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jbm0 Wrote: > 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. jmb0, Nice system! Never heard that kind of horn-stuff in my life! I've had electrostats, and normal dynamic, but never horns. As an owner of an RCS 2.2x I'm most interested in what you think of the S2150s. I also have some tips on how to bring the 2.2x to a whole new level without paying much. (Did you have your 2.2x modified, BTW?) -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19817 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
