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Comments on speakers purchase
Posted by Philip Brandes [IP: 171.211.140.22] on June 28, 1999 at 14:06:30 In Reply to: Comments on speakers purchase posted by Andre Yew on June 28, 1999 at 11:47:15: Hi, Andre! :I find the SuperOnes get their bass extension by cheating and overbloating it ... : Hi Philip, : I have to disagree with this statement. If anything, properly set up (on stands, away from the walls), the SuperOne's have very damped bass. You can get them to sound bloated if you do it the way I have them set up in my office: next to a monitor on some data books on a desk, near a wall, they produce bloated upper bass. An example of a speaker with bloated bass to subjectively extend its lower end is the PSB Alpha. You may be right, Andre. I heard the Super Ones in a dealer's shop in rather cramped circumstances (actually, I think you know the shop out in Goleta). The guy assured me the bloat I heard was representative of their sound in general. I also heard them crossed over at 80 and compared with the Super Zeroes at the same crossover they sounded identical. Since in a Lexicon setup I wouldn't consider running the SuperOnes full range or even crossed over at 40, I still stand by my overall recommendation that he save some $$$ and get the Super Zeroes for surrounds. However, your suggestion to use his old speakers for surrounds until he can do it right is even better still. Since Daniel is in the process of moving, and certainly has no bargain incentive to jump at the NHTs, I think he should get settled in first, assess his space, and STAY OUT OF DEALER SHOPS IN THE MEANTIME :) : I disagree with the so-called "high-end" dealer you visited on the appropriateness of Lexicon products in a music system. The primary reason I picked a Lexicon was because it sounded so good on music. Ditto. Heavens, what that dealer said sounds like a rational for pushing speakers which sound much better for home theater than music...and by a remarkable coincidence, the same dealer happens to sell M&K speakers which exactly fit that profile... To be even more explicit here: Daniel, M&K makes superb HT speakers, but they have nothing in their line that can compete for music listening with the NHT 2.9s/3.3s. On the other hand, M&K make great all-purpose subs, and I prefer their subs to NHTs old SWPseries (haven't heard their newset). : The dealer's also very wrong about Logic 7 --- there's nothing in the Denon like it. Also ditto. Specifically, the Denon offers the ability to hook up two pairs of surrounds (dipole and monopole), but you have to toggle between them--you can't use both at once. And as for the processing, there's nothing like Logic 7 extraction performed on the signal. Cheers,
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