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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
Yesterday: In real head-turner, 3 aircraft carriers sail out of San Diego Bay in one day
The USS Nimitz, USS Carl Vinson and JS Kaga were on different missions during a period of change in the military.
BlueBirdMusic
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Re: Local to me pair of SRS 1.2s, worth it?
I realized should also probably add more context on my room/system and audio background etc....
To my surprise it looks like I already had an account here, turns out it was from when I was in highschool and I was running my poor SDA1Cs off a partially dead amp in mono lol!
Fast forward to about 4 years ago and I had gotten to a point where I have a house/wife/bunch of cars etc but I had not bothered to setup any sort of audio system. My usual reference setup was also not available because it's owned by my dad and when he moved and I bought his old house he never bothered to set his system back up. End result was both of us were having withdrawals but didn't realize it.....I went from a family who had a full loudspeaker setup per person ranging from SDAs, Paradigm reference S100s, and VSA VR5-A down to just earbuds and cars.
Funny enough one of my main hobbies is actually what made me haul all my speakers back down to the listening room very recently. Last year I bought a personal grail car in the form of an Audi A8 W12 that among many things I specced the top audio system as that's always been a must. For reference it uses a B&O system with the nice acoustic lense moving tweeters and their famed ICEpower class D amps. When the car was delivered and after I made sure the driving aspects were everything I hoped for and got my fill of 0-150 runs I loaded all my old CDs to test the speakers. The system was good enough it sparked memories of my old SDAs
Well that lead to me helping get my dads system set back up (damn amps are 100lb each etc) and ultimately my own system. Being nostalgic and because I already owned them I setup the SDAs as the L/R speakers in a 5.0 HT setup. I had no working amp in my house (partially why I never got around to it, that and remodeling) so on a total whim I had my friend pickup a Marantz SR5005 AVR on Facebook I saw pop up mid conversation with him. $200 for the amp and $15 as a delivery fee later I was primed for extreme disappointment!
I went into my impulse amp purchase with full expectation it would be horrible as an amp, with the saving grace of it would still serve adequately as my AVR and HT amp to run the surrounds etc. I even joked with my wife that I will have about 24 seconds of chills until the point in my first test song where an actual current demand is made by the SDAs. That's exactly what occurred lol!
Man it sucked! I then spent the next 4 hours setting the AVR to factory and having it actually send all frequencies to the L/R mains and not attempt to crossover beforehand. Layer on some EQ and removing all the room correction also helped but the real work was totally moving all furniture around (well my wife did) and adjusting the speakers to dial it in.
After about 3 days I had everything setup so that the speakers were gone, bass can be felt through the furniture and on the celling, the soundstage was about 6 ft past each speaker and rolling up to the celling. Singers seem to materialize directly in front of you with insane separation of all elements. At this point my thoughts were "good enough for 37 year old speakers" and I started to invite people over to audition.
The system at this point already managed to make me cry for a soild 40 min and is constant chills and had a similar effect on my wife with music she had been listening to for her whole life. The real test would be my dad and to see how the setup contended against the reference setup, bearing in mind my ENTIRE 2 channel setup is cheaper than ONE of his power cables.
I guess I did something right since he was in straight up disbelief. Literally could not stop playing his reference tracks and saying it's unfair how broad the soundstage was and the separation with image clarity. I honestly thought he was messing with me but he made it very clear that my setup was somehow punching absurdly above its weight.
This is likely due to how massive the "sound shell" without any gaps is and just how broad the frequency range and depth is. If you are sitting on axis with SDA effect it's insane, if I pull the cable they aren't too impressive a pair of speakers at all.
To my surprise it looks like I already had an account here, turns out it was from when I was in highschool and I was running my poor SDA1Cs off a partially dead amp in mono lol!
Fast forward to about 4 years ago and I had gotten to a point where I have a house/wife/bunch of cars etc but I had not bothered to setup any sort of audio system. My usual reference setup was also not available because it's owned by my dad and when he moved and I bought his old house he never bothered to set his system back up. End result was both of us were having withdrawals but didn't realize it.....I went from a family who had a full loudspeaker setup per person ranging from SDAs, Paradigm reference S100s, and VSA VR5-A down to just earbuds and cars.
