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Talkin' 'bout my De Capo's

Hey, Gang,
I am not shilling for Reference 3A here. I just want to share my happiness with my Reference 3A De Capo's. Mine came as the De Capo i/A: they have the cherry veneer cabinets and the main driver has the Surreal Acoustic Lens. I later installed the beryllium tweeter so, minus the Nextel finish, they are now the equivalent of the currently shipping De Capo BE.
As was the case with the Dulcets I owned before moving up the line, I am regularly struck by just how fine they really are. I've been promising myself to write a full review (as I did for the Dulcets) but just haven't had the time. But if you're considering spending around $3000 on a pair of stand mount speakers, these are really worth considering. I enjoy mine immensely.
rebbi
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simao
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Finally got around to soldering in the beryllium tweeters last night and tightened in everything. Will be breaking them in over the week. Update towards the end of the week.
rebbi OP
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Simao,
Looking forward to your impressions!
agisthos
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Simao it would be great to know exactly what the BE tweeter brings to this speaker.

I agree with you Charlie, placement makes a profound difference to this speaker. You have to experiment a lot.
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simao
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Hey all,

So - a brief update:

When the BE tweeters came in, they were already wired - as in, wires already soldered to the positive and negative leads on the driver itself. Hmm. I called Tash and he said once I took out the original tweeter, II could take off the terminal plate on the speakers and remove the wires from the capacitors and terminal connections inside.

No thanks. After taking off one speaker's terminal plate and seeing the admittedly minimal innards of a de Capo (thanks to the lack of a crossover, no doubt), I still didn't want to risk screwing something up - which I know I would have. I even was neurotic about moving the internal baffling too much.

Instead, I unsoldered the new wires from the BE tweeters and then soldered the existing internal wiring onto the leads of the new tweeters.

They have about 20 or 25 hours or so on them, not really close to the 150 Tash recommends. But I haven't had time nor energy to do a lot of listening this month. I haven't noticed too much a difference yet; they're not overly bright or harsh, though there does appear some clipping on particularly taxing treble parts (vocal layers on Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark" cd; same with vocals on Dusty SPringfield's "Memphis" cd), though I don't know if this is due to the new tweeters, my amp, or the recording.

I'll give a more detailed and finalized review once I have enough hours on them to make one.
rattosecond
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I love my De Capo BE so much. Anyone who listened to my place cannot say anything negative about it. It simply allowed them to be drawn to the music not the setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC5Lw8516og
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