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In Reply to: Great site! posted by stewcle on June 24, 2001 at 04:08:51:
I really like your front end equipment: TT, Black cube pre, and especially the H2O cartridge. The Dyna 1.8 speakers are great stuff too except I will try not to toe-in them as you will lose a lot of soundstage depth and get more high frequency info at the listening position. 4 ft apart seems too close?Thanks for the compliment. The front-end could be considered 'entry-level', but set up properly, it sings. Very smooth and easy, competitive with very expensive TT setups I've heard. My room is not very wide so I'm having difficulty placing the speakers. The Dyns can image incredibly well (I heard them at the dealer), but I need to place them wider and add acoustic treatments, the former of which won't work because there's a radiator on one side and an always-open window on the other (rain, etc sometimes comes in). I'm trying to get a new picture of the setup onto the page; I might benefit from some suggestions as to how to place things in the room when I get the negs done.
I used to own a few ss amps(Sonneteer is ss. Isn't it?), some silver I/C, speaker cable and digital cable. They sound brighter together. Don't know much about Sonneteer it might be different? I think ss will be better fit with copper cables
Yes, I tend to agree that Cu might is warmer/less forward for SS, although Sonneteer is quite special because they have figured out how to add a very perfect warm sparkle to the sound. Not extremely full like tubes, but very warm with a lot of authority. If you have heard SimAudio, the sound is similar, but fuller. The silver cables have been detailed but never sounded too forward in this system (due to the amp; also the Benz is quite warm-sounding), and I like the bass. I know what the amplifier is capable of, just bizarre that it lost some of its control in the aforementioned 'upgrade'.
I think tube amps are more musical(Mark Levinson is starting to make tube amps?). If you have a chance get an Anthem amp to try out - since you know TPC.
I would absolutely love to get into tubes sometime. Wish I had the cash for this big sale they're having. Some of those kits are 50% off! Burned too much dough on those Dyn's tho. :)
Probably now you have already run in your cardas posts/wbt solder. I don't think by adding merely this in would drastically change the sound of your system. You just need a few more hours to break-in the massy metal.
I think you are right, and waiting on this is what's called for. At one point I will probably reflow the joints or try some of that Kester solder. The bass and midrange are back to normal now, though the high treble (cymbals, 'sss' sounds) are still slightly too forward.
Best,
Chris
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