2.3TL's I'm trying to get and an amp ?

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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    edited June 2012
    Travis those are Sweet enjoy.
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    2 Channel
    Adcom 555II Vincent SA-T1 Marantz SA 15S2 Denon DR-M11 Clearaudio Bluemotion SDA 2.3tl's (Z) edition MIT Terminator II Speaker Cables & IC's Adcom 545II Adcom Gtp-450 Marantz CD5004 Technics M245X SDA 2B's, SDA CRS+

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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,338
    edited June 2012
    Congrats Travis!

    Your smile says it all!!:smile:
    Carl

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  • chandler9a
    chandler9a Posts: 878
    edited June 2012
    Awesome set of speakers, Travis. let us know how they sound for you in that set up... And as mentioned before, try to get some rings for those bad boys.
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  • TNHNDYMAN
    TNHNDYMAN Posts: 2,145
    edited June 2012
    chandler9a wrote: »
    Awesome set of speakers, Travis. let us know how they sound for you in that set up... And as mentioned before, try to get some rings for those bad boys.

    I've been following the thread nooshingjohn started for toolfan to make some more. I already have a set for my 7C's and will definately considering getting some made for these.
    2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.

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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited June 2012
    TNHNDYMAN wrote: »
    I've been following the thread nooshingjohn started for toolfan to make some more. I already have a set for my 7C's and will definately considering getting some made for these.

    Trust me, don't even consider it. Just do it.:wink:
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    "I'm yet to hear a Polk speaker that merits more than a sentence and 60 seconds discussion." :\
    My response is: If you need 60 seconds to respond in one sentence, you probably should't be evaluating Polk speakers.....

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  • chandler9a
    chandler9a Posts: 878
    edited June 2012
    headrott wrote: »
    Trust me, don't even consider it. Just do it.:wink:

    Agreed
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  • TNHNDYMAN
    TNHNDYMAN Posts: 2,145
    edited June 2012
    ^ ok, I get it :lol:

    Now go to my for sale thread and buy some stuff and I can afford to buy a set of rings too :biggrin:

    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?133350-Alot-of-Vintage-Gear-Speakers-Turntables-Receivers-and-more
    2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.

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  • vstarkwell
    vstarkwell Posts: 328
    edited June 2012
    TNHNDYMAN wrote: »
    I have pics, pinch me it did happen:biggrin: Got to make some jumper wires and then hook up to the AVR for now. Can't wait to play them tomorrow. Wow these things are heavy.

    Congrats!!! and I'm liking that Luxman in the 3rd picture.
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  • TNHNDYMAN
    TNHNDYMAN Posts: 2,145
    edited June 2012
    ^ thanks vstarkwell- The Luxman is a nice piece. Only 55 WPC but has a nice sound, and excellent build quality. I'm using it to listen to the 2.3's for now. I need to take the Denon 890 out of my system and replace it with the Onkyo 706 so I have pre-outs to add the Adcom 5400 amp to the mix and drive them with some decent power. Hoping to get that done later this week.

    Last night's playlist included - Heart Dreamboat Annie, Billy Joel A Innocent Man, and Donald Fagen's The Nightfly. All sounded really great. I need to go back and pour over the SDA playlist thread.
    2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.

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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    edited June 2012
    Very nice story here! . . .Good luck, Travis! And don't forget to ROCK ON, man, nice score!! If you haven't heard it yet (on the 2.3s) play Greatest Hits of The Alan Parson Project, cool spacial sound Front, Rear, Left and Right to the max, man!

    I gotta ease-up on my "man" comments.. . can you dig-it, man?

    Peace, Bro!

