I have a little over 300 hours on the Salks and they sound even better. I also made some system changes so bass is still just as deep but tighter and less boomy in my small room. The HT2-TL's actually work very well in a small room.
Here is a photo taken in their native habitat. I was able to catch this one while it was napping. Mesquite with an oil finish slowly turns from a boring tan to a rich deep reddish brown as it ages.
I would be willing to make mesquite veneer and ship it to Salk Sound for anyone who wanted mesquite speakers. Unfortunately there is a lot of labor involved and the raw material costs are very high, the retail delivered price for the veneer plus a solid mesquite front baffle is $3450. The price of the speakers plus finishing would then be added on.
Other system changes that increased the clarity of the sound are listed below.
1.) I build a low powered,
fanless music server using a Jetway JNF96FL-525-LF Intel Atom D525 (1.8Hz Dual Core), 4 GB ram, and a OCZ Vertex 60 GB solid state drive. I like it, the computer is 100% noiseless. I'm running Windows 7 and networked to .flac files on my office computer in another room.
2.) The music server is close to the DAC so I can use shorter and higher quality wires.
3.) Feeding the DAC is a
KingRex UC192, a much higher quality converter than the HagUSB I had been using.
4.) .flac is a great storage format but I still think .wav files sound better so I use Mike Galusha's excellent
FlacWavLoader. The FlacWaveLoader converts .flac files to .wav, stores the .wav files in memory and starts the media player. The media server is now a memory player with none of the streaming problems other media servers have.
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=100921.0http://www.mikegalusha.com/Wayne
