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RE: Out of all the systems....

When it comes to speakers and amps I have really run the course. I've had boxes with cheap Pioneer electronics, Magnepans and McIntosh, electrostats, more boxes, Klipschorns with Cary 2a3 SET monoblocks and more. I have finally found a system I enjoy so much I am not even thinking of changing. It is modern horns, modern drivers and mostly modern electronics.

I have Bill Fitzmaurice's HT Tuba 18 cu. Ft. subs with anodized aluminum cone woofers the T/S parameters of which are correct for the horns. At 160 Hz the subs cross over to Oris 150 horns with AER MD3 drivers. At 8kHz Fostex t900A bullet tweeters cross in. All roll offs are 96dB per octave provided by a DEQX HDP-3 DSP. The DEQX also does phase, time and room correction. I don't know if I would run the HT Tubas up to 160 Hz without steep crossover slopes. The speakers are triamplified with a modified NYAL Moscode 600 hybrid amp on the subs and two of Nelson Pass' First Watt F3 JFET stereo amps built by Mr. Pass fueling the Oris horns and bullet tweeters.

The system sounds very good to me, fast, musical, non fatiguing, accurate and dynamic as a thunder storm. Honesty requires me to admit that I am getting to be so damned old that my hearing is declining. It is really a relief to me to arrive at a point where I'm not worrying about how to improve my stereo to make it sound better, and instead just kicking back and enjoying good music.

If it seems I have done a lot of edits it is because my wireless PC keyboard is biting the dirt and didn't respond to new batteries.


I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having it's motives questioned.


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