totoro;174623 Wrote: > It's a decent amp. Doesn't seem like the weakest thing in the system to > me. If you haven't heard a really good, music-oriented (as opposed to > home-theater-oriented) sub, I think you'll probably be pretty amazed > when you hear one. > > I used to have triangle celius speakers, which don't have much bass. I > added a cheapish sub, and it was better. A friend of mine got the rel > to use with his, and the results were spectacular.
For years, I had a pair of Rogers LS3/5a (15 ohm variety) which were great, but simply did not have a bass (well, actually, when I measured them, they had a suprising amount, but that's not what it sounded like). I put them on a pair of first class stands, and positioned them properly. Bass improved significantly. Obviously, with 733s, the new stand is not an option. Adding a REL Strata 5: dramatic improvement - huge difference, the sort that leaves you wishing you'd done it years ago. This is all sorts of music, from Bach on a harpsichord to Wagner to Black Sabbath, Queen and Genesis. It can shake the room on the last four, but it's not just noise. It is wonderful, clear, bass which works particularly well with the little BBC monitors because they are so, so accurate in the mid/top rangeThe harpsichord (and human voices, and string quartets, and everything in between) sound much, much more natural. If you're in the room with a quartet, you can easily feel the cello. One can with this combination. One can also hear every nuance down low. One couldn't before. Measurement (not particularly precise - compensated Radio Shack pressure meter plus tone bursts) showed the combined system was flat down to about 18Hz, well up into the normal LS3/5a's normal range. Previously, it had been flat down to about 50-60Hz, then tailed off. You could audition both. I'd just buy the sub anyway if I were you. I'd go over budget if I needed to, to do it, if I were you. I'm not, of course, but I don't think you'd regret it, and you could always add a DAC in a year or two. (I'm sure you will anyway, if the bug has bitten!) Geraint. -- geraint smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32128 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
