WC
Downgrading your front end and/or electronics to purchase a better (more expensive) speaker makes zero sense unless there is a compatibility problem. Your analogy of too much horsepower for a particular car does not apply here. A speaker can only reproduce the signal it’s sent. If any part of the signal is compromised, the speaker can’t fix or replace it. I have heard many inexpensive speakers hooked up to very expensive electronics and it’s shocking how much better those speakers sound than when hooked up to lesser electronics. I’m certainly not advocating you buy lesser speakers, but I am definitely recommending you don’t degrade your electronics. If you have to sell your favorite amps to purchase a more expensive set of speakers, you are using flawed logic. In the past you have sold off expensive components that you really liked (Constellation) to purchase something else that you needed the money for. Why not sell some/most of the other things you have and keep the pieces that you most like? For instance, why do you still have the C4’s? We both know they’re not the speakers for you. Maybe it would help you to keep your Pass amps? (I said help, not allow).
Most people that have been in this game a long time know that the first thing you do is pick the speaker you like the best. Then you find the amp that works the best with that speaker going backwards to the pre and then your source components. Finally you tune the system to your liking with wires and power cords. I will leave out the room, dsp, conditioning, etc. for now as that is a whole separate conversation. It seems to me that you spend a lot of time trying to find a speaker that works well with your amp of the week only to ultimately reject that amp and speaker combination and move in an entirely different direction with a different amp and start the speaker auditioning all over again. I really don’t understand your comparisons of wires and power cords with amps and speakers your not going to own in a month.
While I don’t understand this journey of yours, it’s not like it hasn’t been an interesting read. Your craziness has been entertaining and I will likely continue to follow it. What I would like to know is this. Is this about ultimately finding your dream system or continuing to explore as many components as possible? I think this would help me and others to better understand what your thinking and where your heading. Thanks for the ride.
Downgrading your front end and/or electronics to purchase a better (more expensive) speaker makes zero sense unless there is a compatibility problem. Your analogy of too much horsepower for a particular car does not apply here. A speaker can only reproduce the signal it’s sent. If any part of the signal is compromised, the speaker can’t fix or replace it. I have heard many inexpensive speakers hooked up to very expensive electronics and it’s shocking how much better those speakers sound than when hooked up to lesser electronics. I’m certainly not advocating you buy lesser speakers, but I am definitely recommending you don’t degrade your electronics. If you have to sell your favorite amps to purchase a more expensive set of speakers, you are using flawed logic. In the past you have sold off expensive components that you really liked (Constellation) to purchase something else that you needed the money for. Why not sell some/most of the other things you have and keep the pieces that you most like? For instance, why do you still have the C4’s? We both know they’re not the speakers for you. Maybe it would help you to keep your Pass amps? (I said help, not allow).
Most people that have been in this game a long time know that the first thing you do is pick the speaker you like the best. Then you find the amp that works the best with that speaker going backwards to the pre and then your source components. Finally you tune the system to your liking with wires and power cords. I will leave out the room, dsp, conditioning, etc. for now as that is a whole separate conversation. It seems to me that you spend a lot of time trying to find a speaker that works well with your amp of the week only to ultimately reject that amp and speaker combination and move in an entirely different direction with a different amp and start the speaker auditioning all over again. I really don’t understand your comparisons of wires and power cords with amps and speakers your not going to own in a month.
While I don’t understand this journey of yours, it’s not like it hasn’t been an interesting read. Your craziness has been entertaining and I will likely continue to follow it. What I would like to know is this. Is this about ultimately finding your dream system or continuing to explore as many components as possible? I think this would help me and others to better understand what your thinking and where your heading. Thanks for the ride.