Chops' Current System Pics ....

Thank you Paul.

After having to do some major phase adjustments on the subs (I still don't understand why that is), the system sounds very good now.

I don’t know how or why, but I had to completely readjust the phase switch and continuous phase knob on both subs…


Before M700’s:
Left sub - Phase switch at 180* - Phase knob at 0*
Right sub - Phase switch at 0* - Phase knob at 130-ish*


After M700’s:
Left sub - Phase switch at 0* - Phase knob at 245-ish*
Right sub - Phase switch at 0* - Phase knob at 185-ish*


Also, the gain on both subs did in fact have to be bumped up just a bit.
 
Gratz on the M700s Charles. I had a pair for a while. They were very nice amps. Look right at home in your rack!
 
Congratulations! :congrats:


Please let us know all about the differences with the mono amplification!
 
It's apparent our new little "Bucky" enjoy's watching Paul's videos as well!


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Spock said:
I really have interest in these monoblocks.
I have no way to try them.
So, if can say something about would be nice...
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Well, when I first got them connected and warmed up, I was having phase issues with my subs (simply an issue with the settings on the subs), and I simply turned them off. A day or two later, I got home from work and listened to a couple of Radiohead albums, Kid A and Pablo Honey. It wasn't until I played both of those albums fully that I realized that the subs were still turned off! That alone is a testament as to how good these amps do with warmth, heft and tautness in the lower midrange, midbass and bass. They make these bookshelf speakers sound like much larger floor standers. And as you can see, it's not like I have these speakers up against the wall for bass reinforcement or anything. They're several feet out into the room.

There's a certain sultry take to the midrange that gives vocals a very true, lifelike weight and body which is very inviting. They provide a real connectivity between voice and body.

Treble is natural, smooth and detailed with plenty of air and space. No sibilance here.

The amps are completely dead silent and produce a sound stage well beyond the edges of the speakers themselves. It's not exaggerated by any means.

The PS Audio Stellar M700 monoblock amps are definitely worth the money. I'm glad I got a pair!
 
Thanks a lot.

It looks like they are all i need. Especially when you talk about the lower midrange and the strong bass.
My dilemma: to buy without hearing. I promised myself i would never do that, but...
I need time to think!


Thanks again :thumbsup:
 
Spock said:
Thanks a lot.

It looks like they are all i need. Especially when you talk about the lower midrange and the strong bass.
My dilemma: to buy without hearing. I promised myself i would never do that, but...
I need time to think!


Thanks again :thumbsup:
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I have news for you, ALL of my gear and ALL of my speakers (except for a pair of Magnepan MGLR-1's many moons ago), I have always purchased without hearing them first. There are no shops around my area unless I want to travel 60-100 miles in either direction. So I base all of my purchases off of both professional reviews and reviews of those who try said gear in their homes.

So far, I haven't run into any major duds.

And you're welcome.
 
Well it seems as though an update is in order. The Sonus faber Venere 1.5's are gone for a second and final time. One of my brothers bought them off of me. Something else that's gone... The JL Audio e110 subs. They aren't sold yet, but I will be selling them soon.

As for the current system, everything is the same except that I have added another shelf onto the Pangea audio rack and using all of the shorter uprights. The other change are the speakers. I am once again running my dream speakers, tried and true, old faithful NHT 2.9's that I purchased some 11 years ago when Teresa and I first got together.

The biggest and best change/upgrade of all is that we just moved out of that lousy apartment after a 6 year stint and into a nice little house built in 1951 with all original wood floors and solid plaster walls and ceiling. The only downside, not a single grounded outlet in the entire house. However, I did ask that at least the one outlet that I'll be using for the system be grounded, which it now is.

The wood floors were just freshly repaired, sanded and refinished by a friend of mine, and my brothers, Teresa and I did all of the painting and sanding/refinishing of the entire interior and doors. Luckily, my new landlord is also a good friend of mine, and his wife actually grew up in this house as her parents moved into the house in 1952.

We have been given the liberty to do pretty much anything we want to the house within reason of course. We just moved in this past week, and this is our 4th night staying here, and we're loving it already!

