Hales System II Signature

Actually Sknnyc, The sig's are wired with Cardas Hex5, they had not come out with the Golden 5 or Cross at the time of Sig production. This cable probably contibutes to their weakest link unfortunately. I use Highwire cable with good results, used to use Cardas Hex Golden 5 which was very poor in comparison-- fat, tubby bass with rolled off highs and smeared. The highwire I use is a later version called 700Ls series, which is part silver and part copper, with RFI blocks built in the cable. I use this from the phono to the speaker. Have recently heard the Silversmith cable, a slight step up, but what a price!!

Kirk930, the model 8's are still being made, they are now the 8ti's, I believe. My version is an original 8 from about 1991 or therabouts. I have done some mod's om it, but have left the original choke power supply. I feel this sounds a little superior in overall clarity and punch to the updated dual mono toroidal supplies. However, many in the far east had problems with hum, and so Jeff changed the design to accomodate this. ( At least that's what I have been told)
The newer transimpedence mod is supposed to be very good, but I have not had a chance to hear this. Has anybody?

I heard my Sig 11's today with the REL sub. This is a match made in heaven.
The Sig 11's really cook.Earlier, I had heard the same sub with a pair of Verity Pasifals, and the Sig's just blew the Verities away in a biiiig way. Both set up's were driven by Rowland's.
Amazingly the Verities list at $14k!!

The Hales System IIs actually use the 17W7EXTs (extended frequency) drivers. I learned this the hard way by ordering the 17W7 instead of the EXT from Madisound. Another post stated that the Muse 18/Hales Signature combination did not work very well (not very well defined low end). I use a pair of the Muse 18s extremely affectively with the Hales personality card (seemless sound from top to low bottom). It is important to note that with most tube preamps inverting polarity, one must, not only reverse the speaker wires on the Hales, but also must do so on both Muse speakers (two speakers per sub).

Anyone consider bi-amping the sig's. I am considering bi-amping with the rowland model 8 on the woofers and some kind of tube amp on the tweets, any suggestions?