Hifi.

[azekeil]

Very quickly. (That's writing it, not necessarily reading it. That would be dumb.) I borrowed the rest of the Dynaudio surround sound speakers (122C and 42Ws) and the Arcam AVR200 Surround Receiver & DV89 DVD/CD player.

Suffice to say it's all gone back now. Too harsh in this room, but also the Arcam didn't have enough power to drive the Dynaudios. This was just in stereo mode. The Dynaudios are 4 ohms however. It just sounded harsh and strained. The detail was there. Plugging them back into the Marantz was a lot better but overall I was still unimpressed with them.

So they're back. I'm borrowing the Spendor S9s next week when I get back.

Unless I just order the Tannoy Sensys 2s. Hmm.

Comments

[gerald_duck]

Hmm. Arcam's always surprised me, there. I used to have one of their Delta 290P power amplifiers, for example, which was extremely punchy and interesting. But when I tried the Zeta, their first attempt at a surround amp, nine years ago, I was decidedly unimpressed — it was insipid.

But Arcam know what they're doing — I'd have expected them to have improved by now.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I was very impressed with the show at the Bristol Sound and Vision thing where we met up. But that may have been one up the line, on easier to drive speakers, not in a concrete room.