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In Reply to: RE: Any experience of smooth sounding XLRs posted by beppe61 on August 04, 2014 at 22:53:29
The more information you give, the less and less I think that any cable is going to provide a solution. I can easily forsee you spending a lot of time and money and still not resolving the problems by using cables as a band aid - it will end in frustration and anger (and poorer too!). This is from someone who has built and sold many thousands of cables. In fact the tissue trick I asked you to try has a far GREATER effect than any cable change (especially balanced cables) and fitting a damping resistor across the tweeter terminals will replicate the tissues effect but in a more consistent controlled manner.
Having a 'live' room with many reflections from bare walls I think is just adding to your problems, because it is midrange more than any other frequency that resonates around the listening room and drowns out the desirable bass and treble frequencies. I would imagine too that soundstaging and image focus is virtually non-existent. Putting some pictures up might help, a fabric wall hanging certainly will, as will rugs and pot plants.
I am concentrating my replies towards real solutions for you rather than merely gambles on various "flavours" of cables which won't even be remotely beneficial in curing your issues.
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Hi and thanks a lot again
I am just worried about possible issues with the power amp after fitting a damping resistor across the tweeter terminals
1) Is this mod safe for the amp ?
2) Will it alter the crossover point ?
I will proceed with that first for sure ... very easy to do.
And then i will look for some wall panels .. they are some nice looking ones around.
Thanks a lot again.
Kind regards,
bg
The tweeter damping resistor mod is perfectly safe for any amplifier.
It will not alter the crossover point, it merely flattens out the tweeter's peak slightly.
It will not change the crossover impedance that the amplifier "sees".
The British take on cables:
http://cablejunction.boards.net/
Hi and thanks a lot again
A very smart idea ... i will try it for sure
The Monitor Audio have a metal dome
even if it sounds quite clean for sure it is not a fabric tweeter
I will try it with great curiosity
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
Yes I am very familiar with the Monitor Audio Silver Series and it's metal dome tweeter's characteristics, hence why I have steered you well away from the cable swapping route and towards paying attention to taming the tweeter and ways to make your listening room less lively.
Let us know how you progress :-)
The British take on cables:
http://cablejunction.boards.net/
Hi and thanks again for the valuable advice
At first i have been struck by the clarity ...
And i have also now some concerns about the quality of the woofers
They look very plastic ... the cabinet is very well built instead
Fact is that i am enamoured of the D'Appolito concept.
And also i read very good reviews of some D'Appolito monitors.
Kind regards,
bg
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