I found this link via the new Secrets forum:

http://www.devotionsbyerik.com/E-Cinema.htm

I am speechless. His attention to detail is quite frightening.

His home theater is excellent. I have seen more extravagant with more detail. Money well spent in my books as long as it is used to the max.

Those Martin Logan's are huge! Man, people talk about the M60's and M80's being too much for a small room, but those Martin Logans are almost 8' tall!

I see your theater is over there too, Saturn. Very nice!

Your Maggies aren't exactly shrimps, either. Yipes!

They got the WAF. She picked them.

My post sounded a bit negative. That's not what I meant at all. Impressive project, and 95% was do-it-yourself.

And you have to give credit to his wife, as well.

I hear ya.
Do-it-yourself definitely takes a while. I had to rip out the quarter rounds and run my wires in the baseboard. I also ran flat wires up the wall and taped and then drywall compound to smoooth it out. It has taken some time even though my place is small. The other alternative was getting this local stereo shop and they said it would cost 60/hr and they said at approx. 8-13 hours for my setup.
And I think they hire this carperter that know somethnigs about audio and wire setup. If you want calibration add another 4 hours.

Hey Saturn,

Your setup looks really sweet. Justa couple of curious questions: What is the purpose of those bridges in the back of your speakers on the terminals? Why did you decide on the 53tx? I'm still looking at the 53 and the 55txi.

Nice setup and home decor. I also have the barcelona chair, very chic...

Saturn,

Where is your Vp150?

ksimple: those bridges are the tweeter atunuator...something like that. I can place resistors and/or other wires/metals/aluminum/hell anything that conducts and play around with the tweeter sound of the Maggies. Its altually neat. I have placed a resistors(rooled off the highs), aluminum (sounded tinny, airy) and currently I have pure silver wire which sounded the best.
Why the 53Tx ... well the local store I get my stuff from had it in stock...it had the power I needed..the inputs...the auto calibration...and he took in the trade in PMC speakers I had. Really there was no scientific/listening method I went with. The 55txi has more juice and a iLink thing which is currently not too usefull unless you get a another Pioneer product. Sound wise I doubt there is a difference. Get what you can afford and enjoy the unit. I am firm believer of auto calibration only because the Axioms I have (or most speakers) are really far off tonally in caparison to the Maggies.

oldskoolboarder: thanks. I plan to get maybe 2 butterfly chairs to match the other stuff. The barcelona does take a lot of realstate.

snippy:I still have it...in the box..I cant seem to place it in the middle of that small floor space without making it look like a mess. I might have to sell it. I am currently running a phantom center.

Saturn,

Wow, that is fascinating. Can you do that with any speaker?

Any bi-wirable speaker.

Like the M80s, etc... you could potentially try all sorts of things to replace the bridge - wires with different capacitance/inductance values, different metals, a tube full of tuna salad...

Bren R.

Bren:

I tried the same thing with standard bi-wirable speakers and did not get the same effect.

Might it be the circuit is different for Maggies or are the aluminum ribbons more sensitive to change...i dunno....

Hmm.. that's strange - Maggies aren't the most sensitive speakers (84, 86, 83.5 dB/2.83V/m depending on the measurement). Either way, I wouldn't suggest messing with the engineer's design for most speakers unless you're trying to correct something you feel is an issue (like the Axiom resistor pack to dull the highs) but some people need to feel more connected to "designing" their own sound - I'm guilty of it too - Yamaha gave me an option to EQ my centre, so of course, I did. Brought myself back to reality with STYKS - Stop Twiddling Your Knobs, Shi... well, you get the rest.

Bren R.

Wow a new acronym...
I think those measurements are that low due to driving currents through those mylar sheets (bass driver). The quasi alu-ribbons (tweeter driver) ... at least with other ribbon type speakers tend to be very efficient. And then again I could be talking out of my a$$.

I'm not sure how they're measured, Saturn... I've not that familiar with planar/ribbon speakers - they've always seemed to be on the periphery for me. No offense - I've been hanging and powering horns and cones for 15 years, so there's a comfort level with what I know.

Bren R.