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This is an awesome set of high efficency horn speakers. Two large woofers each and a massive horn. I bought these a while back and have been enjoying them but am getting ready to move soon and would rather not deal with moving them. They are currently biamped with class d on the woofers and a tube amp on the horns. The whole setup sounds amazing and I will miss it. I am looking to sell just the speakers but would consider selling the entire biamped setup for the right offer. Not having much luck with attaching pictures but feel free to send me a text or give me a call and I can send some to your phone. Feel free to ask any questions. Thanks!
Bryce
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Hey everyone I have a minidsp 2x4hd that I just recently bought but didnt end up using. Asking $225. Save yourself about $50 buying new from amazon.
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excited to get these setup and hear them. thanks!
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1 minute ago, The Dude said:
I have a raspberry pi, at the time, I couldn't stream Spotify to it. Is that possible now?
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yup, i run raspotify on the pi without issue. Can use my phone or pc to control spotify. I believe you need a paid spotify account for it to work though.
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i run a raspberry pi zero with a dac tophat. Maybe 50 bux for everything. Not quite plug and play but pretty straight forward and sounds great for a second system.
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So I moved the fortes into the other room and while they sound slightly better, still dont sound nearly as good as they do with other amps or as good as the spud does on the cornscalas.
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Im in southern california.
I just hooked up the amp again to get a fresh idea of the sound and maybe distorted wasnt the right word. Def very bass light. Mids and top sound ok at best but bottom end is mostly missing. If i run the volume up, it just sounds shrill.
Its weird because this amp sounds amazing on my other speakers but just doesnt seem to get along with the fortes. Maybe ill drag the fortes into the main listening room and see if the combo sounds any better in that room.
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3 hours ago, tube fanatic said:
I was hoping that Al furnished the Forte plot with the crossovers. You may want to ask him for it. It is strange that you are hearing slight distortion at low volume levels. Is your amp the Spudkit? If so, ask Jerry if he has encountered this with other Forte users. What other amps have you used with the Fortes successfully?
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Ya its the spud kit amp. The alk crossovers are on a set of cornscalas and the forte ii are running stock crossovers. Ive run the fortes with my "dynaco" st-120, a class d audio and a tubelab tseii. Fortes sound good with all other amps but really struggle with the spud
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i dont have the tools or the knowledge to obtain the impediance plot for the cornscalas.
On the forte ii the sound is just extremely thin and slightly distorted at any volume level.
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its super timely that this topic came up. I recently build a spud amp (6cl6 based) and it sounds great on my cornscalas running alk crossovers. I recently tried the same amp on my forte ii and it was a different story. I know that the forte ii are supposed to be a pretty rough impediance load and the alk crossovers are supposed to create a nice easy speaker to drive.
The amp is borderline unlistenable on the forte ii but 90% as good as anything ive ever heard on my cornscallas. Does this seem like the issue that Im running into?
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On 1/5/2021 at 7:40 PM, MechEngVic said:
I'm this close to getting a single ended, just to have both sides of tube-ampery: A PP and a SE.
ever since I build a single ended amp, the PP has been mostly collecting dust. Only time the PP gets hooked up is when I need some extra volume. Where in Socal are you? I have a few different single ended amps you could listen to to push you over the edge
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I was previously running a similar setup (digital signal>Denon avr>300b amp) and while it worked well and was super convientient, the sound quality i get from my curent setup is way better and worth the extra hassle. Now i feed a digital signal from a raspberry pi into a dac and then into my amp. If you have the oppurtunity to try running your system that way I would highly recomend it.
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4 minutes ago, kevinmi said:
I bought a pair of 12bh7 a couple years ago, but they were both noisy on one side, so I gave up. The Amperex Holland tubes are the best I've heard so far. The Kt-120's are good new production tubes. I probably ran them longer than any other tube. They are more SS sounding. whereas the Gold Lions are more mellow sounding. It all depends on your overall system and room acoustics also.
Its about time for me to pick up some new power tubes so I think Im gonna go for the kt-120. I have my 300b SET amp for when i want a warmer laid back sound. I usually use my st-120 when Im looking for a cleaner sound so it seems like theyd be a good fit.
