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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Bill Gaw: over 50 years of high-end audio experience and time aligned horns.
Post Subject: Still greatPosted by Bill on: 8/4/2025
Have now had three weeks experience with the solar and still feel it’s the best sound I’ve had in 50 plus years. My 105 dB per watt horns driven by Romy's amps are dead silent ven with the ear against the mid mouth, as is the rest of the system.The battery is a 5 kva Franklin lithium iron phosphate which is the same size as the new Stromtank unit reviewed this month in Stereophile. The whole system is also the same price as that unit, and has the advantage that so far my electric bill for July dropped from $485 last year to $60 this year with the solar panels only in use for two of the four weeks. Will be interesting what happens to the bill over the coming months.ALS I have had no problems with it compared to the panoply of noises and defects in to Stromtank. So a much better use of $56,000.THe 45 panels are from Enphase, and each is constructed with it own dc to ac converter. How they get all of them to have the ac waves in phase I have no idea and do not have an oscilloscope to see what,s going on.Interestingly, even a few nights ago when the battery was used up, he system still sounded better than before the solar installation. Also I must add that I have removed the purepower unit from the system as it doesn’t seem to help the sound now. Guess I’ll keep it in case something goes bad with the solar.BillRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site