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Craig, I think it's about time!
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Re: Triggered pulled - Active LFR-1100's are on order!
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From the Home Theater Forum thread - the first report:
"Ok - The speakers are set up and the initial process of listening tests has started. Look for some pictures this weekend. The system now is an OPPO universal player, the Marantz 7703 pre-amp and the Axiom LFR-1100 actives. No processing is being used, and they are running full range.
Tonight, music auditioned was Roger Water's "In the Flesh" live SACD and the Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Session."
Both make for excellent review discs as both present some serious challenges.
"In the flesh" has an immense sound stage and in Pink Floyd fashion, all sorts of sound effects. "Trinity Session" is almost the opposite - it was recorded on the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto, and is all unamplified music using a single microphone.
First impressions are these speakers are extremely revealing and neutral. On Trinity, it is easy to place each instrument on stage and Margo Timmin's vocals are more "in the room" than with any speaker we have had to date. All the grandeur of "In the Flesh" hits hard and fast. The helicopter fly over as we enter "Another Brick in the Wall" lets one feel each blade thwap.
This is going to be several months of work - the speakers have already impressed, but there is a lot of tweaking to be done."
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Re: Triggered pulled - Active LFR-1100's are on order!
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House of the Rising Sone Out in the mid or far field Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated
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No subs - for at least a month.
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Re: Triggered pulled - Active LFR-1100's are on order!
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Lucky, Craig. I've always wanted to experience what an amplifier, free of analog filters, can do to an electrodynamic driver. You have powerful amplifiers, capable of 9000 clean peak Watts, and 22 such drivers managed by digital filters that have had the hell engineered out of them with at least 30 years of progressive research behind their engineering.
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Mojo ... a man of few words
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Re: Triggered pulled - Active LFR-1100's are on order!
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The illusory trinity of the before, the now and the hereafter all coalesce into a single poignant moment. That moment, birthed via the loins of mammas Colquhoun and Welker, is also inexplicably entangled with one from, all places, Erie Pennsylvania. That one has been entrusted with participating in the moment and describing to less fortunate souls, the divine goodness that may arise from it. That one is a man by the name of Craig Chase, who gripped the moment and felt blade thwapping, hard and fast hits and Margot Timmin causing him to proclaim the active LFR1100s are already revealing, neutral and impressive. Did I get that right, Rich?
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I don't know about Rich, but personally, I won't be able to stifle a chuckle the next time I see Andrew and Ian and their respective "momma loins."
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Wahahahaha! Just think about it though. Everything, and I mean everything, those two have done up 'till now has been about the active LFRs. It must be glorious for Ian to finally hear what his system sounds like freed from the inaccuracies of passive filtering and the deleterious effects of limited dynamics. This system can reach 120db+ at 12 feet away and the pristine detail preserved by the digital filters must render acoustical images like a hologram. This is not about us. It's about them.
I don't even have to hear it to know how worthy it is. I know from the v4 gear I have, these guys have reached a deity-like pinnacle of understanding about their systems and their associated emotional response.
I suspect Ian still won't be completely satisfied until he improves their accuracy with a quarter of a degree spinorama resolution on the Family of Curves.
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Mojo, you have two choices: Grow old waiting for Craig to review it OR Mortgage the house and hear it yourself We all know which one you want. So get on it and sing your praise having listened to the darn things ... P.S. the LFR active were created for the SPL starved, image obsessed, audio nut ... Anyone come to mind?
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