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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    edited June 2012
    Once again congratulations on those Sda's Travis and have to agree with above post. I was listening to Alan Parsons Eve on vinyl the other day on mine and was amazed. Enjoy
    Home Theater
    Parasound Halo A 31 OnkyoTX-NR838 Sony XBR55X850B 55" 4K RtiA9 Fronts CsiA6 Center RtiA3 Rears FxiA6 Side Surrounds Dual Psw 111's Oppo 105D Signal Ultra Speaker Cables & IC's Signal Magic Power Cable Technics SL Q300 Panamax MR4300 Audioquest Chocolate HDMI Cables Audioquest Forest USB Cable

    2 Channel
    Adcom 555II Vincent SA-T1 Marantz SA 15S2 Denon DR-M11 Clearaudio Bluemotion SDA 2.3tl's (Z) edition MIT Terminator II Speaker Cables & IC's Adcom 545II Adcom Gtp-450 Marantz CD5004 Technics M245X SDA 2B's, SDA CRS+

    Stuff for the Head
    JD LABS C5 Headphone Amplifier, Sennheiser HD 598, Polk Audio Buckle, Polk Audio Hinge, Velodyne vPulse, Bose IE2, Sennheiser CX 200 Street II, Sennheiser MX 365

    Shower & Off the beaten path Rigs
    Polk Audio Boom Swimmer, Polk Audio Urchin B)
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  • TNHNDYMAN
    TNHNDYMAN Posts: 2,145
    edited June 2012
    Thanks guys. I've really not been able to fully evaluate them yet. Going thru the little Luxman is nice but they need some power. Hoping to set them up with the Adcom 450 pre and Adcom 5400 (might try the Rotel 981 too) amp tomorrow. Not sure on the SDA effect yet. Pretty sure the large wooden ent center between them is hurting performance, as well as not on a true wall. Been racking my brain to how to reconfigure the room to optimize better. There is really no other place to put the couch. Even if I place the large couch on the wall with windows and av racks (have to move those out) and got a smaller love seat recliner couch, I don't think I'd have enough room on the sides to have end tables if I switched walls between the ent center and where couch is now.

    I'm thinking of wall mounting the TV and moving the ent center into my son's room and finding a less wide av rack and bring the 2.3's a little closer together, then they'd have more of the wall behind them with less interferance between them. I might even try to build something myself. Thinking 42" wide would be enough for 2 19" wide cubbies and say 30" tall so 4 slots basically for the dish rcvr, Onkyo 706, amp, and PS3. I could put a turntable and the center CS2 on the top of the rack.

    It's a work in progress. I'll update after getting the on the amp and see how that affects performance. I have noticed that most vocals seem to come somewhat from the left of center and don't know if I'm not in the sweet spot of an equalateral triangle or if maybe one of the dimensional drivers is off. Need to check phase on all the drivers as well.
    2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.

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  • TNHNDYMAN
    TNHNDYMAN Posts: 2,145
    edited August 2012
    Time for an update, it's been 6wks since my last post here and I've really gotten a pretty good feel for the 2.3TL's now. It's taken some time and effort to optimize the space I have. Went ahead and bought an inexpensive av cabinet that is 47" Wide vs the one I had been using at 60", so I now have a little more wall behind the speakers as well as open space between them. The SDA effect and bass have both improved.

    I now have Larry's rings and brackets, dynamat, and spikes on hand to start the upgrades very soon. Was able to acquire the Yamaha amps from the lady who sold me the 2.3's, and am currently using a Yamaha M80 @ 260 wpc. Tried my Rotel 981 on them and it sounded pretty nice, but I wanted something with a little more headroom. Picked up a Denon 2910 and some nice Audioquest IC's from Neil (nwholford). Went back and forth between turntables. Had a Technics 1600 initially and then tried a Fisher MT 6250 for awhile. Picked up a nice Pioneer PL 530X this past week and think I'll be happy with it for now.

    After the inital upgrades I'll look into redoing the crossovers this winter if funds allow. Pretty content as is and will just enjoy the music for awhile. Thanks for all the helpful comments and kind words- Travis
    2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.

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  • TNHNDYMAN
    TNHNDYMAN Posts: 2,145
    edited August 2012
    Trying to add pics and having problems....I'll keep trying-

    No luck, I go to manage attachments then to the folder I have on my desktop select file. Ask it to upload and it scans thru and then gives a red exclamation point (size is only 800x1200 so shouldn't be too large). Don't know if anyone else has had problems recently adding pics.
    2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.

