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Review for Dynaudio BM5A powered pro speakers

I bought these speakers as an experiment just before Xmas. They are self powered pro-audio speakers. Currently directly connected via XLR cables from Bel Canto DAC3/preamp. Using a Sony DVD changer as transport.

Room: Master bedroom on top of a large dresser with a 40" LCD TV inbtween. Speakers are 2-3" in front of the TV
Music: 20% Vocal Jazz, 60% Jazz, 20% Pop/Rock
Speaker Build-in equalization are set to flat

1st 20 hrs was a little depressing. Not impressive or clear in any way. Decided to put on auto play during the day to break in.

20-100 hrs. Clear/Transparent sound, but lack any bass resolution. Treble is becoming warmer sounding. Sound stage not quite right. Play with toe-in and it works much better with a very slight toe-in angle.

>100 hrs: Everything comes together now. Transparency with a gentle treble. Definitely not bright nor mellow at the same time. Reproduce the full frquency exactly the same as on a set of Sennheiser HD-555 headphones.

This extremely system replaced a Cal Alpha DAC -> Dared VP-845 -> Coincident Triumph UHS system. It's a much different perspective and presentation. Dared 845 SET tend to round off the leading edge a bit but still reproduce a reasonable well rounded sound. There is less bite for rock music. No longer the case with Bel Canto DAC3 -> Dynaudio BM5A. Every nuance comes through but without becoming unlistenably bright sounding.

Next step: Maybe try out a Dyanudio pro subwoofer. Maybe a pair of ATC active or larger Dynaudio pro active speakers.

Eric
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Shardorne, I don't think the initial difference comes from tube vs. solid state. Within its power limit, Dared VP-845 is not euphonic at all. It's actually slightly on the bright side. IMHO, the treble is not grating because there is less odd harmonic distortion content.

I did not stay in the room to listen most of the time for the first 20 hrs because I was cooking a series of large Xmas dinners. So I just had time to stop at the master bedroom and listen for maybe 1 hr and then leave. Actually my wife did the same and she had a rather similar conclusion about the Dynaudio break-in process. The only thing she misses now is the pretty bright light from 845 tubes.

Rkerv, I have a few follow up questions:

1) How do you feel about the difference btw home version of Dynaudio vs. pro-audio version?
2) Do you feel a large difference btw BM6A vs. BM15A?
3) How far does the BM15A have to be for all the drivers to integrate well?

Eric
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