gonefishin:
Ha... your not the first to have a project take a little longer than projected!
I've been sending Ray a bunch of expensive cable so his system should REALLY sound good now.
A lot of people have thought about doing the same thing. Stands made of two powered Shiva subs. You end up with something that looks more like a full range speaker (well... it is a full range speaker bi-amped). The downside is that you don't have the same flexibility for moving the sub around the room for ideal placement and the cost of building two custom subs as stands is usually much more than buying a single RAVA that can be squeezed in the corner. The stand mounted HE10.1s take up about the same floor space but look smaller. Parts cost minus the enclosure for what your looking to do is about $600 plus or minus a little. Cost for the enclosure...????? Your brother could buy a couple Parts Express Stands for $100 and a RAVA for $400 and be done with it. Of course... what fun would that be?
The new home is great.... I can piss in the front yard (without getting arrested), which has always been the litmus test for any house I've wanted to own. The audio system is probably like many other compulsive audiophiles... in flux. We have five acres and I'm in the process of building a new super duper shop to give me more room to operate out of. After we get the four walls and a roof raised I'll build a listening room before doing anything else. So, that is where I'm focusing my energy for the moment. That and some new products..... new DIY speaker line, a couple small quality subs, new DACT line stage/phono stage new web site, Cardas cable kits & a finished LC Audio PWM amplifier.
Until the listening room is built I'm using the Ella + HE10s in the living room of the house. The acoustics are horrible so I'm really pushing to get the new building up. Not to mention the wife has control over what the room looks like in the house. The new building will be all mine.
