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I have auditioned two Verity Audio speakers - the Finn and the Parsifal Ovation. The Parsifal blew me away - it is a wonderful speaker! At half of the price of the Parsifal, the Rienzi is closer to my budget, but I cannot audition it. Has anyone directly compared the Rienzi to the Parsifal? How much of the Parsifal magic does it capture? Regards, Mark

Hey Mark, Have you considered buying used? You might want to take advantage of the credit crucnch and drive a bit of a bargain. There are two pairs of clean looking Parsifal Encores for sale on Audiogon asking $5990 and $6350 respectively. Parsifal Encores sound reasonably similar to the Ovations which were a pretty incremental upgrade. I've owned a pair for 10 years and still love them. I am sure these would be a fairly considerable...

Quote: I like your suggestion about the scope program. I mentioned in my original post that I was looking for something like that. Any suggestions? Sorry, I've never tried any, but Googling "oscilloscope software" produced some promising results, some even free.

You will clearly see a dome on a tweeter move with a 1.5V battery, so go for it. I've done this on about 100 tweeters, actually far more, so it is not problem -whatsoever. That's a 1.5V AA cell or similar. There is no guarantee what the polarity of the given tweeter is in the given total speaker system, though. It varies. I believe Martin Colloms reviewed that speaker for Stereophile, in the way back days. Nope, it was JA. It was...

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