Jeff Kleinberg
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- May 20, 2001
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Hi,
I had been using a Marantz av9000 and a carver av705-thx, with paradigm refence speakers for the past 2-3 years. In september I upgraded from the Studio 60's to 100's and last month added the Anthem avm20 v2. This made a great improvement in sound quality, but with SACD and DVDaudio with their high dynamic range the vollume needs to be higher, this led to some harshness of the treble with some colapsing of the sound stage. I purchased a bryston 9bst yesterday and much to my suprise the improvement is amazing. I "thought" i heard a diffence when I added the carver to my old denon 3200, but the addition of the Bryston is spectacular. Louder just equal clearer, no compression, no harsh treble. I'm sure the carver limited my appreciation of the anthem, and now i'm probable hearing it as it should be. I am a skeptic by nature, and really expected to return the Bryston it's $2400 I really shouldn't have spent. I really thought i was at the point of diminishing returns with the carver(stereophile class B, very highly rated and excellent reviews, but the Bryston is just so much better. Even with movies. I never believed magazines when they state significant differences between two high quality amps when it came to theater sound, because my feeling was at this level the source is the limiting factor. I mean how much diffence can an amp make on a 548kbs signal. The answer: A Hell of lot. i watched spy kids last night and can't believe the difference, sounds just flowed between speakers and everything was much more dynamic. DVDaudio and sacd were much clearer and well defined , especial at moderate to loud levels.
Questions
I am using kimber pbj's, for 1 meter is a balanced interconnect going to make a noticable difference in sound quality
The amp has no trigger(i got it a cost, and they had no thx units with the trigger) My monster hts2500 is switched, but bryston states that power conditions can limit current and thus are not recommended. Anybody have any opinions on this,and any ideas to switch the amp, my preamp has a 12v trigger out.
Thanks
Jeff
I had been using a Marantz av9000 and a carver av705-thx, with paradigm refence speakers for the past 2-3 years. In september I upgraded from the Studio 60's to 100's and last month added the Anthem avm20 v2. This made a great improvement in sound quality, but with SACD and DVDaudio with their high dynamic range the vollume needs to be higher, this led to some harshness of the treble with some colapsing of the sound stage. I purchased a bryston 9bst yesterday and much to my suprise the improvement is amazing. I "thought" i heard a diffence when I added the carver to my old denon 3200, but the addition of the Bryston is spectacular. Louder just equal clearer, no compression, no harsh treble. I'm sure the carver limited my appreciation of the anthem, and now i'm probable hearing it as it should be. I am a skeptic by nature, and really expected to return the Bryston it's $2400 I really shouldn't have spent. I really thought i was at the point of diminishing returns with the carver(stereophile class B, very highly rated and excellent reviews, but the Bryston is just so much better. Even with movies. I never believed magazines when they state significant differences between two high quality amps when it came to theater sound, because my feeling was at this level the source is the limiting factor. I mean how much diffence can an amp make on a 548kbs signal. The answer: A Hell of lot. i watched spy kids last night and can't believe the difference, sounds just flowed between speakers and everything was much more dynamic. DVDaudio and sacd were much clearer and well defined , especial at moderate to loud levels.
Questions
I am using kimber pbj's, for 1 meter is a balanced interconnect going to make a noticable difference in sound quality
The amp has no trigger(i got it a cost, and they had no thx units with the trigger) My monster hts2500 is switched, but bryston states that power conditions can limit current and thus are not recommended. Anybody have any opinions on this,and any ideas to switch the amp, my preamp has a 12v trigger out.
Thanks
Jeff
I have a 7.1 200W/channel Acurus set up. Even tried an Aragon for awhile, but I couldn't justify the cost for any incremental performance that may or may not have been evident. But I will say this, if I could afford Bryston? That's what I'd have. 
