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Wasted my weekend, again....




I decided to try all of my speakers in my dedicated audio small room. Just to compare.
To see if the brightness I hear sometimes in the living room is caused by the source, amp or the speakers itself.
The small room setup usually is ASL 22W SET, OPPO 105d, Oskar Heil Aulos and an ACI Force sub. The sound is nice, detailed, nothing annoying.
The LR setup is CJ CA200, OPPPO 105d, B&W Matrix 802s2 (orig.Xovers) and a HSU sub.
I moved all the speakers to the small room and added an extra set of Vienna Acoustics Mozarts to the mix. To switch between speakers I got a speaker selector and a spool of Monoprice speaker cable. Took me a day to set it up...
Then I started to listen to some SACDs and my old Sanyo tuner.
Horrible, everything, even the Aulos, which were in the system for months, sound bad.
Each speaker sounds different though. B&W still bright, Mozarts are OK, not enough body, Aulos just lost all the magic they had earlier.
There is a problem with impedance mismatch.
Aulos are 4 ohm, Mozarts 6 ohm and the B&Ws are 8 ohm. I'm using the 8 ohm tabs right now. The Aulos used to be on the 4 ohm tabs.
But still, big disappointment, I was hoping for a clear answer, got nothing but just a reminder that a cheap speaker switch in the signal path is not a good thing.
Now I have to put it all back together and maybe try each speaker set separate. If I feel like it...


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Topic - Wasted my weekend, again.... - Jank 18:13:04 07/10/16 (22)

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