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How can I make this system better? Hegel h390 and focal Diablo utopia
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The gains are in your room, not your speakers. It still looks very sparse and reflective.
napfkuchen
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For me placing absorbers (especially in the corners) helped a lot. I also have a small room with similar dimensions.
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You’re second person telling me that
napfkuchen
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You already have successfully improved the frequency response but unfortunately eq cannot fix reverb problems.
ZolaIII
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Yup gues who whose first.
@voodooless it still reacts/interacts badly in lower part of the spectrum but even with that two panels that are 12 cm thick absorbers he got a good suppression in mids and highs and reaction there is rather good. It's a small room after all.
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I read thru', but missed what specifically you wanted to improve? I'm the least scientific of the members helping you but have found myself in your shoes more than once. I have a couple hegel int's at home and spent some time comparing the h390 with some other electronics on Dali epicon 8's a couple weeks ago(bass was slammin). In a reflective room small differences could be magnified. You have mentioned getting larger Focals, but your measurements don't look lacking in bass. Money burning a hole in your pocket, bored? that's serious. It's hard to ask a dealer for help when you/I know i'm buying used after I figure it out so I find the owner and lay my cards out. I have cash, am willing to spend xx% of list and if he lets me keep talking I start borrowing gear 1 weekend at a time til I figure out what I'm not hearing.
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Yeah but what’s there beyond response? I saw perfect response here and yet reviewer says he prefers other speaker?
I’m happy with these focals but wondering if I’m missing out on anything
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My point is that when you're happy with your system it's easy to fall into the music, but if there's something distracting you from that enjoyment maybe you need to identify what it is instead of barking up a tree. I had a chair I bought and it was keeping me from relaxing.
Who cares what everybody else likes? I can't afford to make the internet happy, I only need to satisfy my own listening needs. honestly to make this forum happy just buy some benchmark components cheap cables and a pair of f208 speakers. presto, You'll have 10,000 new ASR fans. and more money in your pocket buying used.
Who cares what everybody else likes? I can't afford to make the internet happy, I only need to satisfy my own listening needs. honestly to make this forum happy just buy some benchmark components cheap cables and a pair of f208 speakers. presto, You'll have 10,000 new ASR fans. and more money in your pocket buying used.
You sure couldn't go wrong with that combination.
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My point is the response with woofer with no xover and letting it be full range is much worse than the above up until 300 hz with some distortion etc, but yet the pleasure of listening is night and day compared with 50hz or 100hz xover that gives almost flat response
I just empirically proven to myself that response flatness and perfectness is not everything
Nope, it's only something called High Fidelity.
Feel free to introduce as much distortion as pleases you.
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ok I’ll measure it tomorrow and let’s discuss why no crossover sounds better despite more distortionNope, it's only something called High Fidelity.
Feel free to introduce as much distortion as pleases you.
Kudos! Your system it’s so nice! Speakers and amp are very good devices. You don’t need add a sub until you works in your room setup. Speakers position it’s very important, then go for a rack amp (for regulate vibrations) and maybe a couple of good cables (No a crazy ones, but good ones) always you can add a better dac/streamer. But the first thing first is the correct placement of the speakers and some basic acoustic treatment, such as curtains, plants in the corners and carpet.
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Hi, I am also new and have the same Hegel 390 amp driving Sibelius or Sopra 3 speakers with so so sound with the Sibelius and much better with the Sopras. Recently connected a Denafrips Terminator Plus in DAC loop mode and the sound improved a lot. Imagine what the Diablos would do
. I haven't tried the Sopras but I will...
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It took me a while to configure the Hegel in DAC loop mode but once correctly configured the sound is really superior and you can place the instruments as they play. I also have two Rel subs on.Hi, I am also new and have the same Hegel 390 amp driving Sibelius or Sopra 3 speakers with so so sound with the Sibelius and much better with the Sopras. Recently connected a Denafrips Terminator Plus in DAC loop mode and the sound improved a lot. Imagine what the Diablos would do
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If you don’t have Dirac Live yet, then get that. You will be amazed at how much better your system will sound with top quality room correction software.
I almost lol every time I switch it off and hear what I thought sounded quite good
I almost lol every time I switch it off and hear what I thought sounded quite good
