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Another Electro Voice Interface D/Sentry VI thread.

Tested them ALOT today..

The best sound was with almost all of the EV EQ defeated. On the speakers, on the dedicated EV EQ. I used the tone controls on the Perreaux Pre mostly

The EV's sound best loud. They sound really good loud.

I am running them with a 10 WPC Sansui tube amp and that has plenty of OOMPH.

Here's my take: The EV's are accurate, to a fault. But very forward. The sound stage is neither broad nor deep, at least as compared to the Cornwalls

What I have always said about the cornwalls is that, if blindfolded, you would have a hard time pointing to them. That isn't the case with the EV's

I am NOT SAYING the cornwalls win, there is alot to be said for accuracy, but for lower level listening (frankly, anything that isn't LOUD) I think the cornwalls might be better speakers

MORE TESTING TOMORROW
 
I had a thought cross my mind...

Preface: I'm not terribly familiar with the sound of Cornwalls. (I've heard them, just not often). What I AM familiar with is the sound from LaScalas as that is what I owned next to the EV's.

I'm not an engineer nor too technical on this stuff..... one thing many of the Klipsch-heads do when they acquire some new speakers (that are ostensibly a couple decades old) are to recap the crossovers under the premise that certain parts in there are likely old and out of spec.....therefore affecting the sound in a negative way.

To that end, I was going to refurbish the EV's that I had but instead, gave them to my wife's nephew. That said, here is what the crossover on the pair I had look like. I don't know the answer (would it be worth digging into any capacitors on there and replace them?)

Comparing the EV's to the LaScalas, I always described the difference as the EV's shaking the foundation of the house verses the LaScalas punching you in the chest. (mind you, this was with the outboard eq, 3bx & subharmonic synth in the system)

Does yours have provision for (and do you have) the biamp plugs?


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The D's can suffer from various issues due to age, any comparison being made without knowing
their current state of health is less than helpful.

Naturally the same applies to any vintage speaker.

My money is on the D's.
 
The D's were worked on by a colleague who knows his stuff - part of why I traded for them. Refoamed and updated as needed. Oddly enough the reason they were available is he rebuilt a pair of Klipschhorns and fell in love with them. So I am not the first doing the Klipsch/EV tango

And this sure as heck could be a case of taste. I love the expansive sound of the Cornwalls and they are plenty accurate for my taste.

Yes, they could be bi-amped.

Can't swap back the Cornwalls right now as I am using this opportunity to refinish them but that won't take that long.
 
and in today's exciting update...

Got the Mc C32 yesterday. Hooked it up this am. Removed the dedicated EV pre.

Pretty darn good. The Mc allows me to temper the D's mid a bit. The c32 just sounds better as well, which I wasn't expecting even though I love me some Mc.

I am ALMOST done refinishing the Cornwalls so the comparison test should be in a day or so.

The config will be the D's and the Mc vs. the Cornwalls and the Perreaux. I will pick one or the other config.

I have to say, the D's are sounding really good now. Clear but with depth.
 
Here's what it currently looks like. I played lots of stuff today, lots of variety. I seem to have narrowed down the eq settings using the Mc32 so that I don't find myself futzing with them nearly as much.

- All eq settings on the speakers OFF (did have the placement setting at 1/4 which is floor/wall)
- Removed the dedicated EV eq from the mix
- Bumped up the LOUDNESS on the MC32 a decent chunk. Played with the 5 bands a little, but not tons. Toned down the mids a schmidge

Before the mids sounded very flat in the soundstage...no depth. Not good. The addition of the Mc32 alone seemed to help but messing with the eq on the 32 a bit seemed to fine tune it. It got to the point today where I was mostly just playing with the bass/loudness and the volume. Standing back and listening I was pleased.

Finished the refinishing of the Cornwalls today so I might be able to do a head to head tomorrow. At this point I gave the EV's a decent shot
 

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During the process of (planning to) refurbishing mine, I bought an extra pair of VMR's and ST-350's.

I worked for while out of state so had an apartment. Took some of my toys/projects with me. Wanted to set the VMR/350's up on my Jubilee bass bin. Plugged everything in via my active crossover.

Sounded very good.

I never quite understood why EV put the VMR on top.

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At the time I was using a pair of EV-DX 38's

All the EV parts are gone now, as good as they sounded, there is no contest verses the K402.
 
and the verdict is in. Envelope please.

The series I Cornwalls defeated the Electro Voice Interface D's in a a winner take all face off

I was beginning to like the EV's but they needed SO much more massaging to get them to sound good. I tried them with and without the EQ. I futzed with all of the setting on the speakers and the EQ. I took out the EQ. I added a Mc32 preamp. I tried my original preamp (Perreaux). In the end I quite liked them

Then I hooked up the Cornwalls again and almost immediately knew that i liked the sound better. Fuller. More enveloping. Plenty accurate for me

I had my son listen as well who is a recovering musician and has young ears and his response was the same.

Now I am sure I am going to get some responses asking "did you try x, how about Y, your placement was all wrong" etc. etc. But that is one of the other reasons I liked the Cornwalls. Simple Pre. Simple Speakers. Plenty of power. Great sound.

I do think I am just a horns guy and I do think the EV's sounded really accurate, but to me the Corns sound more like real music.

I'm still glad I traded for the EV's but I am not going to keep them. Kind of surprised, really
 
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