Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Triggered pulled - Active LFR-1100's are on order!

That's so cool!!!
but kind of annoying so many C.D.s are just plain bad. With Tidal and other services, the same songs I've managed to compare they sound great. As does Vinyl. Somehow the same C.D. is almost like a misaligned layering coming apart.

Could be a totally TRIPPY night with some Actives and a bad bunch of C.D.s

Have you noticed any totally out of place/distant instruments/singers yet?

Brendo - Most of the "reference" discs we have here are well recorded. I need to go through and find some junk.

I ordered an Emotiva XMC-1 with the Dirac software tonight. When it arrives, we will be experimenting with how good Dirac is, and does it help or hurt the sound quality of the actives.

Also ordered XLR cables for the lowest possible noise floor, and when everything arrives, we will be taking the next step and getting an EP800 into the mix.

When time permits, I will also be doing a 4 month summary of the LFR-1100 actives. Hopefully, it will be interesting.

Craig, did Emotiva tell you what "refurbished" means?

From the product page:

" When XMC-1s are traded in by customers for our newer Atmos based processors, they still have many years of service life left in them for use in movie and music systems. In light of that, we've created a new recycling protocol where we carefully inspect, refurbished, update, and renew XMC-1s. By giving the XMC-1 an Act Two (movie reference since we're home theater geeks), we've found a way to be more sustainable and eco-friendly, while at the same time provide customers another incredible audiophile-quality AV preamp processor choice."

Dirac was something i was looking at years ago. Never pulled the trigger.
Our media room usage dropped off for awhile and i found myself to be the only person using it from time to time. It has picked up since and i'm starting to look at finally doing an acoustic response graph of the room. It depends on whether a laptop ever comes to this domicile at some point so i can run the damn software.
Need to evaluate 'A' before assuming one needs to buy 'B'.

This will all end up in the 4 month write up ... but a couple of thoughts for now:

1. I was thinking the RMC-1 ... but after some research, it became clear the biggest benefit to the RMC-1 was Atmos and other surround formats, things that don't matter in a 2 channel system. I was also considering a high end 2 channel pre-amp, but it reports are the the XMC-1 is a tremendous 2 channel analog preamp, with the addition of Dirac Live for $99.

2. Last spring, I started shopping for state of the art speakers. I was looking at Magenepan 20.7's, Magico S-5's and B&W Diamond series (802) ... and of the 3, only the Magnepans made music sound natural. Then I saw the actives, and talked to Ian. He gave me a 90 day trial, if they didn't meet every need for an ultra high end speaker, they would go back.

They are not the show pieces in terms of snob appeal, but since I don't know any snobs, that wasn't an issue. Put simply, the LFR-1100's are the best music makers I have ever heard.

Craig, why do you believe XLR will be beneficial for you?

I am checking to hear if there is a difference in the noise floor between XLR and RCA cables in a home audio system.

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