Greetings to the EER group.  I am new to this forum having just received my ERR's on Friday.  Since I have no experience with radial speakers I was wondering if there are any general setup suggestion (distance between speakers, toe in etc)?  I am driving my ERRs with a First Watt F5 and B1 combo.  Thanks in advance!

Lon - Thanks for the reply.  So far I really like the ERRs.  They take a bit of getting use to as compared to my Magnepan 1.6s.  Overall I am very impressed.  My listening room is 11X14.  I currently have them 1/3 of the way out on 14X side.  I am currently playing around with the toe in etc.  I am also experimenting with changing the resistors....I think I have settled on the 6 ohm for now.

Glad you're enjoying them.

Me, I use 100 ohm resistors!

Yeah, with any speaker I've had in the last twenty years I've needed to pad down the treble or toe the speakers out. . . the price I pay for listening to digital I've come to believe.

My hearing has NOT been decreased in the high frequency range, and I'm very sensitive to treble grain and glare.  I have a very good pair of digital front ends right now that have less of the grain and glare than the ZCD for example, and I'm pretty happy, but I do need the flexibility that the Radials offer to get the frequency balance right for me, and I enjoy the treble dampening circuit that Steve installed in my Torii Mark II and my Integrated, that really lets me get the best sound.

Also I've lived in pier and beam houses the last twenty plus years and I think that's a factor.  I'm not one who wants to live in room treatment (and don't want to have a "dedicated listening room"--- I want to live with my system) and so I yam what I yam.

I was talking to Bob about that today.  Probably won't be getting one right away though unless I sell some of the items on my stockpile.

I have one inside the Peachtree Audio "Decco" hybrid integrated amp I have in my bedroom; I run it as a tubed preamp into my Decware Integrated and powering the Peachtree Audio speakers.  Quite nice.  I've had it in use in the living room system too.

I must say though that the new ES Series Sony SACD player I bought is in fact a superior sounding machine, and does not have a NOS dac within, but does use DSD.  It's an amazing player.  Better to my ears than the ZCD.

I'd wait for the Zen DAC.

The stockpile contains a set of Decware EL34 Monoblocks, but I'm not sure I'm ready to part with them. . . ..

Will do. Sort of keeping them on hand in case I need them in the future. . .I will probably need a larger house in the future, and my gal is a music lover (yeah!) and I'm going to wnt to be sure we hae nough good stereos!

Zen DAC???  I this in the works???  Could be worth the wait.

Ok - so it has been quite some time since I have log on.  I am at the point with ERRs where I would like to play around with the resistors and the capacitors to really dial them in, yet I am not sure what I am doing?  My assumption is that if my ERRs sound a little "bright" then I need to increase the resistance for each speaker?  Any guidance would be much appreciated!

my radial 1.5's came with a 5 ohm resistor installed, but I tried a mundorf 18 ohm and found that the balance is better. It may sound a bit warm at first, but that is the nature of the radial design.

Are these the ones you are running?

http://www.madisound.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=356_86_415&products_id=8...

Fyi: with the radial tweeter, 3ohm -4db, 5ohm -6db, 15ohm -12db.

15-18 ohm would have seemed like a lot to me in the beginning, but just let your speakers break in and your ears/brain adjust.

                                                                                    --Greg

Good evening!

reading through this post I was thinking how we seemed to like the ERRs set up closer to the center and fairly close together. It really did make them vanish in the room where I got to listen to them.

As for the resistor, my first thought was a 16ohm. The tweeters are crossed over very high so you cutting down the brightness on a low level sound at a gradual slope. It sounds like a lot, but realistically, you could put a 300ohm resistor on them and they could still be listenable. the difference from 3 to 5 ohms probably won't make much difference, but going up to 15, 16, 18, or maybe 24 should be noticeable. Depending on the cap itself, you could hear a difference too. I know Ziggy has his preferences for caps as do I and everyone else. The Mundorf is a good cap and I am betting you like what you get from that. Depending on how much "too bright" you think they are, an email to Bob or Steve might be the best way to get started.

Enjoy your new speakers! I know I can't wait to convert my current office into a listening room!

Take care,
Robert