Desert island R2R 1/4" 2 track master player

[christensenleif@msn.com]

Its a 4 way system with TAD 2001 in Autotech Poland made JMLC 1400 horns, then TAD 4001 in JMLC 270, then dual Jbl 2220 alnico fifteens in selfdesigned Front Loaded Horns then EighteenSound 21" in 12 feet 1 fold subhorn with pressure released rear chamber. Subhorn actively lowpassed at 75 and driven by HOLTON/Aussieamplifiers 350 watt Toer of Power. sensitivity 92db@20hz! Rest of system passively X/O at 600 and 8K. Nortcreek 8 awg ibductors and Mundorf silver in oil caps. Sens from 75-22K= 112 dB. 75-22K driven by all out choke input,interstaged 300B

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

300B designed by my close friend Gary Dews of Borderpatrol. Pre is Stevens & Billington TVC, Bent Audio/John Chapman designed Seiden remotecontrolled volume. Thorsten Loesch LCR riaa with 47 kg Borderpatrol Choke input psu. Source is Basis Ovation/Airtangent Reference Remotecontrolled Air bearing tangential arm,Lyra titan i, lyra erodion x former. Dddac 1794 NOC hirez dac with choke input psu. All wiribg silver in silk, no shielding.

 

[hvbias]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing. Have you been able to compare the TAD cd with any others?

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

A friend and I spent well over a year testing,measuring and listening to lots og driver/ horn comboes. Jbl 2446 with std,aquaplas and truextent dias. Radian 950 with std and te, emilar, bms 4592nd..jbl D2 2450sl.kugelwellen, iwata incl big cnc 300hz plywood version, jmlc 200T 270 350 1000 1400 and loads more. For me it all started with changing drivers in Avantgarde trio, but ended up with a lot of expensive plastic in a magnetic frame

 

[c1ferrari]

#162...terrific

 

[c1ferrari]

For me it all started with changing drivers in Avantgarde trio, but ended up with a lot of expensive plastic in a magnetic frame

Ouch
Sorry to hear that

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

Nothing to be sorry about , just restored them back to original and sold them
Best
Leif

 

[c1ferrari]

Oh...good to hear.

 

[hvbias]

A friend and I spent well over a year testing,measuring and listening to lots og driver/ horn comboes. Jbl 2446 with std,aquaplas and truextent dias. Radian 950 with std and te, emilar, bms 4592nd..jbl D2 2450sl.kugelwellen, iwata incl big cnc 300hz plywood version, jmlc 200T 270 350 1000 1400 and loads more. For me it all started with changing drivers in Avantgarde trio, but ended up with a lot of expensive plastic in a magnetic frame

JBL were the ones I was most curious about. The measurements on Martin Seddon's site are impressive. Le Cleac'h horns are really wonderful, I was thinking about using either 270 or 340, I will probably try TAD, JBL and maybe Radian be diaphragm.

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

TAD4001 in my subjective world is better at harmonics. Maybe Vitavox S2 too but since 1,5 exit havent tried. Next is 2446 with truextent.Autotech JMLC are fab with no horn colorations or honk. Just dont push beyond 3 octaves. That goes for all horns
Best
Leif

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

This is what occupies me the next few hours

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

Out in this


Last summer on Swedish westcoast

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Out in this
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Last summer on Swedish westcoast

beautiful place, beautiful boat. mid-summer on sailboats is about as good as it gets.

i spent a few days last week cruising on my son's 20 year old Hunter 35.5 that he lives on.

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

Thxs
Perfect combo:
Audio in winter
Sailing in summer
NO stereo on boat
Just nature....

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

Perfect light at 23at night

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Thxs
Perfect combo:
Audio in winter
Sailing in summer
NO stereo on boat
Just nature....

i think Scandinavian criusing is likely very comparable to Northwest US-British Columbia, Canada cruising.

just nature. yet these damn cell phones keep us tethered......i was tempted to throw it overboard.

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

Quiet mode and Sony Xperia waterproof tablet doubles as chart computer in ABinflatables aluminium RIB

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

A little zoom and manual processing and you get the idea of the light

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Quiet mode and Sony Xperia waterproof tablet doubles as chart computer in ABinflatables aluminium RIB
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i love twilight on the water.

my son, 'the network engineer', has redone all the electronics on his boat, including his chart plotter, auto-pilot etc. and has an i-pad and i-phone extension for it including the AIS information. he has a radar dome but has not yet installed it.

very cool that he can identify and see details, headings, and speed of larger ship traffic and they can see him. when we headed out at 3am in the shipping channel it was no problem.

a far cry from when i had my own sailboat in the 80's......

 

[christensenleif@msn.com]

Yes marine electronics have taken off completely
The ais traffic has gone totally bonkers off the Norwegian coast and they have to limit it because it disturbs the surveillance of th traffic in the offshore oil installations