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The bass out of my 800v4 is very natural as well. With my 600v2, I had to cross it over at 40Hz because the bass was blurry/ murky. Even at 40Hz the bass wasn't right. With the 800, a higher crossover just results in more of a very good thing. Turning up the gain does the same. I love it!
I am curious how your system is set up. Is all the bass below a set frequency sent to the 500?
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Coolness I use M80s and a Ep500 with my MRX720, so far any kind of processing the Anthem does regardless of source just works well.
I use a Fluance table comparable to the Rega RP1, personally love it, great addition for me.
Previously was using a Pro AVR {Tascam PA-R200} made by Integra but I never got the sound I'm getting from the MRX out of it.
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I am surprised by how many on these boards still listen to vinyl. Is that because y'all had a collection from the old days or is that something you got into even after CDs came out?
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First off, I defeated the Anthem room correction with bass management. However I left on the digital signal processing, which is what sends a bass range to the sub outputs on the AVM 60. I don't know what the cutoff frequency is for the bass range, but I can say that with my crossover on the EP500 set at 150 hz. it works nicely and I get the entire range. As far as why vinyl? It just blows away digital sources for smooth pleasing balanced sound. But I will temper that observation with this; you need to have a very solid platform for the turntable/tone arm and phono stage to amplify the signal. I had what I thought was a very good set up, my vintage Marantz 6300 with a vintage Audio Technic AT15ss super shibata and a NOS stylus. The pre-amp was a NAD pp2e, which was a simple $200 unit. It still sounded better than my CD's. Then I picked up a $900 Clear Audio Smart phono stage and WOW; I was hearing things that I didn't know were on the tracks. And the sound stage jumped out. That got me looking at high end turntables which I thought were more about eye candy center pieces more than really improving much over my 6300 (which by the way is still in high demand). I picked up an 8 year old VPI Ares3 turntable without an arm. I then found the SME Series IV magnesium one piece tone arm with very high end bearings. Just to keep things on the up and up for comparison, I mounted the AT15ss cartridge in the new set up to eliminate any possibility that a new high end unit made any improvements..... Well, let me just say that I was blown away!! The sound stage elevated tremendously, again instruments which were buried in the music suddenly were important and best of all, not a trace of bass feed back, nothing. This $9000 turntable/tone arm just blew me away in what I was hearing! The good news is that I found it all used and in mint condition for $3K. It was the best money spent on my system other than the Bryston Model T's And soon my Gin gut EP800
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So your turntable is pretty good, huh?
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Personally I enjoy the more life like experience of vinyl.
Have never been to a perfect concert sh!@ happens similar to a bump of the needle. Have never heard a performer sound anything as good as their recordings make them.
Do you guys ever check out Michael Fremer's youtube content or Analog planet. He's a total Analog fanatic with the system and record collection to boot quite interesting. He also does quite a bit of Vinyl VS. Digital content.
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Yeah, I love my Turntable... not only is it stunning to look at, it performs. I can crank it all as loud as I want with the bass up as far as I like and I don't have any feed back, nothing. But I also had modified a set of SVS isolation feet from the subs I sent back to them and installed them in place of the aluminum conical feet on the VPI, what a difference that made!
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Wait 'till you get the 800. You'll have to relocate the turntable down-cliff from your house. LOL!
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Personally I enjoy the more life like experience of vinyl.
Have never been to a perfect concert sh!@ happens similar to a bump of the needle. Have never heard a performer sound anything as good as their recordings make them.
Do you guys ever check out Michael Fremer's youtube content or Analog planet. He's a total Analog fanatic with the system and record collection to boot quite interesting. He also does quite a bit of Vinyl VS. Digital content.
Peace I have watched 2 of his videos and he and Kalman Rubinson are the only reason i buy stereophile. His latest video is about a case he testified in for quincy jones and its really worth watching. I also watched one where he was interviewed in his own listening space and talked about his records and all his electronics etc ,really interesting guy and quite charismatic . There is just something about vinyl for me , i guess a lot of it is great memmories of the good ole days when life was so much easier there is just TMI these days and it can be overwhelming.
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I'd rather have it like this than have to take a bus and then walk a mile in 8 feet of snow at -40 in a blizzard in North Winnipeg just to look something up in Encyclopaedia Britannica at the public library only to find out it wasn't in there to begin with so I got an F on an assignment that didn't matter anyway!
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