What is my weakest link?
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(Hoddy toddy female British accent) YOU are the weakest link. Good bye.
I can't believe it took 29 posts! I'll give Larry 6 points for effort though.
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Sorry Larry I missed your post:redface:Please. Please contact me a ben62670 @ yahoo.com. Make sure to include who you are, and you are from Polk so I don't delete your email. Also I am now physically unable to work on any projects. If you need help let these guys know. There are many people who will help if you let them know where you are.
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Hoochespice wrote: »This was refreshing. I wished I could read every post, but i have to go back to work... But I'll be back.The titan roms were pretty easy to figure out! led watch
Reported.The nirvana inducer-
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One of your weak links is definitely the fact that you're mixing SDA's and LSi's with a CSiA6 center. That's a pretty wide array of VERY different sounding speakers.
I also think those LSi15's are basically being wasted as surrounds. Those are some excellent sounding speakers, and in the surround position they're hardly even being used. Personally, I'd move the LSi15's up front in the HT, and get an LSi series center and surrounds. Then move the SDA's to the 2 channel rig, or get rid of them altogether and get something else. It sounds like you're ready to move on to something else aside from SDA's...so by all means do it! If you ever decide that you miss the SDA's, it'll be easy enough to find another pair.The nirvana inducer-
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Marantz UD5005 universal player
Parasound Halo P5 preamp
Parasound HCA-1200II power amp
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The CSiA6 is the recommended center for the SDA's, and that is about the only way to go there. It was my intent to replace the SDA's with the LSI's, but they just don't sound as good to my ear, and were placed in the surround spot instead. They do perform well in that position, far better than anything else I have tried there.
HT however is the least of my concerns as the only time itgets used is when I am watching tv or the occasional movie. Where I really want to improve things is in two channel listening, and with my move about 4 months off, I want to start planning early.The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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If 2 channel is your main concern, then it may be time to move on from the SDA's. Lots of good sounds out there from a variety of speakers.HT SYSTEM-
Sony 850c 4k
Pioneer elite vhx 21
Sony 4k BRP
SVS SB-2000
Polk Sig. 20's
Polk FX500 surrounds
Cables-
Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
Kitchen
Sonos zp90
Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
lsi 9's -
CSiA6's may be the best match of the recent centers, but I'd think the older CS350 or 400 would be a better overall SRS match... but none of the three are a good front stage match for the 15's.nooshinjohn wrote: »The CSiA6 is the recommended center for the SDA's, and that is about the only way to go there. It was my intent to replace the SDA's with the LSI's, but they just don't sound as good to my ear, and were placed in the surround spot instead. They do perform well in that position, far better than anything else I have tried there.
SDA's over 15's up front would be my preference as well. I find the whole LSi line too laid back to engage me. My SRS's, even with their cursed, tweeters from hell (the original SL2000's), do me just fine. May be the case with you as well...
What else have you tried as surrounds? Other full range towers? Bookselves? If the latter, it would not be surprising that the 15's are most pleasing to date...More later,
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I have run TSi 100's and the Monitor 50's in the surround slots. they replaced my Energy Take5 set. They were the first things to go in my setup as my old Yamaha RX-v2090 blew those things apart in less than a nanosecond.The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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If 2 channel is your main concern, then it may be time to move on from the SDA's. Lots of good sounds out there from a variety of speakers.
I don't agree that SDA's are a weakness in a 2ch set-up. Now if he had asked about wanting to try a speaker with a different presentation then one could say Maggies or whatever.
Maggies as well as other designs of loudspeakers aren't without their deficiences as well. The SDA is not a weak link, but if one wants to try something different then have that be the reason to swap speakers.
SDA's get better and better as the gear gets better and better so they are not a "weakness" in my mind.
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