My Journey to find the "perfect" speaker... - Page 137

Originally Posted by sac8d4

for the swans f2.2s you might also try http://www.audiosoundusa.com/ www.trax-audio.com

Originally Posted by wm_mongoose

I live in Silver Spring, MD. It's outside of DC.

Originally Posted by Dennis Murphy

Heeeyyy Corey I would love to hear the Swans. I'm guessing I would take either the Georgia Ave. or Colesville Rd off of the Beltway? I'm at the River Road-Clara Barton Exit. I know that Line Sources (is that what they are?) can sound superb if correctly implemented. I've never tried to do a design in that area because they're such a specialized item, but I would certainly enjoy hearing one.

Originally Posted by funkmonkey

Michael- I finally made it through the last of the A-Z organized CDs... and am just starting the "various artist" collections... then my wife's music... been ripping for over a month (maybe two)... 500-ish gigs worth now ripped to FLAC, 1TB is going to work out just fine for me (for now) with a little room for the new stuff. At least now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I may even be done by the time my HT3's arrive.

I am sure you are aware, but there is a new mod for the TP power supply that Dan will be offering soon. If you haven't already asked him about it, you may want to. He has posted a little bit of info about it over @ AC. ...just thought I would mention it, in case you didn't know already.

Cheers,
Greg

Originally Posted by rydenfan

I tried to put some up just now but for some reason photobucket seems to be having major issues. I will try again for home tonight. I am trying, I promise

Originally Posted by Tawaun da bomb

I have a update guys my shipment is fedex home so I found out they are being delivered tomorrow,I know normal fedex doesent run on the weekends,im glad I got this form of shipment,im hyped!!!

Originally Posted by rydenfan

Congrats!! should make for a fun weekend

Originally Posted by hifisponge

Holy shite dude. Do you have 1500+ CD's to burn? I just bought a Mac Mini and two 750GB drives (one for back-up) and will start ripping into apple lossless soon as well, but I only have around 3-400 CDs.

The Mac Mini and HD's will be in my AV rack connected directly via optical digital, so no streaming for me and no need for a TP. And I'll use a DVI to HDMI cable out from the Mac Mini to the TV so I have a graphic iTunes interface to use as my music server. Should make listening to music at a whim a hellava lot easier.

Originally Posted by Grenamc

First... It's great to know I'm not the only one that will be racking up over 500 gb worth of music. I started my server on my upstairs desktop (400 gb hdd) knowing it would just be a starting point. Said drive is now effectively full and I am roughly 1/2 through my collection. I am guessing around 1500 Cds.

It's incredible how much my listening habits have changed from served music. I think you'll really dig it, Tim. I had considered a Mac Mini, but a Mini + DAC > TP. And before you point out Mw TP > either, I know. But how cool is it to see vacuum tubes and wifi antennea sticking out of the same box? Plus it's supposed to sound ok too.

-Michael

Originally Posted by hifisponge

Holy shite dude. Do you have 1500+ CD's to burn? I just bought a Mac Mini and two 750GB drives (one for back-up) and will start ripping into apple lossless soon as well, but I only have around 3-400 CDs.

Originally Posted by hifisponge

Don't get me wrong, I wish I had an excuse to put some tubed gear in my rack, but it just wasn't meant to be right now.

Originally Posted by scientest

Now why on earth would you want to take a wonderfully accurate pair of speakers and add a whole bunch of 2nd harmonic distortion to the result?

(Been there, done that, won't do it again...)

Originally Posted by scientest

Now why on earth would you want to take a wonderfully accurate pair of speakers and add a whole bunch of 2nd harmonic distortion to the result?)

Originally Posted by Fanaticalism

All of this talk of people being excited with their new purcases is really making me jealous .

Unfortunately, I didn't get to go and audition today (life got in the way ). Hopefully, I will be able to go on Sunday.

Originally Posted by hifisponge

You should throw Dali Helicon into the mix, they are great speaker and go for crazy low prices on Audiogon right now.

Originally Posted by Fanaticalism

One thing I do have to mention, is that rear ported speakers MAY be a problem in enviornment. I had to pass on a VA setup that I was extremely excited about. They sounded great when I demoed them, but once I got them home, completely different story. I just didn't have the space for them.

Originally Posted by Fanaticalism

The vocals were so smooth and transparent. The bass was nice and tight, without ever hearing any flutter. I could close my eyes, and not tell where the sound was coming from. The entire time, by fiancee kept asking, "which speakers are playing, the ones on top?".

Once I got them home, the highs just seemed to vanish, and they got very boomy. I knew from the getgo that these guys were finicky as far as placement was concerned, and had read up on placement in the VA thread. I honestly thought I would be fine. the biggest issue I ran into, was that I just couldn't create enough separation between them (Which is probably why the soundstage was horrible). Also, dialogue became very difficult to understand at times during movies.

So, now my bro has them. They sound so different in his house. He has a lot more space than I, therefore has more options as far as placement is concerned. We literally moved them around for about an hour, and achieved what I remember hearing.

Edit: At the store, they were being driven by a 4308. I have a 3808ci, with Outlaw M2200's. My brother is running them with a 2808 .

Originally Posted by hifisponge

Holy shite dude. Do you have 1500+ CD's to burn? I just bought a Mac Mini and two 750GB drives (one for back-up) and will start ripping into apple lossless soon as well, but I only have around 3-400 CDs.

The Mac Mini and HD's will be in my AV rack connected directly via optical digital, so no streaming for me and no need for a TP. And I'll use a DVI to HDMI cable out from the Mac Mini to the TV so I have a graphic iTunes interface to use as my music server. Should make listening to music at a whim a hellava lot easier.

I am close to needing a second terabit drive and will probably move it all to a NAS with RAID in the next few weeks as I could not imagine re-ripping everything

Originally Posted by hifisponge

Yup, that sounds like the VA sound I remember, and I could see how the placement could make them boomy (any full range speaker for that matter). Dialog intelligibility is just the nature of the beast with the VA speakers though. The VA's have a dished out presence region, which makes music relaxed and easy to listen to, but also makes the spoken voice hard to understand at times. I think the Dali's would be right up your alley. They have a warm, slightly laid back sound without the dialog problems. However, any full range speakers placed in the same spot that the VA's were in your room should also sound boomy.

You might need to go with a standmount /sub system.