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Where are your Acoustats?

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Satie

In Reply to: RE: attenuators?? is there better?? posted by The peleton on September 20, 2010 at 10:03:55

I thought you liked them.

Did they end up moved elsewhere in the house?

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RE: Where are your Acoustats? - The peleton 08:06:01 09/22/10 (8)
Satie-I dont like my Stats I love them-I adore them-I absolutely am DONE looking for listening room speakers FOREVER! Im in the process of recovering them with Vandersteen speaker cloth and painting the wood tops and bottoms. So far they look great-one down one to go. I have lots of projects-daunting but exiting!

I love magnepan too, they were my first audiophile item. I will always have a pair of Maggies somewhere in my house.

I hear a lot about chokes - dunno what they are or where to get them -- Help?
- RE: Where are your Acoustats? - Satie 12:56:00 09/22/10 (7)
  Chokes and Bybees take RF out of the speaker-amp circuit, the Maggies like all planar magnetics are actually one really big antenna and the RF gets stuck in the circuit and strains the amp for non-music signals.
  
  The choke is a small value inductor put in line - in series- with the speaker, the Bybee is a capacitor in parallel. Both are effective low pass filters that cut off supersonic frequencies including RF.
  
  It was surprising that you were suddenly looking for speakers after such a big commitment.
  - RE: Where are your Acoustats? - The peleton 14:04:16 09/22/10 (6)
    commitment?
    
    I have two rooms for speakers--my personal dad space where I watch movies tv listen to music play xbox and the listening room that is currently being set up in the master bedroom where the stats are going.
    
    I have so many projects to get done with no time or money to do them
    
    1- room acoustics for both rooms
    2- acquire new amp for my personal room
    3- set up stats and equipment in listening room (which involve massive furniture moving)
    4- chokes for maggies
    5- send servo tube monoblocks to get updated and mods
    6- get to the guts of the 1.6's
    7- mye stands
    8- new squeezebox touch
    
    and the list goes on
    
    room acoustics I have a decent grasp on, amp - its either anthem or emotiva, moving furniture requires at least three strong men and four full days (2 armoir, king size bed, fan removal, ect), CHOKES? no idea what parts i need or where they go-NEED HELP-, servo amp mod 3grand-ouch, as far as maggie guts I have absolutely NO IDEA what Im doing at all-really no clue-dont even know where to start-NEED HELP, mye stands no problem probable audiogon, squeezebox easy cant wait --
    
    Daunting but doable
    - RE: Where are your Acoustats? - Satie 12:13:27 09/23/10 (5)
      Well we have a few things I can help you with.
      
      The servo amp upgrade is outside my area.
      
      I am not there, so I can't help you with moving - besides my bad back would not give you much assistance.
      
      Choke - best is to make one out of speaker wire - simply a small value coil. What are you using for speaker wire on the 1.6 now?
      
      I can help you with amps. Quite a few others can contribute.
      - RE: Where are your Acoustats? - The peleton 21:45:31 09/23/10 (4)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Where are your Acoustats? posted by Satie on September 23, 2010 at 12:13:27
        
        Thanks for your help Satie--
        
        Im using crappy monster speaker cable but plan to upgrade...Im thinking about anticables..seems like a good deal and people seem to like them..Im not sure I buy into the high priced cables thing..In terms of interconnects I have noticed a huge difference between my crappy monster and audioquest..I a/b tested them and heard an improvement with the audioquest.
        
        RE: Where are your Acoustats? - pictureguy 10:16:44 09/26/10 (3)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Where are your Acoustats? posted by The peleton on September 23, 2010 at 21:45:31
        
        Peloton,
        If you are thinking your panels, the 1.6s are a little 'hot' on the top end, try an experiment.
        
        Take you 20 minutes TOPS. I promise.
        
        Just rotate them in place. Magnepan has them configured to listen to the mylar side. In the 'old days', you listened to the pole piece side. I toe mine so they cross well behind me. great balance.
        
        I prefer the pole piece to listen to. smoother, less strident highs and a bigger sweet spot.
        
        ......................
        Too much is never enough
        
        ahhh no - The peleton 22:38:42 09/27/10 (2)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Where are your Acoustats? posted by pictureguy on September 26, 2010 at 10:16:44
        
        I tried it and it sounds strange and thin. I remember you mentioning in other threads that you love it like that all cadywhompus but its just not for me, but thanks.
        
        If you rotate the panels ... - andyr 19:43:20 09/28/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: ahhh no posted by The peleton on September 27, 2010 at 22:38:42
        
        you have to swap R with L, to keep the tweeters in the same relative place. Otherwise, you have made 2 changes:
        * metal vs. mylar (or vice versa), and
        * ribbons out vs. ribbons in (or vice versa).
        
        Putting ribbons out when you had them in before, could give you " thin "! :-))
        
        Regards,
        
        Andy
        
        RE: ahhh no - pictureguy 16:43:35 09/28/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: ahhh no posted by The peleton on September 27, 2010 at 22:38:42
        
        important thing is that at least you tried it......
        
        I can't account for 'strange and thin', but who knows?
        Too much is never enough

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