No more "High End" for me...Back to Reality Audio
After a 3 year roller coaster ride with so called "Audiophile High End" Tube Amps,/Tube Preamps, multi thousand dollar DAC's, Speakers of all shapes and sizes, and several DIY mods. I've settled on what will be my "forever system" and stop chasing a Dragon that I'll never catch. There's more important things in life to worry about. Plus HIgh End crap can be very fickle at times. It has taught me though what sounds good and how to get there and of course how much it will cost new or slightly used.
For the first time, I'm building a system around the Speakers. I'm an electronics Geek so that has ALWAYS come first. I've always done DIY Speakers as well form High School to College to married life (my Wife puts up with A LOT).
My Bose 901 "passion" will be with me forever. I will defend those Sealed Box odd shaped boxes till I do. Any old Geezer will be told off wherever they knock that Brand down. I did it last last week.
Anyways, the list :
To those still chasing the Dragon. Enjoy !
" atmasphere10,173 posts
A power surge should never knock out anything more than a fuse. " A power surge can knock out your whole house and even the entire block with every house, business, and utility infrastructure!
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Thanks everyone for your words of Wisdom (not joking actually). I had a friend over this afternoon (the owner of the R3’s actually). He couldn’t believe how much Bass the Speakers were generating. I put a very basic EQ profile into the miniDSP as I described earlier. It accentuates the 40Hz "room boom", but only when called upon. You see I also have 50Hz & 60Hz room nulls that I boosted with a sharp Q filter so that the lower midrange wouldn’t be muddy as Hell. He liked the sound they made in my room but I told him, previously, never had to EQ things. Both the Jolida 3502p with KT150’s & the Orchard Audio Ultra Amplifiers had enough juice and were tuned by their designers with flat responses but with enough power/current to extend the highs while maintaining those booming lows. The ICE Amps on there own have a flat response but they are more suited as Subwoofer Amplifiers. I knew that when I bought them 2 years ago. A little EQ never hut no one....right ? Oh, the power surge/brown out ? Power Company did it on 2 consecutive Saturdays. I wasn't home for the first one. But I was for the second one. Nothing to do with lightening or bad weather. This after all is Phoenix, AZ in the "Winter". The fuse in the BAT should have blown ! When I bought it, I never checked what fuse was in there. Why would I if there weren't any problems. I don't use a power "conditioner" cause I do hear a slight bit of noise when I plug my Stereo Equipment whether the Panamax Box or the Monster Power Bar. . |
@realworldaudio thank you for that detailed explanation. I sincerely appreciate your time to respond. Are you the same Real World Audio on Youtube? |
Sometimes (no just about all the time)....The fun for me is in the research....AND THEN the HUNT!......Trying to find that one piece "everyone is raving about"....Ordering it, waiting for the FedX/UPS truck sittying on the sidewalk, Unpacking, Hooking it up, hating it (can't understand what everyone was raving about), returning it......Can't tell you how many times that happened in the two Covid Years......The UPS store knows me by name! Last week I bought a little, four tube amplifier kit of a fellow on one of the audio classified sites for $100 (s5Electronics K-12G)...Built it in about 2 hours....Hooked it up and compared over a number of days to VTA ST120 Dynaco clone and First Watt F5v2......The amp is horrible. Buzzes like a swarm of bees and hums a tune I don't recognize(if you put your ear up to the speaker)....But it sounds FANTASTIC...You can't believe 8 watts into KEF LS50 Metas would even work, nevermind sound like it does.....Something is wrong with the whole High End HiFi picture..... |
