Sloppy, muted bass response on Hegel h190


 Hi, I have a Hegel h190 integrated, a pair of Kef  104/2's from 1985 that have been rebuilt but I don't know whem, the speakers have new donuts and new silver Kef tweeter.  I mostly use the sonus connect.   Also I have a 15-year-old Sony sacd disc player. I'm getting low, sloppy bass when I play either cd or wifi.  This is the second amp.  The first one exhibited same issue.  Same amps.  New.

I only have one set of speakers.  I am thinking perhaps a capacitor in Kefs?  This amp should have solid punchy bass, but it is not there.  Speaker cables are blue jean 10 ga banana plugs.  IC are blue jean also.  I am at a loss. I heard the demo Hegel played on these components and it was fabulous.

any thoughts?  I hate to sell everything and start over, but I am at that point.
thank you
crossfree

Showing 2 responses by smodtactical

I think it must be the speakers. Rebuilt or not those are ancient. Grab some ls50s and a sub for cheap and test it.
No need for aggression man. Not trying to imply your speakers are a bad choice.

"Jjs49, shod tactical.  If they were brilliant,an old luxman amp would not totally outperform. Please read the post.   No damping on Hegels, not brilliant.  If it were, it would perform as the demo Hegel performed.  They had no damping, bass response.  No, not the rebuilt kefs, they sounded fantastic with demo Hegel.  Now, please read this again.  

The demo was on spot on,  brilliant.  The new ones were crap. Period.  Get real.  Read again."