Denten
Addicted Member
Thanks, Denton!
Just a few rough first impressions of these speakers and my listening experience last night: I hate to use a word like "amazing," but that's the way I feel about the bass response of these cabs. Most specifically, the linearity of the response. It's been the experience of all of us, I'm sure, to notice that - whether due to room placement or the design of the speaker - certain notes of the response have a tendency to punch hard and loud compared to the remainder of the bass frequencies. Placed where they are, with no nearby room boundaries, these exhibit none of that. From the highest bass notes to the lowest, the bass response is uniform. I have bass in abundance, and of the exact quality that I've always wanted. I hope that the RTA will confirm my impressions, and that once placed in my room that quality remains true.
The horns are delicious, and sound completely different than they did when I initially tested them as they simply lay on top of the cabinets with foam to support them. In the initial test I was happy with them, but installing them in the cabinets with anchoring and voluminous and heavy foam stuffing has transformed the sound quality. There is a total lack of any hint at "horniness" or ringing - just a pure reproduction of what is fed to them. With one exception - the UHF.
Though the HF content is quite nice as is, it is easy to hear that they are rolling off fast above 10-12Khz. And I could easily live with them just as they are. But I'm one of those who really enjoys the "air" and crispness that good UHF extension gives. Temporarily adding the Beyma super tweets with a simple 1st order crossover at +/- 10Khz positively transformed the presentation to a true full-range experience. When I do a video of these speakers, I'll try to remember to record them with and without the super tweeter so that you can hear for yourselves what I mean. I want to hear your opinion.
So, I'm going to do some extended listening with the super tweets in their boxes sitting on top of the enclosures. That way, I can play with the positioning. I want to determine if any time-alignment issues arise with the tweeters at the very front of the cabinet. If the sound remains pleasing with that positioning, I'm going to complete this project by installing the super tweets in the motor boards, just above the woofers. I hope things will work well with this positioning, as installing the super tweets behind the grill will vastly improve the visual presentation, and will eliminate the unsightly tweet boxes from their perch on top of the enclosures.
Hope to finalize all this by Saturday or Sunday, then move the speaks into the house where I can begin dialing everything in. I'm very enthused and happy with what all this labor and time has wrought. Almost giddy looking forward to see what improvements I can wring out of these speakers - and braced to endure the fetching Mrs. GeeDeeEmm's complaints about how big and imposing these things are.
It's time for some music appreciation exercises!
More to come. Thanks so much for your support and encouragement, guys.
GeeDeeEmm
I wish you lived closer, I'd love to hear them in person.
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...well I could be there in about 17 h and 53 min. 
) and make the vocals sound immediate and . . . dare I say? . . . realistic. Extreme damping in the horn box seems to have eliminated any "horniness" at all. How can a horn sound warm, up close, and personal? But it does. And that heavy little Beyma super tweeter is just wonderful, with zero harshness or overbearing presence. (I have both the 802 and the Beyma dialed back approximately half way on the L-pads, and they blend seamlessly.)
Anyway, the wife stayed over to watch the latest episodes of the Walking Dead, so I'm sitting here with my Chiquaqua and getting in a few solitary moments listening to Regina Spektor's "Remember Us To Life" CD. If you like female vocalists with a cool, twisted songwriting talent, check her out. She has three songs on this album that just slay me: Grand Hotel; Small Bill$; The Trapper And The Furrier. Wow. That is songwriting. The rest of the songs are good, but these are killers.And the album is well recorded, too.
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