Damian1978
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Right,
Just got a nice new Sony TA-VA777ES from Richer Sounds for £750.
I love it to bits, and nearly did myself an injury carting this out of the store. My concern is my speakers.
I've just moved into a much larger room and previously had a Yamaha A5. In my old box room I did'nt need much volume to fill the room and it was loud. The new room is almost twice as big and pretty empty and the Yamaha needed to be pushed a little harder but sounded loud still.
Now the Sony is more powerfull (not by much, roughly 20 watts) but I'm not sure if I have connected the speakers up in the best way.
I've followed the original way I wired them for the A5. I have a pair of B&W 601S2 speakers at front (8 ohms) bi-wired to the A&B speaker posts. An Eltax Symphony centre (4-8 ohms) and 2 Gale Gold Monitors MkII (6-8 ohms) for surrounds. A pretty weird mix.
Now I want to replace them all with a matching set but funds are'nt too great at the moment. In music the amp seems pretty loud and the level is around 2.5-3 but for most movies to get a dynamic sound I'm pushing the level to around 4+.
It does'nt sound (no pun intended) too high but thats the 10'o clock position and for the type of amp I was a little concerned. Becanuse the centre speaker is rated from 4 ohms I've had to switch the ohm selector switch down to 4 ohms. For some reason in the technical spec sheet this reduces the power. The amp has no fan and only runs a little warm, my old Teac 2 channel amp got real warm after time.
To cut a long story short is this normal for Sony amps?
The rest of the amp seems fine, no noise, no humming, buzzing and it produces a much cleaner presentation with music but seems to lose the in yer face quality the A5 had with movies.
Help!
Also what a good starting point for speakers? I already have a Yamaha SW90 Sub?
Thanks,
Damian <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
Just got a nice new Sony TA-VA777ES from Richer Sounds for £750.
I love it to bits, and nearly did myself an injury carting this out of the store. My concern is my speakers.
I've just moved into a much larger room and previously had a Yamaha A5. In my old box room I did'nt need much volume to fill the room and it was loud. The new room is almost twice as big and pretty empty and the Yamaha needed to be pushed a little harder but sounded loud still.
Now the Sony is more powerfull (not by much, roughly 20 watts) but I'm not sure if I have connected the speakers up in the best way.
I've followed the original way I wired them for the A5. I have a pair of B&W 601S2 speakers at front (8 ohms) bi-wired to the A&B speaker posts. An Eltax Symphony centre (4-8 ohms) and 2 Gale Gold Monitors MkII (6-8 ohms) for surrounds. A pretty weird mix.
Now I want to replace them all with a matching set but funds are'nt too great at the moment. In music the amp seems pretty loud and the level is around 2.5-3 but for most movies to get a dynamic sound I'm pushing the level to around 4+.
It does'nt sound (no pun intended) too high but thats the 10'o clock position and for the type of amp I was a little concerned. Becanuse the centre speaker is rated from 4 ohms I've had to switch the ohm selector switch down to 4 ohms. For some reason in the technical spec sheet this reduces the power. The amp has no fan and only runs a little warm, my old Teac 2 channel amp got real warm after time.
To cut a long story short is this normal for Sony amps?
The rest of the amp seems fine, no noise, no humming, buzzing and it produces a much cleaner presentation with music but seems to lose the in yer face quality the A5 had with movies.
Help!
Also what a good starting point for speakers? I already have a Yamaha SW90 Sub?
Thanks,
Damian <img src="confused.gif" border="0">