efigalaxie
Novice Member
Hello,
First Post
I am at a half century in age. I have been around music and amps my entire life.
In the 80s, I was exposed to my uncles Kenwood Eleven III and his set of JBL LS150 speakers. Astounding sound that was clear, thumped where appropriate, and rattled a concrete slab foundation.
I currently have a Denon AVR 4311x. I let it drive the surrounds and center. For the fronts, I am using the pre-amp outs to drive an adcom 555ii. This is driving a set of Cerwin Vega VS-150 speakers.
it seems to me that I have never gotten the sound out of an AV receiver that I got from a stereo receiver. The bass is nonexistent without subwoofers. The mids are lacking in weight. The highs are accurate and too much.
I thought....fine. I am going to drive the adcom and the Vegas with the Adcom stereo preamp. I bet I get that 70s to 80s sound. Nope! The Adcom preamp sounded the same as the Denon.
Now, I DO have that Kenwood Eleven III. It is beat up and has pot and switch issues. So I have to fiddle with it to get both channels playing correctly. It is powering a set of no name home speakers I bought at a flea market. I use that in my garage. Unfortunately, my uncle threw the JBLs away long before I could have interfered. I nabbed that Kenwood though. This thing in my garage sounds phenomenal. I actually prefer the stereo sound off it and these smaller no name speakers to that of the above described equipment in my house.
I remember demoing a set of vs150 speakers in a circuit city long ago. The bass was incredible. These were bought from a credible hifi shop. They have been gone through.
Is my memory faulty, or am I missing something. It seems even my old MCS receiver at 65wpc and set of MCS Honeycomb woofer floor speakers sounded warmer with more mid bass punch.
I guess I could always drag the Kenwood into the house and drive the VS150s and see how that sounds.
Without subs being used, it seems that it is hard to find a great system that derives great bottom end from the front channels. It’s as if the AV receivers have some sort of frequency cutoff on the fronts...even set to large and no subs, it seems as if the bottom is lacking. This has been the case with every AV receiver I have ever had.
First Post
I am at a half century in age. I have been around music and amps my entire life.
In the 80s, I was exposed to my uncles Kenwood Eleven III and his set of JBL LS150 speakers. Astounding sound that was clear, thumped where appropriate, and rattled a concrete slab foundation.
I currently have a Denon AVR 4311x. I let it drive the surrounds and center. For the fronts, I am using the pre-amp outs to drive an adcom 555ii. This is driving a set of Cerwin Vega VS-150 speakers.
it seems to me that I have never gotten the sound out of an AV receiver that I got from a stereo receiver. The bass is nonexistent without subwoofers. The mids are lacking in weight. The highs are accurate and too much.
I thought....fine. I am going to drive the adcom and the Vegas with the Adcom stereo preamp. I bet I get that 70s to 80s sound. Nope! The Adcom preamp sounded the same as the Denon.
Now, I DO have that Kenwood Eleven III. It is beat up and has pot and switch issues. So I have to fiddle with it to get both channels playing correctly. It is powering a set of no name home speakers I bought at a flea market. I use that in my garage. Unfortunately, my uncle threw the JBLs away long before I could have interfered. I nabbed that Kenwood though. This thing in my garage sounds phenomenal. I actually prefer the stereo sound off it and these smaller no name speakers to that of the above described equipment in my house.
I remember demoing a set of vs150 speakers in a circuit city long ago. The bass was incredible. These were bought from a credible hifi shop. They have been gone through.
Is my memory faulty, or am I missing something. It seems even my old MCS receiver at 65wpc and set of MCS Honeycomb woofer floor speakers sounded warmer with more mid bass punch.
I guess I could always drag the Kenwood into the house and drive the VS150s and see how that sounds.
Without subs being used, it seems that it is hard to find a great system that derives great bottom end from the front channels. It’s as if the AV receivers have some sort of frequency cutoff on the fronts...even set to large and no subs, it seems as if the bottom is lacking. This has been the case with every AV receiver I have ever had.