general fun, best system you ever heard?
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Topic: general fun, best system you ever heard?
Posted By: jayson358
Subject: general fun, best system you ever heard?
Date Posted: May 01, 2006 at 3:42 PM
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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: May 01, 2006 at 4:32 PM
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: May 01, 2006 at 6:37 PM
Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: May 01, 2006 at 10:24 PM
Bringing out the home gear, are we? OK, then HERE is the best system I've ever heard, where price is no object:
A pair of Revel Salon Ultimas ($65K, the pair), driven by a pair of Halcro dm68's, the big brother to the dm58 Monoblock amplifiers (these were only $76K for the pair). Front end was the (sadly) now long defunct Accuphase CD transport with the (also discontinued) D/A converter, containing 8 (count 'em EIGHT) paralleled 24/192 converters! Spooky clean, and as dynamic as ANY system I have ever heard. Can you say ZZZEEEERRRROOOOOOOOO noise floor? Those amps are quieter in idle than other amps are when OFF! Nothing we threw at it was capable of even THINKING about strain... 'Course, at about 225K for the system, with wires and cables and all, I will never have anything like it.
Now, for a budget system? Something John Q could afford? Morel made a few years back "The Renaissance". A modified MW-164 woofer with an MDT-33 tweeter in an unstuffed transmission line... Thse things were scary dynamic for the size, and the price was only 1200 bux a pair! Yes, they made bass, too! Rated down to 25Hz, they were perfectly at home playing big stuff AND small stuff! Heard these in a demo room at the CES with a pair of (believe it or not) these. Phil Marchand is amazing, and his gear is spectacular for the money spent on it. I use his XM16 active crossover modules in my home system. Upgrade the op-amps, get the better resistors (he supplies 1%, already) and you WILL posess high-end gear without the pricetag! IMO, a perfect multimedia system, but then I love overkill!
Oh, and Tom Bohlender's $1,000,000 (yes... one MILLION DOLLAR) statement system. That was at the CES the following year, and it filled an auditorium. 12kW of Jeff Rowland amps (not included in the above price-tag!)... that was pretty good too...
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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
A pair of Revel Salon Ultimas ($65K, the pair), driven by a pair of Halcro dm68's, the big brother to the dm58 Monoblock amplifiers (these were only $76K for the pair). Front end was the (sadly) now long defunct Accuphase CD transport with the (also discontinued) D/A converter, containing 8 (count 'em EIGHT) paralleled 24/192 converters! Spooky clean, and as dynamic as ANY system I have ever heard. Can you say ZZZEEEERRRROOOOOOOOO noise floor? Those amps are quieter in idle than other amps are when OFF! Nothing we threw at it was capable of even THINKING about strain... 'Course, at about 225K for the system, with wires and cables and all, I will never have anything like it.
Now, for a budget system? Something John Q could afford? Morel made a few years back "The Renaissance". A modified MW-164 woofer with an MDT-33 tweeter in an unstuffed transmission line... Thse things were scary dynamic for the size, and the price was only 1200 bux a pair! Yes, they made bass, too! Rated down to 25Hz, they were perfectly at home playing big stuff AND small stuff! Heard these in a demo room at the CES with a pair of (believe it or not) these. Phil Marchand is amazing, and his gear is spectacular for the money spent on it. I use his XM16 active crossover modules in my home system. Upgrade the op-amps, get the better resistors (he supplies 1%, already) and you WILL posess high-end gear without the pricetag! IMO, a perfect multimedia system, but then I love overkill!
Oh, and Tom Bohlender's $1,000,000 (yes... one MILLION DOLLAR) statement system. That was at the CES the following year, and it filled an auditorium. 12kW of Jeff Rowland amps (not included in the above price-tag!)... that was pretty good too...
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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: May 02, 2006 at 1:45 AM
Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: May 02, 2006 at 2:51 AM
Posted By: jayson358
Date Posted: May 02, 2006 at 8:36 AM
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Date Posted: May 02, 2006 at 8:39 AM
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Date Posted: May 04, 2006 at 11:23 AM