Sansui77 Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 On 23/03/2024 at 12:28 PM, blakey72 said: So, Saturday morning....Mrs is out visiting the grandkids, what is one to do????Empty house... Just happens these arrived on my door Thursday morning on a pallet on top of a pallet. Carefully carried (walked) them inside and cracked open..So what do they look like? Amazing build quality, beautifully finished. Well packed packed and easy to set up. Rock solid, heavy, great spikes and speaker terminals. Gloss is floorless and front baffle is covered with a leatherette type material that is soft to the touch. I am running them in with my Exposure 2010S2 as a preamp running the Exposure Classic XXVII power-amp. Streaming via a HiFi Rose RS250 network streamer/dac, CD spinning duties by a Consonance Droplet CD5. Cables a mix of Audioquest, VDH and Isotech. How do they sound??? Straight out of the box surprisingly good! I never thought I'd buy a Focal speaker after hearing a pair years ago. Nearly made my ears bleed and I very much dislike bright or harsh sounding speakers. These I could listen to all day, it seem Focal have very much toned down that Aluminium/Magnesium Inverted Dome Tweeter without losing any of that sparkly detail. I'm loving them so far with only 10-15 hours on them. The Exposure combo seems to be a good match so far however with 50-100 hours on them I plan to give them so real juice in the form of the Plinius 9200 (200w/ch, 8ohms). May or may not enhance them. Only more hours and time will bring out the performance of these beauties, until then we just sit, listen and wait.....Thanks for reading Very different from the Harbeths. Congratulations. Enjoy. You sure you didn't wrap your new speakers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steever Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Sunrise over the river city 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccuTidal Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 A different sonic flavour to my environment. 16 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwhouston Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Trying a little mix and match with a few tube preamps and Clarity II my SS power amp. Here with “Aspire” preamp. Very nice. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muon* Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Managed to connect the safety IEC earth in the tube pre amp to a spot where it doesn't increase hum/buzz, now bearable with near inaudible at the seated position with no music. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me2also Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Just got a 5wpc 6AS7 with 12AX7 SET from retro thermionic- https://retro-thermionic.blogspot.com/2022/07/persuasion-5998-set.html?m=1. I have a hodge-podge of bits. ATM it's EV Interface C Series II, PEAK/ CEC FR 250 idler turntable, DL103 cartridge, Denon, AQVOX, Supratek phono and preamplification, Marantz 7003 SA CD, Geisler Fein DAC II, SSD Harddrive and QOBUZ through PC for digital into the new power amp. It has nice 10w Edcor OTs, a big Hammond PT and quality point to point internals, including Mundorf Supreme interstage caps, etc, etc. I find it substantially more revealing than any ss amps I've heard. For instance the vinyl has to be kept clean for the music to be the same. The Russian 6AS7/ 6H5C it came with is the star of the show and matches well with Sovtek 12AX7. It shines with accoustic instruments, electric guitars, baritone voices, and actually everything I've played on it. The faceplate says 'Pursuasion' and it has me convinced. I'll add some more happy snaps of my humble stereo soon, but just wanted to show off about this for now. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdotmouse Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 57 minutes ago, muon* said: Managed to connect the safety IEC earth in the tube pre amp to a spot where it doesn't increase hum/buzz, now bearable with near inaudible at the seated position with no music. instead of a direct link try a resistor and capacitor in parallel, say 0.01uf and 1 megohm, voltage rating 400+. s. m 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muon* Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 (edited) 11 minutes ago, sdotmouse said: instead of a direct link try a resistor and capacitor in parallel, say 0.01uf and 1 megohm, voltage rating 400+. s. m I'll see what I have here and give that a try. Edited April 13 by muon* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me2also Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Hi 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass13 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 On 01/04/2024 at 1:29 PM, Steff said: For my outdoor system I have gone fully active. Note the carefully measured bass port. Luxman-lite, I call it. Playing ambient tracklist as I balanced on a ladder (clearing shed roof before the big forecast rain). My work system, I've gone for extra more sturdy baffling, even with a down firing rear port, less vibrations.... 