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Eric Bibb
Location: London/Durham
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I'm Lawrence.
Main system, Audio Physic Virgos. Set up not optimal but only option I have at the moment. That isn't the listening chair before someone says something, that would be highly suboptimal.
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I wish I had been able to try my Audio Physic Virgo 2 in a different room but the sideways firing bass driver just didn't work in my living room so I moved them on ...
My mrs was gutted when I sold my Chario Academy II - beautiful solid wood cabs but I found the treble just a little too rolled-off for my tastes.
Sonore Rendu - Cambridge Audio Edge W - Sonus Faber Venere 2.5
Nice speakers, Jules, beautifully built and highly rated, too!
However, that's one of the issues with the modern fashion of designing floor-standing speakers with slim baffles, in an attempt to appear as 'room friendly', to pander to WAF... Remove those side-firing bass drivers and put them on the front of the speakers instead, with suitably wide baffles, and I suspect that would cure much of the problem!
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Main System
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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I'm pretty sure of it, Jerry! I completely agree with you about the imaging, as that's one of the things the Virgo's excel at, but for me, side-firing bass drivers on floor-standing speakers, in most modern rooms, is a flawed concept.
Marco.
Main System
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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Location: London/Durham
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I'm Lawrence.
I've got them in a bay, I find toeing them in gives the bass a longer apparent path to the walls and works well, but of course the width of the stage contracts a little. As I listen almost nearfield this isn't a problem. So basically I think they are more flexible than might be thought. After all some speakers have a bass cone that fires down into the floor and this is by design.
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Interesting that the co-founder of Audio Physic, Joachim Gerhard, left the company as he was unhappy about its direction - he now has a new company that sells speakers, amps and cartridges -
http://www.suesskindaudio.de/?lang=en
He's got another speaker with side-firing drivers but some very different designs too ...
Sonore Rendu - Cambridge Audio Edge W - Sonus Faber Venere 2.5
These are possibly the best speakers I have ever heard. Certainly the best for soundstaging, so good compared to anything else it just isn't funny. I think you can build them for a couple of grand if you have the skills and the tools. Designed for active operation though.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.