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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited August 2012
    Glad you're enjoying your new speakers.

    You could always try a photo hosting site if this isn't working out.
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  • TNHNDYMAN
    TNHNDYMAN Posts: 2,145
    edited August 2012
    ^ I know I could, but I don't use flickr or picassa or any of the others right now and don't feel like setting up an account just for this. I've not had any trouble loading pics since my 1st attempt over a year ago until tonight. Don't know what the deal is. Emailed the pics to Enders and hoping maybe he can link them for me.
    2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.

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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited August 2012
    TNHNDYMAN wrote: »
    ^ I know I could, but I don't use flickr or picassa or any of the others right now and don't feel like setting up an account just for this. I've not had any trouble loading pics since my 1st attempt over a year ago until tonight. Don't know what the deal is. Emailed the pics to Enders and hoping maybe he can link them for me.

    I find the system a bit non-user friendly IMO but that's vBulletin. Plus it saves bandwidth for polk. As of late, I made the switch so that's why I suggested it. They are great to have (online photo hosting account).
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited August 2012
    Figured I would help you out :wink:

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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited August 2012
    Now all you need to do is extend the wall the 2.3's are on about 2 feet in either direction :wink:.

    Looking good bro!

    P.S. that center is crooked and its driving me nuts :razz:
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • TNHNDYMAN
    TNHNDYMAN Posts: 2,145
    edited August 2012
    The center is not crooked I assure you.... I spent hours trying to get everything level. My wall needs painted from all the pencil marks it looks like grid paper. The piece of plywood that the wall bracket is attached to is level (the wall studs were 19 1/2 and the bracket only went out to 17 1/2 wide). The wall bracket is level with the plywood- but the tv is on a articulating mount and if you look at it wrong or try to shift it so it's even with everything else, the tv becomes offset about 3/8 inch.

    It's driving me nuts as well. But still an impovement I think:biggrin:

    The 2.3TL's are mostly on the wall now. The wide angle pic makes it look much worse than it actually is. The sides extend 9" past on both sides- so 12" on each has a wall behind:rolleyes:
    2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.

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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited August 2012
    TNHNDYMAN wrote: »
    The center is not crooked I assure you.... I spent hours trying to get everything level. My wall needs painted from all the pencil marks it looks like grid paper. The piece of plywood that the wall bracket is attached to is level (the wall studs were 19 1/2 and the bracket only went out to 17 1/2 wide). The wall bracket is level with the plywood- but the tv is on a articulating mount and if you look at it wrong or try to shift it so it's even with everything else, the tv becomes offset about 3/8 inch.

    It's driving me nuts as well. But still an impovement I think:biggrin:

    The 2.3TL's are mostly on the wall now. The wide angle pic makes it look much worse than it actually is. The sides extend 9" past on both sides- so 12" on each has a wall behind:rolleyes:

    :wink:

    Gotta mess with ya :biggrin:.
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  • TNHNDYMAN
    TNHNDYMAN Posts: 2,145
    edited August 2012
    By the way Dan- thanks for putting the pics up.
    2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.

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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited August 2012
    TNHNDYMAN wrote: »
    By the way Dan- thanks for putting the pics up.

    No problem.
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    edited August 2012
    Yea I have problems at work, 91Kb, XP Pro, will try again when I get home.
    TNHNDYMAN wrote: »
    Trying to add pics and having problems....I'll keep trying-

    No luck, I go to manage attachments then to the folder I have on my desktop select file. Ask it to upload and it scans thru and then gives a red exclamation point (size is only 800x1200 so shouldn't be too large). Don't know if anyone else has had problems recently adding pics.
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    edited August 2012
    Yea I have problems at home 189Kb, win7.
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    POLK CSI-A6 POLK MONITOR 70'S ONKYO TX NR-808 SONY CDP-333ES
    PIONEER PL-510A SONY BDP S5100
    POLK SDA 1C BOUGHT USED 2011,Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-194
    ONKYO HT RC-360 SONY BDP S590 TECHNICS SL BD-1
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