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Re: The Might from Dwight - Review of the EP800v4
Mojo #429047 03/12/18 07:03 PM
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I have had Moon and YBA amps in the past - driving a vast array of speakers - and can say that the more clean power the better the sound.

Funnily enough, while Bryston is only 2 hours from me, I have never tried their stuff! Enjoyed talking with James at the Axiom 35th Anniversary bash a few years back.

Re: The Might from Dwight - Review of the EP800v4
Mojo #429048 03/12/18 08:18 PM
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Everyone is raving over the new Bryston cubed series amps; I have not heard them yet.

I do have to say that the new Anthem Statement M1 mono blocks I picked up are superior to my Parasound A51 Halo. Much more power and dynamic range, better imaging and the sound stage is more defined and wider. It was really weird, but last night I had a record playing and an instrument came into play while I was grazing around and not paying much attention, I stopped in my tracks to look at the side wall windows.... I could swear that instrument was outside on my deck!! It was really weird.
How in the world does a speaker 'throw' the sound of one particular instrument off to the side 15 feet?? I never had anything like that with the Halo amp.

Plus the low and low mid's in the Model T's are just monstrous with detail like I have not experienced.

I'd love to compare a Bryston 28B3 against these for fun.

Re: The Might from Dwight - Review of the EP800v4
Mojo #429050 03/12/18 11:34 PM
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The "throw" you are hearing is due to spatial cues the Parasound couldn't reproduce. I doubt the 28B3 can reproduce them. JT prove me wrong by sending my remote buddy Slim 28B3s for comparison. 😁


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Re: The Might from Dwight - Review of the EP800v4
Mojo #429054 03/13/18 02:37 AM
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If JT 'throws' me a pair of 28B3's to compare, I promise I'll spend the time to give it a full run. And pay the return freight.

BTW, I just received my 50 foot run of Canare Quad Star balanced cable for the EP800.. I pulled my 40 foot run of unbalanced Belden cable, replaced the ground lift screw (I had a ground loop with the unbalanced line which the ground lift cured), plugged in my new fancy Japanese cable and fired up all of the usual stuff. My first impression within 13 seconds was the noise level was substantially lower and the articulation of the bass cleaner. But I was not getting the impact I had prior with the Belden cable.

I thought about this and it didn't make sense as the balanced cable should have more throughput. The cleaner sound I expected due to the lower noise floor and thus enhanced signal to noise ratio,, but why less impact? Ah! maybe the phase control needs to be changed. So that is what I did, I played with the phase and voila! That impact was back, but now with a cleaner crisp signal.

I will receive my new quad star twisted pairs speaker cable in two days smile Let us see if a cable designed for lower noise produces anything more for me. And as Mojo said, you cannot go wrong with twisted pairs and higher voltage due to pairs. These cables work out to 11 Gage with the pair.

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Re: The Might from Dwight - Review of the EP800v4
Slimpikins #429063 03/14/18 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted By Slimpikins
It was really weird, but last night I had a record playing and an instrument came into play while I was grazing around and not paying much attention, I stopped in my tracks to look at the side wall windows.... I could swear that instrument was outside on my deck!! It was really weird.
How in the world does a speaker 'throw' the sound of one particular instrument off to the side 15 feet??


I had a similar experience recently:
Soundstage aka Holy Crap !


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