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I'm back in town

Posted by Samir on April 6, 1999 at 03:26:35:
Sorry it took so long for me to respond. I just got back from Paris, havenâ€™t slept for 2 days, but I had to check out this web site (I missed it while I was gone) and did not want to let you down.
Everyoneâ€™s comments are good. I have not tried the preamp output setting to low, but I will. Here are what made a huge difference as I was tweaking the Sony.
Use a digital cable to the Sony preamp. You already know this, but using a normal pair of coaxials wonâ€™t bypass the digital to analog conversion. I heard a definite difference when I finally got an optical connector (my CD player only has optical out for digital, otherwise I would have used a 75 ohm coax)
Sound treatments (absorbing panels) were very effective in warming up the midrange. My friends and I noticed this immediately when I had moved the panel away when putting in new speaker wires and at first I was devastated until I realized that the panel was not in place. I made some of the Jon Risch design panels, inexpensive, good looking and effective.
My speakers are biwireable. I did notice a difference. Then I dual amped (doubling the power by using one channel of the amp for the highs, and one for the lows). Bass firmed up even more, and it sounded better. This is a costly upgrade unless you have extra amps around.
I am still trying a bunch of new things. I am getting the updated woofers for my RBH subwoofers, they are lighter, and have a 20% better â€œqtsâ€ factor (whatever that is). I moved my front speakers around again, with interesting results, not yet decided if it is good.
But I will say this: For $1200 this purchase requires no deliberation, you will enjoy this marvelous piece. Home theater is fantastic, and I have not even done the upgrade yet. (See audioreview product review on this). For stereo I donâ€™t know any better, so I am quite happy. But I would not even look at a $3000 lexicon or EAD with the Sony at home. In fact, I could throw the Sony away in a year or two and use the $2000 I saved to buy the next generation stuff.
I am still trying to get more warmth with the set up as well in the midrange. I thought it was the speakers (martin Logan requests), or my Rotel 991 amps, but no one else with those speakers or amps seems to complain about midrange.
Keep me posted. I wish someone would post HOW to do the download into the Sony 9000 so that I could give it a try. I do not want to be without the unit for 2 weeks. I did download the zipped file from a web site onto my computer, but did not know what to do next.
Samir