STRONGBADF1
Audioholic Spartan
No Infinities in the photo...Highly disapointed!
Come on and get to the meat of it.
Come on and get to the meat of it.
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ImcLoud
Audioholic Ninja
Thanks Swerd, the pics your brother posted of the brisket have me intrigued and I'm always looking for new recipes for roasts and smokes since we do a lot of entertaining and having my vegan {strict, except for the wearing fur part, that doesn't bother her, lol} wife do all the cooking would make short work of our popularity, lol... We have a house keeper that comes twice a week and does all the cooking for them two days, which ends up being the few days me and my sons get to eat meat since my wife doesn't like cooking it
. But I feel like a douche asking her to cook for a dozen people, even though she works for us, 2 eight hour days....I have a digital AmeriQue smoker that works very well, we had 9 guests about a week ago and I made 2 - 9lb boneless rib roasts {basically boneless prime rib}, and since I didn't have time to do anything fancy, my butcher told me to just cover it with lipton onion soup mix, and it came out amazing... {you can have that recipe if you like}
Cover roast with lipton soup mix {damp rub, wet meat, pat dry, rub seasonings}, cook for 30 min. at 450, then lower to 350 until 135 internal temp... LOL, not really a secret but hopefully you take it in trade,
if not I have a good pineapple bbq sauce that my wife likes to ruin with tofu covered cheese less pizza.... thanks again..
Adam
Audioholic Jedi
With your eyes closed and your tongue out.Come on and get to the meat of it.
What? I was just describing that smiley. Geesh.
Swerd
Audioholic Warlord
That coffee is Guatemalan Huehetenango Finca Rosma. It was roasted to a medium level on New Year's day, so it's already a week old.I'll get back to more of this audio stuff but I just made Cheryl a cup of Sweet Maria's coffee that Swerd roasted. I cleaned out my grinder first like I saw Swerd do to his and I used a scoop to measure the beans to be ground for that Aero Press. I let it cool for a minute or so before letting Cheryl try it. She commented on how good it was and how my normal coffee sucked. She still hasn't seen the amp even though she walked by it repeatedly. Score.
Alex - I'm really glad you took that picture. It shows all of the speakers except Kurt's Phil 3s. On the outside, wearing black grilles are my dome tweeter STs, standing closer to the center, without the black plinths or grilles are Alex's ribbon STs, and sitting on audiophile-grade 4-legged stools, are the glossy black MB27s.
Kurt's cabinets looked like this before the drivers were installed. I wonder how Dennis got his dogs out of the way long enough to take the picture?
Adam
Audioholic Jedi
Alex, that's his nice way of saying that coffee sucked, too.
Sounds like you need to get yourself a coffee roaster to prepare for when Cheryl starts to bust on you about the amp.
Alex2507
Audioholic Slumlord
This is all anybody saw of them all weekend.No Infinities in the photo...Highly disapointed!
Come on and get to the meat of it.
I have transcended to a higher plane but in the interest of deferring some of the cost of transport I brought these back for resale. It's been said elsewhere but for about a month they will go to the current owner of my modded pair and then to Eddie of the Deck. This is really a demonstration of Kurt's generosity. I'm having a little trouble figuring out who my new BFF is right now but it's not Dan. He didn't give me anything for free.
... and this is why I've been away for a while. This is like way too much fun for me.
I just polished off the remainder of Cheryl's coffee with a little milk and honey. Mmmmm ...
BTW, the site looks nice too. Way to go Team AH but who is Cliff and how come I'm not an Admin yet?
Swerd
Audioholic Warlord
The amp Dennis used is an Audio by Van Alstine rebuild of an old Haffler DH-200 or DH-220 amp.
avahifi - Hafler Power Amplifier Rebuilds
Someone had given the old amp in good working condition it to Dennis. Frank Van Alstine (he knows Dennis from audio shows where he, Jim Salk and Dennis share display rooms) learned that he had it and told him to send it to him for a complete rebuild. The new amp uses the old Hafler chassis, heat sinks and transformer, but has all new circuits. It produces 125 wpc and is stable at very low impedance. It easily drove the Phil 3s to very loud levels in a large room.
Alex2507
Audioholic Slumlord
... but it's so inconspicuous!Wrong. She just hasn't needed to use it in an argument, yet.
Are you saying you would notice that if somebody left it lying around your place?
slipperybidness
Audioholic Warlord
Well, clearly that bag on top made it un-noticeable... but it's so inconspicuous!
Are you saying you would notice that if somebody left it lying around your place?
