FS SDA 1Bs Studios

Thats weird, I have sent reply to the two that you have sent to me so I am not sure why it would not show up bro. I will try to send again in a bit let me know if it makes it to ya.

hotwheelman wrote:

Thats weird, I have sent reply to the two that you have sent to me so I am not sure why it would not show up bro. I will try to send again in a bit let me know if it makes it to ya.

Weird it is; you can e-mail me here rgarcia1@cinci.rr.com

Faster,

Hey...just be cool man; I am not complaining or blaming you for anything

In fact, I must say you made a hell of a good job packing those beasts, and I doubt they suffered any damage in the way; if the chips seem worst it might be the camera flash or something, and as I mentioned, I was fully aware of you mentioning them in your original post; easy there.

On the screws; just wanted to show how I got them; will use some wood filler or glue to fix that; nothing to be too worried about. After all, these babies were not born yesterday...

I will PM my addy and would appreciate you ship the interconnect; I do plan to make one, but maybe fixing yours will be easier...

And as Noel said, now that I'm back I will start playing

Edit: I asked Noel not to open/check them; wanted to keep the packaging for the trip back...just in case.

with the silk tweets, I know how they sound, and they sound good. Still have a pair in my basement for when I am in the SDA mood.

Believe me i was being cool,

I was just clearing some things up, It's my rep being they came from me.. If something gets sold and then on to a 3rd party sight unseen the item should always be inspected prior, Then the original seller is not in the picture any longer and its between the buyer and the new seller. It keeps things simple. Ive sold online for many years and have learned over time to take precations like this, I'll send the cable ... Enjoy the speakers

So I hooked them up with my Denon and listened a bit without the interconnect; used pure direct to get signal only to the mains.

After a little while I turned off and used a 14 gauge speaker wire as interconnect, top blade to top blade, bottom to bottom; turned on, and after a few seconds the Denon shut down...guess went on protection mode.

Hmmmm..checked to make sure there was no contact in any point between top and bottom blades, and decided to take the interconnect out and listen a bit more without it; thought that maybe the 4 ohms thing was too much for the Denon, and it just happened to trigger protection after the interconnect was in place....I know, that would be a big coincidence...

I gave it a good half hour of listening with no problem; gave it enough juice as to confirm that the 4 ohms was not an issue and decided to try again the interconnect; fitted the speaker wire, double checked no crossing upper with bottom blade, and turned on again. In less than 3 seconds the Denon shut down again.

Here is when I decide to stop testing and ask for help; any ideas out there of what could be going on? What am I doing wrong or where should I look?

Oh, and how do they sound without the interconnect? Well, different... not "bad" different, but keep in mind all I can compare them is with a pair of RTi8's, and also that I am no audiophile and have no clue of what terms such as "image" or "stage" mean. In my simple words:

-high's in the 8's are a lot brighter; every time I switched back from the SDA's to the 8's they seemed more brighter...made me wonder why I had never noticed that.

-On the lows, at lower volumes initially seemed that the 8's had more punch, but then after going back and forth, it seems to me that the 8's actually emphazise (if that's the right word) on highs and lows, leaving very little to the mids, while the SDA's were more uniform across the whole frequencies; sounded more balanced, and I really liked those 'smoother' highs.
At higher volumes though it seems to me that the 8's tend to balance better across low-mid-highs, than what they do at lower volumes, if that makes any sense. The SDA's, seem to keep the balance at different volumes, and at high volume you can feel the punch from the SDA's.

All this without a sub.

So that's it after a little listening without the interconnect; not sure how much I'm missing from the SDA's...

Looking forward to hear some suggestions on the interconnect issue....

Faster,

I have the 3803 also. Anyway, will wait for your cable; also the HK3480 should be here Monday or Tuesday, so no more testing with the Denon.

HT,

Aren't you the one who said you had an Adcom 535 in addition to the Denon? Try hooking the Adcom up using the pre outs on your Denon, it's worth a try. If I'm mistaken and confusing you with another thread....nevermind .

As far your Denon shutting down....I don't own SDA's but I'm very familiar with them. My guess is possibly the home made cable is at fault. Even with all drivers running the Denon shouldn't shut down so quickly. If you do use the Adcom and there is a problem w/ the cable connected you'll blow the fuses in the Adcom so get some spares ahead of time if your going to experiment. It's easy to change the fuses, just a bit of a pain in the a$$.

Good luck and keep us posted. You'll really be in a new world when the correct cable arrives .

H9

yeah the 1b's are somewhat power hungry, being/getting loud and actually hearing thier potential is 2 different things.. I powered those with 5 watts from a modded sonic impact and they got pretty loud.. was thier bass, Not really.. did they shine? NO.. id say 60 watts from the adcom will be equal not greater then the HK.. The speakers won't shine IMO untill you get a separetes amp around 120 watts range and up to 200 watts... Ive tried alot of different power on the 1B's and 325 watts from the parasound was RIGHT THERE! and the best rig i have put together, interconnect or not.. If the speakers arent sounding good the cable won't help.. Its the lack of power. these speakers and similiar 1B's 2B's, 1C's all sound great with no SDA cable.. the Cable is just the icing on the cake on some recordings , BUt NOT all...

The cable i'll send ya works fine, new official ends will work and look better, my ends are crude, i used hot glue to form holders for the terminals so its not showroom quality.. But will suffice till ya get different ends or new spades

ND13 wrote:

Ricardo,

What kind of music do you have laying around?

Noel,

Don't have much....I'm one of those guys that for one reason or another never really started a music collection. I pretty much like everything if it sounds good to my ears; probably country is lower in the list, and I guess that's because did not grow up in the U.S.

Most of the cd's I own no one would recognize... salsa, boleros, typical Venezuelan music (basically harp, "cuatro" which is a four string guitar and "maracas"; good recordings are a pleasure to my ears and very relaxing). Also pop and rock in Spanish.

From the ones you might recognize, I have Rush, Yes, Journey, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Phil Collins, Yanny and a few others. Not a lot anyway...

Found this on the web; this group was among the best..

http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/kiosk/jvtorrealba.html

Just an update...found out why the Denon was shutting down when I used a normal speaker wire between the SDA's..... Today I made an interconnect with the connectors I ordered, and realized that the blade connectors are "opposite" in each speaker; one speaker has the wide blade on top, and one has the narrow blade on top. When I used the speaker wire I just connected top to top and bottom to bottom (yes...should have LOOKED BETTER.....)

I was wondering if this was because someone had made a mistake when putting the connectors, but I saw the same thing on some pictures on ebay...... coincidence or were they really built like this??? Anyway, they are sounding better and better!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/CLASSIC-POLK-AUDIO-SDA-1-SPEAKERS_W0QQitemZ5814004656QQcategoryZ71571QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem