analoguekid
Planet Rush
Originally posted by Dev
Hi Analoguekid,
I did and I settled on what my daughter and I thought was the best setup. My daughter knows absolutely nothing about HiFi but has better hearing than mine so I ask her to listen to any changes I make and as she doesn't know what I've changed, her opinions will always be objective. It's my idea of DBT![]()
We just found that biamping gave us the best bass control and clarity. Also I use different cables for bass and treble. SA for HF and Avaya Cat6 for bass. Swapping the cables (SA on bass and Cat6 on treble) gave us the biggest change (for the worse obviously). I think the Tannoys just hungary.
I would like to experiment though perhaps with different pre/power combination just to see what I'm missing by using MF amps.Perhaps a bakoff is called for
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Hi Dev I wasn't trying to sound like a pretentious know it all I was in similar position to you had xa-1 and xray running rev r3's when I added xa-50's I got more grip etc just like you and Miss Dev Junior, I ran with this quite happily for 4-5 years, but when demo'ing Xa50's for a potential buyerI just whacked them in in plave of my poweramp, it was then I gained a new respect for 50's the grunt grip and spaciousness with my pre running the art expressions well I was very pleasantly surprised and have a whole new respect for them, It was as if they were keeping pace with the xa1 when they were quite capable of more, now your 200's and D700's are of a higher quality than my 50's and beleive that your xa2 may be holding back 200's, beg borrow or steal a pre possibly valve as with arcam cd, valve pre, xa200 and tannoys I think the music would really flow, and for very little outlay. Those 200's have enough grunt to rally grab those tannoys and make them sing. I wish I lived nearer as wouldbring over my pre to let you experiment. There you go sound like a pretentios know it all again.
Cheers
Paul
Incidentally are there any out there in Scotland fancy getting together for a bake off one weekend?
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