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9 minutes ago, kevinmi said:
You may ask. but you may not like the answer---I started out with the Sovtek KT-88's. Then I tried Tung Sol new production 6550's. Then Gold Lion KT-88's. Then KT-120's. Now I'm running vintage Tung-Sol 6550, about $150 each. As far as the small preamp tubes. I've used dozens. but my favorites are RCA clear tops. and I usually run an Amperex in the middle. because that's the tube that makes the most difference. I am running a vintage Mullard GZ-33 for the rectifier tube. I like tube rolling, can you tell?
how did you like the kt-120? Im thinking about picking up a set. +1 on the rca cleartops and the amperex. Have you tried any 12bh7 in the middle position?
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25 minutes ago, kevinmi said:
Whats the difference between a Latino amp in triode and a single ended triode amp?
A latino amp in triode is running each of the power tubes as triodes but in a push-pull configuration. In a push pull amp, each of the power tubes amplifies etther the positive or negative portion of the signal and then the two halves of the signal are combined again at the output transformer. In a single ended amp, the positive and negative portions of the signal are amplified in the same tube, preventing some of the distortion that occurs in a push-pull amp from when the two havles are combined again.
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I was hoping to swap out a few parts in my TSE to run 45 tubes but the prices are getting up there and new production 45 tubes are not cheap.
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2 minutes ago, kevinmi said:
don't buy a pp amp with switches that switch it to single ended and expect it to sound like a dedicated single ended amp. The Latino amp has this capability, and it doesn't sound anything like my single ended amps.
The latino amps have a switch to run the tubes as triodes not single ended. The amp is still operating as a push pull. Having both a st-120 and a tubelab se running 300b, I can confirm they do sound significantly different.
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I built a vta st-120 with pretty much no electrical experience. I am a relatively mechanically inclined person. The directions are really easy to follow and the build went without issue. Amp also sounds great on my Forte II.
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On 12/16/2020 at 10:22 AM, craigtone said:
OK ... first the background. I had RF-7's running off an ST-70. When I moved, the new room is small ... 12'x14' and I am listening across the shorter dimension so the RF-7's were no longer an option! I picked up a set of Cornwalls with Crites crossovers and Crites titanium diaphragms and LOVED them! Ended up upgrading to a Tubelab SE amp running Cunnigham CX-345's. I came across a good deal on Khorns and wanted to try them so I bought them and upgraded them with Crites cast woofers, ALK crossovers, Elliptrac tweeter with B&C DE10 and damped the K400 with bedliner on the back side. They sound incredible but don't have the bass the CW's did and the K400 still has it's quirks and imaging is so-so.
A buddy recently purchased the Forte 4's. I went over and immediately fell in love with the new midrange! So, here I am looking to either revert back to a set of Cornwall 4's but then I though why not Crites Cornscalas? I already have the cast woofers, ALK crossover and Elliptrac w/DE10. I could pick up the Crites CS-B midrange and build the cabinets (braced of course!). The only thing I am really missing is the CW4's mumped horn at that point but I imagine the M2380's with a 2"CD will get me pretty darn close at about 1/2 the cost!
For those of you that have the Cornscalas, are they good for a smaller room with low power (2W)? I know the Cornwalls performed excellent in this scenario. Would you use the Crites CT120 or Elliptrac w/DE10?
Or ... should I save up for the Cornwall 4's? I'd probably still end up replacing the crossover in the CW4 anyway ... who uses ferrite core inductors for mids and highs??? 😡
Im running a pair of cornscalas with my tubelab se but with 300b tubes. How do you like the 45s?
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im running a cheap $20 switch i got from amazon. Hasnt given me any issues over the past 2 years
Electrovoice EV TS-940D pair $1500 Long Beach
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thx for the kind words! they may get moved up into storage next weekend. Theyll be headed up to the San Luis Obispo area. If anyone along the route is interested let me know. We could arrange a drop off on the way. Once they make it up there I will most likely end up keeping them.