From k2mojo@groovedaddies.com Sun Nov 30 23:45:53 2003
Subject:RE: CX3 revisited--I need a warm amp that can also do pianos decently

Barbetta Sona Elan 41c.

Ed Fliege
k2mojo@groovedaddies.com
www.groovedaddies.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: melvinnich@aol.com [mailto:melvinnich@aol.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 4:37 PM
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [CWSG] CX3 revisited--I need a warm amp that can
> also do pianos decently
>
> Dear list,
>
> This leads me now to turn to list members: I am no longer
> going to use my
> JBLs with the CX3 (see below for why). List members, what is
> a nice warm
> amplifier system for a CX3 that can still do a clean piano
> decently? The Motion
> Sound stuff? Barbetta? I'm now on a "warm amp" quest.
>
> Here's the story on the JBLs. Remember me: I'm the guy who
> retired his CX3
> in favor of the VOCE because he couldn't get used to the
> shrillness and
> thinness.
>
> Guess what: I'm using the CX3 again. Here's why. By
> accident, instead of
> my usual JBL system, I used a Carvin cheapie speaker with a
> 15 and a horn
> (through a Speakeasy, of course). I powered it with a
> hi-quality SS Stewart power
> amp. The preamp was the cheapest of the cheap Boss.
>
> To my surprise, this cheapie system made the CX3 sound a
> good deal more like
> a warm, fat B3 than the JBL system did. I A/Bd this setup
> with my JBL and
> realized that the less hi-fi Carvin speaker fixed a good deal
> of the problems
> I had with the CX3 sound. (N. B. I even used a good EQ with
> the CX3 into the
> JBL and gave up, so there is something mysterious going on here).
>
> Again: warm amp for a CX3? Thanks.