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Here are a number of threads at my site where the concept of “Rightsizing from extreme systems....” is pitched. I looked into the “second” systems not because I was interested in “different sound”. In fact I insist that multiple playbacks in the same listening room is in away a declaration of system owner’s Moronity. My interest in second playback is purely utilitarian. Macondo and Melquiades do well but they big, hot, and demanding. The amp need to be warmed up and so on… it is always nice to have a small scale SS driver playback that instantly or always, that is cool running and not too finicky. From a different perceive, I would like to use the sores that I have – so the none-fastidious second playback much be driven from the same preamp as the rest of my system. For instance: I run my Rohde & Schwarz Tuner  all time - 24/7,  and listing current and upcoming programming sometimes I would like turn the big Macondo on and sometimes I have no needs on interest…

Back to my Photography live we used studio flashes with pilot lights. The pilot lights were connected to the same dividers as the strop bulbs, use the same reflectors and if the flashes were made by serious companies then the pilot lights also very accurately to model and predict the character of the lightning that the given set of the lights would produce when the flashes go off. In fact in some case I preferred to shot just with pilot lights if I need a long exposure and was able to handle the color temperature… but it would be a separate subject…

So, looking at the way how I us my playback I wonder: why our large and extended installations might not include options for Pilot sound souses. If we presume that our main systems are installed at the best locations in our rooms then why do not incorporate into our mains systems the provisions for a small and perhaps crapy “summer monitors”? For instance is I design the Macondo Frame not I would incorporate into the frame a provision for building in a few direct radiators drivers. Let say a pair of 5” ported midbass drivers in MTM configuration, where the MTM’s tweeter sits right behind the Macondo’s Water Drop. I am not planning to do any change to Macondo but conceptually I think it is very interesting and beneficial idea – to have a good and bid system with imbedded option to do run it with “less blood”. In the case of 12 channels multi-amped Macondo it is particularly a blessing… Since I am a first to my knowledge who propose this concept I would like to name the notion and MiniMe systems (courtesy to Austin Powers movies)

Interesting that the MiniMe sections of big systems should not necessary to be a crapy sounding systems. With knows dose of creativity, talent and skills the MiniMe systems might be good. It is like design of motorcycles engine – the specific limitations of the motorcycle architecture forces the engineers to implement in motorcycle engine some decisions that would make big cars to envy…

I certainly do not try to propose that the MiniMe sections need to match or mimic the sound character of big system the MiniMe is implanted into. But it might be good enough to let a person do not have any another speaker in his/her room and would make the use of the main installation much more accommodatable for ordinary and non-demanding (did I say non-air-conditioned) listening.

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