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Lefty
Super Member
Left's system:
System has been pretty stable for over a year with only the Luxman T-02 tuner added about 6 months ago. Pic too large for direct upload, so you will have to click the link...
http://www.printroom.com/_vti_bin/ViewImage.dll?userid=Lefty&album_id=61058&image_id=1&courtesy=1
System has been pretty stable for over a year with only the Luxman T-02 tuner added about 6 months ago. Pic too large for direct upload, so you will have to click the link...
http://www.printroom.com/_vti_bin/ViewImage.dll?userid=Lefty&album_id=61058&image_id=1&courtesy=1
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WildWest
Super Member
Mornin Mike...
Yeah I built these from a kit Mike. You know, that crossover came with the kit from Elliott over at Zayltron. I soldered all the parts onto a narrow hardwood so it would slip through the main driver hole of the cabinet. 2 inch wide velcro on the inside of the cabinet and the crossover board held that puppy in real tight. Ya know, the velcro might also serve as a shock/vibration absorber too eh? Embarrassed to say though that this audiophile does not know what order that crossover is exactly. (Bet cha a dollar someone here does) The speaker is a Joe D'Appolito design Aria Series and the Aria 5 has been a best seller. In many circles an MTM kit is known as a "D'Appolito" design. The design has a proven track record for years. I knew it was no roll of the dice.
And yes it was a labor of love. I am one of those types that really likes to get his hands dirty if you know what I mean. Been that way all me life
So a kit was the only way to go in my case. And aside from that, I wasn't finding premanufactured speakers that had the components that I wanted. Well, in any reasonable price range anyway. I wasn't affraid at all to drop the big coin on a speaker never auditioned. It's simply a math equation to me. 1 + 1 = 2.
As far as cost into them discounting labor it has to be about 1,300.00 Elliott got extra money for the dark veneer. (On the plus side, he sent me a spare set of ribbons for the tweets) Plus there's the varnish and loose ends. Anyway, I wanted piano black to match all my other black stuff. Loved that shiney finish! Couln't scrape anyone up in this dang lil hic town to shoot a furniture laquer so I was forced to get the deep black shine the hard way and lay down multiple coats of a high quality varnish with a good brush. 24 hours and steel wool between 4 coats. Whew yup, a labor of love.
Yeah I built these from a kit Mike. You know, that crossover came with the kit from Elliott over at Zayltron. I soldered all the parts onto a narrow hardwood so it would slip through the main driver hole of the cabinet. 2 inch wide velcro on the inside of the cabinet and the crossover board held that puppy in real tight. Ya know, the velcro might also serve as a shock/vibration absorber too eh? Embarrassed to say though that this audiophile does not know what order that crossover is exactly. (Bet cha a dollar someone here does) The speaker is a Joe D'Appolito design Aria Series and the Aria 5 has been a best seller. In many circles an MTM kit is known as a "D'Appolito" design. The design has a proven track record for years. I knew it was no roll of the dice.
And yes it was a labor of love. I am one of those types that really likes to get his hands dirty if you know what I mean. Been that way all me life
So a kit was the only way to go in my case. And aside from that, I wasn't finding premanufactured speakers that had the components that I wanted. Well, in any reasonable price range anyway. I wasn't affraid at all to drop the big coin on a speaker never auditioned. It's simply a math equation to me. 1 + 1 = 2. As far as cost into them discounting labor it has to be about 1,300.00 Elliott got extra money for the dark veneer. (On the plus side, he sent me a spare set of ribbons for the tweets) Plus there's the varnish and loose ends. Anyway, I wanted piano black to match all my other black stuff. Loved that shiney finish! Couln't scrape anyone up in this dang lil hic town to shoot a furniture laquer so I was forced to get the deep black shine the hard way and lay down multiple coats of a high quality varnish with a good brush. 24 hours and steel wool between 4 coats. Whew yup, a labor of love.
