So....any listening impressions of Duke's speakers ? Thanks...
Chris
Chris, sorry it has taken so long to reply, just did a month off of work, and the rave came at the end.
Work has been hectic to say the least.
Peter hosted a wonderful spread along with open pool.
Food and company was perfect.
We ended up having 14 or so people.
It was a showlike dash to set my rig up in Peters front room in one hour, before guests arrived.
If this sounds like the preface to an excuse or anything similar let me say in advance I was not able to get the sound I enjoy at my abode.
I felt it to be shrill and constricted. The introduction of new variables overwhelmed our collective (Duke, Lorie, and myself), ability to tune the equipment to our new environment.
After speaking with the owner of the system preamp I realized the pre was set to clip the attenuation 20db.
That explains strangled....
GBB's felicia made a difference on the CD player, smoother more liquid~fluid sounding.
The felicia on the pre sounded more choked?
The thing with Duke's design, IMHO, is that the 45% toe in drives image/soundstage people nuts.
Those individuals want to see the speakers pointing in the face, (forgive my generalizations, just got off of 10 hours of overtime)
My personal opinion is that they must be toed in at least 45% firing 2 feet in front of you. I run them closer to 30%.
We also had problems with bass boom but again it was a new room, Duke and Lorie had never heard the jolidas before and it was a new system.
The bass was adj. via the port tuning but again time was not our friend.
In the end we had a very nice lecture from Duke, concerning his speaker philosophy.
Afterwords, Duke and Lorie came back to the berndt house were I set my rig back up and played my stuff.
Duke claimed he never heard those sounds coming out of his speakers...
Granted we were listening to "Pig Destroyer" at around 105 db, but the point was listening to his speakers (92~93db efficient, with 200 triode watts),
The bass had layers, like a onion, and texture, not to mention chest pounding dynamics.
note to self...
Do not do a rave with new gear and a new space with no previous set up time.