The Official Energy Speakers Thread

[Jwilly019]

Originally Posted by callas01

Have not heard the Anthem receivers as these are the first receivers they have ever put out... so I would love to hear them... their amps get a lot of positive reviews however.

I knew this was their first line of receivers, but I wasn't sure if you had heard their pre/pro before. I've heard plenty of compliments for their amps though. I'm going to read the thread on them over at AVS and will be looking forward to any pro reviews that may come out.

The NAD I have yet to hear but Rhett and my dealer both said for Music the NAD would be killer, and very good for HT. Both agreed that an amp for the reciever would be good also, but that to start the receiver will run Totems and or Dyns as good as say a Yamaha and Emo combo, and probably with better sonics. The Dyn Excites were made with the idea that a 6 ohm receiver could power them and be perfectly fine.. well think about this, NAD is distributed by Dynaudio in Europe.... so guess what receivers they used to test the Excites out on?? Exactly...

I didn't know NAD was so closely linked with Dynaudio, I'll add them to my growing list of things to research.

So eventually I will add an amp, but I will probably start with a very good receiver and add the amp later...I think I will be in for a good 3-4 upgrade period, until I am totally finished... It could be receiver this year, speakers next, amp later....

Sounds like you've got a few exciting HT years ahead of you. And a new son on the way to boot.

If the Marantz is a Denon, then that sucks, Marantz is known for building first from the receivers amp on up and adding features later, not deciding first on features then how to afford the amp.

I wish they had added a powerful enough DSP in the AV8003 to decode the HD codecs and apply Audyssey at the same time. That might be the only thing holding me back from getting it.

Originally Posted by callas01

anthem will not decode DSD, but your SACD player should be able to conver to PCM and send it that way... same thing

they are 4 ohm stable receivers

By converting to PCM you're downgrading the quality. Though I think my player can decode the DSD stream in the player and send it to the receiver via the analog outs. I'll have to double check though.

Justin

[Jwilly019]

Originally Posted by prerich

I remember recommending several Totem 5.1 systems (dreamcatcher, ect). to people and they kinda blew me off. I'm glad to finally see Dynaudio and Totem get this type of press. I'm also glad to see many people auditioning speakers they can't afford just to get a baseline on what they like. That's what I've done for years!!!

Rich, any brands you'd recommend I listen to? On my list I have: Dynaudio, Totem, Vienna Acoustics, Energy, Jamo, Dali, Focal, Monitor Audio, Paradigm, Polk, Klipsch, MartinLogan, and Def Tech.

Justin

[callas01]

amphion, dali, usher audio, revel concertas

all ones you should add to your list

[Jwilly019]

Originally Posted by callas01

amphion, dali, usher audio, revel concertas

all ones you should add to your list

I found a dealers in town carrying Revel, but was unable to find dealers for Dali or Amphion. I'll give Usher a call on Monday and see if there are any dealers near me. I was having trouble getting the Dali dealer locator to work though, so maybe I'll give them a call too.

I also found a dealer who carries Arcam, Anthem, Lexicon, Ayre, Bryston, and Rotel so I'll make sure to spend some time with each of those.

Justin

[Adam.C]

Originally Posted by callas01

dude, your TV is fine... 1080p, 50", slim design..... I am sure you can get thru 2 more years with it...


my wife wants new furniture and carpet... AND a TV.... I am happy with the TV, its only 3 yrs old... she says well my AV/speakers are only 2 yrs old... I have explained that there would be a bigger improvement updating the audio then the Video.

My hope is that in tax money we get enough back that I can get her Carpet and a new couch, and then I can get a new AV/TV 3-n-1 stand AND an receiver.... In this order... NAD, Anthem, Marantz or Sherwood Newcastle. Come on big money.

haha yea man. I would hold out longer, but the thing is that its going bad. Every day new white dots show up all over the screen. Pixels are dieing or something. SO we have to toss it. I already took it down, so now I moved our bedroom tv to the living room. Its a 42" Panasonic C2 720p plasma. Its not bad for a 720P. Good PQ. Calibrating it made it much better. Its just too small and we miss not having a tv in the bedroom. . Sucks because I wanted to get an amp first.

[callas01]

Originally Posted by Jwilly019

I found a dealers in town carrying Revel, but was unable to find dealers for Dali or Amphion. I'll give Usher a call on Monday and see if there are any dealers near me. I was having trouble getting the Dali dealer locator to work though, so maybe I'll give them a call too.

I also found a dealer who carries Arcam, Anthem, Lexicon, Ayre, Bryston, and Rotel so I'll make sure to spend some time with each of those.