And I liked that one well enough to build another. This one is made on a printed circuit board, using 12AX7 and 6BQ5s. It uses a toroidal transformer to prevent the monitor jitter the first one makes... Sent an article to Poptronics magazine, and they are going to publish it some time this fall. I'll probably have circuit boards available then if anyone is interested.
THOR
Fearless Prophet
I posted this in the for sale thread to ward but I thought I would post it here also for any new folks who haven't seen them or heard the full story.
This madness all began when our new pom puppy chewed out the surrounds of our old 10" 3 way GE speakers. I wanted to get new speakers and began reading reviews an such on the web and going to stores and listening to some. Since we party a lot I wanted bigger speakers than before. In seaching the web I came accross stuff about vintage speakers. I really liked the size, sound and look of big 3 ways and then I found some Klipsch Cornwalls on the web and they really got my juices flowing. So I made a short list of possible speakers, Cornwall, LaScalas, Chorus that had the size sound and look I wanted saved my money up and then searched the New England area for some and found 1 of each and was all set to go and get whichever pair I could get for the best deal.
Then I was telling a guy I work with about going to look at speakers and he said another guy we worked with had a "huge" set of speakers in his attic he wanted to unload. SO I call the guy and ask him what he's got. He tells me he doesn't know what they are, describes them and I was like ????? You've seen the pictures I had never seen or heard anything like what he was describing. He said the only marking on them in a little badge that says "Special Edition" and a serial #. He bought them from a neighbor who was desperate for money for $400 and that was what he wanted for them, his neighbor had bought them in Germany when he was in the service and brought them back to the US. Well I searched the web and asked on audio forums if anyone had heard of anything like these and came up empty.
Well I go see them and of course I am blown away when I see them and when I take a grill off I see the familar Cerwin Vega woofer, so I know what company made them and in smaller writing on the badge it shows the cerwin vega logo and says Cerwin Vega, he couldn't see it cuz of the dim light in his attic. We bring them down to his living room and he hooks em' up to a Sansui AU-G77X and I was like "wow" and bought them right there for $350 (i traded a pair of computer speakers to him and got $50 off the price of the CV's. Actually I ended up with the CV's ($350) and a pair of Altec Lansing Model 15's ($150) and the AU-G77X ($125) all from that guy for what I had planned on spending for just one pair of speakers.
After a lot of trial and error using 4 different recievers I have them Bi-Amped using a Sansui G-7700 and the AU-G77X and they sound unbelieveable.
It took a long time and alot of searching to find out what exactly the CV's were, I still don't know but I got close. Finally I talked to a guy at CV tech support he said the only other pair of these they have ever seen or heard of are in the Lobby at CV headquarters in the US and that theirs didn't have the grills so that mine were super rare and that they had never even recieved a call about them before. He said he didn't think they made even 12 pairs of them total and that they were real TOTL stuff. Made in Denmark in 1991 and sold for $1000 a piece. So I got ahold of a guy in CV of Denamrk and he sent me a brochure on them, he also asked around the factory and no one had ever heard or seen them. Mine are not exactly the same as the one in the brochure but they are obviously in the same family. Mine differ in that they are 51" tall 18" wide and 16" deep and slightly heavier, also mine have two 5" mids and only one tweet in the front no rear tweet. Here is the email I recieved from the CV guy in Denmark
Hello Chris,
The speaker you have bought is a special model called 1215 mkII. It was
manufactured in Denmark a long time ago.
I only have 1 brochure left which I will make a photocopy and send to
you.
I don't understand your address - where do you live??
Best regards,
Michael
-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Tricia Harl <THarl@Cerwin-Vega.com>
Til: CVE - Michael Jensen <m.jensen@cerwinvega.dk>
Dato: 27. marts 2002 09:18
Emne: FW: Please help me!!!!
Hi Michael,
Do you know what this is? Can you help this customer?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Tricia
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gentile
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:45 PM
To: Tricia Harl
Subject: FW: Please help me!!!!
Then here are scans of the Brochure I recieved from him:
Heres a better pic of mine:
So endeth the saga, except for my search for power to feed these monsters.
