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  1. LOL!.   Thanks for the offer, but i'll give these some time.   At this point there just back ground music for the computer room.   May have bigger plans for them in the future.   What do you think of the 2.0 hovland caps i have on the tweets?    Are they correct for the supers?

  2. I had them stacked in a corner about 1' out on first listen.   Ran about an hour like this at 80-105db.   I then put them in opposite corners about 10' apart and ran them the rest of the day at 60-80db and they seemed to be loosening up and coming around now to me.      They are in a very small room(computer room) so this the best i can do for now as placement is a concern.  Mids are on tap 3 so which tap would i put them on if need be?      Had the same experience with my CW's on first listen.   All mid horn and very little bass.   Sounded horrible, like someone singing thru a bull horn.  Ran them a while and they too started coming around and sounding very nice.    They are still the best sounding speakers i have ever listened to, besides the Khorn.

  3. ooops!   I had the + speaker leads plugged into the 4ohm jacks on the back of my tube amp.   Thought the pro 12's were 4ohm,   nope,  they are 8 ohm.   Now plugged into 8 ohm jacks and figured out the high gain switch turned on at low volume sounds good, but may need to be switched off at high volume.    Turned them up to 105db and they sounded very clean.   Yeah, was expecting more low bass and it seems there might be a little more on the bottom.     Still playing and letting the pro 12's wear in a bit.   I will leave all the caps/xo alone for now.  just gonna listen for a while.    Thanks for your help.

  4. well, xo's are installed and now listening to some music.    First listen was not impressive at all.   way too much mid and not enough bass.  I discovered I high gain switch on back of tube amp turned on. I switched it off and played some base heavy music thru them for an hour. A little better. Maybe the woofer needs some breaking in?   It sounds much better, but still sounds like the mids are a little hot and hollow sounding at high volume 100db.    Using musicaps, a 2.0 hovland (yellow) on the tweet and a 3.9(black) between the input post and the #5 on the autoformer.   I have a couple 2.0 400v i can replace the 3.9 400v with.   Which one should i have in place for these super's?   Does it really matter?

  5. Those look fantastic.  What was the stain you used?   Nice color.    Did you have to remove any clear coat?   What grades of sand paper did you use?    Sorry for all the questions as i would like to change color on my home brew CW's which i stained red mohagany when i built them.  They have 3 coats of clear also.    I like your color much better and would look great with the tweed grill covering Crites sells.  Thanks

  6. Ok, finally got the xo's out of the home brew CW's.  I need to double check with some of you guys to make sure they are correct B xo for the Supers.    These have the squawker on tap 3 and the tweet on 4.    Take a look at the pics and see if i have all the correct components here.  These will be going in later tonight when i get some time.    Thanks

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