jason str

36" will not fit through most doors, i made the 24" version and it far exceeds anything i ever heard, even in the high end stores. Not only loudness but quality of sound is excellent. More than enough to easily skip your CD player, break windows, rattle rain gutters or just make you feel nauseous, but that was not what i was going for.

Both my Sony ES CD players have been bulletproof since new so i would probably gravitate to the same i guess but i have not made any type of decision as of yet. I also saw saw that pioneer and looked it over previously but the only experience i have with pioneer is car stereo goods ( head unit, amps, passive EQ ) but the price looks nice. If the sound is above and beyond what a compact disk is able to reproduce i think its time to start having a better look around.

Recently i was tossing around the idea to invest in a SACD player for 2 channel music, anybody here have some input on the sound quality over CD's ?

The height is very different between the two (Heresy/C-wall) but the slant riser on the Heresy III makes up for the difference so both were at ear level pretty much. There is a big difference between the K horn & LS II's for sure ( me & pops had free reign in both listening rooms at Simply Stereo ) i always had a fancy for K horns but after auditioning both i like the LS II's much better, the bottom end feels more natural and transparent to my ears minus the lack of the deepest notes the K horn produces. Having only one pair of Chorus II's left in the house you would have to pry them from my cold lifeless grip.

The sound of the Cornwall is much fuller, probably from different crossover frequency and higher efficiency. Both sound nice, don't get me wrong but i recently did an A/B comparison between the two and the sound is much different than it appears on paper. I still would not part from my Chorus II's for either but thats just me.

Great hard hitting sub for movies and such but for critical music listening i would look elsewhere.

Not even close Right behind a pair of Chorus II's and some good power My door is always open. []

The Tuba 24 sub is too small to keep up with LaScala's or better anyways unless you are stacking multi cabnets, one of the bigger designs will work much better for the application.

The sanding is going well so far, the white on the edges is compound residue, wax or both. Another hour of work and its done, my coping saw and sandpaper is right here when i feel like working again. Time to enjoy some tunes. Plywood & particleboard scraps were used and some pine stock all glued up with heavy duty construction adhesive. I wanted to add my thanks for everyone's kind words on my work, i have always enjoyed building stuff when i get a chance but it was hot as hell lately so i been working nights to escape the heat as my garage has no A/C. Everything added up to $30 worth of materials since the wood was just leftovers of other projects.

Here is the semi finished cabinet, the sides and top are completed and the front is next for sanding. Excuse the CD player dust, the old tuner was on top and i have not dusted yet + the amp hole needs to be enlarged for proper fit.

As some of you may know recently i replaced my preamp and in the process of doing this switcharoo one of the wheels busted off my 25 year old audio rack while being pushed back into position. Now this menial job has been done by most here dozens of times but the swivel wheel to plastic reinforcement do-dad that attaches the assembly to the particleboard side busted off in ugly fashion as the left rear wheel got hung up on a power cable, no damage was done to anything, i heard the crack and braced myself and threw a temporary tennis ball under the corner to keep things upright. Here is my replacement built from scrap wood laying around doing nothing. No wheels this time, i found some sturdy plastic dome shaped feet that slide nice and easy. I just finished wet sanding the gloss black enamel and the rubbing coumpound finished things up nicely, the vent holes for the amp work well in the first test run but tomorrow will tell more.

100 watts will drive Chorus II's with authority but the woofer likes power and lots of it so don't skimp if you enjoy a full body massage while listening to your favorite music.

Direct radiator woofers or subwoofers seem to have the upper hand with drum beats, the distortion from the cone(s) can be very convincing & loud. Horn loading subs & woofers does something magical with strings and i just cant get enough. If you really need slam and ugly & big are no concern check this out: http://www.billfitzmaurice.com/T60.html

This makes things easy as pie. http://www.the12volt.com/caraudio/boxcalcs.asp#rec

Unless you need a room heater shut it off. The switch is actually pretty heavy duty, is there a problem with it ?

Finally someone besides me with the balls to speak his mind about someone too many people here think can do no wrong. If you're interested in tube I can recommend someone who actually treats people the way he would want to be treated. Eventually people here will find out that Craig isn't the only person on the planet who sells, repairs or builds tube gear. My VRD's are sold awaiting gear from Ben at Modular electronics in Roswell Ga. His stuff smokes VRD's at a savings in price. Talented gentleman! Thank you for the offer, maybe in the future but right now i have my eye on something else.

This morning i picked up a NAD 1600 Preamp/Tuner, very minty unit, came with the factory box and all paperwork. Just for some experimenting really, the price was too good to pass up and local. The low level noise is better on the NAD but some of the presence and overall soundstage seems missing. The built in phono preamp seems decent enough and it has more bells and whistles than my Adcom does.Now the sound of the NAD is definitely geared twards the warmer side of things and seems to match well to the Klipsch , it will just take some time to get used to. Unfortunately the tuner on the NAD is nowhere near what i am accustomed to hearing on any of the Adcom units but we cant have it all when on a budget. In the mean time i save my pennies and look for something up the ladder.

Jeez, take it easy, everyone has a right to be proud of their audio components and boast what they feel suits their fancy. I had a set of Advent Maestro's, my first somewhat decent speakers and i showed them off as they were gold because i worked dam hard to save my nickles & dimes. Bring your SVS over and borrow another to make the playing field fair and we can see who can make the rain gutters vibrate the loudest. No really, just chill out, this is just here for info & fun anyways.

The 750 is probably the best but out of my budget. My pick will have to wait until i get together some dough, until then i don't want em gone from the market. []

Got it, thanks

Can I recommend a repair guy? He is west of Milwaukee, if you are in northern Illinois and are willing to make the drive. I can PM his contact info if you like. He's repaired three units for me for very reasonable prices: NAD 705, Kenwood KA-5002, Harman Kardon 730. He says he works on tube gear as well. I do not know how he compares to other people's work. Just happy to have someone near my area. As a matter of fact i will be needing somebody to look the stuff over when i get my act together here, thanks for the heads up. After spending hours on the phone and countless e-mails with some Adcom pro's i found the GTP-350 has to go and best model to look for, of course not a model i owned previously, i will wait to list the model that is recommended so i have no shortage of preamps to choose from.

Looks nice, why did Klipsch not offer this as an option ?

I ended up over at Simply Stereo to listen to the Heritage line once again and to hear some new stuff from Cambridge Audio & Anthem, one thing for sure is i would never switch from LaScala's with the Tuba to Klipschorns, i find the Lower mids are cleaner with the LaScala's and the Khorn will not dig nearly as deep without the Tuba so i feel i have the best of both worlds right now. As for the amps i listened to the Anthem products were better sounding than the Cambridge Audio stuff and still think the Adcom GFA 5500 is overall better sounding than anything auditioned today so it looks like my choice is clear, to upgrade and or repair the Adcom GTP 350 or replace it and just keep the Adcom GFA-5500. By the way the new Cornwall's sound pretty dam good.

Letting this go without the amp for Sold This will allow me to reuse my current amp for my next project and save you some money making this the best bang for your buck.

Carver gear is decent, many of my friends have Carver gear but i admit not looking at any yet.