With the wrong track (particularly rock with high pitched electric guitar sounds) my system is a little screachy....even with Harbeth + ARC tube amp + ARC tube preamp.because it is arc sound signature,you need speakers or source with high freqencies rolled of.Esotar tweeter as seas tweeter is revealing what is wrong with equipment.
Okay, How Important Is Speaker Break In? (Dynaudio Contour 60i)
I have been running 25+ year old B&W Matrix 803 S2 speakers in my 2-channel system for about 15 years, and I finally treated myself to new speakers. Mock me for buying based on research alone, but I got a really good deal and just unpacked my beautiful Dynaudio Contour 60i's. The Dyn's are not broken in, just starting to play around with different songs, but I am expecting an improvement out of the box, and not getting it. They are no more revealing, and slightly harder and more jangley in the mids and highs. The bass is of course much better with the big Dyns, but the B&Ws with the Dyn Sub6 subwoofer I was running were better. I have very good equipment so it is not a matter of driving bigger speakers (ARC Ref preamp and Bryston 7bSST2 monoblocks). Unless speakers get A LOT better with break in, I thinking these Dyns may be converted back into cash. Thoughts? Thanks.
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I have owned a pair of Contour 60s for a year. The only advice I can give you is return them if you can. Those loudspeakers sound horribly before break-in and after 500 hours of break-in they sound a little better as horribly. My tiny Genelecs and my old Dynaudio Contour 1.3 mkII sound more natural and are millions of times more tonally accurate. Incredulous of the tonal horror of these speakers, I even sent them back to dynaudio to be checked again. When they sent them back to me they sounded a little better but still horrible. |
I have Evokes and this was very educational @mathiasmingus If I upgraded and I likely won't, this thread would steer me away the from contours. One reason I wouldn't - fun fact - my Evokes are amazing, sound better than anything I ever heard. But my whole system is under $4K- if I replace something it will not be the speakers |
When I looked at the latest offerings at $10k locally I had the persona 3f, the Kanta 2, and the C60 and on looks alone the c60 was a clear winner. I was replacing the revel salons v1 and the dealer who demoed me the c60 was doing everything he could to talk me out of them going as far as saying the A3 would be out within a year and he didn't want me to get mad at him...I really believe the B&M shops that are still around are because they can pass on the quick buck to help a potential customer. While I can't argue about something I haven't experienced regarding break-in the few pair I did buy new didn't change tonally near as much as component matching or positioning did, so while millercarbon does seem to be on a mission I agree with his experience regarding that. |
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