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In Reply to: High eff life after Gallo Ref 3 ? posted by Florian O on March 27, 2007 at 00:18:36:
i have 2 other systems, one of them magnepan mgiiia's and the other klipsch lascalla's. then i have a pr of homemade fostex fe166 blh and all i can tell you is the bass is real, its awsome, you can feel it hear and know exactly what is going on with the music. i'm driving it with a fi x set amp either a 45 or 2a3 tube. it doesnt have the big soundstage as the magies, but it puts out a more detailed more acurate sound.i would try the small fostex's you built if you like what you hear go to the 206esr....dont add a tweeter and you wont need a sub. just pure music.
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"i have 2 other systems, one of them magnepan mgiiia's and the other klipsch lascalla's. then i have a pr of homemade fostex fe166 blh and all i can tell you is the bass is real, its awsome,"
Maggies and LSs and you're gonna tell us about "awesome bass"; yeah, right. Christ, my little KRKs have better bass than those things. Though I have been thinking of buying some LaScalas for home defense but though we don't have to register guns in Kentucky we do have to register LaScalas and I don't want to show up on the government radar as being THAT anti-social.
Thanks for the tip.The BLH I am building is Rons Austin A126 for a (modded) Fostex FE126e (see fullrangedriver forum and my thread at diyaudio.com). The only other BLH I've listened to was a zHorn Heruka (sp?) with an FE168Sigma. I wasn't impressed at all -- bass was boomy and the last octave was MIA. Admitedly this was in an el cheapo system but I wouldn't call that a high ender by any stretch.
You got me on the tweeter: I was considering a madisound TA90A supertweeter with the accompanying XO (XOed at about 10k AFAIU) to help with the last octave...:)
Anyway, the A126 looks cool to build and budgeted accordingly for a first try :). If I like what I get I'll might very well go down this path (Lowther/PHY on BLH or OB, BassZilla, whatnot).
I'm a total newbie to BLH, OB and wide rangers but if any single driver in a BLH / OB -- or (most probably) a combo with a self powered sub and supertweeter -- can give me what the Gallos currently are _then_ I'll raise my hat and bow in respect. That's why the Prometheus looked like a very good candidate. But....
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