Wharfedale Owners Thread - Page 13

Originally Posted by soulrider4ever

Please which is better ?

I can get either or - a pair of Diamond 9.6 or a pair of first generation EVO 30's

Price is neglible - I'm just curious which would be better for stereo playback of music? Soundstage is very important to me as well.

Originally Posted by TjMV3

Hard to say. What's the size of the room where these speakers will reside?

What kind of gear do you have to feed them the music?

What kind of sound do you like? A little on ythe warm side? Neutral? Analytical?

Originally Posted by Fastnbulbous

Every single one of the nubs on one my my Opus 3 grills broke off. Any suggestions for a solution? Some of the nubs are stuck in the holes, not sure if I can dig them out with a pin or not. The only thing I can think of is substitute velcro. I hate to blemish the speakers like that, but I can't imagine gluing anything to the grill would work.

Originally Posted by soulrider4ever

It's going to be in my living room which is pretty 'average' in size - I don't think I'll be getting a subwoofer for this room - so that makes me think the 9.6's would be better, but I'm not a huge boomer anyway.

The amp will be a emotiva upa-7 that will run in 2 channel mode for the living room (I have 5.1 in the adjacent room, but I will have those off while in the living room) - this should provide enough power fo either or.

I like being able to hear where the different instruments are, etc. - good imaging / soundstage / powerful sound.

Just as a point of reference - my friend has Mirage OM-9's powered by an Adcom amp - I enjoy those a lot.

Originally Posted by TjMV3

Seggers, the drivers on my Evo 30 and Opus 2 are never visually moving, unless I crank the hell out of the volume (which I hardly ever do). Those drivers simply are not visually moving under normal, moderate or even slightly high volumes or dynamics.

You can tell if the driver's working by the sound coming out or if your ears aren't capable of detecting them........gently and softly place your finger tip near or on the driver diaphragm (make sure your hands are well washed, dried and free of any oils, grime or dirt). You'll feel the music/vibrations coming through the drivers.

You may want to check that before going through yet another exchange.

Originally Posted by HURON ANGEL

definatly the evo 30`s would be a step up in quality of design and materials over any of the diamond speakers, is there a chance for you to audition them both?

Originally Posted by soulrider4ever

Sorry, NO. Guess it's not an easy choice, eh? I'd probably win with either or.

Originally Posted by TjMV3

Seggers, the drivers on my Evo 30 and Opus 2 are never visually moving, unless I crank the hell out of the volume (which I hardly ever do). Those drivers simply are not visually moving under normal, moderate or even slightly high volumes or dynamics.

You can tell if the driver's working by the sound coming out or if your ears aren't capable of detecting them........gently and softly place your finger tip near or on the driver diaphragm (make sure your hands are well washed, dried and free of any oils, grime or dirt). You'll feel the music/vibrations coming through the drivers.

You may want to check that before going through yet another exchange.

Originally Posted by seggers

TjMV3,

Cheers for the suggestion.

I didn't quite make it clear in my original mail. I was touching the 2nd driver. It moved (not a great amount, but it did move) for both the good 40 and the 40 that was to be replaced. It did not move, under the same situations, on the newly arrived 40 that is now upstairs.

I was very careful as one of them I actually wanted to keep......

Seggers

Originally Posted by dakar80124

I would probably take the Evo 30's myself, little bit better tweeter and nicer cabinet. But if you like to rock out and pump up the volume the Diamond 9.6's rock.

Originally Posted by Fastnbulbous

Every single one of the nubs on one my my Opus 3 grills broke off. Any suggestions for a solution? Some of the nubs are stuck in the holes, not sure if I can dig them out with a pin or not. The only thing I can think of is substitute velcro. I hate to blemish the speakers like that, but I can't imagine gluing anything to the grill would work.

Originally Posted by IceTBC

Tony. I commented I ordered a pair of the new EVO2-10's to replace my older Pacific EVO-10's for my rear surrounds and you asked for me to let you know if I hear a difference. Well I can say I do.

When I first got them (from tsto for the previously mentioned price) and pulled them from their boxes they were intact and the shipping boxes showed no damage so that is all good. They are the exact same size cabinets as my older ones but with a different/updated driver.

They are listed as having the same 87db sensitivity as my older Evo's so I figured they would have the same levels needed from my player(s) as my old ones. But after I wired them up and played some 5.1 music I have they seemed at first to be more sensitive since they seemed to have noticeably more sound coming from them. So after a few run thru's on other 5.1 albums I have I ran a sound calibration disk I use that has band limited (500Hz-2000Hz) pink noise for each speaker. I use it with a Radio shack sound level meter I've always used for balancing speaker levels.

The sound levels seemed to measure pretty much the same as they always did in terms of overall system speaker level balance. After tweaking I ran thru my 5.1 music and again I can only say that I'm hearing more and clearer sound coming from the new EVO 2's. Overall I seem to have a better match to my front Opus 2's (first generation like yours) than I had before. Mostly it seems like it's better and clearer sound from around 800Hz to maybe 3KHz. I hear some instruments and voices in that range more clearly and more in balance with my fronts than I did before.

I know you have the same speakers as I do/did so you wanted my take on using the EVO 2 10's versus the Pacific EVO 10's. Bottom line is that I feel the 379 I spent on new rear speakers was well spent as I can hear an improvement in my rear surrounds.

Originally Posted by cammer

I got my evo2 10's 2 weeks ago, there seems to be a problem with them. The singer is usually in the middle slightly in front of speakers or slightly off to either side with the drums behind, cymbals and drums fluctuate up and down in height and rotate around the center. There no speakers there though ! The lead guitar to the left and bass guitar to the right a little inside or outside of speakers. So what gives ? Maybe their just breaking in. I've listened to paradigm studio 20, focal 706v and monitor audio rs1 and never heard that ! By the way the highs, mids and lows are perfect !

Originally Posted by ShrinerMonkey

I have just joined the Wharfedale owners club as of yesterday.
Any suggestions about placement or amplification are welcome.

Originally Posted by cammer

These speakers are amazing EVO2 10. Their powered by a Yamaha rx-v659,just wondering how that receiver would sound with opus series 1 - 1, I will not upgrade to separates to expensive. Would that receiver supply enough power to do those speakers justice.

Originally Posted by cammer

Huron Angel, actually the yamaha sounds exceptionally good with the evos not harsh at all just detailed. Way better than the paradigms I had which were borderline fatiguing.

Originally Posted by HURON ANGEL

I would think a yamaha would sound harsh and bright with anything let alone with the opus line, I have red a few posts hear and there were people had sound and power issues with yamaha paired with opus, opus speaker like power more the better I think.