Living Room SET System

Hi Stephen -I'm glad your speaker project was a success. Even though you describe yourself as a GSTDIFY'er as opposed to a DIY'er, I admire your ability to carry off a project like this one...

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Living Room SET System

So, Stephen, how did you make out with your speaker project? Have you managed to render your speakers operational for weekend listening?I am expecting my Morrow Audio 300B amplifiers to be ...

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Living Room SET System

Stephen -I just found the e-mail in which Nicholas described the sound of the TVC with brass plates as compared with stainless steel. Here is what he said:"Brass plates offer better...

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Living Room SET System

Hi Stephen -That the Promitheus TVC can play on the same field with the darTZeel preamp is a testament to the quality and the extreme value of this little component. While the darTZeel mana...

posted over 18 years ago

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The Concert Hall

Hi Jean -I'm not sure what your budget is for a new CD player, but the best I have personally heard are the EMM Labs and the Abbingdon Music Research (AMR) CD-77.Good luck and best ...

posted over 18 years ago

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The Concert Hall

The construction of the new listening room is progressing well. The insulators and drywallers are scheduled to do their work during the next couple of weeks. So the finishing work should begin in O...

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Living Room SET System

Stephen -Thanks for the update and for all the information about the expected future release of the Promitheus Signature TVC. I am expecting delivery of my Reference Dual-Box TVC in about a...

posted almost 19 years ago

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Living Room SET System

Enigma -It is interesting that we are going down such similar paths for our SET systems.Please tell me more about the Promitheus Signature TVC. I was not aware that Nicholas is work...

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The Concert Hall

Henry, thanks for your comments.I chose the MM-Two because I felt the size of the speaker was more manageable and I was not sure that my room would need the added woofing power of the MM-Th...

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Tboooe, I am finding the EA speakers to be difficult to categorize into one of the two camps you suggested. The speakers are certainly very detailed, fast, dynamic and transparent. Yet the beauty o...

posted almost 19 years ago

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Tboooe, while I don't have sny specific experience with your Pass Labs monoblocks, I expect that they will have no problem pairing with the Evolution Acoustics speakers. On paper, your Pass Labs am...

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Thanks for your comments, Glen.The new speakers are breaking in nicely. They had seen between 250 and 275 hours of play when I sat down for some listening on Saturday and Sunday. The change...

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Jim -Thanks for your comments. I did have the opportunity to spend a couple of days with the prototype MM-Threes early last year, so I had a pretty good idea what to expect in the way of so...

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OK, here goes with some initial impressions regarding the sound of the new speakers. As a point of reference, I did about nine hours of serious listening over the course of the weekend. At the time...

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Dusty, as I mentioned in my 8/9 post, the maiden voyage music selection was a well recorded Duke Ellington big band CD. There was no careful thought that went into the selection. It was getting REA...

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Chad, thanks for your comments. You are welcome to visit any time. If you find yourself traveling through the Cincinnati area, just send me an e-mail and we can arrange something. Unfortunately, th...

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System edited: Pictures updated.

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Dusty, we did not finish uncrating and setting up the speakers until close to midnight on Tuesday evening. So all I was really interested in doing was making sure that the speakers were working cor...

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System edited: The new Evolution Acoustics MM-Two speakers arrived yesterday. After several hours spent moving the crates into the listening room and unpacking/assembling the speakers, we had the s...

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Sorry guys for my delayed reply to your posts. I've been traveling a lot lately, and I got out of the habit of regularly logging into Audiogon and checking this thread...Dusty, I live in No...

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We broke ground to build the new 16'3" x 23'2" x 10'6" listening room during late April. The new listening room is one of two one-room additions that are currently in the process of ...

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Dusty, here is the link to the Cincinnati Audio Club thread:Cincinnati Audio Club ThreadIn a post d...

posted about 19 years ago

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Dusty, thanks for your comments. It's amazing how many audiophiles are hiding in the woodwork in this town. Dusty, I see that you plugged into the Cincinnati Audio Club thread that was started by A...

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Chad, that sign was originally painted on the water tower in about 1980 - at the time the Florence Mall was originally constructed. After the sign was complete, the developer ran into trouble with ...

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Nate, based on your description, it sounds like you are "there" with your analog rig.Chad, I live in Northern Kentucky - about five miles south of downtown Cincinnati. If you get ...

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