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Food or beryllium tweeters for my DeCapo's

The question is moot. Like any TRUE Audiophile, the speakers must come first. Food is a luxury that I sometimes cannot afford. I have decided to feed the Reference 3a DeCapo-i's the meal that they so much deserve. The new Beryllium tweeters fresh as summer corn from Divergent Technologies. I first decieded to purchase the DCaps about a month ago. Speakers come and go 'round hear like the wind at my rear. It seems that every time I look up there is a new baffle staring at me. Sometimes not even a baffle. Maybe a tootie looking horn or chrome balls with a metal grill. You get tha picture. I'm an addict. Driven by reviews, a few words from other addicts or a half naked cabinet. Yep, that's me and I'm proud of it. I've made so many mistakes that it is a wonder that my ears haven't packed their cochlears up and walked out the door.
So there I sat about a month ago, armed with nothing more than a Jolida 202brc and wad of cash form the last set of flying baffles. What to do what to do...(?). Just as I was starting to itch all over, you know the feeling, slobbering over pictures of the stuff you cannot afford.. You dream about all the speaker candy here on A'gon and elsewhere; like the audio salons that you have been baned from (the owners harsh words still ringing in your ears.... GET OUT ! YOU CHEAP BAS.... ) I still remember hitting "enter" and there they were. Gloss Cherry DeCapos on wonderful Skylan stands. Were they gone yet ? I trembled as I stumble typed the words out to the owned... Do still you them have ?? Please me let know ASPA. The hours seemed like weeks as my fingers dug into the new leather case for my Ipad. You would know the one. The only APP is the one for A'gon. The hours seemed like weeks .... And then ! The reply.. "Yes, I still have them". As the thousand hot pokers left my body, I replied... I'll boy them. He was close. I drove to pick them up, brought them home with a minimum of speeding tickets and let the little Jolida do its work on them. The thousand or so speakers in my memory banks turned dark and left me alone to absorb the wonders of these little cherry boxes. My mind immediately searched its cells for my best amps. Edge, Rowland, Classe, CJ, ARC, Bel Canto, Kora... The list seems endless, and ALWAYS "that" question..... Tu be or not tu be. Nuts. The speakers are soooo good. What to do?... The answer came in the Heavenly form of an Audio Analogue Maestro Settanta Rev 2 integrated amp. It arrived and pure bliss smacked me between the ears. The only thing missing was perhaps the over the top Beryllium tweeter. There was a little food left in the cabinets. A half a gallon of milk, some cheese and small pudding cups. There was enough money to order the tweets.
As I sit on my porch, smoking my pipe, the words "out for delivery" are on FedEx's tracking page. I just looked in my pocket and found a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. It won't be long now. Should I let you know ?

Moron this later.
Tubeears
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tubeears OP
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Tubegroover,

The "courtin'" stage can be a pain in the butt. I'm still trying to get my cables right. I have some JPS Superconductor Plus (bi-wire) coming in this weekend. That will make for all JPS in my system. That cable seems to work very well in my listening area. During the wait for the JPS, I have been using my older Monster Retro Sigma Gold... And I am really starting to like it. It is a superb Lietz cable with a great design.. I know "Monster Cable" !! Sounds bad just thinking about it.... But before you go running to the toilet with your hands cupped over your mouth.... I have to say that the Retro Sigmas are no joke. The "edge definition" is amazing. Especially with the DeCapos. Small images that were blurred out before are clear and outlined extremely well. Instruments that are on the far edges of the soundstage are very focused and clear. Usually, all of these "happenings" are just Audiophile madness and hi-end Bling, but with the DeCaps, they are absorbed into the musical event... Not just a well focused dog barking in the bedroom cliche .. If I am really in need of hearing a dog in the bedroom, I'll stick a terrier in there. Especially with the BE tweeter, the DeCaps are so amazing with all of the Audiophile trickery .. It is just being able to hear a speaker do all that while maintaining its musical balance is a pure joy to listen to. The dog just doesn't bark... But it sings along as well. Anyway, it is a new found land for me and I will not bitch about it.
tubeears OP
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I finally got a chance to upgrade my "system" pictures, including my subwOOfer.
tubegroover
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Thanks for the update on cabling Tubeears. I'm having my buddy drop by the Rube Goldberg jobs sometime next week, my 4th listen, it must mean something. His system just sounds about as good as I've ever heard it and get this, he changed electronics from vintage ARC gear to a Creek Integrated, you wouldn't believe it and neither would I until you heard it. He attributes much of what he hears to these cables and cords, who am I to argue, I hear it myself and I need to hear them "One More Time".
tubeears OP
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Tubegroover.

Back in the "upper" Middle Ages of audio.... There were "those" Audiophiles. They were the ones that knew a lot and said little. They were the ones that just..... Knew. They would meet, in the silence of the night... In the moors, behind the audio salons. They would gather in a circle, hand in hand (chanting)..Ohm, Ohm, Oh Me. Then ... slowly opening their dark, hooded robes...they would expose (much like our congressmen now) their vital wares. In the glow of the sim Moon lite (protruding up from their cloaks) could be seen the shimmering Edge of ... the Nad's and the Creek's and the Puccini's. (In the murky background) a Quad of Spica's could be heard howling in a Forest full of Totems. This secret society had touched the sacred Oracle and they were gifted with.... Music. Those chosen Audio Druids had unsheathed their ARC-slayers and Joan could do nothing Manley about it. The giant ARC's and Aragon's were silent in the vacuum of truth and were laid waste in a solid state. Sometimes, only a new nose what a Knu knows and the little Druids were proof... That secret society with the little cheap amps.

Condensed from Readers Digest.
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mapman
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"They would gather in a circle, hand in hand (chanting)..Ohm, Ohm,"

Only in NYC and the Northeast US maybe.

elsewhere, the mantra was more likely "OM...". Easy to confuse. :^).

To answer the original question beryllium tweeters are a better long term investment. The food will be gone in an instant.
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