Just sold my 2,60 sq. ft. home and now am temporarily in a 1,100 sq ft apartment. Looking for a large loft to finally have enough room for a true system.
Scheu's statement arm, some German users have equated it with at least the lower Schroeder arms.
Grado The Statement
The STATEMENT utilizes gold wire coils, a boron cantilever and a diamond cut specially for Grado. All this is hand-assembled within a machined Australian jara wood housing.
Cartridge Man Music Maker 3
The 'MusicMaker' Phono Cartridge is a high-performance variable reluctance device, employing a proprietory extended contact diamond stylus.
Denon DL-103D
Considered by many to be the ultimate of the 103 series. No longer produced.
Gram Slee Era Gold mkV
phono preamp Gain - 41.5 db Input Sensitivity - 2mv to 9mv Input Impedance - 47k and 100pF
Gram Slee Elevator EXP
"Transformerless" stepup MC amp Gain - 24 db Cartridge Loading - 23, 30, 100, 840, 1000, 5100, 47kHz
Museatex Bitstream Data II (2005)
The Melior Bitstream Converter has two digital inputs, one fiber optic and one co-axial. Two independent digital sources can be connected to the unit. A front panel membrane switch allows you to choose between the two.
Meitner/Melior by Museatex CD-D
Matching transport to the Museatex Bitstream Data II DAC I have
Stevens & Billington TX-102 mkIII
Transformer Volume Control (TVC) w/ Seiden 20 step attenuator and selector switch.
Art Audio PX-25
Transformer-coupled, zero-feedback, pure Class A triode stereo amplifier. Output Power 6 wpc. Frequency Response 9Hz to 60KHz full rated power. Tube Complement 2 x 6922/6DJ8, 2 x 12BH7, 2 x Mullard CV 378 rectifiers, 2 x KR PX-25 power triodes. This tube has a very similar midrange sound to the 2A3 but much more extended frequency extremes and a lot more power.
Welborne Labs DRD 300B
300B Direct Reactance Drive (DRD)SET Monoblocks using TJ Mesh Plate 300B's and 6N1P driver stage. 7 watts per channel of glorious SET magic and drive.
Audion Sterling ETSE EL34 integrated (mkI)
Class-A, 12 wpc EL34 SET amp. Frequency Response: 14Hz to 35kHz - 3dB. Tube Compliment: 2 x JJ/Tesla Teslovak EL34, cryo'd Russian 6H23n-EB/6922, cryo'd NOS 1950's Tung Sol 5687
Cain & Cain IM-Bens
Fostex FE-168 Sigma 6
Cain & Cain Bailey(pair)
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Paradigm X-30 Subwoofer Crossover
Built-in active low level high-pass filter Variable 35Hz 150Hz, 3rd order 18 dB / octave Variable 0 180° Phase adjustment
Hafler DH-500
255wpc classic monster amp from the days when Hafler actually owned and ran the company.
Cain & Cain Cryo'd Cardas Magnet Wire
Nothing too special about the particular wire, but it is smooth and detailed sounding. Just plain natural without calling attention to itself.
Hammer Dynamics recommended: Woofers(20ga.)- 10 strands of 30 gauge silver-plated copper solid-core wire with Tefzel insulation twisted into a Litz configuration. Tweeters: 4 strands of the same 30 ga. wire twisted in a Litz config.
Topaz 2.4kVA Ultra-Isolator Transformers
I have six of these wired with balanced secondaries for greater noise rejection. One for both tube monoblocks. One for the subwoofer amp. And one for my dac(filtered) and turntable. Common Mode Noise Attenuation - 150dB @ 100kHZ Transverse Mode Noise Attenuation - 65dB @ 100kHZ
You think maybe your reading the port and the driver? The driver would kick in some where in the area where the extra dBs show up. I'm not sure where the ports or tuned to take over though.
Vic..that's a tough one! I had some room buzzing also.Mine was in the 40 to 30 Hz range. If you could find a digital SPL meter and run it through those test again. I've tried the analog meters in the past.Never could get a definite reading. The digital meters seems quite a bit more accurate.You can always take it back after the use. What is your base dB used for measurements? Also try doing the measurements without the subwoofers.And see what you get.
I had a blast doing the test. Actually I guess my hearings not too bad. I figured from just listening ..that the speakers had the flattest freq response I've heard in my home and basically any where else. People don't think it makes a difference.They are wrong. The less deviation the more realistic the music sounds..it's just that simple. Only other speakers that came remotely close are the Green Mountain Europas. Unfortunetly their low freq extention wasn't even in the ballpark of the speakers I use now.
I'm going to take some measurements later today. And try to nail down exactly the low frequency response in my room between 200 and 18Hz with the FTAs. I will let you know how it turns out.I posted my results in the main thread.
Yeah I thought there was something different about that driver. I've seen the driver in the Bens before. It kinda threw me off a bit.LOL So what's going on with the SPL meter my friend? Found out what the low freq response is in the room?
