Having a great time and learning experience building an active tri-amped 2.2 system. 3 Crown XTi-2 power amps contain all the digital adjustment control over EQ, crossover, driver gain and delay one could conceivably ever need, no limitations with crossover design ever again. About $500 for each amp and they happen to sound terrific. Aurum Cantus 25120 tweeters (1 per channel) and 3" GR Research "LGK’s" (4 per channel) to make for a MMTMM config. This is loosely based on Danny Ritchie’s "Wedgie" design, except that, on a bit of a whim really, I’m adding horns into the equation, just to see (Flying Wedgie??). An OmniMic 2.0 rounds it out.
The standmounts are about $900/pair to make and the pair of 15" Hawthorne Audio "Augies" add around another $500. The amp/speaker package is roughly $2900 retail. Pretty sweet considering that I’m no longer paying a speaker manufacturer to try to guess, or suppose, what it is that I want from a design. Now I have what I’ve been after all along: the flexibility and control it takes to dial in just exactly the kind of sound I happen to want, regardless of whatever room it all goes into or whatever source I ever end up using.
I now know it would take me a whole Heap of money and a long time looking to find the next best thing in the speaker market, new or used.
No going back for me. I don’t think I’ll ever buy another pair of manufactured speakers again. :)
The standmounts are about $900/pair to make and the pair of 15" Hawthorne Audio "Augies" add around another $500. The amp/speaker package is roughly $2900 retail. Pretty sweet considering that I’m no longer paying a speaker manufacturer to try to guess, or suppose, what it is that I want from a design. Now I have what I’ve been after all along: the flexibility and control it takes to dial in just exactly the kind of sound I happen to want, regardless of whatever room it all goes into or whatever source I ever end up using.
I now know it would take me a whole Heap of money and a long time looking to find the next best thing in the speaker market, new or used.
No going back for me. I don’t think I’ll ever buy another pair of manufactured speakers again. :)