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Sloppy, muted bass response on Hegel h190

 Hi, I have a Hegel h190 integrated, a pair of Kef  104/2's from 1985 that have been rebuilt but I don't know whem, the speakers have new donuts and new silver Kef tweeter.  I mostly use the sonus connect.   Also I have a 15-year-old Sony sacd disc player. I'm getting low, sloppy bass when I play either cd or wifi.  This is the second amp.  The first one exhibited same issue.  Same amps.  New.

I only have one set of speakers.  I am thinking perhaps a capacitor in Kefs?  This amp should have solid punchy bass, but it is not there.  Speaker cables are blue jean 10 ga banana plugs.  IC are blue jean also.  I am at a loss. I heard the demo Hegel played on these components and it was fabulous.

any thoughts?  I hate to sell everything and start over, but I am at that point.
thank you
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schubert
7,386 posts
 
Been complaints on here that they have zero service if something breaks .
abasia
16 posts
 
I've tried the Hegel H190 on the KEF LS50, Reference 1, Tekton Impact Monitors, and they all produce solid tight bass. 
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ghosthouse
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In my experience, Hegel's after sale support as provided by their US Distributor has been entirely satisfactory:

Hegel Music Systems USA
East Long Meadow, MA
Email: usa@hegel.com
Phone: (413) 224-2480
www.hegel.com

Factory authorized service was provided by: 
Approved Audio Service, Inc
49 Commons Drive
Litchfield, CT

https://www.approvedaudioservice.com/contacts.html

Email:  repair@approvedaudioservice.com
Phone: 860-567-5801




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audionoobie
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@teo_audio

10g speaker cable is usually a bad fit anywhere, btw....

Can you please elaborate on this? I recently purchased some 10g speaker cables from BlueJeans and can't tell them apart from $1k AQ.

dherring
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I own both a Hegel h160, and a h590.
bass on both are quite good. With a damping ratio of 4000, maybe the speakers just don’t respond as tightly as you desire. Take another speaker on demo and see. I have the Monitor Audio Gold 300 5th gen. The bass is phenomenal. Even with the silver 300s that I had previously, the bass was noteworthy. I really don’t believe it’s the amp.
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