I am actually more of a proaudio guy then an audiophile. I have owned my own facility for the past 8 years. Dynaudio has been a huge part of my life. I have owned the BM6A's, 15A's, and Air 20's. As well as the 1.3MkII, 1.3SE, and S1.4s in home audio. I LOVE the 15's, I mean... jeez, 30Hz! Sub... please. No need with these midfield monsters. My only complaint it that there is a slight drop between 100-400Hz. My mixes have always shined through with them though. I usually double check on the infamous NS10's.. ugh. Ear bleeders. Anyway, I feel in love with them teamed up with the Benchmark DAC1... Just nasty!
Review for Dynaudio BM5A powered pro speakers
I bought these speakers as an experiment just before Xmas. They are self powered pro-audio speakers. Currently directly connected via XLR cables from Bel Canto DAC3/preamp. Using a Sony DVD changer as transport.
Room: Master bedroom on top of a large dresser with a 40" LCD TV inbtween. Speakers are 2-3" in front of the TV
Music: 20% Vocal Jazz, 60% Jazz, 20% Pop/Rock
Speaker Build-in equalization are set to flat
1st 20 hrs was a little depressing. Not impressive or clear in any way. Decided to put on auto play during the day to break in.
20-100 hrs. Clear/Transparent sound, but lack any bass resolution. Treble is becoming warmer sounding. Sound stage not quite right. Play with toe-in and it works much better with a very slight toe-in angle.
>100 hrs: Everything comes together now. Transparency with a gentle treble. Definitely not bright nor mellow at the same time. Reproduce the full frquency exactly the same as on a set of Sennheiser HD-555 headphones.
This extremely system replaced a Cal Alpha DAC -> Dared VP-845 -> Coincident Triumph UHS system. It's a much different perspective and presentation. Dared 845 SET tend to round off the leading edge a bit but still reproduce a reasonable well rounded sound. There is less bite for rock music. No longer the case with Bel Canto DAC3 -> Dynaudio BM5A. Every nuance comes through but without becoming unlistenably bright sounding.
Next step: Maybe try out a Dyanudio pro subwoofer. Maybe a pair of ATC active or larger Dynaudio pro active speakers.
Eric
Room: Master bedroom on top of a large dresser with a 40" LCD TV inbtween. Speakers are 2-3" in front of the TV
Music: 20% Vocal Jazz, 60% Jazz, 20% Pop/Rock
Speaker Build-in equalization are set to flat
1st 20 hrs was a little depressing. Not impressive or clear in any way. Decided to put on auto play during the day to break in.
20-100 hrs. Clear/Transparent sound, but lack any bass resolution. Treble is becoming warmer sounding. Sound stage not quite right. Play with toe-in and it works much better with a very slight toe-in angle.
>100 hrs: Everything comes together now. Transparency with a gentle treble. Definitely not bright nor mellow at the same time. Reproduce the full frquency exactly the same as on a set of Sennheiser HD-555 headphones.
This extremely system replaced a Cal Alpha DAC -> Dared VP-845 -> Coincident Triumph UHS system. It's a much different perspective and presentation. Dared 845 SET tend to round off the leading edge a bit but still reproduce a reasonable well rounded sound. There is less bite for rock music. No longer the case with Bel Canto DAC3 -> Dynaudio BM5A. Every nuance comes through but without becoming unlistenably bright sounding.
Next step: Maybe try out a Dyanudio pro subwoofer. Maybe a pair of ATC active or larger Dynaudio pro active speakers.
Eric