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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Paul, the Kondo is a real beauty. Congrats on your new stable of amps. I know how happy you are with your Avantgarde’s and I am very happy for you. You have a live performance in your room every night.
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    Paul, the Kondo is a real beauty. Congrats on your new stable of amps. I know how happy you are with your Avantgarde’s and I am very happy for you. You have a live performance in your room every night.
    Seriously I can’t stop listen to my Mezzo + Kondo w NOS tubes are just out of this world. Whoa
    Paul

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul View Post
    Seriously I can’t stop listen to my Mezzo + Kondo w NOS tubes are just out of this world. Whoa
    Hi Paul,

    What Kondo amps specifically are you using?

    Thanks


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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Looks awesome 👍😄
    do you recall the size of the room ? I am looking either the Uno or the Duo, but not sure my room is big enough for the Duos (16” x 22”)
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Quote Originally Posted by Gravlund View Post
    Looks awesome 
    do you recall the size of the room ? I am looking either the Uno or the Duo, but not sure my room is big enough for the Duos (16” x 22”)
    Actually, if you have any flexibility, it would be fine with TRIOs.
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Smith View Post
    Actually, if you have any flexibility, it would be fine with TRIOs.
    Hi Jim
    that would be way too big. I would have to sit on one of horns
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Quote Originally Posted by Gravlund View Post
    Hi Jim
    that would be way too big. I would have to sit on one of horns
    In 2001, I installed a pair of Trios in a client’s dedicated 19x14x10 room. It became well known around the world, with companies such as VIVA & Audiopax traveling from Italy & Brazil to hear it. He later had a rooom - dedicated - approximately the size of yours. In that room, I installed triple bass horns with his Trios, again with rave comments...
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Great that must have been an experience to listen to. I have heard the trio with trible bashorns at a show in a hotel. That room was very big ( 22x 44”) but it was great sound
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Quote Originally Posted by Gravlund View Post
    Great that must have been an experience to listen to. I have heard the trio with trible bashorns at a show in a hotel. That room was very big ( 22x 44”) but it was great sound
    IMO, it an only be done in a smaller space IF it is a dedicated room. And the Basshorns can NEVER be set up in the center for ultimate performance.
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    RE Amps with Avantgardes;

    Out of the hundreds I've listened to & set-up, for me, it's been good tubes amps all the way. The great SS amps have decent detail & tonality, but they are simply not as musically engaging. They sound a bit mechanical, IMO. There may be a ss amp out there (such as the SIT-3) that doesn't sound a bit mechanical with Avantgardes, but I've not yet heard it.
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Smith View Post
    In 2001, I installed a pair of Trios in a client’s dedicated 19x14x10 room. It became well known around the world, with companies such as VIVA & Audiopax traveling from Italy & Brazil to hear it. He later had a rooom - dedicated - approximately the size of yours. In that room, I installed triple bass horns with his Trios, again with rave comments...

    Where did you locate the triple bass horns ...?

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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Triple Basshorn stacks behind each Trio.
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Haa ha, 6 Bass Horns in that small a room , Eye of the Storm , easy Cat 5 ....

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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Quote Originally Posted by a.wayne View Post
    Haa ha, 6 Bass Horns in that small a room , Eye of the Storm , easy Cat 5 ....
    ???
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    Re: Today’s Avantgarde Duo XD Install

    Storm references?
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    Haa ha yes , can imagine the pressurization ..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Smith View Post
    RE Amps with Avantgardes;

    Out of the hundreds I've listened to & set-up, for me, it's been good tubes amps all the way. The great SS amps have decent detail & tonality, but they are simply not as musically engaging. They sound a bit mechanical, IMO. There may be a ss amp out there (such as the SIT-3) that doesn't sound a bit mechanical with Avantgardes, but I've not yet heard it.
    Hi Jim,
    What are the top 3 amps you have heard Avantgardes with? And also, how has the speaker changed since 2001?
    Thanks

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