So, I've always liked music - both playing and listening to music. My first system was simply Mission speakers/Rotel amp/Philips CD. Then I left that with my parents when I took off for college. After college I got PSB T45/Thule Amp/Thule CD - which I was generally happy with.

Then a combination of moving country and wife not being particularly thrilled about the relative size of the T45's in our then not-so-big apartment made me sell the whole thing.

Looking for a CDP that can also act as DAC for my Squeezebox 3. (I've already tried the Cambridge Audio 840C & passed.) I'd like the sound to be a touch on the musical/warm side... maybe there's a non-upsampling model that has digital input?

Thanks!

Anyone hire a welder to make speaker stands for them?

I am considering this route because shipping to HI is so expensive if I buy nice stands from the mainland.

I figure I can give the dimensions of the top/bottom plates and some kind of column (box or circular) to a welder and have them craft it. I will probably also ask for a hole to be cut out in the rear of column to fill with sand for added mass. Then I will spray paint the stands black.

Should the top plate dimensions be larger than the speaker dimensions, less, or fit the speaker exactly?

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OK, I got the SET bug.

Today's the day I hook up my new SET 2A3c amp.

The amp is three watts per channel, well, four with 10% THD.

I'll be using it with some Apogee ribbons. The Apogee dips to one ohm resistance, and is 86dB 'sensitive.'

So, if 1 watt gives me 86 dB, but the amp output doubles its output with every halving of the resistance, then...

My four watt amp should give me 8 watts at four ohms, 16 watts at two ohms, and 32 watts at one ohm.

Therefore...

Hola,

I decided to finally take the plunge and biamp my Lowther DX-3's.

I went out and overspent on a new SET using genuine Western Eclectic 300B's, but now I can't for the life of me find where the tweeter hook ups are on the damned speaker.

I mean, I can find the main speaker hook up, and it looks almost like to goes right the the back of the speaker cone...but I can't find where the woofer and tweeter part diverge so I can hook up the two amps.

A little help?

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