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In Reply to: Re: ready to buy mackie 824's for home hi fi........input appreciated posted by Chris on September 7, 2005 at 19:48:17:
I have been playing them for about 30 minutes now... So far I can tell that they throw a surprising amount of bass that is puchy and tight, well controlled (compared to magnepan MG12, it is deeper and more dynamic). I can't imagine having a sub in my room. It would be overkill.
The first apparent quality to me is how dynamic, immediate they are. Imaging is good although it is not as holographic and big as with the magnepan. Anyhow, I'll let them burn-in for a few days and I'll post a short review.
Other than that, I have connected them to my pre-amp using a cheap Hosa RCA to XLR. The BM5As are electronically balanced but a unbalanced connection is possible by connecting the unused pin. Anyhow, there's no hum; they are dead silent.
Also, eventhough there's an input gain switch in the back of the speakers (-10dB - 0 - +4dB), they play as they should on position 0. No need for a "bump up box" as some suggested to do things right.
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Dear Sir,could you tell more about your system?
I mean, what is your source and preamp ?
Thank you very much indeed.Kind regards,
Sure.. I have a Yamaha DVD player S540 feeding data to a MSB Link III DAC (with upsampling card 24bits/132.1). The pre-amp is an Adcom 710.
Dear Sir,thank you very much indeed for your kind and interesting reply.
I have two pair of Dynaudio that I am trying to power adequately.
But it is not easy task.
Nevertheless I am sure that once properly driven they can give great satisfactions.
So I am very interested in this new amplified monitor.
I understand the depth of the image is not that great.
Please keep us informed if this particular caharacteristic improves running in the sepakers.Kind regards,
beppe61
Italy
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