The 1.2TL, Project Monolith

It really ties the room together 😜

Thanks Richard! I think the real steal of the day was your tuna dip.... Wowza!

I think everyone had a great time, but the excitement in the room when we finally rotated the 1.2tls in the room was definitely palpable!

There was a song where @lightman1 jumped up and said, you just went subsonic!! Lok

Good times!

Thank you sir!!

So I had a few minutes to spend with them again just now... I pulled them another 2 inches from the wall, my room is just barely big enough for these beasts.

They beg to be turned up, they just egg you on. They are sitting comfortable at 90db plus, they are just cruising. Endless dynamics and bass, super wide and deep stage.

But they truly excel at louder volumes, I think in a lower volume setting a smaller pair like the crs would be better but in a large room at full tilt, these guys put on a show to be experienced.

It is not as transparent or refined as the Mezzo utopia, but I never expected that to be the case either. What the 1. 2tl does well, I'm not sure any speaker I've heard can do the same except maybe the grande utopia.

Volume, scale, dynamics while retaining great detail and textures with a huge soundstage. They easily throw a 30 ft stage, putting an upright bass in my front yard, a piano in the half bath, no doubt.

I agree in some regards but not 100%. The Cantons and the Utopias both throw out a soundstage easily stretching from one wall to the other (in my room that is 22 ft) and they are extremely 3 dimensional. So while they wont make a piano come up beside you like the 1.2TL, they can easily project ambiance or effects that come up from behind you, beside you, and will project behind the speakers as well with fantastic depth.

I purposely set up my demo this weekend to demonstrate how well a traditional speaker can hang with the SDA soundstage and I think anyone there would agree that all three speakers were extremely equal in that regards.

I am not detracting from the SDA experience, if anything it is a further testament to the technology that you would use it as a baseline to compare everything else to.

In my comments above, that is where the 1.2TL started to walk away from the pack, delivering that out of this world experience with extreme dynamics, volume, wrap around staging. It can truly deliver a "live at a concert" experience in your house, it is insane!

A side note, the texture of the duelund caps unlike any cap I've ever heard. They are extremely organic in presentation, tons and tons of texture, zero sibilance or potential for fatigue

I have priced out the tweeter network, the JDM series is in my budget (an extremely stretched budget) and the CAST series is almost the cost of the parts list of my current mods...soooooo.... yeeeeaahhhhhh

To do the Tweeter and midrange circuit in the Mezzo utopia with the JDM or Cast series would require an enclosure the size of the speakers themselves and cost as much of a SUV.

I run the bypass caps, compared to Jody's build which didnt have them, it has a little more warmth and texture versus a straight CMR but nothing like these 1.2TL. The textue presented is akin to a luthier hand made instrument, just very smooth with tons of tone.

They definitely sound awesome, I listened for about 2 hours at 80ish db and was immersed in beautiful sound

The only caps I have used as a bypass and liked were the duelunds, they add a flavor that is very nice on the ears. It should a higher end cap than what you are using if bypassing. The duelund jdm bypass cap is only 22 each so not to bad

Thanks Shaun!

CYN - Uh Oh is perhaps my favorite song on sda so far, crazy staging and great bass

Thanks guys!

Definitely was an experience working with such large parts haha

These will be heading down under soon!

Have thoroughly enjoyed my time with them. They do a whole lot right!

The journey to home is getting closer