ya, right now it summer so just using them to start off plants or clones and am transplanting outside / for winter will get a bigger Reservoir for sure... thanks for feedback

@@rompstar I use mine to start seedlings as well and for small plants that can fit on the lower tray. After 3+ years I still love my Rise 👍

don't remember, whatever it was recommended on the bottle ...

thanks!!

i prefer the ES14 / bigger sound and also you can hack the tweeter if you know how and sounds better than original

@@rompstar ok , I have enough a few speakers may be this one for another room , based on what I have read you have to match carefully what kind of amp is best and what do you mean by hacking the tweeter Is there just one version of the se 14 ?

@@hamzatatta952 i designed my own tweeter baffle and 3d printed allowing me to mount different tweeters... see - www.ebay.com/itm/125945208107?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=2OZx_Gj6S06&sssrc=2051273&ssuid=2OZx_Gj6S06&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

@@rompstar so I opened the link, the black baffle I saw are you meant to replace it with the original or please explain?

@@hamzatatta952 my original tweeter broke, they are impossible to find.. so i designed my own baffle to replace the original with a different tweeter

one day / i found a used Anycubic Vyper for $100 and it has a lot of improvements over Ender 3 // we will see

You're missing the have $1,200 step

By a direct drive all metal extruder for it. Makes a word of difference

@@htevo80 ha i don't want to spend $1200 so ... ;) i could but i don't want to

@@htevo80 it's easy to throw money to solve problems, my hacking nature is get away with less

i just bought some CD-R Audio disks and it works fine for me / new disks.. that's the one thing I learned, it only work with Audio CD disks.

@@rompstar Yes I remember about that. I was referring to the rewritable Digital Audio CD-RWS. A much more rare find these days. I hope you have fun with it.

@@stevie.dx1710 ahhh i see, i wont be using those, just CD copying the originals so i can preserve those ;)

i own the Polk RT4 and they are not the same / unless RT5 are different

I have those fabric covers, but I really don't like them, so I took them off / thanks for all the advice on these.

to annoy Karens like you ;)

Shooting a video of the cuff somehow makes the video more authentic.

@@totalplonker824 ya my channel is not pro, just a hobby

sometimes there is no space to work with / i am aware, i don't blast my volumes, so any feedback is almost none existent...

you don't need to connect to app to use bike / this is just extra

who are you, did you sell me these speakers ? // system came with one original tweeter and one improvised tweeter that somehow magically worked without the wires even being connected... my solution is better and solves for some of the original design limitations too.

@@rompstar oh, I thought i saw videos of yours where they were fully functional. My mistake. Maybe it was someone else.

@@BadMonkeyFinger_Audio ya, you have me confused with another video, cheers!

@@BadMonkeyFinger_Audio sound much better than the original :) with only a single 4.7 uF cap 4ohm tweeters

one day i get it for $200 user for my collection :)

the CD player is very nice and plays CDs from close in 2 seconds...

The speakers are a little bright. Could be the amp?

@@MrGfunk215 could be, i sold them, didn't really like these speakers ... nothing really special about them in either sound or looks...

Sure you can test any driver once out of speaker tweeter or not… let me know what they test and if they test the same or have variations

they look fried. Ordering peerless from Just Speakers. Thanks. @@thespiceofjohnmenu8304

In winter I take it indoors and grow all year ;) supplement with some led light

I always called it a sock, a Bong cap is what you stick inside the port hole… to control the bass

B&K Ex-442 is my amp, what frogs ? Lol

Ya even with the old belt it sounded good, just a bit slow / so after it comes we shall see… I think I paid like $4.95 for it at thrift store, it was cheap, no one makes tape players anymore anyways, so we only have older choices…

@@rompstar There are some new decks around, from Teac, that's one that I know of. But they no longer have Dolby NR. There are also boomboxes available with cassette players, but they use the cheap Tanashin transport, so not really worth buying.

@@hermanmunster3358 far too few, kind of an old way // vinyl just outsold CDs, but CD also coming back, mostly because of better DACs that bring them back to life ;)

True that!! I recently got a better amp (B&K Ex-442) and preamp NAD 1155 and external DAC, Schiit BIFROST - and man CD sound so good, I am collecting them again… and Vinyl sound amazing too, if the recording was done right, I would say better than CD even!! Cheers!!!

@@rompstar the kind of speakers that reward the listener as the electronics are upgraded. Maybe down to having no crossover to get in the way except a capacitor to protect the tweeters, and custom drivers to match the cabinet design.

@@rayhunter7371 the tweeters are custom on mine, I designed my own baffle 3d printed and put in a new tweeter, and actually I can design them for many tweeters as long as they fit the space ;) perks of having busy hands

@@rayhunter7371 no experience with atm tweeters, also removed your comment by mistake, too early in the morning haha wrong button

Ya. Not bad at all, I still prefer the EPOS ES11 over them, they sound more musical and richer ;)

Same here / no issues in the ES11 or 12 that I own.. the ES14 a bit different story, but I have designed baffles for the tweeters and installed different ones and it sound a awesome…

They are connected normally to your amplifier and then you cast music to your amplifier with any music streamer / specifically I use Audioengine B1

yes kind of :)

I was just streaming over Tidal for this demonstration, I agree that MTV Unplugged is so well recorded, and sound mastering definitely will make a difference on any speaker, just they play what we feed them. a Good speaker should tell you many things, even bad recordings as well, haha / but honestly 99% of all music from Tidal sounds great... I don't have any specific things to share for individual music tracks, sorry.

