Would RTA-12B's with Peerless tweeters be a step up from Monitor 70's?

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  • notified
    notified Posts: 175
    edited January 2016
    Sorry to hear that your SDA's aren't living up to their hype,If worse comes to worst you can at least break even or profit at the price you paid,Hope that if you decide to kept them you'll post what the problem turned out to be. I for one am very curious about the remedy Good luck troubleshooting.Perhaps with the former owner being a forum member he can post as to what he was running them with and his observations about them
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    Mitkraft wrote: »
    All controls are flat and I'm not getting any clipping.

    I'm listening to some clasical now. A piece I'm very familiar with both live and recoded. The difference between my old speakers and the SDA's is that when I flip to the SDA's it sounds like I've got a cold and my ears are congested. And this is at low volumes still. I'm just at 1 on the volume knob.

    I'm going to put a feeler out for an Amp to borrow, but at this point I don't think I'm willing to shell out even more than I've already paid for the speakers to find out whether an amp will fix what I'm hearing.

    Something is very wrong. Double check your wiring, and do the troubleshooting in the SDA Handbook.
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  • Mitkraft
    Mitkraft Posts: 21
    I will defenitly post my findings if I can find an amp. As for what the seller was powering it with, I think that gear might be well out of my budget.
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Are all the drivers and tweeters actually working?
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,551
    Fo example the Tom-toms and kick drums in the intro to "money for nothing" (right before the first guitar riff intro) is almost faint and certainly indesticnt.

    Something is either wrong with your SDA's and/or that Yammie just isn't up to the task.
    They are about 5 feet apart and I'm about 9 feet from either of them.

    Too close together and you're too far away.
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