Deang Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 Made you look. The Cornwalls are grooving big time. Enough caulk to cover a 747, good wire from Northcreek, and Kester 44 -- that's all it took. I did go back in and caulk the tweeter just for grins -- add that to the must do list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile homeless Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 Imagine the revisions when you finally get a real source.... heh. kh ps-Been listening to Leok's Waltham Integration P6D Digital Amplifier. Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted February 25, 2003 Author Share Posted February 25, 2003 The Marantz isn't that bad. As far as mass market players go -- it's decent. Geez, it did originally list for $900, and hung fairly decently with both my old Anthem CD-1 and Sony 9000es. No more play money -- so this is it -- and 'it' is pretty damn good. Listening to Rush 'Permenant Waves' right now. Lot's of great compression. Leo's amp huh? 'Interesting' in the Chinese kind of way -- or just interesting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yossarian Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 Hey deang, I was just blasting Permanent Waves through my Ref 3 IIs myself. It is pretty compression laden, but it's still a great record IMHO. I was using it to help integrate my REL sub to the Klipsch. It's a fairly bad recording, but I know it like the proverbial back of my hand. I shudder to think about how many times I listened to that album back in the 80's while trying to learn all the bass parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 You made me look, allright! I still love my Maggies, even though my brother's got 'em now...at least I can still hear them! But my Cornwalls are for keeps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 Dean, So when are we going to hear your thoughts on the 299B ?? Did you get the RF-7 's back working yet ? With all the changes in speakers I have no clue how you will compare your system now to before though. Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted February 25, 2003 Author Share Posted February 25, 2003 Craig, I won't know if the RF-7's 'work' or not until I get Edmond's SLP-90/4 on Thursday. They are finished however. Upstairs system will be: Cary SLP-90/4, Quicksilver Mono-60's (60 watt, EL-34 based, running in ultralinear, with 12db of negative feedback), and the Sony 9000es. Speaker cables are Goertz, interconnects will end up being my version of the Chris Vanhaus DIY silvers. For now, I'll use my 550i's. The Quicksilvers are here, all hooked up and ready to go. They showed looking like new. I bought them from the original owner who evidently is as anal as I am when it comes to taking care of stuff. They are gorgeous. Downstairs will be the Cornwalls, Marantz DV-7010, and Scott. Again, Goertz speaker cable and 550i's until I finish my own interconnects. I haven't written a post on the Scott mostly because I just haven't had the time. I've been spending all of my time inside the Cornwalls, finishing the RF-7's, and as of late -- working on this second set of DQ-10's. I think most here know what I think about the Scott. I liked the first one you sent me enough to 'upgrade' to the 299B, and I just ordered the custom case for it from Marc in Canada. That case should be here by the end of the week. I also didn't want to write anything until I got things dialed in somewhat. I'm extremely high on the amp -- I think it's the bomb with the Cornwalls. I know you don't want to hear this, but Heritage and tubes are EXTREMELY reactive to cable changes. I've had both the silver and copper Goertz Mirc Purls between the Scott and Marantz. Even after the major improvement the tweaks gave me, I still felt there was a general lack of warmth. I couldn't figure out how the Cornwalls could be THAT different from the Heresies, and reacting to a gut feeling -- yanked the Goertz interconnects and put the Monster's back in. I'll just say that the Purls are going back to Alpha-Core, and the Monsters are staying in for now. A design that seems to work so well with their speaker cables, appears to be a complete downer with their interconnects. I must have read over a hundred archived posts at the Asylum, and finally stumbled across an interesting post by Jon Risch. Jon indicated that the lowest inductance possible between speakers and amp will usually sound the best, and the lowest capacitance possible will sound the best between source components. In other words -- lowest inductance possible with speaker cables and lowest capacitance possible with interconnects. The Goertz speaker cables are VERY low on the inductance side, but very high on the capacitance side. Good for speaker cable, bad for interconnects. As of last night, my ears agree with his assessment. Things are dialed in over here with Cornwalls and Scott -- and I'm really happy with the sound of this setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 Well I truelly think you maybe on to something with the cables but again I still say your just tuning your system with cables. Either restraining the amp or source of what unnatural sound they produce to your ears or what your speakers produce out a what could be a perfect signal. The job in my opinion of Cable's is to pass the signal untouched to the amp or speaker. So I would think that the least inductance , resistance and competance is the perfect cable. But you know me I'm bull headed as they come. Why are you not trying the 299B on the RF-7s ?? Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile homeless Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 Alpha Core TQ2 TRiode Quartz Silver are nice cables and CAN work in some Heritage (I have heard less popular remarks about the Micropurl). My good friend uses them with Wright Sound 3.5 2A3 SET, Tjoeb 99, and 76 Cornwalls with Alnico/Oils. He is tickled to death. I liked my cable better, personally (he is running Kimber Kwik-12 for speaker - a GREAT cheap alternative). I recommend you try doing a few pairs of DIYCable Superlatives. Triode Pete just made two pairs and dropped me a monster email of thanks for the recs. IT was a big improvement according to his listening party and the cable he replaced was no slouch. The Superlatives work very well with the Cornwalls and are a good match with the Twisted Cross Connect, this with 2A3 SET. I actually have not done a lot of listening with the TCC and Superlatives with the Vintage EL-84 PP. But can highly recommend them with the CW. At $49 or so, it's a deal for those with a hot enough soldering iron and some interest in rolling own. For what it's worth, it's some nice looking stuff too with quality Cardas RCAs. kh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnysal Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 Don't "diss" the maggies, if I didn't have my k-horns I am sure I would be back in bed with maggies, my SMGc sounded great (except for lack of bass and some restricted volume)...well kelly got his leo k amp first! post something when you get a chance about how they sound. regards, tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile homeless Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 Please see the HUGE POST on this topic, Tony. kh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted February 25, 2003 Author Share Posted February 25, 2003 Craig, it's impossible to have a cable pass a signal "untouched". They all have variances in their electrical properties which shift the signature somewhat. The "right" cables are the ones that operate in a synergisitc manner with the rest of the gear. Ultimately, the tuning is to your own personal taste -- so there is no "right" cable when you get right down to it. Also, though resistance is primarily determined by cable length and thickness -- capacitance and inductance are not. The nature of these two is that as one goes up, the other comes down. low inductance is achieved by sandwhiching the positive and negative leads together as close as possible. However, when you do this -- capacitance skyrockets. The inverse is true as well, separate them out some, and inductance goes up, while capacitance drops. The Goertz speaker cable is the best I have ever heard in my system. The interconnects however, leave a lot to be desired. As far as trying the Scott on the RF-7's, I just didn't want to mess with doing another set of cables to make it work. One set of Goertz has spades on both ends (won't fit into the Scott terminal screw pads), and the other set was made to fit terminal screws on both ends. I gave all of my copper stranded to my dad for his JBL's. Kelly, The Superlatives from DIYcable, as well as the Risch designs were on my short list. However, I've got a substantial amount of silver over here. Remember those Music Metre's I bought from AudiogoN for $160? Since I didn't really prefer the sound over copper for the most part in the speaker cable role, I decided to tear one down and see what was underneath. What I found was six solid core strands of 20 gauge, five nine silver in each six foot cable. There are four cables, so what I have is 144 feet of 20 gauge silver. Gee, that's enough for 24 sets of interconnects. Wanna buy a set? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Mobley Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 sure, I'll take a couple. Oops, you weren't asking me, then, were you? Darn. Well, if you decide to become a distributor, let me know at tmoble@earthlink.net I'd like to try out building a set of nice cables. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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