Hi there I have the GE Reference towers question do you use the lfe input for movies or music, I have a marantz preamp that can do lfe+main have ever done this , or do you just set to large. I have no extra subs just the towers so lfe+main just into the towers, thanks
I really cant see the T66 being better than the One R. It only has 4.5" midrange drivers. One R 6.5" i believe? It seams like the newer models of speakers tend to get more expensive but loose quality to compensate for infaltion. That goes for most brand's. Like everything else.
Honestly in my opinion. It’s not worth the upgrade cost. Perhaps if the price difference wasn’t so much it could be worth it but as far as sound quality very similar which wasn’t a surprise, they are the same products with some modernization. A great sounding speaker but the One.R is too. Thanks for watching
I use the JC-1’s! My spks are powered by and I’m getting 800 watts into My spks which have 32 3 1/2 inch mids and 12 2 inch teeets with a Super Tweeter! Great sound! Parasound told me when I was looking for Parasound amps, since my spks are powered, go with the JC-1’s! Great performance! 14:42
@@lukedominicfrancis3671 actually my sub doesn’t move that much especially when playing music. It will move more on movies but still not that much. The foam surrounding is quite stiff.
Audiolympian!!!!!!! I know my post is years past you putting this video review of the Sunfire Cinema Grand together. I hope you see this. I have this amplifier and I am the original owner. My amp is in perfect shape as far as I can tell (fingers crossed!) I have not run mine for thousands of hours....probably only in the hundreds of hours just because my life got busy and I postponed the hours I put into my hobbies. I bought some nice audio pieces long ago and just did not use them much. I love this amplifier...it's just spectacular! Mine was used to run a home theatre surround setup for about 10 years and then it went into mothballs for a long time. It is now resurrected and believe it or not I'm only running it as a stereo amp at this point with a powered subwoofer addition (Sunfire MK-II) with a B&K Reference 20 Preamp. Stereo speakers are Dynaudio Audience 7's (amazing). The music sources are all digital from either CD's through a Sony DVP-S7700 disk player or the Qobuz streaming service through computer/USB feed to a Geshelli Labs J2 DAC. Simple as can be and brilliantly clean/efficient for what I want to do. I do contemplate turntables and vinyl but I just don't want to go there. Too much work. I enjoyed your review. Please ping me if you get this comment. Fan of Sunfire/Bob Carver! Chris
@@chrisinsley5880 carver built these amazing amps to withstand a lifetime. I’ve been using mine everyday for a few years and it works like new. Keep it rocking my friend. Thanks for watching
I bought the Panasonic UB 9000 when I bought my 83 inch Sony master series TV OLED! Then I bought the Sonos premium sound bar and their premium subwoofer the GEN three along with the Sonos fives for the rears! Absolutely fantastic. I’m a happy camper.!😀
@@davejuse774 thanks. I do have a new updated version of this video coming. I didn’t think of putting that in it, but I will now at your request. Thanks for the idea and for watching.
@@StefanAI11 good but subjective question. Let me start by saying the GE speakers are super efficient so they will sound good with just a receiver. That’s the best part. But when paired with an amp they can soar. I’ve used and heard them with many amps. Prima Luna, sunfire, carver, Pass labs, emotiva, Parasound, marantz. So really imo it comes down to preference and budget. They were great with entry level emotiva, I prefer them with Parasound (mid level). The carver tube amp is spectacular with them. But for more high end,($10k+) Pass Labs or Jeff Rowland. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching
@@corytodd1690 good question. It doesn’t necessarily give more headroom to the other speakers because it just re-routes the actual signal but every receiver is designed to do that automatically. Some do it better than others. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching
@Audiolympian I guess what I'm asking is since its not powering those two speakers does it improve the power available to the other ones. Sorry if this is what you just answered
@@corytodd1690 no problem. The way the device works, is you take speaker wire from the receiver and connect it to the device. Because of that you are still using the power of the receiver. So essentially you could say you are doubling up on the wattage of the front main speakers. For example if the receiver is 75 wpc and you connect a 50 wpc amp this way, it’s now 125 wpc on the front channels. You don’t bypass the amplification in the receiver. Now, if the receiver has preouts and you connect the amp to the receiver’s preouts then you would bypass the receiver’s amp section and now are using and external power source for amplification and leaving extra headroom for the other channels because the main channels are not being powered by the internal power supply. Hope that makes sense.
Thank you for helping us with this component. You have saved me lots of money. My Sony Receiver STR AN1000 does not have preouts and it was struggling to drive my Klipsch 806FA 150watt speakers. Using this I connected my Crown 1502 power amplifier between my receiver and speaker, and it is working like a charm. I can hear sounds which did not exist earlier.
I also have the STR AN1000 and want to add a power amp. Do you know if you can use the Zone 3 output as a pre out? I’m only running 2 channels. Or is this the best solution? Thanks.
they sound great i used golden ear before it sounds perfect but now i use klipsch cornwall IV and center forte IV they sound great the sounds are very clean and so dynamic
Hi! Do you still need to connect the powered speakers LFE to pre amp if you're using an external subwoofer ? I also set my speakers to Small for hometheater use. Thanks in advance for your reply. Btw I liked your comparison video between the Paradigm and Golden Ear especially the demo at the end
@@edwinabuel324 to answer your question simply, no you don’t. There are differences to each set up. If you were to connect the powered speakers to the LFE you’ll get all around more bass. If you don’t connect them to the LFE you’ll get a bigger soundstage with fuller sound. So it comes down to taste and what someone prefers. Thanks for watching, appreciate your support
@@Exgol2005 the easiest way is to use a splitter cable. But the actual best way is to have a receiver or preamp that has two sub outputs or if you have a sub that has an output to daisy chain to another sub. Hope that helps
Good question. I thought all of North America was eligible for purchase. I guess it depends on which site one would purchase from. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching
@@ResidentHorror thanks man. yes it is. And in a unique way with midrand drivers along with mid-woofer drivers. And of course the ribbon tweeter. Thanks for watching
They did hold their own against the founder but the founders had a much more bigger sound stage and a sweeter sound. Again the t-66 had more bass though. But not as holographic.
