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ADS L2030 Restoration

Spiceman50 said:
I didn't even get past the drum intro and I'm like HOLY SMOKE!!! BEAUTIFUL MATT!!!!!!!
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GD70 said:
Thanks Matt! Amazing is all I can say!
Put this in the video thread as well!
Oh and I like the song! ;-)
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lokerola said:
Yea, that's fantastic. Thanks for posting!
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Thanks, guys! It was a pleasure making the video. My 4 y/o son actually helped and remained mostly quiet throughout the recording. We both had fun.
 
Fantastic! Gonna be a lot of enjoyable listening going on in that room for sure!
Great recording Matt. What device did you use?
 
Keep the kid away from the domes! and dust caps! Get one of those invisible fences for dogs and surround the audio area!
 
I don't think Matt recorded this with a cell phone! :no:
All I can say is wow. Great job getting those beauties to their former glory. :thumbsup:
What is the song you are playing? Really has some nice guitar.
Thanks for sharing.
J.T.
 
jtee1340 said:
I don't think Matt recorded this with a cell phone! :no:
All I can say is wow. Great job getting those beauties to their former glory. :thumbsup:
What is the song you are playing? Really has some nice guitar.
Thanks for sharing.
J.T.
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That would be sir Stevie Ray Vaughn. "Roughest Place In Town" otherwise known as Tin Pan Alley
 
Drugolf said:
Fantastic! Gonna be a lot of enjoyable listening going on in that room for sure!
Great recording Matt. What device did you use?
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Thanks! I used a cheap Zoom H1 stereo mic to record the sound and a Sony A7ii for video. Merge the two files (audio and video) together in iMovie.

GD70 said:
Keep the kid away from the domes! and dust caps! Get one of those invisible fences for dogs and surround the audio area!
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I need to get the grills redone ASAP! My wife worries about things like the kids getting the flu...I worry about them poking their curious little fingers into my freshly restored mid domes!

jtee1340 said:
I don't think Matt recorded this with a cell phone! :no:
All I can say is wow. Great job getting those beauties to their former glory. :thumbsup:
What is the song you are playing? Really has some nice guitar.
Thanks for sharing.
J.T.
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Thanks, J.T.! The song Stevie Ray Vaughan's Tin Pan Alley (Aka Roughest Place in Town) from the album Couldn't Stand the Weather.

Spiceman50 said:
That would be sir Stevie Ray Vaughn. "Roughest Place In Town" otherwise known as Tin Pan Alley
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MATT0404 said:
Thanks! I used a cheap Zoom H1 stereo mic to record the sound and a Sony A7ii for video. Merge the two files (audio and video) together in iMovie.

Thanks for fixing that Matt ... I tried to name that song .... as they say, from my phone. my thumbs or spell check have different realities when it comes to spelling. that said, I wish you the very best luck trying to find the exact fabric. I've spent 2 years and haven't found it yet. I can tell you what fabric it is not ... I have almost a dozen samples.


I need to get the grills redone ASAP! My wife worries about things like the kids getting the flu...I worry about them poking their curious little fingers into my freshly restored mid domes!


Thanks, J.T.! The song Stevie Ray Vaughan's Tin Pan Alley (Aka Roughest Place in Town) from the album Couldn't Stand the Weather.


:bigok:
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I can remember taking a special detour to Oklahoma City from Dallas on my way to Denver to audition a pair of 2030. I don't renumber the year, but it was cold as only Oklahoma City can get with icy roads, grey and over cast with the constant north wind. I pulled into the dealership and fired up the speakers and what glorious sound in the midrange ,highs and lower bass. These was some coloring from 125 to 300 or 400 hz I didn't like but they were so great everywhere else. They were very strong and and for the hour I listened there was no hearing fatigue. Thats rare with me. I am very sensitive to high frequencies. But these speakers performed really well. I would say they were the early predecessors to the type of sound Magico is producing today. What I like were those four big domes which in the form of a small line array really helped define the sound at greater distances if you felt just using the single dome wasn't intimate enough. I wish Magico would do something like that. I much preferred them to anything Boston, KEF, and Mcintosh was making at the time. They did need some horse power. I think they were being powered by Mcintosh . I had a special audition tape I had made and my Revox with me. But now that I think about the amp might have been two ARC. I was so surprised by the sound that all I really can clearly remember. My better half was with me and she was a little reticent saying the lower read sounds from clarinets and bassoon weren't quite right. She had played Clarinets from Bb down to BBb Conn radiator while in HS, early college and in the Symphony Orchestra. I was a brass player and liked most of what I heard from the 2030's.
 
