Rti series bad in music?

steveinaz · July 2006

The million dollar question is, how do they sound to you on music? Asking opinions on speakers is like asking opinons on salad dressing---waaay too many flavors, taste.

Speakers are where the rubber meets the road, they shape the tonal character of your systems sound---toss the opinions, throw away the spec sheets, and use personal preference to select speakers. Some people like hot treble, some don't. Some like lumpy bass, some don't...see where I'm going with this?

disneyjoe7 · July 2006

^^^ dido

KrazyMofo24 · July 2006

I did some minor adjustments in speaker placement turned the treble down. Also tried several type of music out, Country, and Folk actually sounded decent, didnt think classical music sounded as good with the 10's. With most rock songs and techno, is where they sounded too bright but obviously theirs more highs in this genre. I'm happier with them now then I was last week I haven't tried out switching cables, right now im using these thick black sheilded monster cables that I got from my friend he said they were worth a $100 at best buy awhile back.

Most of my music consists of CD's and MP3's I haven't tried any HD-audio or DVD-audio other than music played in DVD movies.

Also on my H/K 335 when its on Stereo it displays Surround Off and DSP does anyone know a way to turn off the DSP?

steveinaz · July 2006

Leave your bass and treble "flat." You're at a level now where it's time to get rid of tone controls. They're evil.

KrazyMofo24 · July 2006

That is true with me the midrange is the most important to me...thats what i'm going to focus on when selecting on a new pair of speakers.

bigsexy1 · July 2006

disneyjoe7 wrote:

Rti bad for music I say not. I enjoy my RTi150 over my old Rt800i speakers for music. Rti have a soft dome tweeter the RT speaker have a tri-lam tweeter, the Tri-lam is listening fatiguing the RTi tweeter is not. May not be the best speaker for music, but not a bad speaker either.

Bingo! The tweeter in that series with the 150s, 70s, etc. was much calmer and laid back than the trilams or the newer vifas to my ears too.

DJ7, what amps you have on those 150s?

KrazyMofo24 · July 2006

Well how hard/expensive is it to change the tweeter and would that be a better solution then just buying new speakers?

disneyjoe7 · July 2006

bigsexy1 wrote:

Bingo! The tweeter in that series with the 150s, 70s, etc. was much calmer and laid back than the trilams or the newer vifas to my ears too.

DJ7, what amps you have on those 150s?

Thanks, the amps driving them are Parasound Halo A23's bridged mono. With an Onkyo 898 as pre / pro.

BTW need to work on a signature

dale 442 · July 2006

Leave your bass and treble "flat." You're at a level now where it's time to get rid of tone controls. They're evil.

Oh yeah, first thing you need to learn is to UNlearn things that you have done in the past. Such as, where you bass and treble is set at. Zero is where they need to be.

You need to learn how higher end audio should be listened to.

In my case, I took my preamp (Carver) out of the loop and run my CD player directly to the power amp. My CD has aa "Variable audio out" (Volume control) thereby there is NO coloration of the sound, at least from the pre amp. And thus, NOOOO bass or treble controls. Once you do lose the NEED for these you will understand higher end audio.

Let it be played the way the people produced the sound originally.

Enjoy!

dale 442 · July 2006

Oh yeah, first thing you need to learn is to UNlearn things that you have done in the past. Such as, where the bass and treble is set at. Zero is where they need to be.

You need to learn how higher end audio should be listened to.

In my case, I took my preamp (Carver) out of the loop and run my CD player directly to the power amp. My CD has aa "Variable audio out" (Volume control) thereby there is NO coloration of the sound at least from the pre amp. And thus, I have NOOOO bass or treble controls. Once you do lose the NEED for these you will understand higher end audio.

Let it be played the way the people produced the sound originally.

Enjoy!

KrazyMofo24 · July 2006

Well I have been listening to it flat ever since I had these speakers until last nite just turned the treble down a bit, because a few people here recommended it. I'll turn it back to 0 going to try some room adjustments, I think having too much clutter and not enough space in this room is degrading the SQ quite a bit.

dale 442 · July 2006

Do they honestly sound bright (too much treble) to you????

OR, not enough bass compared with the treble??

HK is, in my experience very flat. What are your ears hearing today??

Dale

KrazyMofo24 · July 2006

I love the bass, mainly I wish the midrange was better, and yes the speakers are a little too bright.

dale 442 · July 2006

Sorry for the apparent double post. Hmmm. Not sure how that happened.

Dale

dale 442 · July 2006

So, we have now estabished that you have no issues with the bass of this system. Correct?

Are you listening in two channel mode without the center channel or with it?

Dale

Mike Reeter · July 2006

KrazyMofo24 wrote:

When I was listening to the Clarity's I was comparing them to the Lsi15's before I made my decision to go with the 10's. I know the Clarity's are over twice the price since rti's are geared towards HT. Anyone have recommendations for a pair thats great in music, mids most importantly under a grand price range?

Keep your RTi set-up for HT,pick up a pair of used SDA's and and decent amp,cdp and preamp.

I recently purchased a pair of SDA 1C's for 500.
I think for music,they can't be beat in that price range.

Rti series bad in music?

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