One can dream, can't they? - Audio Exotics
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Looks like Altec 1505 horns on top -- is there any other hifi equipment in that photo?
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Getting back on track, I was able to track down one of the amps in the rigs...
Zanden Kaun 12019 amps - https://www.monoandstereo.com/2017/07/new-zanden-kaum-super-tube-amplifier.html
This is a 530 pound push pull Super Tube amp. It sure didn't look that big in the first photo..
Tom
This is what my room would look like if I get active again and sell off a bunch.
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I can dream...bumpLiving Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
Game Room 5.1.4: Denon AVR-X4200w; Sony UBP-x700; Definitive Technology Power Monitor 900 mains, CLR-3000 center, StudioMonitor 350 surrounds, ProMonitor 800 atmos x4; Sub - Monoprice Monolith 15in THX Ultra
Bedroom 2.1 Harmon Kardon HK3490; Bluesounds Node N130; Polk RT25i; ACI Titan Subwoofer -
And again...Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
Game Room 5.1.4: Denon AVR-X4200w; Sony UBP-x700; Definitive Technology Power Monitor 900 mains, CLR-3000 center, StudioMonitor 350 surrounds, ProMonitor 800 atmos x4; Sub - Monoprice Monolith 15in THX Ultra
Bedroom 2.1 Harmon Kardon HK3490; Bluesounds Node N130; Polk RT25i; ACI Titan Subwoofer -
Getting back on track, I was able to track down one of the amps in the rigs...
Zanden Kaun 12019 amps - https://www.monoandstereo.com/2017/07/new-zanden-kaum-super-tube-amplifier.html
This is a 530 pound push pull Super Tube amp. It sure didn't look that big in the first photo..
Tom
This is what my room would look like if I get active again and sell off a bunch.
Me too but I would have to sell off a bunch of cars, my house and cash in my 401K and a few stocks. That would probably buy the speakers. Then I could start saving for the amps. LOL- SDA 2BTL · Sonicaps · Mills resistors · RDO-198s · New gaskets · H-nuts · Erse inductors · BH5 · Dynamat
- Crossover upgrades by westmassguy
- Marantz 1504 AVR (front speaker pre-outs to Adcom 555)
- Adcom GFA-555 amp · Upgrades & speaker protection added by OldmanSRS
- Pioneer DV-610AV DVD/CD player
- SDA CRS+ · Hidden away in the closet
- SDA 2BTL · Sonicaps · Mills resistors · RDO-198s · New gaskets · H-nuts · Erse inductors · BH5 · Dynamat
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I honestly feel exhausted looking at systems like this.
I will never forget the day we sold my Dad's Grande Utopias... 5 men and a fork lift, honestly makes you have a head ache just thinking about it!
I'm sure it sounds good, but then again maybe not. I've heard alot of bad audio from systems like this!
Oh, you are just jealous that they don't have a playpen in between the speakers! Plus, now that our systems have changed.....I wonder if people look at our systems now and think the same thing.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
I laughed when j read that post considering there's a pair in my living room hahaha.
To be fair my Dad's were in crates when we sold them and literally clicked in at 700 plus pounds each crated!
Play pens should be a required acoustic treatment as it really ties it all together- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit. -
Um.......okay then.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
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I'm sure that Finn Juhl chair in that room is one of the original 78 made, they used to sell for over $100,00, the replicas produced currently are $14,000.
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I need to switch professions and start building chairs! Wowzers.
Tom
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Wonder how long his turntable cables are?
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I'm sure that Finn Juhl chair in that room is one of the original 78 made, they used to sell for over $100,00, the replicas produced currently are $14,000.
Which image has the chair?
The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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Wonder how long his turntable cables are?
I would hope that the rig is on the opposite side of the wall from where that TT is. If not?
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Obviously Bluetooth connection- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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Must be cold over there.....they are sitting so close, they can warm their feet up on the amps.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
That type of nearfield reminds me of RMAF 2013 with the TOTL MBL's2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC
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Didn't help, did it!?!Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
Nope2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC
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Didn't think it would. I am what you would call, NOT a big fan of those speakers at all.
I'd rather listen to a Bose system. No lie.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
I'd rather listen to a Bose system. No lie.
Please allow me to offer a bit of insight with this one. I was up at Jolida's HQ's and they had an MBL setup in the "Big Boy" room. It was hooked up to a serious front end and (at the time) supposedly, the East Coast's best reel to reel tape deck.
When they turned the system on? OMG. Those speakers radiated a sound that was like a TV tube sound, multiplied in Db by 120 percent. I literally had to hold my hands in between the speakers just to walk up to the system to turn it off.
That was/is and remains one of the worst audio experiences I have EVER had.....and trust me, I have heard alot of bad systems. Some of them, well over a million dollars in cost.
I was also taken aback about the complete lack of bass/mid bass. The upper frequencies (annoying unwanted noise aside) did not match at all what the laughable bass was.....or, shall I say wasn't.
I have heard B&W speakers have better bass than those pieces of ****.....and that's sayin' something.
I was NOT kidding that I would much rather listen to a Bose speaker. That would be refreshing after that experience. Wonderfully refreshing.
Tom
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Tell us how you really feel, Tom. Don't hold back!
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I report. You decide.
I cringe even at the THOUGHT of those speakers. It's akin to fingernails on a chalkboard sounding wonderful compared to them.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
I'm not done....I have never in my life EVER heard a violinist that was imaging 8 feet wide. Every spatial locationality cue was GROSSLY exaggerated. Imagine, on your system, listening to a guitarist....
Let me stop there. If you are listening to a guitarist and on a really great system, you can differentiate where they are strumming versus where they are sliding their fingers across the strings. On a good system, you can have enough palpability within the image to "see" where the guitarist is within and or/on the sound stage with a proper recording. On a decent to low end system, one may be able to tell that the perceived guitarist is over to the right or left but the "image" is still somewhat palpable.
Back to what I was saying....with teh MBL's? The damned guitarist was 8 feet wide and you couldn't tell what the "image" was. There was no depth or any other spatial locationality cues, other than an 8 foot wide guitarist.
When, in your life, have you EVER heard an 8 foot wide guitarist? You haven't and don't BS yourself. If you ever listen to live music, you will know this. That speaker has a "gimmic" to me, which is the tweeter. Plasma or something like that. You think I would know but honestly, I do not care. Why? Because I would prefer NEVER to EVER hear one of them again.
If I was ever sentenced to hell in the afterlife? They would play music on a set of MBL's for eternity.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Well.. That settled that... I set up a search in hifi shark for mbl loudspeakers- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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I've heard MBL,s sound really bad and really good
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Maybe it was a really fat violinist.Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
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I've heard the TOTL MLB speakers too many times in various different rooms...each as bad as the other. Tom's description is pretty much on the mark. The imaging is nonexistent, there is no phantom center and the bass is seriously lacking. IMO, they are made to separate a fool from their money.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk
