Oneoff
Active Member
Hello everyone!
So I acquired a pair of Infinity RS2.5 about a week ago, and also a Musical Fidelity A5 from bartertown (Thanks Matt).
The A5 delivers 400wpc at 4ohms quietly and without much of a sweat. The sound on the mid/ high frequencies is just amazing, I seriously never heard anything like that before. The low end section is ok. I usually like it more punchy and i know these woofers can deliver that after using my sansui receiver as a pre and boosting up the bass tone control a little.
The A5 integrated doesn’t have any tone controls.
The question is- how do I add a simple bass tone control?
The problem(s) - i don’t want to add any noise
to the system (the A5 is dead quiet), and I don’t want to lose the A5 pre section (with it’s nice phono stage, remote etc.) by adding another external preamp just for the bass control...
Does the original external crossover can take care of the above? I’m not too familiar with it’s abilities...
Is there anything out there to add between the amp’s speakers terminals and the speakers? (Probably not...)
Are there any other simple and low cost solutions you can think of for bass improvement?
I’m assuming this is not a matter of (lacking) power because when I connected the amp to the the ‘low’ terminals only on the RS, the bass was just the same. I guess, if 400w is not enough to drive only the woofers, I’m in trouble here...
I currently don’t want to sell the speakers nor the amp...
Thanks in advance for your input!
So I acquired a pair of Infinity RS2.5 about a week ago, and also a Musical Fidelity A5 from bartertown (Thanks Matt).
The A5 delivers 400wpc at 4ohms quietly and without much of a sweat. The sound on the mid/ high frequencies is just amazing, I seriously never heard anything like that before. The low end section is ok. I usually like it more punchy and i know these woofers can deliver that after using my sansui receiver as a pre and boosting up the bass tone control a little.
The A5 integrated doesn’t have any tone controls.
The question is- how do I add a simple bass tone control?
The problem(s) - i don’t want to add any noise
to the system (the A5 is dead quiet), and I don’t want to lose the A5 pre section (with it’s nice phono stage, remote etc.) by adding another external preamp just for the bass control...
Does the original external crossover can take care of the above? I’m not too familiar with it’s abilities...
Is there anything out there to add between the amp’s speakers terminals and the speakers? (Probably not...)
Are there any other simple and low cost solutions you can think of for bass improvement?
I’m assuming this is not a matter of (lacking) power because when I connected the amp to the the ‘low’ terminals only on the RS, the bass was just the same. I guess, if 400w is not enough to drive only the woofers, I’m in trouble here...
I currently don’t want to sell the speakers nor the amp...
Thanks in advance for your input!
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