I have some ribbon tweeters you can borrow if you like, although I’m away for over a week now. Should be good for 5k+, if that’s not stretching the mids too far.
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That’s massively kind, will take you up on that, there’s only one way to find out on the stretching, but the driver is supposed to be good to 7khz I think.
Been listening to it today from my desk which is about 4 metres away and it sounds pretty good in a lot of areas. I think I have a vale issue though as there has been some rustling for a while but it is occasionally sucking out some low frequencies that I couldn’t here with the manacor. Might explain some of the inconsistencies. Will see if I have spare valves, if not might see if my Dad will lend me his 300b amp 
If you want to come to St Albans you can borrow a Rotel six channel amplifier as well, which is perfect for getting these things going. Once you have it working you can sort out better amps if you want.
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This forces me to actually think about my crossover plan because my minidsp is only 2 way.
Will apply myself to it at some point, really appreciate the offer.
Buy another and use them as 3/4way mono crossovers.
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Still unsure on volume control at that point. Options are use the MiniDSP volume (one per side) or Volumio volume control, which then stops me using vinyl. Or do something else entirely.
Get a passive preamp to sit in front of the MiniDSPs
I suggested that and Pete said it was a bad idea.
It’s not ideal but it will work, and no different to using the volume control in the minidsp or on the pc (being digital volume control they are pretty much the same).
The mini dsp volume control is probably the best bet since you can still keep the input level high.
Multi channel volume controls are around
I keep meaning to diy something then never bothering, I just use the pc to control volume.
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The MiniDSP 2x4HD has a volume control built in. I wonder if you had two it would reliably work from one remote?
Ah hang on, the volume is just a pot attached to a RC servo style plug. If I just wired 1 pot to 2 plugs that might do it.
5.5 VOLUME CONTROL
Master volume control of all output channels can be accomplished with a 10 kΩ linear potentiometer connected
to the designated 3-pin header (standard 0.1”/2.54mm pitch). The wiring diagram for the potentiometer is
shown in the diagram below. No attenuation (maximum volume) is applied when pin 2 of the header is at 3.3 V,
while maximum attenuation (minimum volume) is applied when pin 2 is at 0 V
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There’s a fuck load of Western Electric repro stuff by Line Magnetic for sale in Germany at the moment, just buy that.
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How do you put on a record? 
Carefully. Actually I don’t is the honest answer, not quite up to playing records through the speakers yet, but there was plenty of room to get to the turntable if needed.
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