abhinav
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I tried setting up a couple of demos, but that didn't materialize due to me or the vendors being busy. I went and checked out the JBL Control One (no proper audition done). I did take my amp, but the dealer wasn't very keen on changing his setup. He hadn't heard of the Topping, and looked surprised.
I went the next day and just bought the Control One from the same dealer. Did not have the energy/enthu to test out various speakers with the Topping, and I figured that just going and auditioning speakers on their own, for a complete noob, would be a waste of time. So relied on feedback here and bought the JBLs.
Have been using it for past couple of days, and I am not disappointed. Can't really provide feedback on the quality, "colour" etc of the speakers and other nuances, but it works for me. (I had pretty average expectations - needed better sounding system than a 6 year old "mercury 4.1 surround system" for PCs
) , and the Control One fulfilled/surpassed them very easily).
One thing I can say, is that loudness is not going to be a problem for me.. I didn't need to go more than 10-11 o clock positions, for normal listening in a moderately sized room.
The bass seems good enough, but need to try out a few more CDs. The trebles seem nice, hear a lot of good music on some old/new tracks.
Thanks a ton to avidyarthy, psycho, kittu, and others, of course
Still need to do a proper speaker placement. Have some wierd issues with the PC being present in my living room, and no place to put the speakers in front of the listener at seating level position due to room structure. Need to check out if wall mounting at around 8 feet height etc is advisable. Will start a different thread on that.
Now on to music content, sources, trying out playback from PC, etc ..
I tried setting up a couple of demos, but that didn't materialize due to me or the vendors being busy. I went and checked out the JBL Control One (no proper audition done). I did take my amp, but the dealer wasn't very keen on changing his setup. He hadn't heard of the Topping, and looked surprised.
I went the next day and just bought the Control One from the same dealer. Did not have the energy/enthu to test out various speakers with the Topping, and I figured that just going and auditioning speakers on their own, for a complete noob, would be a waste of time. So relied on feedback here and bought the JBLs.
Have been using it for past couple of days, and I am not disappointed. Can't really provide feedback on the quality, "colour" etc of the speakers and other nuances, but it works for me. (I had pretty average expectations - needed better sounding system than a 6 year old "mercury 4.1 surround system" for PCs
) , and the Control One fulfilled/surpassed them very easily).One thing I can say, is that loudness is not going to be a problem for me.. I didn't need to go more than 10-11 o clock positions, for normal listening in a moderately sized room.
The bass seems good enough, but need to try out a few more CDs. The trebles seem nice, hear a lot of good music on some old/new tracks.
Thanks a ton to avidyarthy, psycho, kittu, and others, of course
Still need to do a proper speaker placement. Have some wierd issues with the PC being present in my living room, and no place to put the speakers in front of the listener at seating level position due to room structure. Need to check out if wall mounting at around 8 feet height etc is advisable. Will start a different thread on that.
Now on to music content, sources, trying out playback from PC, etc ..
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), and it sounds quite decent with very nice highs, and not too bad low end (mids could use some improvement though)
