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Originally Posted by JJinID
Welcome to AA Todd! Glad to hear you like the KWA150SEs with your CLXs. Tell us more about yourself and the rest of your system!  |
Thanks JJinID - and thanks to Jwhite as well for the warm welcome.
OK - briefly, I live in Southern Maine, work for a large semiconductor company and have been in the industry since '82. Just turned 50 (insert half-deflated black balloons here
). Wife, three kids, one in college, dog, cats, yadda yadda.
Been into hifi since the mid 70s (mid teen years). Will share specifics on how/why so young at another time.
Have owned a slew of different brands through the years as I'm sure most of us here have. I've always loved planars and had my share of Maggies, but the gravitational pull from Logans has always been the strongest.
I have two systems at the moment (worth mentioning).
1) Primary 2-channel music-only system: Olive 04HD coax spdif to a W4S DAC2, the DAC2 is acting as my pre-amp currently (while I consider a tube pre), the DAC drives the ModWright amps which in turn drive the CLXs. This setup is in my home-office over-the-garage affair. Good sized room (24 x 26) with low sloping cathedral ceiling (very short side knee-walls). The system also sports two ML Depthi subs (also driven directly from the DAC2). I use a PS Audio PPP for power conditioning. And there's also an Oppo-BDP93 which I run (via HDMI) through an audio bitstream de-embedder which outputs Toslink to the DAC2. This way I can play my SACD collection by using the Oppo's internal DSD>24/88 transcoder... actually sound pretty darn good. Cabling is a mix of Morrow Audio and White Zombie.
2) 7.1 Home Theater: ML Requests and Logos up front, with Script sourrounds and rears. Also running Velo DD-10 sub as well as tactile transducers attached to each of the 7 recliners (4 in back on a raised platform to allow full screen visibility over the three chairs in front). The screen is a Carada cinewide 12 footer. Projector is a Panny PT-AE3000. Amps are Pass Labs X5 and X150, Controller is a Denon 3808ci (used as decoder, switcher, and pre-amp only). Sources include Xbox, PS2, Cable TV, and Oppo-BDP83. Cabling is mostly Transparent.
Note that the attached photo is about 6 months old. At that time, I was running with Prima Luna pre and monos. Loved the sound, but the 80W/ch simply wasn't sufficient to drive the CLXs in every situation.
Thank you again for the warm welcome and have a great day!