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Bowering Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 (edited) Pioneer sc-lx701 Orpheus Nexus speakers x 7 with Orpheus Syntax heights Sony ubp-x700 uhd player Kogan 55" 4k hdr "dumb" tv Belkin pure power console. Ive had the LX701 for about a week now and it sounds about the same as my lx58 that it's replacing, but now I have dts-x, plus hdcp2.2 which has simplified the wiring a lot. The lx58 will now move into my bedroom for use in my studio. Edited April 13 by Allen Bowering 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryl Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 48 minutes ago, Bass13 said: My work system, I've gone for extra more sturdy baffling, even with a down firing rear port, less vibrations.... If you have the room I'd suggest pulling it forward a bit to try and clear reflections from the side walls. A nice rug in front would do wonders too. 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muon* Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 27 minutes ago, Allen Bowering said: Pioneer sc-lx701 Orpheus Nexus speakers x 7 with Orpheus Syntax heights Sony ubp-x700 uhd player Kogan 55" 4k hdr "dumb" tv Belkin pure power console. Ive had the LX701 for about a week now and it sounds about the same as my lx58 that it's replacing, but now I have dts-x, plus hdcp2.2 which has simplified the wiring a lot. The lx58 will now move into my bedroom for use in my studio. Those Orpheus speaker are using the same drivers ans the Richter Mkll series, those Audax midwoofers are very good if the crossover lets them breath (large gauge inductors) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Bowering Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 1 hour ago, muon* said: Those Orpheus speaker are using the same drivers ans the Richter Mkll series, those Audax midwoofers are very good if the crossover lets them breath (large gauge inductors) Mr Serhan and Mr Richter are good friends so I'm not surprised haha. The nexus do their job well, but they don't hold a candle to my CS-28 Voltaire's. But I dare not put those in my lounge room for fear of the cat knocking them over. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muon* Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 (edited) In my Richter Harlequin Mkll's I replaced the small gauge inductors (thin wire wound) on the midwoofers with 2mm to 2.5mm solid copper wound air inductors (same henry rating) and the bass opened right up, revealing layers of texture and energy that wasn't there before. Edited April 14 by muon* 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwhouston Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 5 minutes ago, muon* said: In my Richter Harlequin Mkll's I replaced the small gauge inductors (thing wire) with 2mm to 2.5mm solid copper wound air inductors and the bass opened right up, revealing layers of texture and energy that wasn't there before. Theres no free lunch. When you go air core from iron or ferrite core (what I use) you need more turns which ups resistance and capacitance - inter-turn and inter-layer. To cut resistance you have to go thicker wire which can introduce time slurring. Good ferrite doesn’t saturate easily, thats why I go heavy wire on long ferrite rods. No inter-layer capacitance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muon* Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 23 minutes ago, mwhouston said: Theres no free lunch. When you go air core from iron or ferrite core (what I use) you need more turns which ups resistance and capacitance - inter-turn and inter-layer. To cut resistance you have to go thicker wire which can introduce time slurring. Good ferrite doesn’t saturate easily, thats why I go heavy wire on long ferrite rods. No inter-layer capacitance. I was going air to air, there Sounded fantastic with no subjective downside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwhouston Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I thought I iron core to air my mistake. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Brix Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 the irony of trying to clear the air but introducing more confusion 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godot Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Morning sun reflecting off glass bottles. 15 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAH BLAH Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Ooohh...that cord needs obvious work...where are the risers?!? And the lack of an anti-vibration pad under the unit...tsk...tsk!!! 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 2 hours ago, Godot said: Morning sun reflecting off glass bottles. Cracking LP, that one! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAH BLAH Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 On 11/04/2024 at 8:45 PM, AccuMagi said: A different sonic flavour to my environment. WOW...super impressive looking and stylish speakers(horn)...what is the maker plz?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccuTidal Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 1 minute ago, BLAH BLAH said: WOW...super impressive looking and stylish speakers(horn)...what is the maker plz?! These are LM-3 Horn Speakers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POV Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 8 hours ago, Godot said: Morning sun reflecting off glass bottles. Caroline Polacheck...nice! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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