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Today is a “special” day in the subject of this thread – today the last waited piece of the projects – the inner-stage transformer will be shipped to me and I will have no more impediments to render the project.  However, the intricacy of the project is not in the technicalities of new MF amp but in definition of the project’s success or in the visualization of what kind “new” MF midrange I would like to get out of Macondo’s MF channel.

I have written somewhere that since the problems with electricity are gone I was not pleased with the sound of my MF channel and that Macondo MF begins to remind me the way in which the field-coil drivers typically sound. I remember that I used even harder words then “do not like” – I was saying that I hated it. In the same post I was observing my continuing over the last 7 years increased of load over the plate of the tube that drives MF. Well, I think that I went overboard with loading of that anode and now the time to go slightly back, thanks the electricity clearly offers the opportunities not to fear.

After a lot of thinking at this point I have absolutely clear visualization what MF I would like to have as the result of my new MF channel. What I have now is not as bad as I was presenting it. My current MF are very elegant. They are inconspicuous with good ability to discriminate dynamic and tonal nuances, with a reasonable absolute tone, injected.  It can play hostile or peaceful but it kind of on a withholded, moderate side. It rather is overly-polite then neutral (in my definition of neutrality) and it does not step into the dangers water of brutality in the same way as my Vitavox S2 use to able to step in a few years back.

OK, what I would like to change? The key is not to hurt anything whatever I value and what’ve is good. In addition to that I would like to increase the ability of sound to accelerate without shortening the distance of the Sound need to stop after the acceleration. It is not that I need “faster” sound but I rather would like to get an ability to go faster but without actually going “faster”. Ironically the things that I would like to change in my sound are very same things that that I do not like in the sound of the today’s Boston Symphony.  The BSO does not “rape strings” when Sound is called upon it and they also stay overly save. This “string bite” is a tricky moment in audio, as it is very easy to produce, or more accurately to say overly-produce but incredibly difficult to control. It is not about an introduction of “edge” in upper MF – most of the HF speakers have it and I do NOT like it. The “edge” gives a Boolean-type “bite” and it impresses the Morons during the audio trade shows but it insult my audio objectives and listening preference. What I would like to have is Sound that gently and gradually enters into the well-controlled “string bite”, does there the necessary well-defied things and then gracefully lived the “edge”. I think in my new environment the type of the tube, the loading, the type of driver, the diffusion or sharpening the MF with tweeters and a new other flexibilities that I have with the new DHT channel  might give me a chance to play with it and to get the result that I would like to get. I use to have it but now I would like to get it at a new level of “cleanliness”.

The journey is promised to be interesting…

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