753F's Hitting Endstops on Creed/Metallica & hello?
Posted by: Nime on 01 December 2002
Hi,
Just a polite hello first. As this is my first message to the group. Brace yourselves.
We now have a Marantz CD-63SE, Naim 72/180 and 753F's via 2x8 metres of Cable Talk 3. The LP12, Ittok, DL304 sulks unnused. (Since the Maranz arrived in protest at the lack of new LPs).
While I like to listen to Amsterdam Loeki Stardust (recorder quartet) (and Mike Oldfield) at realistic(?) levels. My lady wife likes to crank it to 12 o'clock on Creed et al. Without ear defenders I can't use my Tandy sound level meter to check what she's doing to herself in actual dBs! (We are rural detached BTW).
The other day I heard a sort of rhythmic popping and suppose it's the endstops on the bass units meeting the cones coming the other way. It was out of rhythm.
She has complained as to a lack of bass since the arrival of the Naim gear compared with the A&R A60!? She's hated every single upgrade since moving on from the original TD160AB, SA606 /TM1 combo in the early 70's(?). We had a 20 year(?) love/ hate relationship with early Kans which was (almost) resolved with 2 large passive DIY subwoofers. (To cater for my classical organ tastes and the odd techno-mania-moment)The A&R used to glow in the dark! The Naim sauntered.
The "listening room" is the first floor of our open plan "cottage" of roughly 100 cu.metres. The 753F's sit on bolted-on Blackfoot (low H-section cast-iron stands) with spikes onto small coins on top of 18" square concrete slabs. On thin-carpetted wooden floors. I've bridged the paired terminals with thick copper wire on the 753F's. (Had no instructions with the speakers)
I have (humbly) suggested a pair of used Dali 850's to Her. For some seriously overblown bass! But I still love the 753F's myself after the endless Kans war. The Kans are sulking beside the Linn on top of a cupboard).
She won't change. Any good ideas please?
Best regards, Nime
Just a polite hello first. As this is my first message to the group. Brace yourselves.
We now have a Marantz CD-63SE, Naim 72/180 and 753F's via 2x8 metres of Cable Talk 3. The LP12, Ittok, DL304 sulks unnused. (Since the Maranz arrived in protest at the lack of new LPs).
While I like to listen to Amsterdam Loeki Stardust (recorder quartet) (and Mike Oldfield) at realistic(?) levels. My lady wife likes to crank it to 12 o'clock on Creed et al. Without ear defenders I can't use my Tandy sound level meter to check what she's doing to herself in actual dBs! (We are rural detached BTW).
The other day I heard a sort of rhythmic popping and suppose it's the endstops on the bass units meeting the cones coming the other way. It was out of rhythm.
She has complained as to a lack of bass since the arrival of the Naim gear compared with the A&R A60!? She's hated every single upgrade since moving on from the original TD160AB, SA606 /TM1 combo in the early 70's(?). We had a 20 year(?) love/ hate relationship with early Kans which was (almost) resolved with 2 large passive DIY subwoofers. (To cater for my classical organ tastes and the odd techno-mania-moment)The A&R used to glow in the dark! The Naim sauntered.
The "listening room" is the first floor of our open plan "cottage" of roughly 100 cu.metres. The 753F's sit on bolted-on Blackfoot (low H-section cast-iron stands) with spikes onto small coins on top of 18" square concrete slabs. On thin-carpetted wooden floors. I've bridged the paired terminals with thick copper wire on the 753F's. (Had no instructions with the speakers)
I have (humbly) suggested a pair of used Dali 850's to Her. For some seriously overblown bass! But I still love the 753F's myself after the endless Kans war. The Kans are sulking beside the Linn on top of a cupboard).
She won't change. Any good ideas please?
Best regards, Nime