Hi jprice; this is tom d. we have emailed about the ma7000, glad to see you using the JL sub via the balanced output from the amp, that's the ticket!!! I believe my 7000 is still breaking in, it has taken two major steps in that regard. I also tried a little cut on the 30 and 150hz bands of the EQ. This has improved bass detail nicely.

I laughed at your story climbing the Fathom up to the third floor and stopping every two steps cause I had the same experience when I put the 501's in my listening room.
For the 2301's I did not make the same mistake : I asked the DB Schenker guy to help me climb them and I would offer him a nice note. So we did it both. But my back still suffered from it !
This is the problem of big cities.
We are surrounded by thousands of people and we finally live in a quite isolated way.
In the country land, (in villages), in small countries : we are less isolated. But still that is not always the case. Even in those kind of places we can still be isolated. I think that is a big problem in our modern era.
Cheers,
Jérôme

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They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Actually she would probably strangle me with a very expensive interconnect or speaker cable - easier for her to handle, and she seems to notice those more than she does the black boxes on my racks - she is sure that lamp cord would work just as well.

When the 20' Wire World balanced interconnects for the sub came in, she immediately asked "how much" and then went ballistic - even when I told her that they only cost about half as much as they actually did. . . . . . I've got to time deliveries to occur when she is away from the house. - - - Before I retired, I always had stereo stuff sent to my office.

George Washington would never have made it as an audiophile - Always telling the truth is impossible in this hobby.

Julian

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MAIN SYSTEM: Avalon Eidolons and/or Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, STAX SR-404 Signature Electrostatic Headphones, STAX SRM-727 Headphone Amp, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, Graham Nightingale II Cartridge, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric Modified-X03 CD/SACD Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System


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