Thank you Paul W!!

That is really very nice of you!!

should you come to Italy, let me know and You can come and read something here :-)))) and of course listen to something good ;-)

WOW!!!! Being honest, a full road trip is on the cards. I'd love to start in Portofino and go all the way to the Amalfi Coast, Sorrento and then the Island of Capri. I'm thinking it would be incredible to cycle it!!! I love Italy!

In my masterbedroom

Still a beauty!

Stylish as always, Anders. 🙂

//EA

Update to my listening area... These BV2500 clones are very fun to listen to!! 

There is a BG1800 hiding there waiting patiently for an overhaul.

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You may have your speakers too close tot he wall - the BL3 manual suggests no closer than 30cm....

Nice set up though!

What are your main speakers? Do you find the "cubes" help their sound?

Jeff wrote:

What are your main speakers? Do you find the "cubes" help their sound?

Those are JBL Northridge E80's. Nothing to write home about in general, but I personally like them a lot. However, what I don't like is their metallic dome tweeter. The cubes allow me to toe out the speakers enough to take off the edge of those cheap tweeters and instead focus on the cubes which are filled with delicious silk domes. They are extremely fun to listen to - the sound stage is huge! They really add a lot of 'air' around the sound and provide an incredible listening experience. Everything sounds much more real.

After listening to this setup and then switching back to the Pentas or BeoLab 5000s, I miss that 3 dimensional experience.

Ah, thanks, I thought the speakers looked familiar but couldn't place them. I agree, in fact I don't like most metal domes no matter how pricey the speaker, much prefer doped silk or even soft plastic as B&O uses. Also, many mass market speakers like JBL and such tend to voice the speakers overly bright. The old "West Coast" sound JBL was famous for was exaggerated highs and a large hump in bass response. I always preferred the "New England Sound" or the "British Sound" such as Advent, AR, KEF, old Tannoy, etc.

I suppose you could use an L-Pad for level control and excise the tweeters out of the JBLs. Would require a bit of crossover manipulation if the total impedance is much different. Would take some work but might be a fun project. Then again, maybe I'm the only one who creates such monstrosities for fun...if you're happy with the sound there's not much that needs changing.

I once, for a brief while, had a pair of the old Design Acoustics D12 speakers, large dodecahedron speakers, down facing 10 inch woofer, up facing 5 inch cone mid, and tweeters on the other faces. Really dreadfully cheap, crappy paper cone drivers, but sounded surprisingly good, threw a huge room filling image that was stable, if diffuse, over a large area. I've often wondered what it would sound like to get a pair (if you could find them) and modify them to use better drivers.

Bathroom companion...