Dan
Audioholic Chief
If you look on my link there is also a prime rib folder. About two years ago I did a huge 7 bone prime rib on the smoker that Swerd did enjoy. I made a paste with rosemary, oregano, parsley and basil with salt olive oil and garlic. Smeared it all over the roast and smoked it with oak for about 3-3 1/2 hours to the perfect medium rare you see.Thanks Swerd, the pics your brother posted of the brisket have me intrigued and I'm always looking for new recipes for roasts and smokes since we do a lot of entertaining and having my vegan {strict, except for the wearing fur part, that doesn't bother her, lol} wife do all the cooking would make short work of our popularity, lol... We have a house keeper that comes twice a week and does all the cooking for them two days, which ends up being the few days me and my sons get to eat meat since my wife doesn't like cooking it
I have a digital AmeriQue smoker that works very well, we had 9 guests about a week ago and I made 2 - 9lb boneless rib roasts {basically boneless prime rib}, and since I didn't have time to do anything fancy, my butcher told me to just cover it with lipton onion soup mix, and it came out amazing... {you can have that recipe if you like}
Cover roast with lipton soup mix {damp rub, wet meat, pat dry, rub seasonings}, cook for 30 min. at 450, then lower to 350 until 135 internal temp... LOL, not really a secret but hopefully you take it in trade,
thanks again..
"I'm having a little trouble figuring out who my new BFF is right now but it's not Dan. He didn't give me anything for free.
" I will point out that I brought two six packs to the party but you and Kurt didn't partake. Neither do I but I had a nice pour of Handy rye 125 proof when I got home.
GO-NAD!
Audioholic Warlord
Oh man, that one still cracks me up!That's because that was photoshopped. There are a couple of good undoctored ones of him here that I recommend - one where he just won the Twister title, and one where he picked up a box of "special" beads from another member.
GO-NAD!
Audioholic Warlord
Why, did he get a sex change?That's going to be hard to locate on Adam but happy hunting.
Dan
Audioholic Chief
STRONGBADF1
Audioholic Spartan
So any thoughts on the two pairs of songtowers compared to the Phil 3's???
majorloser
Moderator
Finally, after all these years somebody on this forum is showing pictures of their meat and it's something I actually want to see.
Irvrobinson
Audioholic Spartan
Wow, congratulations, that's the best innuendo I've ever read.
majorloser
Moderator
Anytime I see where there is pictures of an event where Alex attended, I have to wonder about what the pictures will be.
Now I'm just waiting to see what Adwilk will do with the latest picture of Alex.
STRONGBADF1
Audioholic Spartan
How come Alex always finds "Foodies" to visit?
Swerd
Audioholic Warlord
The $64,000 question… We all know that talking (or typing on a keyboard) about how speakers sound is like dancing about architecture. But this is AH, a web forum, so I'm not going to give up and say it can't be described, you'll have to hear them for yourself. Almost, but not quite
.All Dennis Murphy designed speakers have as flat a frequency response as possible. And all his speakers do not have audible distortion or noise. Nothing resonates, shrieks, howls, or breaks up. So comparing those reveals little.
Let's separate descriptions of speaker sound into these categories:
- Tone range
- Tone balance
- Imaging
- Presentation (for lack of a better word)
Let's define tone balance as the overall balance of sound of a speaker, bass heavy, neutral, or treble heavy. Dennis strives to achieve neutrality in tone balance. Any differences between speaker models are subtle and often depend equally on musical selection and room location of speakers and listener. The Phil 3s produce more bass, but their tone balance is still more similar to the STs than it is different. Another example – while listening to my STs and Alex's ribbon STs, I thought I heard mine were a little warmer or had a little more bass. My STs were closer to the wall behind them and his were standing out into the room more (see the photo Alex posted earlier.). I've moved mine into a similar location before, so I'm familiar with what happens to the sound. It becomes a little less warm. So those differences I heard Saturday could be explained by room location, and not by differences in the speakers.
Imaging. All these speakers are among the champions of audio imaging. They have a tangible and wide sweet spot. The most noticeable difference is the STs are monopole speakers with drivers mounted on the cabinet front, and the Phil is a modified bipole, with an open back midrange operating from about 650 Hz to 2700 Hz. You can vary the amount of rear wave you hear by adding or removing polyfill stuffing from the cabinet behind the midrange. This can generate significant differences in the depth of the audio image. You can make them sound like monopoles by fully stuffing the cabs, or you can achieve a electrostat-like effect with very little stuffing, or some place between those extremes.
And now, presentation. I'm on less solid ground here, because I don't have a good handle on this word as a description of audio. It's a catchall for all the rest that I can't describe well. It includes overall dispersion of sound in the room. Because I own MTM speakers, I have become familiar enough with their "presentation" that I think I can recognize an MTM's presentation when I hear it. (As soon as I say that, someone will no doubt say, "Oh yeah, prove it!" My answer is "Be fruitful and multiply", but not in those exact words
.) At least sometimes, I can hear differences between MTM speakers and 2 or 3-ways. The STs are wonderful MTM speakers (among my favorites) and the Phil 3 is an excellent 3-way with uncanny ability to create large audio images of unusual depth.To sum up, these speakers have much more in common than they have differences. The Phil 3s are obviously more different. The differences between STs with a dome or ribbon tweet are very subtle and I can only identify differences after carefully compare them listening to a wide variety of music. If I had to put it in words, the ribbon tweeter is ever so slightly less noisy. And the ST dome tweeter is among the very best dome tweeter I've ever heard. So choosing those words to try to identify differences exaggerates the real differences I think I hear.
I hope I've been clear, OK?
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