"Chinese dimestore gear playing through 4 inch drivers"

[Poultrygeist]

RGA, gorgeous cats and I know you miss them. We're cat and dog people as well. A calico ( Cali ) and orange tabby ( Chubbs ) to go with Dudley, the goldendoodle and Winnie the rescue chow.

Hyfi, I really like my small 4.5 Tektons. You can call Eric Alexander, a great down to earth guy, who will tell you what he has that fits your budget. I prefer his smaller Fostex based speakers over the larger ones. His current hot offering is the Lore, which has the same 10 inch guitar speaker as the Zu's I recently sold. With that pro sound driver you sacrifice detail for a huge soundstage. FWIW a member on this forum had Omegas ( larger Fostex ) and Tektons ( smaller Fostex ) and ended up selling the Omegas.

If you can spend $800 on speakers I'd go with Ed Schilling's ( Hornshoppe ) small BL horns with 4.5 Fostexs. Drive them with a 3.5 watt SET N3 APPJ ( Miniwatt) for $250 and you'll be blown away. Call Ed as he loves to talk.

Hawthoreaudio is a good source for open baffles. I'm fairly sure they offer pre built OBs which aren't too large.

Any of Bob Brines's designs on A'gon are outstanding.

[lizard54]

This tread has everything, cool speaker system set ups, cats and dogs, awesome! I really like the speakers coming up from the PVC tubing that is a really cool idea for outdoor sets. I have two cats myself since I live in an apartment I have not yet picked up a puppy but there is one out there for me, for now I have Kirara (Kiki for short) my girl calico and Scraps my boy I found on the streets when I went on a business trip to Florida.

[blackraven]

Birdman, you sure have some nice gear! How do you like the Audio GD preamp? I think that I would like to put together a nice budget system with chinese gear. I have already been impressed with the sound for the Grant Fidelity DAC-11 and the Maverick Tubemagic although there is some trade off in build quality in these 2.

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[frenchmon]

Dang Poultry! How I wish my wife would have never transferred to North Carolina ! I would have made the trip to South Carolina to see you when we visit her brother over in Belton.

Hey Poultry...I have an Idea! Over at Audiokarma in the tube thread, there are a few guys who always talk about cheap Chinese gear. You should post these same pictures and the title of the thread over there and drive those guys nuts!

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Banana fiber cones and 93dbs of hyper detail. Thank you Taiwan.

http://www.hino-audio.co.jp/01/pdf/FOSTEX/FE126En.pdf

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