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Trying out 5 watts of Single Ended Pentode and single driver, cross-overless speakers. So far, pretty good.

The biggest change was moving the system to the long wall of the room and adjusting the toe in to cross just in front of the sweet spot.

Changing to the MAC cables took the system to another level- just really made the music appear.

The sub is a bit slow, but does flesh out the lower octaves. I'm thinking of getting a new one, but we'll see. The jump to the Grado Ref Master was also a nice change.

All changes were done incrementally. :)

Room size is 12' x 21' x 8'. I've got panels (homemade) on both the long walls which have helped a lot. Next are corner traps and bass traps.

I'm listening to probably 75% vinyl. I just got the AG Phono, so I'll update with how it sounds compared to the current AES PH-1.

I listen to mainly acoustical, female vocal, jazz, and classical (and classic rock). Ok, and some 80's club music for the wife and kids to dance to.
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    • Decware Taboo
    Serial #1! With cryo'd EL84s and TJ 274b
    • Hornshoppe Horns
    The one and only
    • Musical Fidelity A3.2 CD
    • Sota Sapphire
    so far, very good.
    • Graham Engineering 1.5t
    with the 2.2 bearing cap upgrade.
    • MAC CuQ
    8awg of pure copper per channel. Custom made spades. Pure silver plated OFC.
    • MAC HC
    On all equipment Contains 3 conductors of 10AWG plated oxygen free copper stranded wire with pure Teflon dielectric.
    • Hornshoppe Cube
    Bass augmenter.
    • Salamander Archetype
    Cherry shelves, mega spikes
    • Mapleshade Platforms
    2" platform under CDP 4" platform under TT
    • MapleShade Brass cones and Isoblocks
    Footers under all equipment and Isoblocks under all platforms.
    • Audio Points Brass footers
    Threaded 2" footer under Sota TT.

Comments 5

Owner
System edited: moving in a different direction.

scrapiron

Owner
System edited: Quick update

scrapiron

Owner
The Omega's were the 8" Mk.II version (Louis' latest is the MK.III.. and then there is the new Alnico version). The other difference between the HempTone and the current version is the speaker is on the narrow side.

scrapiron

what size driver did your Omega's have?

jsujo

Owner
System edited: Switched out the Omega HempTones, Skylan stands, and Dayton sub for Hornshoppe Horns and Cube.

scrapiron

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