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Dynaudio focus 360

I recently acquired a pair of Dynaudio focus 360's and hope there are folks here that have had these or similar Dynaudio's that can shed some light.

My system currently consist's of a Rega p6 and auralic vega1 into a  McIntosh mx110,to a adcom gfa5452 out to the focus 360's.

First off I know these speakers like a lot of power and currant,and I have plans to get a amp with 350 watts per channel.

Here is what is going on.

If I listen below 70% of my maximum listing volume,the sound falls flat on its face and sounds like a cheap radio with 4 inch speakers in it.

If I turn up to 80%,things sound much better,at least modern quality recordings.

Tunn up to 90%,things sound real good,until the singer backs off for a softer vocal delivery.Bam.The vocals fall way way back and way to low.

Same thing with electric guitar.As long as its playing lead up front in the mix it sounds good,but the rhythm guitar just melds into mush.No tight loud crunch where it normally is.

The vocals only sound clear and good when it is a sparse mix,with few instruments competing for space.

Then the vocals sound very very good.

One example:Alison Krauss Baby now that I Found You.

Stunning,I mean it sounded like she had walked up to me and was singing 3 feet from my face.

Please assure me these drop outs in mid-range and vocals will go away with big power and currant.

These speakers sound fantastic with acoustic instruments and drums.

They just can't reproduce electric instruments with the required oomph on my classic rock recordings.

They come close when I crank it to 100% of my listening volume,but still the krang of a Marshall stack is missing.

It is strange how when ever the vocals are just a little bit reserved the volume drops a lot and looses all body,even on the intro of a song.

I'am going to wait until I try these with the more powerful amp before I make my final judgement,just hoping I can get some encouragement here that all will be well.

Thanks

 

 

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twangy57

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newbee
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OP, FWIW, I think your goals in getting and setting up your system may be based on a misconception about what it’s all about. The goal is to set up a system that accurately reproduces the sounds as they are recorded by an engineer in a studio (or live for that matter). Recording wise you get just that. The recording engineer places the mic’s and puts down tracks for each mic. Then he mixes them to reproduce his recording. Then this gets put on a disc or tape, etc. Then you buy it take it home and play it on your system. He did not design/set up your system so is not responsible for what you actually hear. All very obvious, yes?

Now most of your recordings are not made by the same engineers, different engineers, different musical sounding recordings, even with the same music. 

In a well matched and set up system you get to hear the recorded music exactly as it exists on the disc. 

When I look at your original post I can’t begin to understand where you have heard that music, as recorded, and find such divergence in the sound made by the system depending on the type of music you are listening to. IMO if you set up your system so that you hear one type of music as you want it to sound, without regard to the actual music on the disc, you will alter the sound when you play different types of music, for better or worse.

I would suggest that you rethink your expectations of your systems performance based on its absolute audio performance not your present expectations of how it should sound with one particular type of music. 

FWIW I doubt that the amp you have purchased (?) will solve your issues, hope that it does, just doubt it. FWIW, being able to match impedances is important but I don’t think that that issue alone will make the difference you seek. It can make a tonal change for sure and the 10K output of your preamp is unusually high yet resolve your audio issues, I doubt it. 

Hope things work out for you. 

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