I've recently bought a pair of Q Acoustics Concept 40 speakers and a Yamaha RN-500 network amplifier. We've just bought a new house but we're waiting to move in (the speakers were the 1st thing I bought once I knew our offer had been accepted) and as the rooms are a lot bigger I wanted a decent system to fill the space.
I tried the speakers and amp when they arrived just to make sure that everything was working ok. I let them play for an hour or so and cranked them up a little (but not deafeningly loud briefly), just to see where they would go. Everything seemed fine and I put everything back in the boxes waiting for the move. As it's taking a while for everything to go through I thought I might as well start running the speakers in so I took them out today and set it all up. After a couple of hours they really started to sound brilliant, this is my 1st decent system and I was shocked how much more detail I was hearing in the music I usually listen to, it's made me want to listen to my whole collection again.
However, as I've sat in front of them all afternoon I've noticed that certain sounds are maybe a little distorted but I can't work out whether they are or if it's just that I'm not used to a better system and it's just the extra detail? I honestly don't know if it's happening or is it just in my head and I'm listening "too hard". A lot of tracks are fine, acoustic stuff sounds brilliant and funk/soul tunes do also but when I'm listening to more complicated stuff like techno, I think I can hear a bit of distortion on certain tracks but I can't work out if that's how it's meant to sound?? It's more of a mid range thing, and volume doesn't seem to matter, it's just certain sounds or basslines. Could I have done any damage by cranking them up a bit straight out of the box?
I've got decent speaker cables and I've bi-wired. I'm using my ipod plugged directly into the amp via USB.
Has anyone else had similar issues or can anyone give me any advice?
cheers
I tried the speakers and amp when they arrived just to make sure that everything was working ok. I let them play for an hour or so and cranked them up a little (but not deafeningly loud briefly), just to see where they would go. Everything seemed fine and I put everything back in the boxes waiting for the move. As it's taking a while for everything to go through I thought I might as well start running the speakers in so I took them out today and set it all up. After a couple of hours they really started to sound brilliant, this is my 1st decent system and I was shocked how much more detail I was hearing in the music I usually listen to, it's made me want to listen to my whole collection again.
However, as I've sat in front of them all afternoon I've noticed that certain sounds are maybe a little distorted but I can't work out whether they are or if it's just that I'm not used to a better system and it's just the extra detail? I honestly don't know if it's happening or is it just in my head and I'm listening "too hard". A lot of tracks are fine, acoustic stuff sounds brilliant and funk/soul tunes do also but when I'm listening to more complicated stuff like techno, I think I can hear a bit of distortion on certain tracks but I can't work out if that's how it's meant to sound?? It's more of a mid range thing, and volume doesn't seem to matter, it's just certain sounds or basslines. Could I have done any damage by cranking them up a bit straight out of the box?
I've got decent speaker cables and I've bi-wired. I'm using my ipod plugged directly into the amp via USB.
Has anyone else had similar issues or can anyone give me any advice?
cheers
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