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Now that the tarty anodised bits are fitted, how do they compare with the previous hpds, which from memory were in your own cabs?
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I had 10” Monitor Golds in original IIILZ cabinets. They’re excellent, very detailed and still a nice big sound, but don’t do much under 100Hz so I had a 12” sealed sub too. Lots of fun, but pretty boomy and the sub didn’t go high enough / Golds low enough to really integrate perfectly. I had a digital crossover for that, with some DSP on the Golds to tame the ragged HF.
With the Cheviots I’ve ditched the sub, crossover and DSP. They’re driven straight from my Hypex amp and sound really very good. The DSP sucked the life out of the old setup (though I only realised this in comparison). The Cheviots do clean sparkly HF as well as really excellent bass, punchy and fast, both really well integrated and working perfectly together. It’s so nice to have a simple amp > speakers setup that doesn’t need any tweaking and sounds sublime. Really enjoying getting back into vinyl, which for some reason sounds even better.
tl:dr - they’re bangin
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Finishing tarty touches for the Cheviots. M5 brass socket cap screws to replace whatever imperial nonsense they used in 1978.