It’s CDO not OCD
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Love the “jail cell” for the kiddos 
Really? Do you have ANY idea how much googling that comment will force me to do? 
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Nice! I hope you’re straight with the darts - a lot can go wrong slightly to the right… 
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Color matching the power cords could be the icings on the cake.
@Kelly_Burkhart I took that as putting the letters in alphabetical order rather than it actually being true,so Google not required.
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Damn Andrew, nice work man!
Thanks, but very much a collaboration, relying on the skills and equipment of my friends
I mostly provided the design (extrapolated from the original 2x 10”s) and the impetus (over 10+ years) to actually do it
Very pleased we did…
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I’m not playing darts anymore. And no, I don’t want holes in my Dali’s either. 
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Want some dynamics? One may go for a horn system. Roon helped me to tame them (Hornblower 15 HO) and get rid of most of the typical horn colorations.
I did try complete active crossover design (with Okto dac8pro) and completely passive crossovers and ended up with the latter. The use of different Amps makes it very difficult to get the right performance (Could not afford another AMS100).
The current setup:
- Roon Core on a MAC Mini M1
- Roon Bridge (ropieee) with Intona USB isolator and a good linear power supply
- Musical Fidelity M6xDAC
- Musical Fidelity Primo
- Musical Fidelity AMS100
- All cables and interconnects from SUPRA, XLR
- Drivers: Beyma 15P80FE/N replacing the used JBL 130e. Limmerhorn 870qx with the according drivers from B&C.
- Roon DSP used with a convolution filter to tame some low frequency issues and resolve the nasal sound issues around 1800hz.
In the active crossover setup I used the Purifi Class D AMPs which are really good and replace the AMS100 in hot summer days.
Now the hornblower is dealing very well also with vocals, piano. Not to mention Symphony Orchestra level of dynamics. The target is to get rid of the convolution filter by optimizing the passive crossovers.
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This truly is a great system!
But I’d urge you to rethink the passive x-over approach.
If done properly, convolution for x-over, room-, frequency- and time-domain correction will definitely outperform any passive approach.
The MF and Purify amps should be transparent enough to not exhibit audible personalities.
Anyway, enjoy!
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You are right! My Problems started in the Preamp section. Using the DACs preamp did not do the trick. It sounded thin and gave me fatigue by the time. But I‘ll continue. Putting a DSP behind the preamp was painful too.
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Or you could just listen with some state of the art headphones 
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I like those chairs and the room.
How did you implement the crossovers?
I haven’t got any pictures at the moment, but before I went on the road I upgraded my bedroom setup to include a Powernode playing into a pair of Monitor Audio Silver 100G Green standmounts.
Hopefully they will be run in by the time I get back home in ten days.
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It’s a must if you want to get the best listening experience in your room. Room treatment first, DSP second.
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I have the Dac 2 and I forgot how to adjust the volume on it. It’s connected to my Naim but it’s like 3/4ths volume and it’s supposed to be set automatic right?
I don’t consider I have a large enough room to accommodate room treatments (I would need bass traps & others) however @Jazzfan_NJ (many thanks) recommended Room correction using your iPhone and HouseCurve which I tried yesterday and my initial results are impressive. I think I will be able to resolve my booming bass problem with a little more tweaking.
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Probably another post is warranted. But… WRONG!
I joke, kind of… for me sound hitting my ears AND my body is MUCH more gratifying than headphones. I have some great cans, but it is not the same. I do believe that the best audio experience requires more than ears. Music is felt by the body in addition to sensed by the ears. Sorry for the detour this is probably off topic…
Edit: I created another topic so as not to derail this one: Are headphones a substitute for speakers?
I mean no offense, we all do what we do…. But we can have an entertaining argument!
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