HOW TO IMPROVE THE SOUND OF SPEAKERS?

Why do speakers sound bad? 

Here many factors take place and, moreover, of a different nature. We can definitely note the following (and the so-called canons when buying speakers and amplifiers, namely a certain price ratio, sometimes do not work) - everything is important in the path. Starting from the quality of the material being played to the acoustic properties of the room itself. 

The connection is important - the speakers and the amplifier, the source is very important, how it will feed the material to the amplifier input. In any case, it is necessary, of course, if there is such an opportunity, to listen to several systems before purchasing. And as a result - like it or not. There should be no other assessment. Objectively, in my opinion, the gain knob should not rise above 11 o'clock, the speakers should play legibly at low volume. One more point. It's like modern football. Previously, there were no such powerful commercial and marketing components.

 They played more from the heart, and the technique was produced in the same way, from the heart. There was no such abundance, of course. Prices were more elevated. And what to do in our modern conditions? Determine a budget and listen! That's that. You can go along the path of acquiring vintage, and why not? But here it is necessary to understand well, to acquire from people or organizations with an unspoiled reputation, otherwise, there is a great risk of running into something completely different from what you expected. And then you want to listen to music! That's that. 

You can go along the path of acquiring vintage, and why not? But here it is necessary to understand well, to acquire from people or organizations with an unspoiled reputation, otherwise, there is a great risk of running into something completely different from what you expected. And then you want to listen to music! That's that. You can go along the path of acquiring vintage, and why not? But here it is necessary to understand well, to acquire from people or organizations with an unspoiled reputation, otherwise, there is a great risk of running into something completely different from what you expected. And then you want to listen to music!

Several times people have contacted "non-sounding" systems. In one case, the source was changed - the problem was solved. In another case, they did without replacing the source - the interblock saved the situation. In the first case, there were speakers PMC OB1, amplifier - Electrocompaniet ECI-5 MK II. Source - Marantz ND8006. The source was changed to Carry Audio CD-500. In the second case, there was a CD player and amplifier Exposure 2010S2, speakers System Audio Mantra 30. We decided to change the interblock and took the Nordost Red Dawn LS 0.6m. Everything fell into place.

More interesting was the case with the speakers. There was an Accustic Arts Power ES amplifier, a wonderful CD player of the same brand, I don't remember exactly the model, and the speakers - Sonus Faber Venere 3S. The man was not at all happy with the sound. He listened mainly to Hard-n-Heavy Metal (Manovar, Maiden, UDO), Rammstein, Dark Funeral, Death, and many other things like that. Changed the acoustics to PMC Twenty 24 and voila!

The opposite situation was the same. The customer already had a Venus 3c from Sonus Faber, a Burmester 101 amplifier ... I didn't like it! Solved the problem - Arcam FMJ A49. The person is satisfied, because he did not want to change Venus, and it is understandable - white varnish, good-looking. And immediately the returned Burmister came to the rescue literally in the same week. The client really liked the B&W CM10. Yes, they are beautiful. But they are very demanding on the amplifier. Burmester 101 played great!

If you analyze it according to the so-called canons ... alas, sometimes it even seems strange to make such a choice, and with all the variety, exactly as I wrote above, and it turned out! People are still grateful because they are no longer looking for anything and do not want to modify their systems. Of course, such parameters as input/output impedance, the sensitivity of acoustic systems, and the current characteristics of amplifiers are also objectively important. But the ligaments were different, in my opinion, very strange)). How do you like the Elac 240 and Rotel AV receiver? And people really liked it. A married couple who listens to metal !!! As summary.