Funny enough one of my main hobbies is actually what made me haul all my speakers back down to the listening room very recently. Last year I bought a personal grail car in the form of an Audi A8 W12 that among many things I specced the top audio system as that's always been a must. For reference it uses a B&O system with the nice acoustic lense moving tweeters and their famed ICEpower class D amps. When the car was delivered and after I made sure the driving aspects were everything I hoped for and got my fill of 0-150 runs I loaded all my old CDs to test the speakers. The system was good enough it sparked memories of my old SDAs
Well that lead to me helping get my dads system set back up (damn amps are 100lb each etc) and ultimately my own system. Being nostalgic and because I already owned them I setup the SDAs as the L/R speakers in a 5.0 HT setup. I had no working amp in my house (partially why I never got around to it, that and remodeling) so on a total whim I had my friend pickup a Marantz SR5005 AVR on Facebook I saw pop up mid conversation with him. $200 for the amp and $15 as a delivery fee later I was primed for extreme disappointment!
I went into my impulse amp purchase with full expectation it would be horrible as an amp, with the saving grace of it would still serve adequately as my AVR and HT amp to run the surrounds etc. I even joked with my wife that I will have about 24 seconds of chills until the point in my first test song where an actual current demand is made by the SDAs. That's exactly what occurred lol!
Man it sucked! I then spent the next 4 hours setting the AVR to factory and having it actually send all frequencies to the L/R mains and not attempt to crossover beforehand. Layer on some EQ and removing all the room correction also helped but the real work was totally moving all furniture around (well my wife did) and adjusting the speakers to dial it in.
After about 3 days I had everything setup so that the speakers were gone, bass can be felt through the furniture and on the celling, the soundstage was about 6 ft past each speaker and rolling up to the celling. Singers seem to materialize directly in front of you with insane separation of all elements. At this point my thoughts were "good enough for 37 year old speakers" and I started to invite people over to audition.
The system at this point already managed to make me cry for a soild 40 min and is constant chills and had a similar effect on my wife with music she had been listening to for her whole life. The real test would be my dad and to see how the setup contended against the reference setup, bearing in mind my ENTIRE 2 channel setup is cheaper than ONE of his power cables.
I guess I did something right since he was in straight up disbelief. Literally could not stop playing his reference tracks and saying it's unfair how broad the soundstage was and the separation with image clarity. I honestly thought he was messing with me but he made it very clear that my setup was somehow punching absurdly above its weight.
This is likely due to how massive the "sound shell" without any gaps is and just how broad the frequency range and depth is. If you are sitting on axis with SDA effect it's insane, if I pull the cable they aren't too impressive a pair of speakers at all.
Striker2237
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Re: Just drove 3 hours to pick up my unicorn…
The mini bottles became a thing on our honeymoon to Vegas 34 years ago because, believe it or not, they are not legal to sell in UT. So we “smuggled” a few back with us, and now it’s a thing whenever we go to Vegas to look for any new ones. I actually need to build a new (bigger) rack for them (maybe a winter project)…
You could even make it part of the tradition—maybe include little engraved dates or labels for the new bottles you add. It’s the kind of personal touch that makes your collection so much more than just a display
katern387
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Re: Just drove 3 hours to pick up my unicorn…
Bey, bud....this is just food for thought.
Let the speakers exercise themself, naturally to your system. Let them get used to the new load and break in....
THEN, get back to us with your observations.
I can tell you with complete confidence that my speakers were not, "flexed" before I got them.
Rock on wid'yo'bad self....
Tom
Let the speakers exercise themself, naturally to your system. Let them get used to the new load and break in....
THEN, get back to us with your observations.
I can tell you with complete confidence that my speakers were not, "flexed" before I got them.
Rock on wid'yo'bad self....
Tom
treitz3
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Audioquest Cinnamon .75m USB A-B
Like new. Think I used this to connect a laptop to a DAC. It's been awhile. $50 shipped.
DaveHo
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Re: Just drove 3 hours to pick up my unicorn…
Maybe the bass will improve the more the woofer spiders become more flexible.
I just purchased a set of Infinity RS7s, and there wasn't much bass—odd for an 8" woofer. I left them playing for days (2+), and sure enough, they sound fantastic now.
The midranges on the RS7s have a huge surround, but they don't flex much at all, even after much use. Maybe this surround and the spider on these midranges need 100 hours or more. 
I just purchased a set of Infinity RS7s, and there wasn't much bass—odd for an 8" woofer. I left them playing for days (2+), and sure enough, they sound fantastic now.
The midranges on the RS7s have a huge surround, but they don't flex much at all, even after much use. Maybe this surround and the spider on these midranges need 100 hours or more. 
Tony M
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Re: MONITOR SERIES 5 Jr
Did i Say 100 percent? More like 1000%
the RD0s got laid over on through the weekend, thanks to USPS. they came in to my PO today,
and i couldn't pick them up and install them until this Afternoon;
Tasuke
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