As a general exercise, grumpy and I both feel that this would be far more work and expense than it's worth. If you've got all the parts and the necessary testing gear, then why not?
This is really a sum of its parts achievement. Here's a cost break down:
- L250 pair $650 and a 100 mile round trip
- PT800 pair for parts $250 pus shipping
- three hafler SR2300 amps from the Hafler closing $1200 plus shipping
- one Hafler SR2600 amp from the Hafler closing $550 plus shipping
- 240Ti pair donor of 044Ti and Le14H-1 pairs $450 local pick up
- BSS 366T units $800 plus 80 mile round trip
- Niles IPC12 $250 plus shipping
- Denon DVD2900 barter
- Citation 5.0 $650 plus 50 mile round trip
- XLR cables $100 plus shipping
That's just shy of $5000 at my accumulated costs. Just the BSS 366T Omnidrive units themselves would be more than that at street prices today. Of course that doesn't count the cost of grumpy's test gear, his time and effort, his considerable travel, or the value of the avocados he brought.
Bottom line is we cannot simply drop in some Performance Series drivers and call it good. This is a true 4-way, active quad-amped system, and it's not cheap or simple. It is however, very cool, and I hope someday we get it right up to its real potential.
I want to particularly give thanks to grumpy who served as Virgil to my Dante on this journey. http://users.erols.com/antos/dante/divine_com.html He went way above and beyond in this project, and I would have effed it up many times over without his calm and thorough approach. Dude!