So next instalment..... dealer dropped off the Audiovector's yesterday evening, we had a play with my speakers first, I think I surprised him...
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Hooked the S3's up, and a little play with position and toe in etc..... and adjusting of spikes. Strange these, they are mounted on a leaf spring, are designed to flex and basically wobble!.... Goes against my beliefs....
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Looks like this :-
Forgive the white colour..... there're only on loan
First impression were not so cool..... they gave a more refined sound, but lost a lot of space and depth to the soundstage.... Bass on the other hand was bit more weighty but boomed less. They have downward firing port in the bottom. So they seemed better at not exciting the rooms resonant frequency.
Which I just worked out is pretty close to the port tuning or my speakers....Which might explain my they can trigger the room at times.
Playing a few tracks I still wasn't over impressed to be honest. Lost that live open sound I had.... seemed a bit flat.. So left them till tonight.
Now the kind dealer left me some link wires to experiment with, to replace the brass link plates..... Normally a good idea, though I choked a bit when he said these was 600 quids worth of links !!!......
So with some fiddling around, (not impressed with the design of the spades on these links, they are tapered for different diameters and don't push as far as I wanted) links were installed thus :-
Sat down to test them out...... first impression was wowww what changed !!!... I'd got the spikes better adjusted and done the links and now the sound was much more open, crisper, more detail, cleaner and general came together nicely. Spent the evening just flicking through albums, and they have started to give me the sound I like from mine, but with more smoothness and refinement, deeper and weighty bass.
They still need a bit of fine tuning as far as position goes as the bass isn't quite tuned to the room yet. Plus I would put some screws into the floor for the spikes to locate on, to tighten it up a bit more.
I wouldn't wire them like this myself, I would go for tri-wire set up, and not 600 quid link wires !!!....
Seems they might be sensitive to the speaker cable used, so would be another level of tuning required should I go for them...
Next step is to switch back to mine, and try out the PMC Fact 8 which should arrive tomorrow..... Looking forward to those, been my long term favourite in the dem rooms....
£600 is just mental!
..... Not that they are big at all, mine are much more chunky ..... Any way I made up some new Van Damme 4mm sq tri-wire leads for the S3's and 8's.... To keep everything fair and square 
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