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female needs expert advice

bough a new pair of mirage om 5 loud speakers.Iam biamping them with 2 classe 70 power amps. these speakers have 2 250wattamps built into them for the bass.I have 2 pairs of tara labs speakers cables about 8 years old tara quatums reference.what do you think would cable for them. I want something that is fast being in boogie factor @transparent don,t we all.One more question ,Iwas horizontally biamping these untill iwas talking to the maker of these speaker who told me to vertically biamp.To do this he said to take the two + and two- speaker spads of the rt speaker and put them on the rt channel of one amp and use the rt channel of amp input to rt channel of preamp do the same with left speaker and other amp . i feel that using one channel of eash amp is a waste any other ideas is welcome I don,t want to buy new amps these to me sound good but i just hate the waste the reason for doing it this way the top two things on speaker are for the mids and highs the other 2 are just to send a signal to the built in power amps fun hey? so help me guys thanks.
tarbishaw
tnkujry
36 posts
 
About swapping out your Classes for a 4BST - particularly if you have to buy "blind", without auditioning the amp in your system. Generally speaking, Classes have a reputation for being a tad "warm" while Brytons, generally speaking, have more of a straightforward approach that some would classify as being on the lean side.

There are cable dealers who will allow you to try out cables in your system with a liberal return policy, which is certainly easier than swapping out your amp(s).

Before going too much farther:

What is it that you are trying to achieve? What type of sound are you looking for?

What is it that you do not like about your present system?

How tied are you to your present speakers? It may be easier to change the sound by changing the speakers than trying to change the sound of the speakers by changing the electronics or the cables behind them.

Please let us know the answer to these questions, and we can better help you.

In the meantime, enjoy. . .

Barton
psychicanimal
1,738 posts
 
Where are you located?

I can direct you to www.tnt-audio.com their DIY section for ideas.

Your thread sounds to me more like the heading of a personal ad...just wondering. You could be Sedond cranking a joke for all it matters!
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
What's up with the "helpless female" angle of this question? I realize that women are a rarity in this hobby, but I don't see the relevance of calling attention to one's sex when asking the forum for advice. Having said that, I admit that I probably wouldn't have clicked on this at all if it had simply read "Need expert advice". (Then again, the same ploy could work with any catchy title - imagine seeing "Hermaphrodite needs expert advice"!) As for my views as the ex-owner of a Classe Seventy, see my post in the amplifier archives under the heading "Classe - great amps or highly flawed?"
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Zaikesman;----I'm with you.We can slam you without knowing your sex. Here,it's not pertinent.

I loved that commercial where the two 3 year olds, of each sex are talking.--The little girl asks; "Am I the opposite sex?"

I belong to hermaphrodites anonymous.
jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
Sean, the Classe amp used Motorola MOSFETS (although you can't tell by looking because Classe go to great lengths to take the markings off). Each FET was tested and matched before being soldered on to the PCB. As you know all output devices have their sweet spot and Classe, like most amp manufacturers, tweak their circuit taking into account the limitations of the output drivers. Yeah, I sold semiconductors to Classe for years. Since the channels are closely matched there's no real downside to bridging; experience has shown the sound improves significantly BUT you have to be an adult with the gain control on your preamp or risk frying your crossovers. Since I have juvenile tendencies and blew up two pairs of speakers (the price you pay for wanting to re-create The Who live) I am no longer running bridged amps. Learned to play an awesome Pete Townsend air guitar though.
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