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Tres Tres Cool, Frank. Enjoy!

Cheers, Jag

Yes, thank you Frank for letting Curtis and I to stop by. Frank, you should start an OT thread about your cars! As cool as that EP600 was, your VW's are AMAZING!

I will also say the kitchen was VERY nice too!

These are Frank's cars:
http://www.bearjam.com/
http://www.bhrific.com/

Those VW's are SWEET!

Looks like BHRIFIC has a sound system to die for...

Frank, now you're SET inside the home and on the road.

Jag

Curtis and Craig, would you share with us your thoughts on the ep600?

Thanks, Richeydog.

To be completely honest it wouldn't be terribly fair. We went to Frank's house (a beautiful house I might add) to get his sub calibrated as best we could. Frank's HT setup is to say the least...challenging. His M22's are about 3-4' above ear level, his center channel is tucked behind the tv in a huge (again amazingly beautiful) custom built entertainment center, and he's in a room with at least 14' ceilings.

Franks major concern was that the EP600 sounded far too boomy for his tastes. (It was a simple level balancing issue) With me and my handy radio shack meter, and Curtis at the controls of the receiver we eliminated the boom and got the sub as integrated as best we could with the M22's without rearranging anything.

Many of us here have SAF to deal with, Frank has FAF - the Frank Acceptence Factor. He wants his tunes, but he doesn't want to fuss over it, and he doesn't want it dominating the room. Believe it or not, his living area was by no means dominated by the EP600. He's got a full grand piano in the room, an enormous entertainment center, and those huge ceilings. In fact, the EP600 was tucked quietly away in the corner with a nice little "privacy curtain" around it. You'd never even know it was in the room.

So...long story short. Frank's room is designed around how he want's it, not how his HT wants it. We had a good time listening to a few music tracks and a couple of movies scenes but we weren't there to give the sub any kind of test or work out.

Frank: Thanks again for letting us stop by. Nice house, nice cars, and nice guy.

Bravo Craig, Curtis, and Frank.

Frank, I'm so glad Craig and Curtis were able to "smooth' things out with your system. Although your setup does sound "challenging," I'd have been surprised if they couldn't improve it to some degree. Surprising what a little Shack SPL meter, and some calibration can do isn't it?

Frank, do you play that grand piano? I'm a former musician (guitar), and love the piano. Can't play one though.

Frank
Those are absolutely beautiful V.W.s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Curtis and Craig
Ya'll ever make it to the Dallas area?

The green one reminds me of a nice Porsche. Very nice Frank.

Thanks for the kind words about my Beetles. The convertible is TOTALLY customized in every detail. I even made up the color myself. I am sure that with the suggestions made by Craig and Curtis, this stereo could be perfect (tilting the speakers down a bit so I could hear the tweeter, etc.) but I think it sounds great now. I really don't watch a lot of movies, but I do like to listen to loud, smooth music. At first, I really didn't think I liked the sub. It seemed WAAAAAY too loud, but after the "METER BOYS" left, it sounds WONDERFUL!

Maybe we can get together again and play with it more sometime if you guys are game. I can get some wedges of some sort to point the front speakers down a bit and see what that does to the overall sound.