The recording is amazingly uncongested but most systems will make this muddy. The speakers were angled and hung and I was transfixed as all the ticking clocks burst into chime and tear your head off. He had a massive pair of Technics speakers and clearly had a classy bit of hench to drive it, behind the bar. I was on holiday when I heard it in a damn Spanish roadside bar. Now legendary, I had posters on my wall at UEA of Dark Side Of The Moon. Yes, I was using hippy music but one of the most layered, deep and fabulously recorded and produced albums of all time. I have only once or twice flung BIG sparks about the landing.īut I got it all fired up and was immediately impressed. Yes, it was confusing but I tend to over-use fusible links and places I can disconnect the DC, as well as carefully connect up. I had issues with the power supply as well as rusty recall of a particularly gnarly electrikakal path through a bunch of fat wires and StreetWires mega-items of power accessory-ness. I used low range lowpass to cross from 100Hz and down for the ovals and then low range high pass to play the Virtus 602 set. Thus subs lowpass or else a tweeter crossover range. This varies the crossovers’ range from 50Hz to 200Hz up to 2.5kHz to 10kHz. You can, at the flick of another switch on each crossover, choose to use high or low range. The idea was to use the big ovals as subwoofers, denying them any mids and highs, while keeping bass below, say 70Hz or so, from really playing through the components.Įach channel has a crossover that can be set to ‘˜off’ or else used to allow frequencies higher than that point picked, to go by, or ‘˜PASS’, or else to only allow through those tones below the chosen crossover point. So in an effort to try at least part of the crossover system, I hooked the resident Vieta 6x9s with the huge bass output, to the other pair of channels, so I could experiment. Too much high stuff up a midbass will just not play all that well. You do need to know what you are doing to do this, as too much deep stuff up a tweeter can kill it. With THIS amp, you could run active, or one channel per actual speaker. Now that means you are supposed to put one speaker wire pair into the box that feeds music to the drivers via the gubbins inside. They make them up to nearly two grand a set and also down to an affordable end, called Maximo but Virtus are midmarket at £600 as sold and aught to be awfully revealing.Īs a classic set of components, they came with a passive crossover. To which end, I hooked up a set of Morel Virtus 602 components. It cares naught about low voltages and will play until your battery ‘˜sodas’ terminally! The sound is good enough to make you respond to the music, rather than listen to the equipment and that is pretty much all that matters.Įditor Review : Kenwood XR400-4 Four Channel Amplifierīeing a high quality amplifier or claiming to be – meant that I was going to have to test the amplifier with a set of really good speakers, or ones I suspected of being really good. (Iceman swore by his ‘˜secret’ Kenwood 1023’s way back when and WILL be peeved at me for telling you, even though most of you were five at the time.) The Kenwood XR-400-4 is compact and powerful, with really good connections and great gobs of clean power. Kenwood XR400-4 crossover section In A NutshellĪ very good amplifier from a very famous brand, with actual legendary amplifiers in their past. Allen headed bolts secure the panel that covers the access to the wiring connections which in turn use another two sizes of Allen Key to tighten. These can be set to be fed from just one set of inputs or both and the crossovers are controlled by two knobs and four switches as well as the two gain input controls being right there. You get all the wire connections on one end power, speaker and RCA signal and the four knobs and five switches for the crossover on the other drop. Two thirty-ampere fuses prove the current consumption matches claims of output, while sophisticated crossovers offer lots of options. It is made with great solidity and is powered up by four gauge wire to big terminals. Four channel amplifier of Class D design, made to be extremely thin and to have a very high power density as this amp can make a solid 75W RMS from each channel, so realistically can be three hundred watts of front speaker power for a good set of components.
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