Infinity Renaissance 90 questions

i feel the speaker is the last of your components in a system that is heard and the most critical component in your system, you can run a kmart speaker on the worlds best electronics and it will sound ok but if you run the worlds best speaker on "kmart" electronics i feel it will always sound better than the after mentioned.
greg

hi, just to let you know how good then ren 90's are i also have them in black ash and will never sell them they are that good, i had the irs sigmas and liked the sound of the ren 90's better, to me the sigmas woofer did not blend into the emim as nice as the ren 90, the ren 90 just has a nice warmth to the mid bass that is to die for, i also had the mts prelude and when i compared them side by side with the ren 90's there was no contest the rens won, the ren 90's are a more musical speaker and i think the preludes are made for ht, the real joke was when i played jewel live she is playing an acoustic guitar while singing, the ren's ripped an image of her so much better that you would swear she was in the room with you and the acoustic guitar was spot on, i had to laugh, on the preludes the guitar strings sounded like plastic, thats when i sold the preludes, i was running them on a pass labs x-250 power amp, adcom 750 pre, sony es cd player, i would not touch the crossover as infinity used computers to design them and spent countless hours tweaking and choosing the right parts to get a flat frequency response, if you change caps or coils i think you will alter their sound for the worse, i would leave them stock, nice pickup on your ren 90's i saw the for sale ad for the too, the guy also just sold the blond pair, enjoy your new ren 90's.
greg

hi timpani,

i may try your tweeter crossover mod in the future on my ren 90's, like i said after completing the k9 mod and comparing it to the ren 90's, you can really hear how the high frequencies roll off on the rens, being that the k9 has the smaller and faster semit in it, i don't know if you can get the rens to equal the k9's performance over 10 k, but i think i can equal or better the k9's dynamics as the rens tweeter is a little larger.
greg

i have owned the sigma's and thought that the woofer did not make a smooth transaction into the mid bass driver, i always felt that the upper bass was lacking thus the reason i sold them, from the midrange up i thought that the sigmas sounded slightly better than the ren 90's probably because they used higher quality caps in them, i now have a pair of ren 90's and i actually like the sound of them better than the sigmas, i also have a pair of kappa 9's that i replaced all the old solen caps in the crossovers tweeter section with new solen caps and after the break in period, well let me say that the new solens sounded like crap and they are the same ones used in the ren 90, i called sonicraft and asked them which caps do they think would sound the best in my kappa 9's and they recommended the wonder dynamicaps over my preference the mondorf silver oils, the fellow i spoke with said that he would sell me either one but that i would be waisting my money if i went with the mondorfs, that the dynamicaps would match the kappa 9's much better, so i bought and installed the dynamicaps in all the crossovers tweeter sections in my kappa 9's, omg what a difference in the sound you hear everything, when i used to compare the kappa 9's to my ren 90's i always thought that the rens from about 5k to 10k sounded much better more dynamics than the kappa 9's, but not anymore, i used to like to listen to my rens but now when i compare them after having done the mod to the kappa 9's the rens sound like you have cotton balls in your ears and i just don't like to listen to them anymore, i wonder if you replaced the solen caps in the tweeters crossover section in the rens with the wonder dynamicaps how much better they will sound, has anyone tried replacing the caps in the rens crossovers tweeter section ? if so what where the results?.
greg

i tried firing them directly down the room without any toe in and i also find them to be more accurate and to me the sound stage also improves, but with 1/4 of an inch toe in i find that they image slightly better in my room, do you angle your speaker back? i like mine about a 1/4" angled back, a laser comes in handy when measuring, i also like them with no angle at all, its amazing how 1/4 of an inch angled back can effect the sound, thanks for the advice, i think your right, the super tweeter is the way to go.
greg

Melbguy1, with the upgrade that i did on my k 9's, if i compare them to my ren 90's, it's not even close, with the k 9's you hear so much more detail that when i switch to the rens you don't even hear what the k 9's are revealing, it almost sounds like the rens tweeters are broken, the rens sound like you have cotton balls in your ears as compared to the modded k 9's, i think that it is the sound that the solen caps produce because when i put new solens in my k 9's they sounded much like the rens sound(dead) if you heard the difference you would not believe your ears.

if you where to run your Fet nine + OCM 200 on one of those cheap speakers with all paper cone drivers, tweeter included (vintage radio shack), and compare them to the ren 90's driven by any bottom line brand receiver, i think that the ren 90's would still sound better, someone should run a blind test. LOL
greg