Well, I've done nearly everything except the Pandora/non-Pandora track comparison. I replaced some bad wire, replaced the old SB with a Touch, replaced the Toslink cable with RCA cables, and switched the speaker impedance setting on the receiver to 4 ohms (the VA speakers are 4 ohms). Now I know some people don't like the 4-ohm idea, but the receiver was switching to protection mode at modest volumes. Now it doesn't.
The high frequency performance is improved, but I still get occasional distortion. The issue is likely with Pandora's bit rate, I'm concluding. Thank you very much for your time, everyone who has helped me. The results are evident. One more thing - I met a man locally who builds speakers. They are bookshelf speakers, and just beautiful. The sound is clean, transparent, and crystalline (he also powers them with Parasound Halo monoblocks). He told me that he spent over a year on the crossovers, which is why they're $3,500 a pair. My receiver has settings for speaker crossovers and I have no idea what I should do about that. Does anyone? -- CEBJr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CEBJr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52059 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92130 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
