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PhilNYC Wrote: > jbm...nice setup! Asides from the Avant Gardes and the Hydra 8, what's > the rest of the stuff? Is that a TacT room correction unit? Indeed it is. An RCS 2.2X taming the room and handling crossover/time-delay issues, and a pair of TacT S2150s (one for the wooferless Duos, one for the TacT corner woofers). The TacT W210s (actually made by Mark Lyon in Austin, Texas), properly placed in the corners and then smoothed by the RCS, produce much better-controlled bass than any Avantgarde subs I've heard. (Okay, I've only heard one pair. But better than those. Of course, I've never heard the Basshorns. But I can't afford those. And anyway, my girlfriend would probably go postal if I tried to drag them into our living room.) The Avantgarde folk (with the intervention of Jim Smith in Atlanta) were willing to sell me Duo Omegas without woofers, and even make those nice little custom stands, kind of like scaled-down Trio stands. Interestingly, just to illustrate the pace of the craziness here, the Hydra 8 has already been whisked away. I'd bought a Running Springs Audio power conditioner to use with the separate, less-esoteric TV/movie system, but figured I'd just give it a listen with the TacT/Avantgarde setup. The TV is not getting it back. I was shocked by the difference -- the whole system was so much more... light on its feet. Damn. Oh, and there's another baby Hydra there with just the RCS plugged into it, since the RCS doesn't play well with others. Even in a presumably-isolated outlet of a bigger power filter, it pees digital noise in the other kids' pool so badly everything just sounds better if you pen it up away from the others. Oh, and the Squeezebox (back on topic!) is drinking from a Bolder Cable linear. (Which didn't make that much difference to my ears when it was feeding an SB2, but the linear-plus-SB3 combination seems to sing, in terms of digital-output quality out the RCA.) I can only surmise that the only published internal difference, some linear instead of switching voltage regulator, is not actually such a minor thing. You asked; that'll teach you. -- jbm0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbm0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3949 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19817 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
