Quick update;
So the speakers are burning in and the Tyler Decade D1's have been reinserted in the system.
The Decades sound very good. A different presentation and a different way to express music. I would call it accurate, not to the point of clinical but a great frequency response. I did an RTA which I tried to post on Youtube but it seems I failed. I don't do youtube although I know it's wildly popular. I suck at social media except geeky audio forums and I probably suck there (here) too.
Going back to the Super V's we get a very different perspective. You've got bass, plenty of it. The highs are good not great, not a lot of air and the mids I hope will come around. We were listening to Depeche Mode "Ultra", a favorite of ours from a while back. It was pretty aggressive sounding. We reminisced on how good it sounded with our reference system, The Pass amp, PerfectWave DAC, LS6, Cary Preamp combo. That was magic.
I started listening again to the song "uselink" the had a thought about the Sonic cap directly in the path of of my positive lead of the interconnect. It struck me in a way that it seemed to me that the entire character of my system was now fully dependent of the character of that cap. I told my wife that putting such faith in a "Sonic cap" directly in the signal chain may not be a good idea. I mean hell, maybe a Dueland or nothing at all. I also realize that cap is not broken in. Let's take it out and give it a listen.
Now were rockin! Oh ya, voices have body, no etchiness, nastiness, let's turn it up! Air guitar was happening.
The 4th cut of that album is priceless. The guttural sound of the bass line is addicting through these speakers.
I'm still waiting for my amp. Decware called me (what a concept) and came to an agreement that they'll fix my burned up amp, try to mitigate the smell and perform the upgrade I wanted, an expensive one to the V-Caps.
