Mr.Zanden, you will get the Cessaro Alpha One faster than me. The custom regulation in China is too complicated to import these big components. Special help needs to clear this up. You got them first is better, because I can learn from very experience master like you. When will yours arrive?
Mr Wavac, your hi-fi information gathering is pretty good considering where you operate from.
I think delivery is towards end of June but it will not be an easy task to make these horns sing & swing in anyone's room, anyway, I hope to achieve fairly decent sound within 3 months since my room has been optimised to play full-range speakers in last 3 years. Hopefully, I can enroll my acoustic master to travel from Paris to help me once I have everything set up properly.
Ralph flew from Germany and installed the new Horn tweeter for Mr.Zanden and me. The quality of metal work of this one is simply amazing (different material than the old horn). Compare with the old horn for the compression tweeter, the new horn obviously changes the dispersion characteristic. Mr.Zanden says the improvement is about 10% better than the old horn. In my opinion, I think the whole listening experience just jump up a few more bars. It's like there are more details here and there, more extension, wider stage etc. But when you add them up, it's like a jump from SMR SE to SMR EE, where the SMR SE has nothing wrong but the SMR EE is obviously better. How much better? Hard to say. Because improvement beyond excellence seems marginal by parts but substantial in totality.
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I think delivery is towards end of June but it will not be an easy task to make these horns sing & swing in anyone's room, anyway, I hope to achieve fairly decent sound within 3 months since my room has been optimised to play full-range speakers in last 3 years. Hopefully, I can enroll my acoustic master to travel from Paris to help me once I have everything set up properly.
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