Lots of good advice here. You definitely should replace the integrated amp, soon if it is blowing speakers, and consider separates. Five kids, stick with solid state for now. Having separates will allow you to tune your sound a bit going forward by trying some different preamps. Look for something that offers a touch of warmth to take the edge off of the highs. Pass gear is a good and reliable place to start.
Which amp with Wilson watt puppy 8
Hi there !
i live on an island with no audiophile shops around.
I arrived in 2011 with a Jeff Rowland continuum 250 and Sonus Faber Cremona m speakers who were a great match. Unfortunately I blew the speakers a few times, then upgraded to columns, blew them also twice. I guess the amp is too powerful for them, but this time Sonus Faber was unable to provide me replacement tweeters and speakers, which is an enormous disappointment. I will never buy anything from them again. I ran through the web and found corresponding parts that I changed myself, but they seem to sound much higher in the trebles and lack bass, especially at high volume levels, (above 55%) . I tried swapping the cables, but it didn’t change anything.
I now bought a pair of Wilson audio watt puppy 8 that arrived this week from a NYC store. I hope them to last lifetime.
They have cost me around 11.5k$ door to door, look great and tough, but need to be driven above 60 % of volume otherwise nothing comes out of them, especially bass !
I also get the same sharp treble sound, which is very disappointing.
My problem is to find the issue :
1/ room acoustic
2/ change my class D amplifier for tubes or transistors
3/ find better cables
4/ me turning old ?
what should I do next ? what amplifier would you recommend with this configuration (watt puppy 8, MIT Avtr 1, ps audio direct stream mk1, aurender n10, musical fidelity M6 CD) ?
thank you
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OP, Thank you for all of your additional information, But with that, I am still of the opinion that there is something wrong with your electronics. The volume of any of my systems in the last fifty years at 60 - 80% would have been deafening. I mean plates on the wall rattling.... glasses vibrating off the table... I am exaggerating a bit. But walking by the speakers would be a hearing hazard. Use your iPhone and a SPL meter app, and take some measure ments from a meter in front of the speakers and from the seated position in front of the speakers. This would give us some metrics. |
I am looking @kofibaffour ’s advice who advised getting a mini dsp mic and going for tests. I will come back with that. Regarding placements and room config, this is an extract of WA’s manual. They should fire from the end of the leg (short wall) toward the L, or they should be along the longest wall. In this way, both speakers are firing the same distance to the back wall. The asymmetry of the walls in L-shaped rooms resists the buildup of standing waves (see Figure 2). Wilson Audio Specialties P 18 i tried yesterday to call Jeff Rowland, and actually the man himself come’s in every day, but want yet present, so I will try to reach him today to see if I can get any advise from them. |
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