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    Treehaus Audiolab

    Apologies...just catching up on the thread. As a reference point, I can't explain this at all, but for some reason my Zu Druid 6s seemed to crave higher power amps than what the numbers suggested they might otherwise. I think those had the same drivers as your Defs...just one less full range...
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    Treehaus Audiolab

    He's using Room Eq Wizard (REW) for making the measurements/curves, then it gets loaded to a MiniDSP device which sits between the pre-amp out and woofer amp inputs. In fact, I just remembered that in my first speakers from him (with traditional woofers), he used a MiniDSP device that had an...
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    Treehaus Audiolab

    I haven't but I think they look interesting, and I would like to hear some. They don't appear to be using field coils, perhaps to stay at some particular price points (I know Voxativ makes some pretty serious field coils, and that seems to be the full-range maker they are using).
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    Treehaus Audiolab

    I was skeptical about the dsp at first, too, until i heard it and played around w/ it for a while. First and foremost it's just a basic digital crossover for the woofers. You don't have to use the room correction, but I think it helped tighten things up from there with the correction. Rich...
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    Treehaus Audiolab

    I am still a huge fan of my little Soul Supremes and happy to report that I have them back after loaning them to a friend, running as a little bedroom system and performing marvelously with a PX4 SET amp. I have yet to hear any Definitions but would still love to...I have no doubt the new ones...
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    Treehaus Audiolab

    Yeah, I actually own 2.5 pairs (2 stereo pairs and 1 mono!) from Treehaus now. In full disclosure, I have worked with Rich and Treehaus so long now in his designing, building, and delivering the speakers, amps and pre-amps he's built for me...I definitely consider him a friend at this point...
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    Antipodes Owners - Systems - Whats Best at Your House

    How much improvement one gets is going to be dependent on so many different factors it's almost not worth trying to discuss it, unfortunately, as there's isn't a universal result we could agree to. I do find the different data points from individuals very useful as a direction (including the...
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    Antipodes Owners - Systems - Whats Best at Your House

    I very much agree w/ your way of thinking here--especially at the relative price levels you're suggesting. But I might make the additional comment that overspending on the server relative to the DAC could be a miss at higher price points. You might make the same argument with the opposite...
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    Antipodes Owners - Systems - Whats Best at Your House

    I haven't made the jump to the newest Antipodes servers yet (EX/CX currently, but looking forward to doing so based on the feedback here and elsewhere), but for those of you with the top Antipodes servers, I would strongly suggest you experiment with top external clocks, network switches...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    Great points all around. You are very clearly in the position to get the absolute most out of the medium, which is awesome and enviable from my end. You are absolutely right that digital, too, has all the media limitations you spelled out. In spite of this, I somewhat mentally tried to move...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    I'll be even more clear in my response in hopes of ensuring no one thinks I posted some loaded BS question because I was paid by someone with a financial interest in a piece of gear. It's such a stupid supposition I can't even believe I'm justifying it with a second response let alone a first...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    Not sure how to respond to that accusation other than simply to state that in my case you're dead wrong. This is/was a legitimate question from me and I have nothing to do with those names or other posts you're referencing. On a personal level I find ASR to largely be a joke, mostly with folks...
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    What is the benefit of very expensive DACs?

    I am very late to this thread and chime in only to offer a side opinion of someone who has been climbing the DAC ladder for a while and made many bad and a few good investments, so I feel I can offer both opinions fairly objectively. I haven't counted recently but I have owned at least 10...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    If the first comment was to me, it's a fair one. My interest in tape is a couple-fold. First, I've had a number of folks that say they feel when well-done, it's often even better than vinyl, and of course there are the folks that also feel vinyl sounds better, on average, than digital. I...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    I totally get your points. As a younger me I shot a lot of 6x6 medium format and a bit of 4x5 and even 8x10 black and white film, and printed in my own darkroom for a decade or so. I was a fairly early adopter of digital photography for convenience, but loved the process of the film and the...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    Thanks to all who have responded--this confirms what I suspected and what others had implied too. I really appreciate it. I don't have any friends with significant tape experience so it's been all forum reading. And for clarity, I'm NOT disappointed in the Otari, and I'm glad I bought one to...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    So you are feeling like your tape is more capable than the same in digital? At least with some tape source?
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    I may not have been clear in my questions. First, I'm skeptical of everything, but I am also someone who will have an open mind (as best as I can) and try things, even if I'm skeptical. Of course the conversion process SHOULDN'T change the sound in a materially good way. I was told by a few...
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    SETs and Horns

    I have a bunch of stuff from Radu...great stuff. Haven't heard a pre from him yet, however.
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    SETs and Horns

    To your earlier points, it's definitely a head scratcher. As a non-engineer the only thing that pops to mind is to whether the top and bottom sections are different enough in impedance or efficiency that when running separated they are placing enough of a different draw on the individual amp...
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    SETs and Horns

    This is super interesting. When you are running it all of the same amp (i.e. not vertically bi-amping), are the two sets of drivers just connected via jumpers on the posts, or were they wired internally? I couldn't find a photo of the rear of your speakers. Also out of curiosity, how are you...
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    SETs and Horns

    Rex, your view on all this is super healthy and balanced. Even when you get it right it's natural for many of us (all of us on this forum?) to ask ourselves how to make it "more" right. There are many times where I have to just tell myself to stop touching stuff and listen. And usually when I...
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    SETs and Horns

    I agree with your first couple of comments to a very large degree. However, SET amps vs. some of the topologies you mentioned (which I think coincidentally do tend to sound a lot alike--owning all of them you mention) can, however, sound very different--even when all are good "matches" for the...
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    SETs and Horns

    I'm (now) a full-range high-efficiency driver guy...whether horned or open baffled (or perhaps even boxed), I think augmenting the true bass with solid state amplification, at least below 120 (some full range can effectively cover a bit lower), is required for the lowest punch and a very-defined...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    Yeah, that may be part of my struggle for sure. There's a lot of work involved with tape, which I'm generally ok with, but I am hoping the sound quality will move me too.
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    All good, I don't take this stuff personally, and I'm sure you didn't mean anything personal. I started this post in hopes of finding folks floating around this forum who are passionate about tape and simultaneously passionate about digital that might be able to coach me a bit.
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    SETs and Horns

    Interesting thoughts and I agree with your assessments. I found the 845 tube, like you, to be the SUV of DHTs...it simply ran over some of the micro-details and micro-dynamics too often vs. a 300B, PX4, 45 and 71a. It had a lot of punch, but ultimately was too heavy-handed for me. The PSET...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    I am simply asking if folks with real experience think I am missing something. Its not a quest for self-affirmation. This forum has people that have owned and enjoyed a lot of different equipment, and I respect the opinions of many on here. I don't have audio friends with reel-to-reel...
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    Dangerous topic, so I'd like to be very specific...DCS Rossini vs. Otari (or any) Reel-to-Reel...real comparisons?

    I desperately do NOT want to stroll anywhere near the dreaded Digital vs. Analog debate, but here is my reason for the post... For the first time in 15 years I finally feel like I have my digital to a level that probably even exceeds what I had hoped was possible in digital--and even very...
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    DCS Vivaldi

    Got it. Spot on there. And please note I wasn't arguing, just trying to see if I am missing something in my own system that I should go revisit based on your findings. Thanks for clarifying and I appreciate your input on this topic and thanks for posting back.

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