@@gregjones2472 good question. As far as price range goes $5k-$10k speaker range. IMO top 5. Goldenear, Paradigm, Kef, Sonus Faber, focal. No particular order
@@Audiolympian If you recall I did purchase the Goldenear X sub and that little puppy rocks and really pressurizes my room. I was thinking of listening to these 66s for possible replacement of my Arendals but I felt the sound too neutral for me and “laid back”.
Nice review John. Glad to hear that the Tritons are not outclassed by the T66 which are a little too rich for my blood at this time. Btw, are those custom sound absorbing panels behind the T66 speakers?
Thanks. Same here. But I am looking forward to future products from them. Yes, those are custom sound panels. I made them myself. Thanks for noticing and for watching
@@slickvic1432000 those are tricky amps to connect to receivers. I’d really have to see it to come up with an idea. But perhaps get some cables that have rca connections on one end and whatever input connection is on the crown amp. Could be xlr input connection. That could work. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching
Congrats to Fred on the new Focus speakers. I have a question: would a driver configuration such as the Focus has be of benefit in taming room nodes/nulls? In my room, when I stand up the bass drops off; I'm 9 feet from the speaker plane with the front wall right behind my head. My current speakers are bipolar, with a conventional tweeter/midrange/woofer configuration, top to bottom. Thanks for any insight you can provide.
@@charlesf2804 I think it would have a benefit depending on your room. The bass was very thick and deep but n Fred’s room, with no powered sub. And it did seem to be very smoothed out in the room but his room is a smaller size with great heavy treatments. I would have love to try them in my theater room to hear the difference, I feel they would have performed exceptionally well. Hope that helps thanks for watching
@@Audiolympian Thanks. My room is 14 x 18.5 with an 11 ft. ceiling. Because of how it's built my only placement option is along the long wall firing across the short dimension. According to Legacy the Focus works in small rooms and, indeed, when I heard them at an audio show a few years back the room they were in was about the size of mine but firing down the long dimension. Will need to listen to them again.
i watch 80% movies 20% music which is better?? also have you heard the Mk&Sound S-150 LCR?? most people say they have end game HT sounds what do you think?
@@leatijoseph828 I’d still go with the paradigm. I have heard the M&K center speaker. It sounded good but to me was a bit bright sounding. I think their unique trait is they have the ability to get extremely loud and not distort.
@@Audiolympian Golden Ear and Paradigm sounds good , but not the best. I've always had Wherfedale bower's wilkins Polk Klipsch Elac Q Acoustics Focal, KEF R series, Klipsch Thx-6000 in my house, none of them sound as good in movies as Mk&Sound S-150, if you listen to movies, Mk&Sound easily beats all systems)) Mk&Sound, Krix Epicentrix Perlisten End Game setup
@@leatijoseph828 perhaps. I do believe sound performance has a lot to do with the room and room treatment. Maybe I just didn’t hear those speakers in the best room. In my room, my set up is calibrated with ARC for the best results for me. And everyone is different. Appreciate your insight
Hold on a minute - didn't you go in and set up the speaker configuration and distances? The manual says the very first thing you do is connect to the internet and do the software upgrade - you didn't do that either? And, then, you are supposed to calibrate the sub or subs . . . what the heck?
@@kellywilliamson2187 I didn’t do that at first because I wanted an out of the box first impression. This way once I calibrate it I should be able to notice a difference. And yes I did notice a difference! Thanks for watching
Review needs to be be more focused on primary topic. It was 8 mins. before getting to the speaker details! I don't have the tolerance to wait that long (nor do most) to get to subject matter. Brevity will get you far.
That centre speaker is coming up atop the screen at the bottom. Adjust, so that the screen of telly remains free of anything else. And DTS rocks; Atmos sucks!
For some reason the angle of the camera looks like the center speaker is too high but it’s really not. Haha another fellow DTS’er. 👍. Thanks for watching
@@leatijoseph828 I haven’t heard it. But from the specs and the design I think it should be able to punch above its weight class. I’m considering on checking their new line out. They seem impressive
@@Audiolympian You have heard that Svs Vocal sounds very clean, what do you think?? Treble sounds further back, but vocal sounds clean even at low volumes, golden ear center vocal also sounds Clean or Svs Ultra Center??
@@leatijoseph828 compared to the svs ultra center I’ve heard in the past, the goldenear blows that one away. But they are different price points so not a fair comparison.
You can but it's not really the same thing as having dedicated pre-outs. If you can afford an amp that costs 2x the price of a decent receiver with pre-outs there's no reason why you would not get one that already has them. Thanks for the video though this is good little gadget I didn't know exists
@@Tonyplat98 you’re right. I’d definitely go for a receiver with preouts but there are a lot of people that have great older receivers and they want a little more power. Thanks for watching
@@wawalisko Good question. I believe it’s very important and has its place and benefits provided the proper conditions and components. For the average person, I feel they probably wouldn’t notice if the wavelet signal has good timing or not. Also today’s gear is made quite well. So even mid level quality gear has pretty good wavelet performance. Hope that helps. Good question. Thanks for watching
