A great story and a must share...
I had a lot of people over the day before the Texas DIY event to hear the big line sources that have been designed for Epiphany Audio including the owner and others involved in Epiphany Audio.
We had some big amps on these things and at one point decided to air them out on some Blue Man Group and see how hard they could really hit.
The matching sub for these uses two 18" woofers in a sealed box that is a 2' cube. The transform circuit keeps them flat to 20Hz and the amps would output 750 watts of power.
My single 12" sub that was previous in its spot back behind the speakers on the rear wall was moved to make room for the big sub. It was moved across the room about 18 feet away and placed at the end of the couch where Gary Dodd decided to sit on it.
Then we put in some Blue Man Group.
What was really a bummer was that when we really cranked it up on the first track, and the really big drum at the end was pounded, it made the CD played skip badly.
I had never heard that player skip before.
I was using the Rega Planet as a transport with an Ack dAck sitting on top of it.
The Planet has some pretty nice feet on it (really soft and gushy).
It was setting on Lovan Sovereign racks that had Isopoints (three spikes) on all the legs from shelf to shelf.
Along the back wall, where the stand was placed, there are four large tube traps that are 16" thick and filled with foam wedges.
There was a tube trap on either side of the rack and on either side of the sub, plus a 50" Pioneer big screen between them.
Then there is multi layers of 1" thick open cell foam all cross the back wall that overlap.
So it wasn't like the sub was firing right into it or something.
Hearing the player skip was a big bummer. We really wanted to hear max impact.
So I said to Gary, go get one of those Levitators out of the car and lets see what it will do. he had brought some up for the show.
Gary seamed to think it wasn't going to control that kind of impact, and no one else did either, including myself, but I though it worth a try.
So Gary brought one in and we set it under the CD player.
Back to our places we tried it again.
No skips, not one beat. Pressure levels were unbelievable but no skips.
Lows were hitting so hard that at one point Gary got every ones attention to look at the 12" sub that he was sitting on. That little 12" woofer was hitting about 1/3 of its X-max from the pressure in the room.
As someone screamed out "is that plugged in?" Gary waved the power cord in his hand showing that it was by no means on.
That is how hard the system was hitting.
We then cranked it up to really scary levels for several sections of different tracks. All was clean and clear and loading the room like I had ever heard.
I always knew the Levitator worked really well in isolating out vibrations and in some systems even using low level signals an audible difference was clearly noticed.
But I couldn't believe it could do what it did. The whole room full of people was all really impressed. I was too.
Thumbs up to Gary Dodd for a great product.
I'll never not have one in my system now.
