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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel.
Post Subject: MarchandPosted by RLRB on: 4/11/2021
 Romy the Cat wrote:
fiogf49gjkf0dI am observing an interesting and surprising fact – I am begging to like my active Marchand crossover. I did a number of modifications to it and it looks like the parts are broken-in now – it does sound very pleasant for my ULF. I feel it is a bit too soft then I would like to have in my final version and I will go for line-level passive what my second B2 will be fixed but this slightly tweaked Marchand today showed off some spectacular result.  

I had today a VERY interesting Erotica’s funeral march, played with so much complexity that I thought that Marchand will lose it. To my surprise the Marchand show off very extravagant ULF sound. The slight of softness of Marchand tubes combined with very idiosyncratic bass of old Brunswick orchestra made some spectacular sounds, truly addictive…

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Who knows, if to spend some attention to this active crossover, perhaps to put better tubes in then it might be a nice devise to use all time. The way how delicate it opens notes is still in my head….

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Hello, i have a Marchand xm26, my system is Oris 150 with Aer bd3 and 2x15 ripoles, pset 2A3 for fullrange and ss for bass.Would be a good idea to replace output tube for ecc81? The caps has been replaced for mundorf and duelund in bypass.The idea is to use input and xover tubes with ecc83 and replace last tube.Thanks

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