Nick
Any first impressions as to system balance with your current setup?
Jack,
Initial impressions earlier today was some boomy bass and virtually the same harshness on some violins, trumpets, female voices etc. I didn’t think it was the speaker, rather that it was room interactions. Played them at low/medium volume while I was out, then much higher volume in the evening. The Carreras easily played loud and handled being in the large, open space floor plan.
Quite by accident, I turned up the somewhat and occasionally noisy pot on my AH preamp and noticed hiss and hum from each driver. This is likely contributing to that harshness when I crank ‘em up.
As I played more tunes, I found some excellent recordings and the Carreras were doing some outstanding things. They were excellent in detail retrieval, imaging, better realism of instruments like piano, drums, guitar. Some of the bass reproduction was excellent with no hint of boomy bass. My guess is that certain, low frequencies interact with the room. Now I’ve never used any room treatments in my current or previous homes. I sent Dave some room pics some months ago and he showed Greg who produces room treatments. It seems I have a problem space and that’s the way it is. I could put drapes along the windows on one side,etc.... Don't really want to get into that. I wonder if Roon has software so I could use a mic...
I haven’t played with speaker placement at all and will work on that tomorrow. As to what’s causing the noise at higher volume, I have no idea. I’m using Dave’s Uber and one of his treated wall outlets.
It’s been fun listening today and there’s way more performance to be had. The Carreras seem quite superior to the the KEF LS 50s, but I never added subs, so that unidriver was likely working too hard.
Been a long day and I’m off to bed.
Nick