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A "Downgrade" that proved to be a spectacular "Upgrade" -------

Has anyone here, out of necessity, installed a piece of gear into your system that should have been an obvious "Downgrade" but actually turned out to be an "Upgrade" ?  I know this sounds topsy-turvy, but I recently removed two highend amplifiers from my system for regular maintenance and substituted a multi-channel amp that had previously been assigned the job of handling just the bass frequencies.  I was positively stunned at how alive the system sounded !  Even my wife, who is typically uninterested in most things audio, instantly remarked on the improvement ! The tweeters and woofers were now on the multi-channel amp and the mids still assigned to a McIntosh 2105 amp. The multi-channel amp in question is a 7 channel Outlaw amp, the highend amps that were removed were Burmester 878s and the loudspeakers are Linkwitz "Orion"s.  All-in-all it has been a terrific sounding system but I couldn't believe this incredible improvement in every respect when I made the changes.   Ever happen to you ----- anybody ?

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Electrical and acoustical synergy rule over any upgrade ...

There is no relation with cost...

I listen to low cost speakers right now , i  optimized them  they sound better than my past Tannoy dual concentric which were vastly superior design over them  ...

Why ?

Not only  because of synergy as in the OP case but because when i  owned the TOP Tannoy dual concentric i know nothing about acoustics and electrical and mechanical embeddings controls of component ... But now all has changed ,  with an inferior speakers compared to the Tannoy , for sure a good design in spite of being less performant than the Tannoy, i anyway enjoy a more beautiful soundfield ...

Acoustics rules with elementary electrical and mechanical embeddings controls with synergy over the gear design itself ... It is why we must know how and why and which before upgrading ...

 

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