My living room system is mainly for enjoyment, though it also serves as a primary listening room for evaluating and tweaking new designs. Speakers are most often
Notice acoustically neutral coffee table. If you have a glass one get rid of it!
Hi again, The Yamaha is run to the speakers with their own set of speaker wires? ARC advised me to always have their amp plugged into speakers so how can i get around this? And yes my tag is a rip-off...Favourite album....so far..
The Yamaha was set-up as a secondary, parallel system with it's own speaker wires attached. It was used mostly by my wife so she didn't have to deal with the "worry" of tubes. My thought was if I keep it simple she'll listen to the hi-fi more often. It worked and sounded decent.
Hi, Nice room. How did you set up up the Yamaha Integrated to work with your ARC amp? or do you use it by itself to watch your t.v? The reason i'm asking is because I have a similar room and setup(including a pair of your 8's)
I just had the pleasure to have a pair of your Super 8s in my room for a week - thanks to a good friend and just for fun :).
I really enjoyed the evenhanded and uncolored presentation of the Super 8 which don't draw attention to themselves. Shohini and I had a couple of really nice evenings just immersing ourself in music and being drawn into very different pieces.
I have come to really enjoy the single driver approach and and haven't really considered a two-way like the Devore in while. I think you created something very special there.
One reason I've got so many LPs is because I'm a voracious musical omnivore--I like all types of music. That rear-wall cabinet holds rock/pop etc, with the bottom row giving over to jazz. The cabinet of the right side is the rest of the jazz. Off camera is another cabinet about the size of the back-wall unit filled with classical and opera, with two rows of electronica/house/dub. At the office there's around 40 percent more, with a similar mix.
No, the 'table is just for fun, just for me. I've been playing around with turntable ideas almost as long as I've been playing around with speakers. They're similar in a way.
Hello Bluecirclehead, The tweeters in the Super 8s are about 26 inches from the floor, though the adjustable feet make that variable. They are designed to be set-up with a tip-back or rake-angle that aims the midwoofer up towards the listening position. They have a very wide window of adjustability so a low sofa should not be a problem.
John, How high are the tweeters in the Super 8s? I'm looking into these to upgrade from my Von Schweikert VR2s.
My listening sofa is rather low profile so I find my current speakers' tweeters to be too high, relative to my seating position. If you could let me know the measurement floor-to-tweeter, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks,
Hi Jim, Glad to hear you liked The Nines, Don is a truly great guy. My equipment rack is by a company called Salamander, and it's their modular "Synergy" system. Not exactly audiophile, but it makes the system work in my livingroom, and looks great.
Dear John, What company makes your equipment stand? I had an opportunity to hear your Gibbon 9's at Don Better's last weekend. They are very impressive. I'm starting a speaker fund but with two boys in college it'll take awhile....Sigh. Best Regards, Jim.
It's a knock-off Nelson, but a real one is in our future.
The super 8s will do pretty-much what you'd expect without toe-in, a bit less image focus, larger but more diffused soundstage.You can play around a bit with the rake-angle to partially compensate for the effects.
We showed Super 8s at CES in 2005 and 2006 in a small-ish room, about 8 to 10 inches off the rear wall with great results. They're pretty room-flexible if care is taken with set-up.
Jldcat, That's a great acoustically-neutral Nelson Bench.
How do the Super 8s perform without toe-in? These are the perfect size for my condo but I can only have them facing straight, at exactly 8 feet apart. (I sit at about 8 feet from my current speakers).
What is, in your opinion, the closest they could be from the back wall?
I know you live in NY so you have to be used to small-space living (I live in dowtown DC).
Unfortunately, I let them go while rewamping my entire system, and could never find the right replacement. They were very reserved, but deeply involving at the same time, especially with classical music on vinyl. Right now I'm running a complete 47 Labs Shigaraki setup and have just moved into a larger room, which feels pretty weird in NYC. I'll probably want a floorstander's bass in the long run, and already have a problem deciding which of the Gibbons I like better. The newer wood models are so finely crafted and luxurious, but the older black ones have that raw design and sentimental value. Then there's the special all-walnut unit, which is simply stunning. You've made life more complicated with so many beautiful products, but it's a good thing, of course.
Hi Iglun, Thanks for the kind comments. Yes that would be a pretty early pair, within the first couple hundred or so. Do you still have them (or know where they are)? There are significant upgrades that can be done (free to original owners, cheap to later owners). Brings them close to current gibbon 3s. Cheers, John
John, on behalf of all the DeVore fans, welcome to the forum! My first serious speaker was the Gibbon 3, possibly one of the first ones made, purchased late 2001. Very refined instrument, to say the least. And something tells me I'll end up with one of your floorstanders sooner or later!
Thanks Pdreher, it's an old, unrenovated NY tenement, so the floors are actually wide, soft pine. Very springy, so I had to mount the t-table up on the (brick) wall. I see you use the Synergy racks too, aren't they great! The doors were a real marriage-saver!
Chadnliz--The ET-2 has many lovely qualities, though as an only arm I might miss some of the slam of the others. Magical and etherial though, and quite addictive.
Smholl, there was a recess there before I built those shelves, it's a strange effect when someone first sees me pull out a record, as though it's materializing from the ether! Hey, DeVore is me! Let me know if I can help out in anyway.
