The Official Bryston SP3 Thread. - Page 2

What Kal meant by phase is if you get one speaker reversed (positive wire on negative terminal and vice versa) then the bass (primarily) will cancel from the two speakers. The rest will need to respond to setup as I have spent time listening to the SP3 but don't own one. Did you buy your SP3 locally, they should come over and set it up.
Edited by jima4a - 12/4/12 at 5:14am

Yes Jim , they are coming in two days or so. Hopefully they can figure it out.
Looking forward to it Gbaby. I think Bryston assumed that anyone purchasing this unit would have at least a basic understanding of the home audio world. Probably a safe assumption for the most part.

Interesting , I had a look at that and it appears to be correct as far as I can tell. They are biwired right now with two red positive high pass and low pass connectors in the corresponding red positive ones on the speakers and the corresponding black negative low pass and high pass ones on the speakers. The strange thing was they sounded correct when I first previewed them but something changed over a night when some friends were playing with the pre amp and setting up Apple TV and all that for the place.

Gbaby, The Blades have a 90db sensitivity and an impediance of 4 ohms. They are driven by two Parasound JC1 monoblocks and the center and rears are driven by a Parasound 5 channel amp. The 3 amps are connected to the SP3 via balanced interconnects. I'm wondering if there is a way to reset the SP3 back to factory settings?

Sounds interesting, I will give it a read. Reviews have been very good, but it is not cheap so I guess they should be! Looking forward to trying out some Blu Rays on the unit. Just wondering if there was a way to reset it back to factory in case there was a setting I adjusted that is causing the problem that I am not aware of.

I never watch "blurry."

I know and I was just kidding.

Brian, Any news on your setup?

I would love to hear your thoughts.

Hey guys, still waiting on the audio store to come over and give me a hand, it could be tomorrow or Wednesday I hope.

So a bit of an update. Audio store could not figure out what the problem is and suggested the tweeters on the Blades may be blown. So I disconnected the two Blades and connected the two R900's I have. No problem detected then after about five minutes of moderate volume, not loud by any means, the right R900 loses the highs and starts sounding like the Blades did. Now I am wondering if there could be something on the Parasound JC1's that could be killing the tweeters on the speakers? Or maybe the speaker cable? Maybe they're sending to much power to the speakers somehow.

Really dreading having to email Kef about replacing tweeters on the Blades, I cannot imagine what that would cost. I really hope this isnt the problem but it is looking that way. Not to mention the right R900 tweeter may have to be replaced also if thats the case.

I would call Parasound first and discuss this with them or perhaps where you bought the JC1s also. Never heard of anything like this before. That certainly sucks.

You may also want to post your issues on the Parasound and Kef threads in case someone there can help. You could send Dav1dF on the AVForum a PM for his thoughts.

I know you said you were biwiring the blades, and I am guessing the R900s also. I believe the R900s are like the Q series and have a internal jumper you rotate versus the jumper wires on my IQ, XQ, and Reference speakers. But if you are biwiring it should not matter what the jumpers are set at, only if biamping which you are not. Not familiar with the Blade binding post arrangement. Certainly got me stumped.
Edited by jima4a - 12/15/12 at 6:43am

Yeah I'm perplexed as well. Maybe there is a problem with amps. I bought them used. I'm going to connect the two R900's to the receiver I used with them and see what I hear. If I hear the same problem then I know the tweeters are probably done on the speakers.

The amps I bought used so there might be an issue with them. I think I can get the tweeters replaced reasonably through them out here I just have to make sure I figure what the problem is so It doesn't happen again once theyre fixed. Maybe Ill give Parasound a call tomorrow and see if they have any ideas. It must be something with the amps.

I just ordered one. Time to move on. 20 years with Lexicon pre/pros comes to an end.

Thanks for all of your help. Seeing that Lexicon is a giant FAIL yet again based on CES I've given up on them (and the entire Harmon Group). I should have it in 10 days max. They're building it and the dealer is having it dropped shipped to me. Excited!! I have printed out the manual to try and get a bit ahead of the game. May start building new remote programming this weekend too.

Holy crap!!! You were right. This thing is sweet. My Dynaudios are telling me things the Lex was hiding. EVERYTHING is better. Movies sound awesome. The steering is clearly better when using the same codec as the Lex and the DTS-Master and True Dolby HD codecs are just great and I'm happy to be able to finally access them. The analog is what really excites me. Hearing instrument resolution I've been missing for a long time. Really, it's like buying new speakers.

Set up was pretty easy for the most part. Got the LAN connection quickly and it's nice to see what the panel looks like from another room. I do have a question though. I have my Ayre DAC connected via single ended input (CD). I normally used it in bypass mode before and am currently. I select 2-channel bypass and then the CD input below. My question is if I want to, can I use some of the surround modes the SP3 has for stereo inputs? If I select Stereo up top I lose the signal. The manual says (page 4 Surround Mode) when addressing these modes that " These modes derive surround modes from stereo (2 -channel) analog DVD inputs." So are they referring to older stereo codec movies entering via HDMI, just the DVD single end input, or any of the single end inputs? I see that stereo audio from my TIVO DVR can be adjusted, so thinking it must just be that, but if analog music can be manipulated please advise as to how it's done.

Only other observation is that when I first started watching a movie it seemed like the picture was a bit sharper and I thought it a bonus for getting the on screen processor, etc out of the loop. I was fooling around with my K-scape video and audio output options though and started to get a little video noise. Small flecks noticeable against black. That had me worried, but I've been unable to replicate it this morning. Ever had any issues with that? I

Edit: Video noise issues resolved.
Edited by BigHat - 1/24/13 at 10:05am