Upgrade Advice Needed - Cyrus/B&W System

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Hi, I have a B&W 685 on the end of a Cyrus 8vs2/CD6s and need expert advice on an upgrade path.

While I am generally happy with my current system, I feel its lacking grunt in the bass department specially when listening to Pop/Dance music. I used to listen to my music using an AV Reciever/5.1 HT system with a sub so am used to thicker, thumpier bass. Thinking of swapping my 685s with some floorstanders. I have heard the 684s but felt the midrange was quite recessed vs my 685s. What do you think about 704s, CM7 or maybe Spendor S6e or PMC GB1i??

BTW, am running on Cyrus Bi-wire speaker cable at the moment so not looking at non-biwire capable speakers. Or is the lack of bass a Cyrus issue ???

 

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Hi, I have a B&W 685 on the end of a Cyrus 8vs2/CD6s and need expert advice on an upgrade path.

While I am generally happy with my current system, I feel its lacking grunt in the bass department specially when listening to Pop/Dance music. I used to listen to my music using an AV Reciever/5.1 HT system with a sub so am used to thicker, thumpier bass. Thinking of swapping my 685s with some floorstanders. I have heard the 684s but felt the midrange was quite recessed vs my 685s. What do you think about 704s, CM7 or maybe Spendor S6e or PMC GB1i??

BTW, am running on Cyrus Bi-wire speaker cable at the moment so not looking at non-biwire capable speakers. Or is the lack of bass a Cyrus issue ???

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Whether I like your B&W's or not they have plenty of bass. Your 8vs2 has good extended (if very slightly loose) bass too. A PSX will tighten that up further but it really is no big problem in the first place. I think you are just used to your sub assisted AV system. I can't really comment on that as I dont know what you're using but I can tell you that the amp is certainly not the problem. The CD6 has a less extended bass than the 8 and really, this is where I'd start. Trade the 6 for an 8.

Go to a good dealer and have a listen. If they carry REGA listen to the R3's with an all cyrus 8 system and see if you like it. IMO very superior speakers to your B&W's but perhaps not 'bassy' enough for you.

You should be able to work out a serious discount on the 8 player as a replacement is due shortly.

 

[Anonymous]

Try Dynaudio - Im not a Dyn salesman honestly, they just sound hat good with Cyrus!

Bi-wirable, but that would be a crazy reason not to give them an audition. Just sell your Cyrus cable on eBay (where it always fetches an excellent price for some reason, along with their interconnects)

 

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the replies. I will plan to give the CD8x a listen. Do you folks think this will bring a bigger improvement in bass performance vs going to floorstanders??

On Dynaudio.. have heard great things about it. However, i thought this would close the doors on future upgrade option of bi-amping my 8vs2.

 

[Anonymous]

imo, speaker upgrade would give biggest improvement

Instead of bi-amping, you could add a power using the 8's pre-outs. Te 8vs2 makes a superb pre

 

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't dismiss Dyns over the fact thet can't be bi-amp'd or bi-wired. Instead of buying a second amp of the same quality to bi-amp, the idea is that you sell up and just by one better amp overall. Cyrus and Dyn work well together but Dyns come alive on a lot of power.

 

[Anonymous]

I mono-bloc my Dyns (72SE) with Cyrus Mono-Xs, to give them plenty of power and they really sing.

They're the most power-hungry speakers Ive ever owned