@Ray Kodiak that's alright, no problem of course. A question; I can buy a pair of Es 12 's for a good price. Are the differences between the Es11 and es12 big and interesting enough to have them both and rotate them? And would rotating them, say one month one pair and the next month the other pair, mean you have to burn them in again and again?

@@Eric-lh6wp the concept of speaker burn-in is for new speakers, the idea is to relax the drivers, etc... especially the woofer.. used speakers by now are all burned in / hope that makes sense... I heard the 12 might have more bass extension, not really sure, I haven't played them side by side / my 12s are in a different space vs 11s. I say if you can get them for a good price, buy them as backup :)

@Ray Kodiak I played them side by side. For my set up the Es 12 sounds best. The 12 sounds a bit less transparent in the high and mid than the 11. But the 12 has more bass indeed and is therefore sounding more balanced than the 11. The Es11 sounds sublime in mid and high, but lacks in the lower region. My speaker cables also take away some bass. So the es12 is very welcome in my set up. No booming bass here, but just enough to not only hear the music, but also feel it resonate in your chest, which makes it more fun. Cheers!

@@Eric-lh6wp ya you probably right, I like the ES11 sublime mid and high's better, don't care much for more bass :)

Maybe the 12 has a bit more bass extension than the 11, but the 14 is a bigger speaker so it sounds a bit larger / but I love them all, hard to pick just one.

@@rompstar what about highs and mids? Are the 11s good in this regard?

@@user-gu7wl5kj9w the midd are superb, I did do a ES11 review video recently watch it

Those speakers are beautiful soundstage, very musical, you keep them for life!!! If you lucky to find them…

Those speakers are beautiful soundstage, very musical, you keep them for life!!! If you lucky to find them…

Ya might as well do it since I am listening to them right now, maybe next week

@Ray Kodiak hello Ray, your answer already tells a lot. When my wife and I bought our Hi Fi set-up in 1993 we indeed had the intention to invest in something for the rest of our life. Of course in time some components fell of, like the cassette deck and the radio tuner. A few years ago we changed the cd player for a Cambridge CXN network player. Streaming and discovering new music on Spotify hugely improved the pleasure of listening. Recently we stept over to Tidel; a huge improvement in streaming quality. What remained the same over all these years are the Rotel RA 980 BX (powerhouse!) amplifier, the Ocos speaker cables and of course our Epos Es 11 speakers with their stands. Very recently I changed the 30 years old Transparent Interlinks for a pair of Chord Epic interlinks. The huge improvement in openess en detail of sound is a true revelation. This made me curious about how my 30 years old Epos es11 speakers would relate to speakers that are currently on the market. So, that 's why your answer already says a lot for me. Best regards from the Netherlands, Eric

BTW, a shop here in the Netherlands offers a pair of Es 15. Do you have any idea how they sound compared with the 11 's?

The Epic 5 is a very good speaker, very hard to say better, but different and it being a tower, it has more power ;)

I really like it, it’s built like a tank and sound good too once you learn all of its inner workings, it’s also built to precision… so move the planner around as you pull on it, maybe you need to hit a special spot and then it will pull out, just completely turn it slowly to do a full 360 while you pull it up and see if it comes out… I also paid $100 for mine and restored and I like it…

@@rompstar Mine looks to have a circular snap ring in which I don't have a tool for. Think that is locking the platter. I plugged it in and only the light comes on, speed shows 16 and speed lever stuck. Guess when they said it worked I should have plugged it in. Hopefully the Motor isn't dead. If I can get the platter off, I can see what's wrong. I have two other Turntables but thought this one was cool. Maybe not if I'm out the bucks.

@@scotta9114 ya not sure maybe a clip is the culprit, mine comes out without a clip… those motors were really well made, maybe something else is broken, also try posting to a forum for audio…

@@rompstar Vinyl Engine says there is a round c-clip. In person said to put wedges under the Platter holding it up as far as it can go. Then hit the center bearing with a drift and a hammer.

@@scotta9114 don’t know man, mine didn’t have any clamp, but maybe just get a clamp tool ?

I do really like ‘em otherwise they would not be part of my collection… they are very smooth and almost have this like a velvet smooth sound to them, 3 way and have high velocity German made drivers, the box is well made and even extra spray inside to remove any box booming.. I have since bought lower stands that sit on an angle and they sound even better… and they have the power if you need it obviously ;) haha Anything new that would even come close to this costs thousands these days… example in point EPOS ES14 you can buy them for like $400-500 and the new remakes ES14N are $4700 so … no brainer there …