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Something great happened! So I’m a poor man’s audiophile, I love music. I’ve got a great system for a truck driver I guess. So I have JBL L7 speakers and I used to power them with a crown 1502 amplifier. It sounded really good, then my wife bought me an incredible set of second hand amplifier’s Wired4sound sx1000r’s, she’s the best. They made my system sound incredible. I know most have no clue as to what I’m talking about. So anyway disaster happened and our basement flooded and the stereo while not damaged was put to the side. So wanting something I dug out some old equipment and put it upstairs to get me by. Everyone needs time away and time for themselves. To be quiet honest I probably focus to much on the destruction of our country and it sickens me and music is my escape. My wife really loves Christmas and decorated the upstairs, so my trash stereo ended up out of reach. So my wife is out of town and I’m needing to get away from the crazy. So the speakers I have upstairs are some Bic Venturi V62’s “again you probably have know clue and that’s understandable”. These speakers I picked up at a yard sale for ten bucks and only bought them because music is my release, I love everything from punk rock to classical. So anyway these are my upstairs speakers until the basement is redone. The upstairs speakers are powered by a trash 1980’s amplifier and doesn’t sound great, but it’s music right? So given the situation I pulled the speakers out of the corner and left the other equipment because it was to much trouble to move. I went downstairs and grabbed the Crown amp and pieced a stereo together. Now the crown is a good amp and very powerful so I grabbed some cables and hooked up the small Bic Venturi bookshelf speakers, and started it up. I wasn’t impressed to say the least, the bass was muddy, they sounded like crap like always but it was better than nothing. Then over the next couple of hours something wonderful happened, the bass became incredible the speakers went translucent and the most glorious sound started emerging from these $10 garage sale special’s. Is it possible that these thirty year old speakers wer really never broken in and needed the power of my crown to jujitsu them into shape? I know it sounds like I’m nuts, but listening to Itzhak Perlman play Le Quattro Stagioni almost has me in tears listening to $10 speakers. It’s almost as God knows I need this and answered my prayer. Sorry for the silly vent but I’m all alone and have to tell my fens.
Wow seriously, that's some serious classic kit. I used to be really into car audio and... um... those amps you mention are monsters meant for home cinema. And you've got them in your truck? LOOOOOL, that's so great. Nice work. Those amps always seem to show up for sale in pairs. The specs are impressive, TONS of clean power with a whopping 1.140W into a 4-ohm load, a dynamic range of 118dB, and a THD+N of just 0.2% at full power. Wow. I bet people can hear you pulling into a truck stop!
Nope they’re home kit, with ac cord. They are monsters though, class D ice power amps.
My babies are the wyred4sound sx1000r monoblocks, 1000watts per side and sound incredible. My L7’s can play anything well, very dynamic speakers.
It’s really not the watts with L7’s it’s the current they need. They are hungry little monsters.
I have a Marantz sa8005 cd player, they did a real nice job with that one. Has about 99% of their ultra high end cd players, I wish it had balanced output’s but you can’t have it all, but it does have a really good DAC. I’m tempted to get a turntable, but the thought of building a vinyl collection at this point in life is more than I could handle. SACD is enough I guess. I like having physical media, but I do have a computer attached to the usb input on the cd player which is nice. Now if I could get a fresh set of ears, mine are getting old. I am thinking of upgrading the L7’s to ceramic tweeters and a custom x-over “foil caps” exc. it would be fun to see what they’re capable of. On the other hand I’m really looking at Tekton speakers as a upgrade, I’ve heard nothing but good things about them.
Have you ever looked into Tekton speakers, the Encore’s are ones I’m interested in. I would really like to listen to them before purchasing, a trip to Salt Lake City to listen to a set is a little much and explaining that to the wife. Every once in a while they show up on US Audiomart, it kills me how these guys run through audio equipment like changing underwear. The cable thing is the biggest racket going.
Hallelujah!! What an awesome story fren. God is so wonderful and often works in ways we don't expect. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this with us