Bill - the 11 is very new to the market, and not likely in all resellers' inventory.
We're still breaking in our first test pair which were shipped directly and almost certainly arrived earlier than larger orders to Madisound or European / UK dealers.
We're still breaking in our first test pair which were shipped directly and almost certainly arrived earlier than larger orders to Madisound or European / UK dealers.
The pair of P11 we had at diyFEST were the 1st seen in the wild in North America. Madisound's shipment, is, i believe, still on the boat.
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Just pre-tin and don't use any thicker wire than #20 for internal wiring, and you shouldn't be there long enough to worry about softening the wiring tabs' molded retaining clips. If however, they do soften a bit, just lightly clamp them with needle nose pliers while cooling. Our first pair of Alpair 5.2 protos were swapped between 5 or 6 enclosures, and I found that to work well.
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The P11 character is much like that of the P7, smooth clean but lack the "finesse" of the Alpairs.
The P7 goes lower and wants a larger box than the P11. The P11 in the small box sure looks kool.
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The Pluvia baskets have a much higher temperature resistance than the Alpair baskets.
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I wouldn't want to say too much at this point, but give me time. Pretty good balance...highs seem a touch hot/colored but I really need to get them finished and into my usual listening space with a decent front end.
and if consistent with MA DNA, likely several score more hours of running time before fully opened up
I've got some on my test bench here as well. If you come to my DIY event in Sept you can see and listen to some in the flesh. We'll have some in bits as well to muck about with. Scott has given me some dims for a Pensil that will work with them so I'll make a set up.
Can I ask something about MA products- why don't they have any venting through the back/magnet?
I don't rightly know, if you come in September you can ask Mark yourself, he'll be there.
I ran a quick measurement of the speaker. I'm showing with and without 6 bands of parametric eq and with a 1/12 oct. frequency dependent window. Unfortunately, there is a pretty severe breakup at 20.5khz that makes the impulse response look ugly. I don't think it's an audible issue. I did some listening (just one speaker) with the eq as shown along with a Linkwitz transform and some linear phase baffle step compensation. It sounds really good.
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