This madness all began when our new pom puppy chewed out the surrounds of our old 10" 3 way GE speakers. I wanted to get new speakers and began reading reviews an such on the web and going to stores and listening to some. Since we party a lot I wanted bigger speakers than before. In seaching the web I came accross stuff about vintage speakers. I really liked the size, sound and look of big 3 ways and then I found some Klipsch Cornwalls on the web and they really got my juices flowing. So I made a short list of possible speakers, Cornwall, LaScalas, Chorus that had the size sound and look I wanted saved my money up and then searched the New England area for some and found 1 of each and was all set to go and get whichever pair I could get for the best deal.
Then I was telling a guy I work with about going to look at speakers and he said another guy we worked with had a "huge" set of speakers in his attic he wanted to unload. SO I call the guy and ask him what he's got. He tells me he doesn't know what they are, describes them and I was like ????? You've seen the pictures I had never seen or heard anything like what he was describing. He said the only marking on them in a little badge that says "Special Edition" and a serial #. He bought them from a neighbor who was desperate for money for $400 and that was what he wanted for them, his neighbor had bought them in Germany when he was in the service and brought them back to the US. Well I searched the web and asked on audio forums if anyone had heard of anything like these and came up empty.
Well I go see them and of course I am blown away when I see them and when I take a grill off I see the familar Cerwin Vega woofer, so I know what company made them and in smaller writing on the badge it shows the cerwin vega logo and says Cerwin Vega, he couldn't see it cuz of the dim light in his attic. We bring them down to his living room and he hooks em' up to a Sansui AU-G77X and I was like "wow" and bought them right there for $350 (i traded a pair of computer speakers to him and got $50 off the price of the CV's. Actually I ended up with the CV's ($350) and a pair of Altec Lansing Model 15's ($150) and the AU-G77X ($125) all from that guy for what I had planned on spending for just one pair of speakers.
After a lot of trial and error using 4 different recievers I have them Bi-Amped using a Sansui G-7700 and the AU-G77X and they sound unbelieveable.
It took a long time and alot of searching to find out what exactly the CV's were, I still don't know but I got close. Finally I talked to a guy at CV tech support he said the only other pair of these they have ever seen or heard of are in the Lobby at CV headquarters in the US and that theirs didn't have the grills so that mine were super rare and that they had never even recieved a call about them before. He said he didn't think they made even 12 pairs of them total and that they were real TOTL stuff. Made in Denmark in 1991 and sold for $1000 a piece. So I got ahold of a guy in CV of Denamrk and he sent me a brochure on them, he also asked around the factory and no one had ever heard or seen them. Mine are not exactly the same as the one in the brochure but they are obviously in the same family. Mine differ in that they are 51" tall 18" wide and 16" deep and slightly heavier, also mine have two 5" mids and only one tweet in the front no rear tweet. Here is the email I recieved from the CV guy in Denmark
Hello Chris,
The speaker you have bought is a special model called 1215 mkII. It was
manufactured in Denmark a long time ago.
I only have 1 brochure left which I will make a photocopy and send to
you.
I don't understand your address - where do you live??
Best regards,
Michael
-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Tricia Harl <THarl@Cerwin-Vega.com>
Til: CVE - Michael Jensen <m.jensen@cerwinvega.dk>
Dato: 27. marts 2002 09:18
Emne: FW: Please help me!!!!
Hi Michael,
Do you know what this is? Can you help this customer?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Tricia
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gentile
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:45 PM
To: Tricia Harl
Subject: FW: Please help me!!!!
Then here are scans of the Brochure I recieved from him:
Heres a better pic of mine:
So endeth the saga, except for my search for power to feed these monsters.
WildWest
Super Member
Thanks kindly but you see. On the right side of that pick is a main speaker stand in black that throws the whole thing off. They blend together. I could fool with it in my Photo draw or the like but naaaaaaa. I'll just get a better shot of it one of these days. But thanks for the offer!