Justin

call them both, Amphion is from Finland, not sure how many dealers they have in the US... and dali well... their dealer locater always sucks...

nice find on the receivers... arcam would be kick as, but they are a lot of $$

[callas01]

Originally Posted by Adam.C

haha yea man. I would hold out longer, but the thing is that its going bad. Every day new white dots show up all over the screen. Pixels are dieing or something. SO we have to toss it. I already took it down, so now I moved our bedroom tv to the living room. Its a 42" Panasonic C2 720p plasma. Its not bad for a 720P. Good PQ. Calibrating it made it much better. Its just too small and we miss not having a tv in the bedroom. . Sucks because I wanted to get an amp first.

well that sucks.... yep tv time first.....


you don't need a tv in the bedroom.... there is other entertainment present in the bedroom

[Jwilly019]

Originally Posted by callas01

call them both, Amphion is from Finland and dali... their dealer locater always sucks...

nice find on the receivers... arcam would be kick as, but they are a lot of $$

The thing I found odd about Amphion is all but one of their dealers appear to be in Illinois. I'll have to give them a call as well.

Justin

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by callas01

call them both, Amphion is from Finland, not sure how many dealers they have in the US... and dali well... their dealer locater always sucks...

nice find on the receivers... arcam would be kick as, but they are a lot of $$

Yeah 4 to 6K for an Arcam receiver this is insane. but indeed they some ass.

Too bad they don't make a 3 channel amp. I'll look into Anthem maybe

Anthem MCA 30 is a sweet beast I want one I think it retails at 2000$

[Adam.C]

Originally Posted by callas01

well that sucks.... yep tv time first.....


you don't need a tv in the bedroom.... there is other entertainment present in the bedroom

[patwrightjr]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

Once they are fully broken in you can crank the volume of that 354 up and you'll see how great they sound and that receiver is surely capable of giving them some lifelike performance.

cool man thanks, im almost at 50 hours and im dying to crank these things up! I changed the crossover size setting on my reciever to 60hz to give my woofers a little loosening up

[patwrightjr]

Originally Posted by Miker107

Well guys the day I was dreading finally arrived. They shut down my department today and terminated all of us. I'll still be around learning from you guys, but instead of speaker shopping I'll be job hunting for a while.


Mike

dude, im really sorry to hear this news...That really sucks! My wife was laid off 11months ago right after she returned to work from maturnaty leave so i know how you feel. Unemployment doesnt do much but at least its a little something.

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by patwrightjr

cool man thanks, im almost at 50 hours and im dying to crank these things up! I changed the crossover size setting on my reciever to 60hz to give my woofers a little loosening up

60 hz they will extend without issues rated at 50hz +/-3db, another trick is to invert polarity on one of the speakers and put speakers face to face as close a possible like 3 to 6 inches, it will do a push and pull, that accelerates the process.

[callas01]

Originally Posted by Jwilly019

The thing I found odd about Amphion is all but one of their dealers appear to be in Illinois. I'll have to give them a call as well.

Justin

well I heard them in California, so was that the other dealer.... cause they are help at my dealer....

My guy actually had a german speaker called T+A, and they sounded awesome..

[callas01]

Originally Posted by patwrightjr

cool man thanks, im almost at 50 hours and im dying to crank these things up! I changed the crossover size setting on my reciever to 60hz to give my woofers a little loosening up

you should be ok to start opening them up some... I wouldn't be scared to turn up your volume at this point... plus a little higher volume will help them to loosen up and push the driver back and forth further and open up

[Jwilly019]

Originally Posted by callas01

well I heard them in California, so was that the other dealer.... cause they are help at my dealer....

My guy actually had a german speaker called T+A, and they sounded awesome..

Just checked again, looks like I missed one. There are dealers in East Covina and San Francisco.

Justin

[callas01]

Originally Posted by Jwilly019

Just checked again, looks like I missed one. There are dealers in East Covina and San Francisco.

Justin

yeah, I heard them in covina, its about 30 minutes from me.

[callas01]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

Yeah 4 to 6K for an Arcam receiver this is insane. but indeed they some ass.

Too bad they don't make a 3 channel amp. I'll look into Anthem maybe

Anthem MCA 30 is a sweet beast I want one I think it retails at 2000$

Rhett (rded) has an Arcam.... he is looking into a Naim now.

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by callas01

Rhett (rded) has an Arcam.... he is looking into a Naim now.

Rhett has some etremely fine pieces of equipment that are out of my reach right now.

I must be biased I think I will go with the Anthem MCA 30 if I can get an audition for it since it's another Canadian made product of really high quality.
I wish I could afford the P 5 but it's 5k $.

Way over budget in my case.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...r-12-2004.html

[Jwilly019]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

Rhett has some etremely fine pieces of equipment that are out of my reach right now.

I must be biased I think I will go with the Anthem MCA 30 if I can get an audition for it since it's another Canadian made product of really high quality.
I wish I could afford the P 5 but it's 5k $.

Way over budget in my case.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...r-12-2004.html

That P5 is incredible.

Justin