What New Stuff Have You Bought? If You Care To Share Thead! :)

[Eppie]

Paradigm Persona C - Center channel. Will hook up tomorrow.

Well finally got this off backorder. Was worried that there might be an issue with the crossover from what I had been reading on AVSforum. My dealer was aware of the problem, put it on the test bench for me and tested fine.

Good thing because if it didnt measure well when I got home, it would have been a back breaking trip back to my dealer. My dealer provided both excellent service and stellar pricing. It is why I try to work with a local dealer whenever possible.

I followed that thread on AVSforum as well. Pretty sure it was just a one time manufacturing issue. We used to have two Paradigm dealers in town but we're down to one now and they don't stock the full line. Getting harder to walk into a shop to compare different models first hand.
Enjoy your purchase!

 

[paspolc]

Last buy

 

[John Parks]

Woohoo! I’ll give a short listen tonight and then set them up to burn in!

 

[KenM10759]

Cleaned up the ridiculous gov't-mandated license plate/rear turn indicator holder. Evotech Performance out of the UK shipped to me direct, and I'm so impressed with the quality of the engineering and the machining of the aluminum structure. Nice clean look now, just waiting for funds to accrue to get the sequential-firing LED turn indicators.

 

[Cos]

I followed that thread on AVSforum as well. Pretty sure it was just a one time manufacturing issue. We used to have two Paradigm dealers in town but we're down to one now and they don't stock the full line. Getting harder to walk into a shop to compare different models first hand.
Enjoy your purchase!

I am fortunate that there are 3-4 dealers within 50 miles. The shop I got them Founders 120h 100, 80 and 40s to demo.

 

[NINaudio]

Coilovers installed:

 

[its phillip]

Ordered this keyboard in November 2020. Finally arrived a couple days ago:

 

[Gmoney]

Went out and picked up a new Addition, added to my Analog Collection. I didn't realize just how much Vinyl Sounds sooo much better when you add the final Touches to it. @TLS Guy, Sure hope it passes his grade after all No One has a collection of TT's like Doc. I saved over 100 bucks, with all of the Snake Oil Products out there. Maybe @gene can write up one of his Famous articles on "Improvising". It's not easy in layman's. Works great! @AcuDefTechGuy hey Pilgrim! Hit me back with a inbox message, We gonna make a Lot of Money!!

 

[ddjr]

I got a pair of Bluetooth earbuds from ofusho. Sound incredible but constantly unseat themselves from my ears. Also picked up a pair of svs prime satellite speakers. Wicked heavy! Haven't had a chance to plug them in yet.

 

[Gmoney]

I got a pair of Bluetooth earbuds from ofusho. Sound incredible but constantly unseat themselves from my ears. Also picked up a pair of svs prime satellite speakers. Wicked heavy! Haven't had a chance to plug them in yet.

You picked up some satellite speakers. "Wicked heavy" sometimes you gotta just plugem.

 

[ddjr]

No, they are twice as heavy as my micca mb42x's! You mean plug em in? I did. They're small but mighty

 

[Kvn_Walker]

Definitive Tech BP-30s!

So, the ad was for BP-20's, but the terminals are on the bottom of the speakers, so I didn't know until I got them home and laid them down to hook up that they were actually 30's!

When I looked them over at the seller's house, I did see that the rubber surrounds were inverted. I just assumed they were BP-20's that had gotten the woofer recall done (which is how you can tell):

Compared to the Paradigm Eclipse BP:

The Paradigm has an 8" woofer and tweeter, whereas the DefTech has dual 6.5's. So the Eclipse's are about 4" taller and 2" wider. Also about 30 pounds heavier. I can lift the 30's by myself. Not the Paradigms.

We're going on vacation Tuesday morning so I won't get a chance to compare these side by side for a while.


Bonus, for those of us (ahem!) who are into port porn... a little g-string action:

 

[Gmoney]

No, they are twice as heavy as my micca mb42x's! You mean plug em in? I did. They're small but mighty

yep forgot the (in) I use a cellphone not the best to use on forums. Also I use Dictation with this phone, with autocorrect I don't always Proofread. My eyesight isn't what it use to be Especially at night in a dark room even with my Prescription glasses on I really catch hell trying to read the very small keyboard on these iPhones

 

[Eppie]

I am fortunate that there are 3-4 dealers within 50 miles. The shop I got them Founders 120h 100, 80 and 40s to demo.

There are dealers east and west of me within 60km but they are small town shops that can't afford a big inventory. Kitchener is only an hour away; I imagine there would be some nice shops around there. Would like to head over to Bay Bloor Radio or Audio Excellence in the GTA just for fun some weekend. Haven't done any serious window shopping in a while.

 

[afterlife2]

$12 Dell 1080p PC Monitor at TS today. Dang colors and dark scenes having second thoughts on reselling this. Looks almost 4K. Hooked up via HDMI to my bluray player.

It's up on Craigslist wish me luck.

 

[its phillip]

34” ultrawide monitor arrived today to replace the 40” TV. I miss the extra resolution from the TV but I think I’ll get over it. Plus whenever I get back to playing games I think I’ll appreciate this even more

 

[panteragstk]

34” ultrawide monitor arrived today to replace the 40” TV. I miss the extra resolution from the TV but I think I’ll get over it. Plus whenever I get back to playing games I think I’ll appreciate this even more

You will. I very much enjoy mine. I bet yours will have some sort of VRR capability too which really helps smooth things out in games.

 

[paspolc]

I upgraded my hifi speakers from Elac debut 2.0 b6.2 to Elac dbr62, very happy with the choice made, they sound perfect.

Pasquale.

 

[afterlife2]

Some wires for project 520.

 

[KenM10759]

Didn't actually BUY, but got in for free today from Salamander Designs a complete set of 8 of their rubber isolator "washers", 8 of the steel washers, and 8 of the hex nuts. I had e-mailed them telling them I wanted to buy them to add a shelf to my Salamander Designs Archetype 3.0 stand, a shelf I already owned.

They took almost a week to reply, but when they did they simply asked for my mailing address and said they'd send them, gratis. A week later, I got them and now have 4 shelves on the 28" tall rack.

On top, my E.A.T. C-major turntable (Ortofon Quintet Blue m/c cartridge.) Second shelf, my $200 Emotiva USP-1 pre-amp. Third shelf is my Bluesound Vault 2 and Schiit Mani phono amp. Bottom shelf is my $100 Carver M-1.5t power amp. It's a "2-channel Frankensystem" of new somewhat expensive stuff (the E.A.T. turntable and KEF Reference 1 speakers), combined with "budget oriented" pieces. Sounds incredible though, primarily because of the speakers, lots of headroom on the amp, and incredibly good acoustics in the room.

Yeah, it was a quick toss it together. I'll do wire management this coming weekend.