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One.. Rime of the Ancient Mariner

AC/DC in HD off qobuz, Gustard r26 to RAM 285->tekton double impact SE+2x10subs.. (maggie fuses got delayed to Monday) Very enjoyable while doing chores around the house…. The vibrating house helps with the cleaning.

Fall off not to my liking. https://www.homedepot.com/p/NewAge-Products-3-ft-Solid-Surface-Countertop-in-Black-Galaxy-Granite-89106/315511240#overlay need 3 of em, but they are 76 pounds each.. Thats pushing it for me to move around. Could always put on a second layer too.. with another layer of cork or rubber between.. but that might be just a little overkill. And I like the black. 🙂 But it is a total of >2x what I thought I would pay.. sigh.. 15 years ago, when I bought pieces to do an above garage apartment, stuff was alot less expensive.. But at 225+ pounds, that top should be a sufficient base for the RAM285 and the Silver Sevens

Had two “holy grails” /white elephants. Silver Sevens and those Line source speakers. Got one, but now will need wait until I have some more cash to burn to seriously go looking for the other..

Bob Carver Line Source… I have 10’ ceilings.. and the money to buy them. 😉

Just a thought… I have 8ohm and 4 ohm speakers. An A/B switch would be cool. A=8ohm outs and B=4ohm outs. Autoselect the feedback with switch position.

Later last night, I relaxed with some HD AC/DC before bed. (About 80db at my seat) Very enjoyable. This is full range to the tektons with the 2 subs getting signal from the 285 sub outs. i imagine it would be better if I high passed the amp, used the sub outs at the eq and adjusted the subs to 110 or so.(for high spl), easy switch..I’ll try that this evening. That was straight from DAC. Did not adjust any settings on it from SS use, so some play time there in my future. 4000t is supposed to be here tomorrow..

A little better…. Sounds good. Gets a little distortion at really high volume. Found I cannot use the maggies yet.. I cannot find the fuses I ordered so.. ordered some more.. Maybe this weekend.. d4710136-47ff-4f75-bfa5-92d438af29bb.mp4

Short.. gotta find a better way to convert qucktime video to mp4.. IMG_0597 copy.mp4

Stopping by counter top place tomorrow to see about any fall offs.

Ok, so I submitted a question on their website asking if they had any relevant prior testing they could reveal or advise for isolating tube amps in the presence of high spl audio. Will report any reply. by the way, RAM285 just showed up.. got to eat dinner first though.

Sounding good at very high spl and being able to “adjust” the sound to my liking.. never cared much for what the “purists” say.. I like my music the way I want to hear it. Speakers always the limiting factor for me with secondary being source material that starts sounding terrible at higher volumes.. I detest delta sigma dacs… too much added “brightness”. But they measure sooo good!! Tons of power available with Carver and speaker protection circuits saved me more than a few times… Only put amps without protection circuit on the 901s .. rated IIRC “unlimited power in non commercial use”.. 🙂. Eq’d and frequency limited to mids and highs, (multi-amp, xovers and never without the 901 eqs) don’t blow or distort with good source material. I have blown and/or heard egregious distortion from speakers costing 2-5x as much, usually the tweeters just get too hot and burn away. Looking at you Martin Logan Motion 60xt.. in other words.. I only care about what I hear, that meets my desires, at a price point I can afford for equipment that has proven record of lasting decades.

Is rubber better than cork? I went with cork based on some article I read, but can’t find it now.. smh.. getting old..

So is this a major improvement over SH in say a 4000t or an incremental refinement or the same end result on newer hardware?

Amazing Line Source loudspeakers = excessive drooling