performance using fewer cables and less cabinet space!
Not possible with $200 Transport.
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Posting Picks of the ladies in their new home is alway popular.
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Both 2 Channel music and 5.1 movies sound awsome with tubes. Trick is getting the right amps and tubes in a good system. Solid State can sound great also trick is getting the right amp in a good system. The main reason I like tubes is by changing the brand of tube the sound can tweaked to my system and personal preferance rather than what the designer thought my room is like and what I like. Some say tubes lack bass, that is based early McIntosh amps etc., VRD amps do not lack bass and have more bass then my neson pass Adcom Solid State amps.
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Projector - Go 80" + New ones are cheap and bright enough to watch football with some lights on. Get a new woven screen and put the center channel behind the screen.
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3 VRDs LCR, MC-240 for the Rears. Concert videos are incredable, movies are also great. When we were shopping projectors a salesman took us into a theater with $50,000 of audio and asked my nine year how it sounded. "Not as good as ours" was his reply. Voice out the centet channel is a big chunk TV/Sports.
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With a similar setup and electronic skill set - used stereophile test CD and Radioshack meter until the graphed values looked good. Make sure to add coorection factors for meter that you use.
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Terms of Endearment
So hard to choose Tears of Endearment or High School Musical.
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+1 Unless the room has a really stange shape, get the room right and let sound come out with any "processing". Set the trim and cross over and call it a day.
You could always just set the relative channel levels manually....
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I'm curious what SET amps can drive the Forte II's with authority and punchy bass.
In a small-ish closed room, with the fortes corner loaded, a mere two watts will do the trick. The bass remains surprisingly tight with corner loading of forte's.
Forte IIs were my first klipsch, used them in four diferent houses. 10 -12 inches from both the rear and side walls is the first thing to get right for the bass out put. Try moving them around an inch or two at time until they sound right. I had Adcom pre and 5500 amp. Bass could either be all most zero or shake fillings loose depending on speaker placement relative to the corners.
They can great sound givin a good source and amps, a lot closer to La Scalas & Khorns than most that have owned two of three would admit. Best bang for the buck speaker I have ever heard.
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I am new to the forum and I would like to add my two cents to the the forum about La Scala upgrades. I am not new to audio electronics and have worked as an electronic technician for the last 35 years including HiFi and music stores.
A month ago I bought a used pair of La Scalas built in 1984 to use with my Harmon Kardon A50K tube amp. The previous owner had installed Bob Crites CT125 tweeters and Bob's A/4500Hz crossovers. I got the original crossovers and tweeters included in the deal. My first impressions were not very favorable. The speakers sounded great at low volume but when turned up a bit they were very bright and harsh. I corresponded with Al Klappenberger and got some very good advice. Al recommended tractrix mid range horns from Dave Harris at Fastlane Audio and new crossovers. Dave is building the new horns as I write this and I will give my opinion on them later. After a lot of research, I decided to rebuild the Bob Crites A/4500 crossovers to ALK Universal crossover specs with a couple of my own upgrades. I reused the 3654 auto transformers from the old crossovers and replaced everything else with parts from Madisound. I used Solen Fast Caps, a Solen Perfect Lay coil for the woofer and Goertz copper foil coils for the mid and tweeter circuits. I wanted a little flexibility to adjust the mid and tweeter output so added two switches to the design. The first of which contols the output for the tweeter. The tweeter switch has two positions, 0dB and -3dB. In the -3dB position, the switch inserts a fixed L pad circuit using a 2.2 ohm resistor in series with the tweeter and a 20 ohm resistor in parallel with the voice coil of the tweeter. The mid switch has two positions, -3dB and -6dB. The switch selects between the -3dB tap and the -6dB tap of the auto transformer and changes the swamping resistor across the input of the transformer from a 10 ohm resistor in the -3dB position to a 8 ohm resistor in the -6dB mode.
I installed the crossovers and began the test, listen and adjustment. I had a couple friends that I play guitar with give me their opinion as I adjusted the swiches. We all agreed that -6dB for the mid and -3dB for the tweeter sounded best. 0dB for the tweeter wasn't bad but -3dB eliminated the slight "sss" that the tweeters had on some recordings. The speakers retained excellent sound at low and moderate voulume levels. Loud volume was not tested as I am using a tube amp that may be able to muster about 30 watts per channel cleanly. My opinion went from "this needs fixing" to "WOW, WOW, *** WOW" and I wonder how the tractrix horns are going to make this any better. I am assured by folks that the horns will blow my mind.
