Hey Everybody,
I don't have much time to write so I'll be providing a more detailed follow-up later. I just wanted to advise our present and future customers of an increadible improvement they can make when using our speakers. If you don't have any extra discretionary dough laying around, I would suggest this:
If you have a first-born child or better yet, a mother-in-law (sorry mom) that isn't doing you much good at the moment, take them to market and see how much you can get for them. Hopefully it will be enough to purchase a really good tube amp like a Jolida from Response Audio. Make sure its as clean and transparent sounding as possible and has at least 60-70 watts per - and BUY IT!!!
If you get the Jolida unit that we auditioned (can't remember the model # right now - will update), it has a variable input gain control so set-up will be a piece of cake. Now, wire that sucker up to the tweeter/waveguide section of the speaker. Then make sure you use a good solid-state amp on the woofers (which you probably already have).
Now, play your favorite disc and slowly adjust the tube amp's volume up from zero to match low end volume.
Set back and be prepared to hear the most increadible music you've ever heard.We just came back from Jam'n Joe's
JAM'N Audio in Gurnee IL tonight and after listening to the Continuums on a Rogue Zeus and the Jolida, we decided to try bi-amping using a Crown Macro-Reference on the low end and the Jolida for the highs. OH - MY - GOD!!!!! As good as the Continuums have sounded in the past on the MR alone, this was almost beyond belief.
I'm still not big on tubes for the low end, I think that output transformer just gets worked too hard by the LF. The highs seem to suffer for it when forced to drive the whole range. The bass needs that high damping factor of a good SS to reproduce the tight punch and authority as well. But... when you take the bass away and let the tubes do what they're best at - high frequecies - there's just no words to describe it.
I heard the best sound of my life in the last day and a half and I want to thank Joe Jurzec and family of JAM'N Audio for the opportunity. They're our new dealer in the Chicago land area as well but I'll make that a seperate post later. I will add this though, they're some of the finest and most hospitable people I have ever met - true "Golden Souls" - if you will. In a few weeks you'll be able to audition the Continuums there and you won't find better people anywhere. Believe me, they'll treat you right. I want to thank them publicly and am truly grateful to have found such wonderful new friends.
Anyway, I'll provide more detail (make, model#'s, etc.) about the setup later. I just had to write and tell the world...I've had an epiheny - I believe!
-Bob