I’ve been watching this thread for a while now. Big ADS fan and can only imagine what they created with their TOTL effort. Good show!
 
twiiii said:
I can remember taking a special detour to Oklahoma City from Dallas on my way to Denver to audition a pair of 2030. I don't renumber the year, but it was cold as only Oklahoma City can get with icy roads, grey and over cast with the constant north wind. I pulled into the dealership and fired up the speakers and what glorious sound in the midrange ,highs and lower bass. These was some coloring from 125 to 300 or 400 hz I didn't like but they were so great everywhere else. They were very strong and and for the hour I listened there was no hearing fatigue. Thats rare with me. I am very sensitive to high frequencies. But these speakers performed really well. I would say they were the early predecessors to the type of sound Magico is producing today. What I like were those four big domes which in the form of a small line array really helped define the sound at greater distances if you felt just using the single dome wasn't intimate enough. I wish Magico would do something like that. I much preferred them to anything Boston, KEF, and Mcintosh was making at the time. They did need some horse power. I think they were being powered by Mcintosh . I had a special audition tape I had made and my Revox with me. But now that I think about the amp might have been two ARC. I was so surprised by the sound that all I really can clearly remember. My better half was with me and she was a little reticent saying the lower read sounds from clarinets and bassoon weren't quite right. She had played Clarinets from Bb down to BBb Conn radiator while in HS, early college and in the Symphony Orchestra. I was a brass player and liked most of what I heard from the 2030's.
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Great story, and one of the few lucky ones to hear these beauties. No speaker is perfect, and I would be extremely happy to be listening to these in my cave the rest of my life!
 
twiiii said:
I can remember taking a special detour to Oklahoma City from Dallas on my way to Denver to audition a pair of 2030. I don't renumber the year, but it was cold as only Oklahoma City can get with icy roads, grey and over cast with the constant north wind. I pulled into the dealership and fired up the speakers and what glorious sound in the midrange ,highs and lower bass. These was some coloring from 125 to 300 or 400 hz I didn't like but they were so great everywhere else. They were very strong and and for the hour I listened there was no hearing fatigue. Thats rare with me. I am very sensitive to high frequencies. But these speakers performed really well. I would say they were the early predecessors to the type of sound Magico is producing today. What I like were those four big domes which in the form of a small line array really helped define the sound at greater distances if you felt just using the single dome wasn't intimate enough. I wish Magico would do something like that. I much preferred them to anything Boston, KEF, and Mcintosh was making at the time. They did need some horse power. I think they were being powered by Mcintosh . I had a special audition tape I had made and my Revox with me. But now that I think about the amp might have been two ARC. I was so surprised by the sound that all I really can clearly remember. My better half was with me and she was a little reticent saying the lower read sounds from clarinets and bassoon weren't quite right. She had played Clarinets from Bb down to BBb Conn radiator while in HS, early college and in the Symphony Orchestra. I was a brass player and liked most of what I heard from the 2030's.
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What a wonderful story and memory! Thank you for sharing.

stoutblock said:
I’ve been watching this thread for a while now. Big ADS fan and can only imagine what they created with their TOTL effort. Good show!
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Thanks for following along!
 
Blue Shadow said:
For stereo gear? Really? and it is just speakers and a crossover.

For all that I would want a new set of Magicos and the gear to drive them. Not that the 2030s and c2000 aren't nice chunks of vintage gear but I don't think they could keep up with the state of the art in speakers.
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I don't think I could buy a pair of speakers (new) to equal my L1590''s for less than 10k in today's market.
 
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