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Upgraded - Sonofagun Delivers the goods!!
September 17 I asked Sonofagun to make me a set of L200 foams (with the mounting frames) for me. Quite a nice price, and - he's QUICK!
the grills and frames arrived this afternoon via priority mail and I got them mounted today. I ordered the Brown foam, (Seawolf's scanned brochure shows the smoke or Black foam) but Sonofagun does all the original L200 colors. The brown is a good match for the cabinets (the flash from my ancient olympus digicam makes them look redder somehow, but, trust me, they are a fine match to the wood).He even includes a long strip of velcro to put on the frames so I can attach them to the existing velcro on the cabinets. Very thorough guy, and great work to boot!
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hjames
Thats hard for me to say.
The current Quasi L300s are in a completely different accoustic space compared to the TV room downstairs. The Living Room has a cathedral ceiling with wooden floor and lots of plants, the TV Room had 8' ceiling, on concrete slab floor w/carpet, no plants (there are pictures of it earlier in this thread).
In addition, they now have the right woofer (2235s instead of the 2215s I had before), and NOT being biamped (Yamaha 80w/ch receiver). They sound very nice at reasonable levels - a bit harsh and shrill if I start cranking it into "stupid loud" territory.
I'm still getting to know them, but they are probably close to their final evolution.
I'm kind of frugal, so if I was looking at building either system from scratch, I'd probably go with the 3-way design - adding the 10" adds a lot of complexity to the cabinet design as well as to the crossover - unless your 4-way plan was to build a quasi 4345 - from all I hear that is in another league, as these things go.
The picture is from 2 wks ago when I had the old JVC receiver running them, before I got the Yamaha (last weekend).
Thats Dolly Lama Diva (one of our Himalayan cats) sleeping on the sunday Wash Post
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Adding Harman to the Mix ...
Newest update: I've been real happy with the Harman Kardon 8380 5 CD changer I got a year and a half ago for the TV room system (where the biAmped 4341s live). I just had a single disc JVC cheapy before that, but this unit has the Brown-Burr chips and also decodes HDCD, and I've got maybe 2 - 3 dozen discs that have the HDCD feature.
The JVC CD player went onto the Yamaha CR-2020/JBL L200-plus 3-way system in the upstairs living room.
Well, I just got another (used) HK 8380 changer off ebay - a local seller here in Fairfax - $52 complete with cables, manual, remote and everything! I just hooked it up to the Yamaha and it sounds great.
We played Emma's test CD "Steely Dan - Aja" and she swears she hears better separation and overall less muddy sound.
Then I grabbed the Tommy Emmanuel CD Bo spoke about a few months back - its an HDCD recording and sounds VERY fine!
I've become a VERY big fan of these Harman Kardon changers (Its actually a MUCH more stable stack than it looks)