High Transconductance wrote:
Roscoe says I have to do this
As Roscoe is culling the non-compliant, I thought I had better get to it (!) and introduce myself. I am Charles Port, living out in Annapolis, MD, and I am lifelong (started at 13) Music lover.
Some years back, I moved to Brazil, and I could not take my Thiel 7.2's with me, due to the heavy importation taxes that Brazil has. So I sold all, and set about learning to build loudspeakers. Lucky for me, Seigfried Linkwitz created his
http://www.linkwitzlab.com site with all sorts of good information. This, plus old Speaker Builder rags, kept me occupied for a good long while, and I built all sorts of acoustic suspension and open-baffle designs, bringing hoards of drivers back to Sao Paulo whenever I landed in the States [Note: TSA "always" opens your bag when they encounter a loudspeaker, and sometimes, you have some explaining to do]. Eventually, I moved back to the good old USofA, dragging my Brazilian wife back with me.
In the end, I acquiesced to "true genius" and am now VERY happy listening to Siegfried Linkwitz's LX521 loudspeakers. I use 2x Pass Lab X.150's for the upper arrays, and a Bryston SST 2B for the bass bins. Lots of mods, and (to mine own tastes) the closest I have ever been to a sense of a live performance -- in my basement. Finally, I can start listening, and stop fiddling.
I listen to Jazz and Classical, and a whole lot of other things. I guess your standard 'audiophile' mix .....
Find out more at my "audio page"
RESFREQ.
Oneizes/twoizes visits are welcome on Weekends, but no "whole heard events" (the house would break).... -- email me at
cport@rawbw.com-- Charles