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In Reply to: A question wtih possibly no answer re: system dynamics posted by TopPop on May 10, 2006 at 08:25:55:
This follow up is horribly ironic, because it involves a pair of speakers that I won on Ebay, and just picked up locally. The ironic part is that I won the auction a few days ago, before I posted the original question! But here goes...
I will be separating my music system and HT system next year (they are currently integrated), and needed a pair of speakers for movies. I noticed that someone near me had a pair of Dahlquist M-905s on Ebay, so I bid, and planned on picking them up locally... which I did today, along with a couple of pairs of 12au7s.
Anyway, I got them home, and hooked them up on the main system to check them out.
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Holy crap!!
You know the dynamic presentation I was looking for? Yeah, it's there! It was a problem with the speakers all along. The only problem is that these new speakers are BRIGHT! Tonally, I think that my B&Ws are much more accurate, and are easier to listen to. However, the dynamics, or transient attack (I'm not sure which one) are much better on the Dahlquists: snare hits, bass kicks, finger snaps, guitar plucks, etc. are much more palpable.
I tried rolling the new tubes. One pair (I don't recall the make... they're downstairs right now) smoothed out the high end, but the bass was loose.
Oh well, it's a good predicament to find oneself in: two good pairs of speakers to choose between... and I own them both!
Thanks again for all of your ideas. I will post more about the differences between the speakers when I do some more listening. But for now, it seems like the speaker change helped a great deal!
Cheers,
Chris
"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
-Walter Savage Landor
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Follow Ups
- Thanks to all for your responses! And a follow-up... - TopPop 23:03:52 05/10/06 (3)
- Now it sounds as though the room needs to be tamed..nt - JoeE 09:31:33 05/11/06 (1)
- That's for my next place! August! -nt- - TopPop 11:31:35 05/11/06 (0)
- Oh, and they are a BIT more sensitive: 91db -nt- - TopPop 08:03:23 05/11/06 (0)
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