New loudspeakers.
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Left in box in conservatory to 'acclimatise' (after inspection) as they were about 17 degrees colder than the room when they arrived.
Also need to fill the stands. So off to B&Q tomorrow for large plastic funnel and kiln dried sand and rubber mallet (to get bungs in after sand filling.)
Customer for old Rega R3's coming to listen on Sunday afternoon so new speakers/stands will probably go in after that.
Also need to fill the stands. So off to B&Q tomorrow for large plastic funnel and kiln dried sand and rubber mallet (to get bungs in after sand filling.)
Customer for old Rega R3's coming to listen on Sunday afternoon so new speakers/stands will probably go in after that.
Nice one chebster, are they with you early ?. I've got it in my nut they were due on the tenth. Have fun mate.
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floyd droid:Nice one chebster, are they with you early ?. I've got it in my nut they were due on the tenth. Have fun mate.
Decided to bring it forward due to Christmas pressure on couriers and not wishing to be speakerless if my R3s sell ok on Sunday.
Decided to bring it forward due to Christmas pressure on couriers and not wishing to be speakerless if my R3s sell ok on Sunday.
Very nice choice Chebby. Very good pair of speakers. I heard them with the Nait 5i amp and CD2X CDP (or whatever the good one is called). Very detailed and involving with excellent imaging. I found them a little lightweight but didn't audition them at home or in a room even close to where I would have used them. Do you think you'll get the matching sub?
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One hour in....
Spikes not adjusted to the nth degree yet but stable. Stand pillars not filled yet.
Speakers still 'cold' and positioning not optimal yet until I move stuff around a bit. (Want them just a couple of inches from wall eventually. Currently 18 inches from wall.)
Incredibly detailed, suprisingly so. Imaging better. (Toed in about 20 degrees)
Absolutely no 'boxiness' and none of the one note 'BS bass' my R3's evidently had a little bit of - deeper down - courtesy of those ports.
I think once I have filled the stands and got them much closer to the wall then any apparent gap in bass is going to be tiny. (The R3's did only have 5" woofers after all, so most of what I was hearing before was from the box and the hole and tuned to one frequency.)
They are fantastic with the jazz I have played so far (a couple of tracks from Sinatra at the sands and some Pearl Django and Bucky Pizzarelli) and I am now enjoying the recent BBC drama CD of John Le Carre's.. 'A Murder of Quality' which is amazing me with it's intimacy and detail - especially considering these boxes are still cold.
I did not like the shabby quality of the GRP damping on the underside of the stand plates and had to spend a good 30 minutes with vacuum cleaner brush attachment getting rid of of the loose bits of chopped glass fibre from them - and from the floor (and from the hall where I had chopped up the box for recycling.) Cheers Partington! Bitumen damping sheet would have been tidier and not shed bits of glass matting fibres everywhere.
Spikes not adjusted to the nth degree yet but stable. Stand pillars not filled yet.
Speakers still 'cold' and positioning not optimal yet until I move stuff around a bit. (Want them just a couple of inches from wall eventually. Currently 18 inches from wall.)
Incredibly detailed, suprisingly so. Imaging better. (Toed in about 20 degrees)
Absolutely no 'boxiness' and none of the one note 'BS bass' my R3's evidently had a little bit of - deeper down - courtesy of those ports.
I think once I have filled the stands and got them much closer to the wall then any apparent gap in bass is going to be tiny. (The R3's did only have 5" woofers after all, so most of what I was hearing before was from the box and the hole and tuned to one frequency.)
They are fantastic with the jazz I have played so far (a couple of tracks from Sinatra at the sands and some Pearl Django and Bucky Pizzarelli) and I am now enjoying the recent BBC drama CD of John Le Carre's.. 'A Murder of Quality' which is amazing me with it's intimacy and detail - especially considering these boxes are still cold.
I did not like the shabby quality of the GRP damping on the underside of the stand plates and had to spend a good 30 minutes with vacuum cleaner brush attachment getting rid of of the loose bits of chopped glass fibre from them - and from the floor (and from the hall where I had chopped up the box for recycling.) Cheers Partington! Bitumen damping sheet would have been tidier and not shed bits of glass matting fibres everywhere.
Chebby are you going to fill the stands to the max? ... read somewhere that one should only fill the pillars 3/4 way
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