Anyway, on with some pics...

From this hillbilly wreck from the previous resident...
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To this after we got a hold of it...
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And now to my own personal touch...
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I understand that. I lived in apartments for many many years. After being in houses for so long now (over 20 years) I could never go back. Of course the up keep on a house is a different story, but worth it!
 
I know a few of you guys follow this thread and enjoy seeing the on-going changes. Well... Here's a couple more changes, and these made a HUGE improvement in overall sound. Loads of dynamics, very very silky smooth treble, lively, natural vocals to die for, powerful, highly detailed and super fast mid-bass, and deep, agile and extended bass (that last one is a real shocker)...


Me, my girlfriend and my oldest brother have been on the road for 15 hours straight today, from 1am to 4pm, from here in central Florida to nearly central Georgia and back again. 880 miles rounds trip! We went to pick up basically brand new Klipsch Heresy III's in walnut. We're all tired as heck. My girlfriend is already in bed asleep, my brother is here in the listening room on the couch out like a light, and I'm about to pass out myself as I've been awake since 5:30am yesterday morning! But I am just too caught up in the sound I'm hearing coming from my system right now.


So I pulled out the NHT 2.9's and put these little Heresy III's on the floor and gave them a listen for a while. While they sounded okay, on their stock risers, it wasn't the sound I was expecting. I then removed the risers and placed these little guys on some little tables that I purchased a while back for those Genesis speakers I was using. Placing the Klipsch's on these tables opened them right up. A large, vast and rather detailed sound stage with plenty of width beyond the speakers, both to the sides and front to back. In either position, they provided impressive bass output, at least down to around 40-45 Hz in my room.


Though bass performance is great with these little guys, I was wanting more, and with great extension. Since the amplifier controls on both of my JL e110 subs are having issues again (2nd time now), I decided to dig out my old trusty Polk Audio PSW505 subs and give them a whirl. I've always connected them with an RCA cable and Y-adapter, but this time I decided to connect them via their speaker inputs (the preferred method of Paul McGowan of PS Audio). So from each Stellar M700 monoblock I am running my old Wireworld Oasis 7 bi-wire cables to feed both input channels on each sub.


Holy frapp!! I have owned these Polk subs for 10+ years, used them a million different ways and not once have I heard them reproduce bass of any kind like they are tonight, being fed from those PS Audio Stellar M700 amps. Deep, tight, fast, tuneful, accurate, detailed, textured, and in living stereo! With one album I was listening to, you can clearly track the bass from the far left and hear it just walk across to the floor to the far right. And acoustic bass, bass drums, etc, etc, follow along cleanly with the Heresy III's.


To top it off, I was going to sell off all of my PS Audio gear and go with something with lower gain and tubes in the preamp stage as I thought that would be a better fit for these super efficient loudspeakers, but not now. The PS Audio Stellar preamp and monoblock amps make these Klipsch Heresy III's sing along with the best of them and the entire setup is deal silent when nothing is playing. In fact, these speakers showcase just what exactly the Stellar stack is really capable of, and I can safely say the Stellar stack is quite capable indeed!


Anyway, on with some pics. Just as a side note, I will be looking for some proper speaker stands for these Heresy's in the near future, but for now, these little tables will do just fine.


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That's too bad I didn't know Anthony had passed. Last I communicated with him he was finishing up radiation treatments and ready to get back to building.
 
Jack said:
That's too bad I didn't know Anthony had passed. Last I communicated with him he was finishing up radiation treatments and ready to get back to building.
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Yeah, stupid cancer. It doesn't discriminate, and I've lost dear friends from it, and have a brother that has dealt with it a couple times already. Absolutely no fun at all.

As for stands, I'm not sure if I want to go with heavy metal stands like what Anthony made or if I want to go with beefy solid wood stands like what you typically see under Harbeth speakers.
 
What about using a few dabs of BlueTak and putting the Klipsch on the subs?
May or may not work out due to necessary positioning but many have done it sucessfully.
Just a thought.
Congrats on the new purchase.
 
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