Picked them up yesterday after an eBay win. By golly, but they sound good.
They rather over-shadow my quite large Bowers Actives ..... !
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Picked them up yesterday after an eBay win. By golly, but they sound good.
They rather over-shadow my quite large Bowers Actives ..... !
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Nice one, Jerry.
I bet they sound good - love the drivers and the design principle used; butt-ugly, though!
I can't see them winning too many prizes in the WAF department, thankfully you don't have to worry about that
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Yep, they do big scale music very enthusiastically! Best I've heard in that respect in my own home. Second only to big Wilsons I've heard at Shows.
My Krell KSA50 drives them very nicely.
As you say, with my own music room, WAF isn't an issue ... but they don't look too bad with their 'togs' on ....
Still bloody big though
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What Taste you have!
The SD1's are fantastic speakers & I know they sound well with the KSA50.
A few tips:
The imaging is superb - holographic if you can get them placed right. They need space behind them and a little toe-in, so the axes cross just in front of your nose.
They respond more than most to tri-wiring and even more so to tri-amping and like solid core cable.
I also like the OBS's (a pair of which I still own in th 2nd system) - in some ways I actually prefer them because of the more seamless integration of the drivers but the SD1's have got the bass !!
Some of the best noises I ever heard were these tri amped with a MF A370 & 2 A1's.
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Thanks for the advice GW. Axes pointed in front of me? ... I've not tried that - yet!
At the moment they fire across the width of my room with about 30 inches space behind them - but I can easily change them around to fire along the length with a good 6 foot behind. I'll try that sometime soon.
And yes, I agree, they sound fab!
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I tried toe-ing them in as described. Yup, works a treat - everything now seems to hang in 3D between and behind the speakers. Thanks GW, I'll try the other tips soon.
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BTW - I fired up my OTL monoblocks today ... they work a treat with the SD1's. My Krell is now being used as an amp stand
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