Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooThanks for the comments gentlemen...Guido - all great comments, that I am certain I would have performed... IF I hadn't traded in my old cd player (the Capitole Mk II SE) on the new Esoteri... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooSherod, Thanks for the link. I do think I could integrate the 2 channel into HT and have very good sonics, I just don't want to have all this $$$ tied up into an integrated HT system. If I ... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooHi Sherod,Patience? Honestly the word isn't in my vocabulary! The wife and I had my family visiting from out of state for vacation the week of the 4th... thus the week before and now, the w... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooGuido, do you mean I don't have to wait for 2,000 hours to be sure? :)In all honesty, I thought the Esoteric had plenty of hours on it a couple of hundred back. At that point however, I had... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooHi Sherod - Well, I am not certain if I have found the "best" combination of power cords or not yet, as I have been logging hours to burn in the new Esoteric X-01 Limited as well as the P... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooWell... hours continue to pass by and break in continues on both the X-01 Limited as well as the recently added Purist Anniversary AC cord.The X-01 Limited is just shy of 800 hours, in whic... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooHi Ken,LoL - Yeah, the ever migrating fake ficus trees... They really seemed to help behind the Blue Heron 2's. However, everytime I place them in the corners behind the Martin Logan Summit... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooWow, a bit of activity for early summer... Thanks Sherod. I am going through the motions, however time will tell where it all shakes out... Hopefully pleasing.Hi Grant, thanks for the info ... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooSystem edited: Swapped some photos of the listening room. I still need to revise the blurb about the system in the intro... another day... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooTvad,Thank you, and please no apologies! :) I had heard the Ferox has better extension at the extremes, however didn't have the "liquid" midrange of the Fluid version. I guess fin... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooThanks Guido. The Esoteric is finally starting to break out of its "shell" and show what it is capable of sonically... I look forward to hear how it will sound in a few weeks.As f... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooHi Sherod, my apologies for the delay in response... I have not really looked at the system thread in a while.Initially I really would have liked to have the AA around for comparison, espec... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooSystem edited: Some of the components listed were in need of update. All power cords have been upgraded from Epiphany to the Epiphany X a couple of months ago. Audio Aero Capitole Mk II SE cd playe... posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooSystem edited: Finally! The new digital front end has arrived. Why is it, an unknown departure from what is "known" in your system to a new component, once ordered, makes one feel like a child days... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooThanks Amperidian - yes, time with some slight system changes, coupled with a spring fever case of audiophilia nervosa results in a wandering eye toward new equipment. Hopefully the ears will appro... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooHi Sherod, Hope things are becoming more peaceful for you... my "understanding wife" ? *cough* Well, understanding is not the right word. Somewhat tolerant, yes, somewhat accepting, yes, ... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooIt seems I have neglected the posting on the system thread a bit. Perhaps I will need to back up a bit. After several hundred hours on the new Summits the midrange was still sounding lean/recessed ... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Gunbei's Messy Listening RoomNow that you mention it Albert, it does seem a little bland around here. Nothing like a good Cyberlink or DK Design post with Jax2 and Gunbei! posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
TWL's SystemTom,Great to see you and your system back up! Hope to see more of you around... thanks for the thoughtful help and advice in the past - much appreciated.Great looking Rott! Maybe I ... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooSystem edited: Just a system name change - nothting much exciting... :) New Summits are really starting to open up with about 800 or so hours on them at this point. Turntable should be making its w... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooSystem edited: Added photo of the room as it stands currently. The vinyl rig is still in the other room, as it hasn't found its way back into the listening room after remodelling as I am tweaking s... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooHey Vince,That may be quite possible! I have honestly never heard of that before. I have heard vinyl sounds better with humidity... but when I have owned the ML's it was in Ohio, which wasn... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooVince - if you haven't heard the Electraglide Epiphany's you are probably better off not knowing. They are consistantly argued to be in the top few cables along with the Kubala-Sosna, the Purist Do... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooSystem edited: Updated speakers... as the Meadowlark Blue Heron 2's have been sold as stated a bit ago in the thread, and the Martin Logan Summits have been added to the virtual system. I will try ... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooVince,Yep. That about sums it up. At this time I think there is a bit under 100 hours on the Martin Logan Summits. There is definately more bass in the room. I have just set up the speakers... posted about 18 years ago | View comment |