Some Strad Porn

[Paul]

Master Franco Serblin...

 

[joeinid]

May he rest in peace.

 

[Mike]

A genius. He knew how to create musical speakers that sounded as good as they looked.


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[bzr]

A genius. He knew how to create musical speakers that sounded as good as they looked.


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Yeah, the Ktema are a speaker that would lure me away from Wilson Benesch, although I won't part with the Infrasonics' ....

 

[MDP]

I've never heard Strads, but I would sure love to!

Beautiful speaker!!

 

[PMCH]

The Strads look better and sound better now that I have the longer interconnects to place the speakers where I want

 

[Harris4crna]

I went to listen to the Strads while living in Italy. Found a hi fi shop selling a pair on Audiogon from Italy. I notified them and traveled to Audio Plus in San Benedetto. Fell in love instantly listening to the awesome speakers until........gentleman stated, listen to these speakers....i thought, those speakers are not the speakers i came to listen to and there is no way they are going to compare to the Strads. He connected the speakers and all of sudden i realized there is a God. I purchased the speakers on the spot and now own a pair of Franco Serblin Ktemas. Now, if the Ktemas were not in house that day, i would have purchased the Strads for sure..


Harris4crna. Accuphase A-70 class a amp and C-3850 preamp. Franco Serblin Ktema speakers. VPI Classic 1 TT with Simaudio 810LP phono stage and VPI SDS. Transparent Reference Speaker cable and IC. Quadraspire racks and much more.

 

[bzr]

Harris, thats a really neat story worthy of the telling, thanks for sharing!

 

[Harris4crna]

A caveat to the story. Both the Strads and the Ktemas were being ran by a Soulution 7 series system.


Harris4crna. Accuphase A-70 class a amp and C-3850 preamp. Franco Serblin Ktema speakers. VPI Classic 1 TT with Simaudio 810LP phono stage and VPI SDS. Transparent Reference Speaker cable and IC. Quadraspire racks and much more.

 

[crwilli]

Updated pic - Strads seem to love tubes.

 

[joeinid]

Wow!

Beautiful. They love a little power too, great choice!

 

[Mike]

Updated pic - Strads seem to love tubes.

Gorgeous! Love the Strads with tubes!


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[crwilli]

Thanks for resizing the pic Joe! I am giving them some time to settle before making any firm judgments compared to the MC452 but already, it is easy to hear the fuller midrange. Interestingly enough, it feels like there is more weight in the upper bass regions and the highs seems very similar.

 

[joeinid]

You are very welcome. Glad you are happy so far. I predict you'll be even happier as everything breaks in. Your setup looks AWESOME! Thank you for sharing.

 

[Yoga]

ha ha. Ultimately it was the combination of the room dimensions, alcove, 4500 lp's, brick wall with large garage behind it and bass standing waves giving lots of bass gain.
As the acoustics guy that came around once. After he measured - hmmm difficult room indeed

new room is smaller, but sounds a lot better. no disco ball - perhaps your are right :congrats:

Looks awesome - so clean and precise. I'm sure it sounds nice too :¬)

 

[Gene]

Here's my Strads (No.788), driven beautifully by an ASR Emitter I Exclusive Blue.

 

[PMCH]

Gene, your Stads look very pretty. What is on top of them?

 

[Gene]

Gene, your Stads look very pretty. What is on top of them?

Thanks, Paul... The small objects are called "blue diamonds" and are a part of the SteinMusic Harmonizer system that I use in my room.

 

[PMCH]

Gene, reminds me of the Synergistic Research product. It always amazes me with what can make a difference in our systems. I put down 3 different rugs to hear which one sounded the best to me. I even switched from dedicated 12 AWG circuits to dedicated 10 AWG circuits and swear it sounds better.

 

[1kw]

I love mine as well