Speakers comprise:
Visaton TL 16 H Horn tweeter ( Superb )
Visaton DR 45 Mid range compression driver ( to be upgraded to TAD or JBL someday - funds permitting ) on home made MDF horn.
2 Visaton Tiw 400 15" drivers in home made Jensen / Onken Box, made of 1" thick MDF, heavyly braced and lined inside with 2 mm. thick lead sheets, Weight of each box aproximately 90 kgs ( you´ll have to convert that to pounds ). All covered with real mahogany veneer, painstainkinly tinted, varnished and polished. Don´t know if this does anything for the sound, but it sure looks good.
System is actively tri-amped as follows:
Pioneer D23 Electronic Crossover.( 4 way, variable slope type, just great ).
Rotel RB 981 Solid State power-amp ( 160 watts / channel ) for the lower 15" driver below 80 hz.
Myaby VP 120 S ( 60 watts per channel ) KT88 based push-pull valve amp for the range from 80 hz to 800 hz. driving the upper 15" driver.
Antique Sound Labs AQ1002 ( 30 watts per channel ) 6550 based push pull valve amp from 800hz on. Some day I hope to replace it with some kind of single ended 300B based valve amp. That should be something.
There is a passive crossover in a box with 2 L-pads crossing the mid horn to the tweeter at 8.000 hz.
I have owned speakers like Magneplanar MG2.5´s, Linn Isobariks, Kef 104 mkII´s, and the like, and none of those even comes close to theese beauties.
TT is a Thorens TD 124 / Rega RB 300 / Benz Micro MC20E ( My beloved Sumiko BPS has recently died on me ) on a DIY plinth.
Pre-amp is a Bill Beard CA-35 tube model with a fantastic MC / MM phono stage.
Not seen in this old pic is my current Onkyo T-5000 analogue tuner and Sony SCD-XB770 SACD player.

Jorge

Ok. So I managed to provide the link to the Photobucket image, but how do I do to insert the image itself in my posts?

Help, anyone?

Jorge

The Link worked for me, and your system is very impressive.

elroy

Makes my system look like a Sonic-T with a pair of minimus 7's

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no doubt, that is a nice looking system.

elroy

Impressive as always, Jorge. Just when I think I'm satisfied with my system you have to go post a picture of yours.

When you upload a picture to Photobucket, you'll be provided with three link combinations beneath it. You'll want the third down that has the image URL set between the [IMG] and [ /IMG] tags (no space), you can also manually add them yourself, or use the 'IMG' button at the top of the reply window and paste/type your image URL there.

- JP

very nice, i have forgotten what the details are with the speakers though. could you fill in the gaps please?

Thanks for the tutorial, J.P., as you can see despite being old I can still learn a few things.

Now, both you and Kelly are too nice on your comments, but flattery will take you nowhere.

Both your collections put my ( I´ll admitt somewhat impressive system ) into shame.

Jorge

Jorge,

Are the upper and lower 15" drivers the same drivers just divided up for different ranges?

k

absolutley stunning Jorge!!

BTW, thats about 200lbs each!

That is a stunning system Jorge!

That´s right Kelly, and all is explained in the first post now.

It didn´t start that way, though. before I had the Pioneer D23 Crossover I ran the 2 Visaton TIW400 - 15" drivers up to 800 hz.

To my ears it sounds a lot better now.

Jorge

Awesome setup. Could you provide some more detail for building the speakers to a fellow horn enthusiast? Links to websites would be good as well. This is the avenue I am persueing for my next speakers. If you like you could add your experience with the horn sections to my thread in the "Theory Forum" .

i'm drooling jorge!!!

Fantastic set-up

and that Thorens!!! words fail me

Jorge, I want your system!

cubdog