Ayre CX-7e on new Orphean horns

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I received new horn speakers for my system, a pair of 112 dB sensitive Orphean horns that replaced my 107 dB sensitive Oris horns. This was an interesting combination with my Ayre CD player compared to my Teres turntable. The Ayre provided clean open, detailed music. When I mean open, I mean unrestricted in dynamics and distortion. Not just open, but Open, I mean OPEN!
You hear what the disc sounds like. It was so good I used the CD player as a reference for finding base vibration problems on the Teres turntable. These horns have electrostatic transparency combined with wide dynamic range and low distortion throughout the range. It makes the source component defects quite apparent. And the CD player was sounding better in many ways than the turntable.
I had to try several combinations of base support ideas to get the full frequency range of the turntable to come clean in the presence of driving this horn. And the CD player led the way for that trial and error process. It is a very well balanced player, especially suited for horn speakers which tend to add too much to the music on their own. The Orphean horns are very good at not adding much to it, and not sounding "horny", though.
In the end, I tossed out Mapleshade brass points, some of their rubber and cork dampeners, and a couple of other ideas. I ended up with some cheap low profile small aluminum points (make unknown - they are really old) on pressboard pieces placed on a plywood/cement board (glued together as one board) on top of rubber and cork dampeners on top of a Target wall mount. It took all that to make the "suspension" work well and sound vibrationless and not "deadened" either. But the Ayre player proved to be great. So why do people find this player "boring"? I still don't get it. It sounds "correct" to me.

Kurt

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Topic - Ayre CX-7e on new Orphean horns - kurt s 14:14:12 03/27/07 (6)

just curious, please explain how you used the CD player to find turntable vibration problems /nt - hermanesque 18:12:20 03/28/07 (3)

Like tuning a piano with a tuning fork, sort of. - kurt s 09:05:32 03/29/07 (2)

Just a suggestion - Charles Hansen 20:06:38 03/29/07 (1)

Re: Just a suggestion - kurt s 09:11:21 03/30/07 (0)

Re: Ayre CX-7e on new Orphean horns - Rufipennis 08:06:01 03/28/07 (1)

Re: Ayre CX-7e on new Orphean horns - kurt s 12:05:21 03/28/07 (0)

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