Need Some NHT Crossover Assistance, Please

[ken kantor]

I'd be very interested in hearing your answer as well.

I've said it before, but I ran a pair of 2.5is for about 10 years in a mixed music/HT setup and biamped them so I could easily nudge the bass up for HT or keep it at the proper level for music. I got them right after they came out and the dealer still had two pairs of 2.3s. I definitely think the 2.5i was a significant improvement over the 2.3 but were pretty solid as well.

I heard the 3.3s pretty extensively at Progressive Audio in Columbus, OH. Very impressive all around, but I loved how the bass didn't constantly draw attention to itself until needed, at which point it was very impressive, but still not distracting. I've heard a lot of great (and EXPENSIVE!) speakers before and since, but I think the 3.3s would be my reference if building a speaker that got well into the 20s.

I've heard Doc's Super Twos (pre-upgrade) enough to know that I like them very much and, while I appreciate the innovation and advantages of the angked baffle designs, I think the Super Twos might be my favorite NHT, aesthetically speaking.

The Super Ones were probably my most recommended speakers for a number of years, esp if I didn't think the person wanted to consider a sub and the Super Zeros (circa 1995-2000 version) never failed to impress with how, when combined with an SW2, absolutely destroyed the similarly-priced 'competition' from a well-known company.

I never heard the 2.9 as extensively as the 2.5 or 3.3, but there's little doubt I could live with them for a good long time.

Sorry to sound line a suck up fan boy, but from about 1995 on, I thought you struck about the ideal balance between sound quality, price and looks. There's no shortage of great speakers out there, but I was never crazy about the looks of Vandersteen, Alon, von Zchweikert etc which were among my other favorite sounding speakers we could have afforded.

OK... I'll shut up now.

Well thank you very much! Really, very much appreciated. Wish I still had NHt-shirts to send you.

I remember my visit to Progressive. I'm trying to remember the other speaker they were selling us against. Aerial?

 

[cratz2]

They had a pretty good selection. I think they had the 10ts (or maybe one step down from the 10ts) in the room with the 3.3s. I remember being very impressed with but your 3.3s and whatever the Aerials were and my wife and I bought agreed that they were the best two systems in the building which was pretty impressive considering they had Wilson WATT/Puppies in one room and the then-new Grand SLAMMs in another room. They had another system setup, but I can't remember what the speakers were. The owner (Scott Rainey, I think) definitely had a knack for setting systems up to their best affect.

I think pound for pound, Progressive Audio was the best shop I've ever been to and I've been to all of the good ones in Dallas, Chicago and NYC back in the day.

 

[ken kantor]

They had a pretty good selection. I think they had the 10ts (or maybe one step down from the 10ts) in the room with the 3.3s. I remember being very impressed with but your 3.3s and whatever the Aerials were and my wife and I bought agreed that they were the best two systems in the building which was pretty impressive considering they had Wilson WATT/Puppies in one room and the then-new Grand SLAMMs in another room. They had another system setup, but I can't remember what the speakers were. The owner (Scott Rainey, I think) definitely had a knack for setting systems up to their best affect.

I think pound for pound, Progressive Audio was the best shop I've ever been to and I've been to all of the good ones in Dallas, Chicago and NYC back in the day.

Nice location, too!

-k

 

[Dr. Morbius]

It changes by the day.

Sounds like me with blondes, brunettes and redheads.

I like different products for different reasons, including reasons that would be obscure to anyone but me... association with life events, a technique proven, establishment of a category, certain details of performance, etc.

For today, I'll say: Model 1, SuperZero, 3.3.

Some days, it's: 1.3a, 2.5i, VT-2.

Some days it's: 1xu, VT-1, HDP-1.

A20, SW2/2p, does the AR 303 count?

-k

Thanks. I guess a proud father likes all his kids equally.

 

[ken kantor]

Sounds like me with blondes, brunettes and redheads.

Thanks. I guess a proud father likes all his kids equally.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

Although I certainly have had some outright failures!

-k


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