Looks “Nifty”. Have you done anything to decouple the sub woofer from the cabinetry?
Maybe a solution in search of a problem but I would expect some vibration issues.
Curiously yours.
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Nice Kiwi! 
Not yet. Have only tested with a stupid news show. No movies yet.
My guess is that we will keep the sub level fairly low with the soundbar. Again, we’re not big home-theater folks.
But I have some options for isolation/absorption if necessary.
If not already on your audition/give it a try list, you might consider these:
SVS SoundPath “Subwoofer Isolation System”
Good value and fairly effective in my experience.
Cheers.
Just did some testing with a few YouTube concerts and music. The cabinet is pretty solid, and the subwoofer is quite controlled (tight? Subdued?). Not seeing much of a need at this point, but we’ll see what happens when we get to some car chases and explosions! 
The other isolation feet I use are those little Hudson hi-fi rubber half spheres. I’ve got them on a few pieces of equipment and I really like them.
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I know the DAVE is supposed to win on detail… How did you find the change in voicing between the MS>TT2 to MS>DAVE?
Pass amps remind me of a movie…anyone remember the flick?
Only back then, they were made by Krell. 
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One of my most MOST favourite films 
“Sometimes the gauges register a little
when the buck deer fight in the autumn
or when birds fly over in the spring…”
Think I will have to put this on (sound down mostly, but turning up for the best bits) this evening, means dragging my little TV out from where it is stashed
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Be sure to watch it with Robbie and the “creatures of the Id”.
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Actually scared me as a kid did that id monster attacking the ship!
Between this, The Third Man, Paris, Texas, and Plenty, they are all the film’s I need
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Truly a paradigm shifting movie, when Sci Fi went from monsters hanging by obvious ropes and screaming heroine falling and twisting her ankle to Hi Fi as it were. Still ranks as one of the all time great sci fi movies. “It’s my morning run of isotope 215, it hardly comes to 10 tonnes” and “Would 50 Gallons be Sufficient?” Classic Robbie lines
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Whoa - that film takes me back to when I was a kid in the 80’s watching it for the first time. At the time, I built my own hafler amps and dreamed of a Krell & IRS system.
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It was better articulated by my dealer who said, “with the mScaler + TT2 it felt like the notes were discs rising in front of you, with the mScaler + DAVE the discs have become bubbles”. Since the mScaler replaces the first upscaling filter of all Chord DACs and removes the taps “arms race” or sets it to 1M+ and the analogue output stage of all Chord DACs are extremely simple, low component count as a design principle many attribute the uplift to the 20 bit Pulse Array of DAVE as opposed to the 10 bit Pulse Array of all other Chord DACs. Whether that is the reason I don’t know but certainly everything sounds more realistic which I assume is the resolving power and micro detail coming to the fore. Nils Lofgren’s “Keith Don’t Go”'s opening strings are much more lifelike. Piano also sounds more realistic to me as well. I do find these audible differences “better” but difficult to articulate.
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Well I just finished doing some comparative A/B testing between the Audio Research DSI200 integrated amp from my main rig (see post #3066) and the Cambridge Edge W power amp in my secondary rig (see posts #3095, #3104). Was not prepared for the results.
Did the testing in my secondary rig, hauling the ARC upstairs. Other components were Cambridge Azur 851n streamer/dac/pre, Spendor D1 mini monitors on stands, and REL R-328 sub, Audioquest PowerQuest 3 conditioner and PSA noise harvester. AQ speaker and IC; Signal MagicPower power and sub cables.
To my great surprise, the Edge W was better in that system. Not much better, but a little better. Airier top end, better sparkle being the main distinguishing points. The reason I was surprised was because my main rig generally sounds much better than my secondary rig, and granted I have near-full-range Spendor D7’s there, but the D1’s in the secondary should sound similar, especially in the treble (same tweeter). I think I attribute the better sound in main rig to Teac NT-505>>>Azur 851n. Maybe it’s the dac-direct to Edge power amp avoiding the preamp stage; maybe it’s the Cambridge synnergy; maybe the smaller room acoustics suit the Cambridge better; who knows; maybe the ARC pairs better with the MIT cables in main rig?? But I did several hours of listening over two days to confirm that, at least in this secondary system, the Edge W>ARC DSI200.
Anyway, still trying to come to grips with this. I think what it means is I keep the secondary system just how it is and maybe eventually upgrade the amplification in the main system…
Then I got my Infinity RS 3a / b refurbished. I will spend the evening adjusting and placing. That sounds ok and then it is a cheap speaker 730 USD.
http://www.infinity-classics.de/models/Reference-series-1+b-2-10+A+B-1981-86/index-Reference.htm
More love Michael
Hehe
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Some pictures of my system with the SPP.
Got a KORG recorded for ripping vinyl. Hope to put it to good use…
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Really nice Shame about the big TV distracting 
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Beautiful setup.
Thanks!
At the moment I don’t have a dedicated listening room so the system is in the living room
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thank you!
Nice system! Congratulations.
Would you mind sharing some details about your (integrated?) tube amplifier?
Thanks in advance.