It’s only a rabbit… with big fangs! Run away run away.
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sight, sound, taste, and I am sure there’s impactful bass, so touch as well. that’s my style 
why limit the ecstasy to just one sense lol. That’s why I also have a TV in front… I like watching music videos.
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Hello everyone,
I am a new member of your wonderful family and have been using PS Audio products with satisfaction since 2013.
I wanted to share with you some highlight photos of our strange and expensive hobby!
Have a nice day, from Rome!
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Welcome, Valerio! Congrats, really impressive system. Make yourself a favor: stay away from this madhouse, if you can! It could bring you to bankruptcy!
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Welcome,
It is great to see someone else using MC1.25KW’s and McIntosh Line Array Speakers. Which version are your Line Arrays? What Preamp is that also.
The DS and P20 pair well with the McIntosh in my experience.
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Hi Luca,
your fame precedes you… 
It’s a pleasure to meet you, at least virtually. 
Thank you for the compliments and unfortunately you are right:
I’d rather have a new audio component and shoes with holes in them.
It’s been going on like this for years now… 
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Hello and thank you very much for the compliments, they are our fuel!
Using XRT1K (aluminum cabinet), the last real McIntosh ever built, the current ones (XRT2.1-1.1K) made by Sonus Faber are in MDF.
I don’t use a preamp, what you see is a MEN220 (RoomPerfect), an active Xoler/crossover to add up to two subwoofers in addition to the towers.
I currently use a Paradigm Reference Signature SUB25.
This is an old image, I was still using a mat and not the dedicated spikes (Music Tools).
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Yes it is too bad Carl had to retire and they outsourced to SF. I use Room Perfect in a MX150 to tame the bass of my old school XR290 speakers on GAI Titans in a two small room. The 8 12 inch line array woofers are a bit much to add subwoofers. Those cabinets are MDF too but the odd cabinets shape and size lets the go down to 16 Hz rated response. I have three Roger Russell speaker designs a XR19 and XRT20.
I hope to try out the Theoretica Optimal Room Correction in my bacch4mac dsp when the software drops this month. I will see if RoomPerfect can be dropped or using both solutions is better. Currently the analog has to be converted to digital and back to analog
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Yes…
If they had continued to build the loudspeakers as they did in the past it would have been better and less expensive.
Room Perfect is a great software, but over time I have learned that it is better to correct passively (absorber/diffuser panels and Bass Trap) than actively.
There is a risk that the vital frequencies of some tracks will be stolen; I’ll give you an example.
When I wasn’t using passive acoustic corrections and the room was almost empty, the RP could perform a halfway miracle.
I heard, for example, the piano sounding exceptionally realistic but the system, on the other hand, didn’t have many low frequencies… They were flattened.
Now with the passive acoustic treatment I even avoid using the RP and set the MEN220 to Bypass.
I completely agree that 8 12-inch woofers are enough.
You almost equaled the legendary XRT2K which even had 12 12" woofers in total.
However, my idea would be to use a sub, like a JBL SUB18, amplified by an MC1.25KW and try to limit the towers to 30-40HZ (High pass filter through the MEN220), while a Low pass filter will be set to the sub crossing at 40.
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How about one of these. Wilson Audio - Thor's Hammer
A guy another forum drive his with a MC1.25 kW. He used to drive his mains with two but transitioned to MC3500 mk2
I have three very large bass trap and underneath of a sofa and loveseat stuffed with rock wool. But still need bass DSP. Even with a six foot wide door opening and another hallway the speakers will pressurize the room. As long as I keep the room measurements with RoomPerfect down between 7 or 9 it does well. Room correction is at 15 percent. It used to be at 55 percent before passive correction. I can listen without room correction but you end up having to dump more power into highs and mids and neighbors across street start complaining and calling cops during late night listening. RoomPerfect corrects Bass suckout imbalanc , unhappy neighbors and saves hearing. I started out with a Lyngdorf integrated used as preamp and DAC riving MC2500s. I hope new bacch4mac does as well. Then i can buy a better two box preamp.
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I know him, here he is:
The Thor’s Hammer is fantastic and together with the Magico Titan I think it is one of the best SUBs in the world.
At this point let’s not forget about the new McIntosh PS2K.
And soon the new PS Audio.
You did a great job with your RP and I’m sure you will have a remarkable sound balance in your room, congratulations!
Are you perhaps thinking of a C12000?
Excellent choice, but also with a C1100.
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The C12000 and D’,Agostino Momentum MXV are on my list. The cheapest easiest route is to trade my MC2000s and MC2500s and a not used C39 in at audio classics. The momentum woudl be used. With a MXV upgrade C11)00 is only tube and I prefer no hassle of solid state that c12000 offers Stereophile just reviewed C12000 very well.
The new Mcintosh sub is impressive but mounting and Ampp under a stack woofers doesn’t seem like ideal. Plus it is crazy expensive.
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I agree with you:
both the C12000 and the Momentum MXV are two truly excellent components in all aspects. Perhaps the D’Agostino has an even more HI-FI implementation than the Mac. You should still listen to them in your system before spending similar amounts, and fortunately, you in America have this great opportunity.
I read the review of the C12000 and it seems that it is one of the products I have appreciated most in recent times.
The SUB Mac is really expensive, you’re right.
However, it is very, very beautiful!
(It’s a pleasure to have found a connoisseur in this forum too )
WOW! 
To be honest I would hardly be able to concentrate on a film with the spectacular vu meters of your 1.25KW! 
Great setup.
If it is a good film the lights on meters are switched off. If it is a war film with constant explosions. You have to back off the volume or the P20 cannot keep up with primary and surround amp draw down of current off multiple 2KW peaks.
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