We finally bit the bullet and moved our rack back between the front speakers. It has been over 10 (12?) years since we have done this [usually the rack is over on the side of the room. Better soundstaging, typically, and more convenient.]
This allows us to experiment with short cables again [before, with the Coltrane Supreme speakers, we could swap out the meter or meter and a half cables between the crossover and the amp[s]. We’ve always found that the best way to hear what a cable is doing is [usually, some small signal cables notwithstanding] to put the cable between the amp and whatever is driving the amp.
It also allowed us to get rid of a balanced to single-ended CARDAS connector, since our long 10 meter run is balanced and the amps are single ended.
It just allows us more flexibility.
So we are now running a 100% ODIN system [except one pair of ELROD PC on the M9], with the EMMLabs XDS1 CD player driving the Audio M9 two box preamp and Audio Note 300B high-gain Kegon amplifiers.
We discussed putting our larger HRS MXR rack up front, but after a long period of indecision, I just alleyooped the SXR up front and here you see it.
A full report on Odin versus Acapella cables, and on all the different settings for the Atlas speakers and how the Kegons 18 watts likes each one [or not] is forth-coming.
[Amazing how easy it is to flash back to how the Acapella Triolon speakers sounded here and of course the Supremes and to compare and contrast. Fun too :-)]