When I worked at Sound World in the late 1970s and early 1980s I fell in love with JBL L-250 speakers. I could never afford them and have been looking for the type of soundstage they presented. My La Scalas now have that type of soundstage, maybe not quite the vertical height of the L-250s but certainly as much or more definition. The La Scalas disappear and I hear the music as if the musicians are performing in front of me.
I will give a report on Dave's horns and post a schematic of the crossovers as I built them in the near future. I would like to thank Al Klappenberger of ALK Engineering, Dave Harris of Fastlane Audio, Bob Crites of B&K Sound a.k.a Critesspeakers.com, Greg Roberts of Volti Audio, and The Klipsch Forum for help with schematics, designs, guidance and opinions. You guys ROCK!
P.S. I share the opinion that the original Klipsch AL type crossovers suck! If you still use them, read all the great material about new crossovers, decide how you listen and what crossover might best fit your needs. For me, it is Al's Universals at -6dB for mid and -3dB for tweeters. You won't regret it!
Mounting the mid horns on top of cabinet can solve vertical sound stage. Look at Indyfan's posts.
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In my large space, my horns tend to take over at high volume levels, and I am wondering if a -3 or 6db adjustment would help. I am using mostly AA networks, and a couple AL-3's. All the caps are in good shape or new. I suppose I coule put a microfiber towel in each and see if that tames the beast before I start buying electronics.
Any suggestions? My shop is 50' X 60' X 20' high, drywall walls, concrete floor, and no sound absobtion. I am getting plenty of bass from the La Scalas and the two THT's, but the horns just take over at a certain volume level. I mostly listen at -40 to -20 db, but I do put on the occasional AC/DC or Gun's & Roses LP.
The mid horn rings on stock horns. Warm amps or Tractrix horns or both can solve the problem.
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No hair since 89'
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No lip sync issues in my set up with the Oppo 95. Much better than the pioneer. Same disks that had issues on the Pioneer have no isues on the Oppo. . .
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Tried 4 differt horns, all sounded different but as far as "imaging" crossovers had more of an impact than horns. (Assuming room has refections under control)
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Used search function on AVS. There was an issue with Lip Sync, but new Firmware has resolved the issue. Oppo BDP-95 is on order. Chrismas money, ALK universal sale proceeds and few bucks of this months spending money. . .
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Sorry Craig, no DBB's on the books, however I do have a new Cornscala I am starting on.
Feaux Split-Box Cornscala.
I will be using ALK Cornscala-wall crossover.
If this is taller? And more narrow than a La Scala? This would give narrow roomed poeple more options.
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Thanks.
So I should keep my DAC and iPad?
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Any one using this for semi serious 2 channel?
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I recommend that you talk to the members of the AVS forum. They cut this new HD gear open like no other.....
Great advise as usual from AN. 74 pages, not posts, and nothing lip sync issues with oppo 95.
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I recommend that you talk to the members of the AVS forum. They cut this new HD gear open like no other.....
Great advise as usual from AN. 74 pages, not posts, and nothing lip sync issues with oppo 95.
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I am looking for someone that has a BDP-95 and can confirm there are no lip sinc issues when using the analog outs.
Is this a known phenomena with the BDP-95 or are you just making sure that is not the case? My Oppo BDP-83 is hooked up to my NAD T773 receiver via 5.1 analog and I have never had the mentioned lip sinc issues. It sounds incredible with music and movies.
Bill
No it is not known. When my Elite Pioneer sends the video out HDMI and the audio to processor there is an issue but there is adjustment to correct the issue.
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Read my response to your post on your last thread. It's not a debate at this point, because there isn't a peice of equipment with a better DAC available. Use the analog outs.
Read it, understand it, and believe what you said. I am looking for someone that has a BDP-95 and can confirm there are no lip sinc issues when using the analog outs.
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Looking to start a debate.
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Wow times must be tough or Iam the last cheap guy not to upgrade to hdmi.
My Epson 6010 arrived today!!
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Not wstrickland1, indyhawg or videophile but in my room 2D blacks are as black room/ambient light/screen will allow. I am sure someone with meter will say it is not completly black but for sports and most movies blacks are black and there is good shadow detail.
Watching Duke vs. Miami right now, lots of detail in Miami uniforms, dark gray to black on the close ups.
We have a new 50" plasma in the same room, plasma has higher contrast ratio and "deeper blacks" but I prefer the brightness and punch of the Epson 6010.