Man those speakers look really good. I hope they sound as good as well.

I've been grumbling a lot to my friends because I couldn't afford the M200 MK2.

It's just too sexy for me to pass.

Saw the M200MKIII once, tested and sounded wonderful. Though it was bigger than I had imagined.

Sometime next millenia?

Can I have the Z-2300 subwoofer?

You never really know what's good until you hear something really good.

Protip: If you don't want to kena poison with high end equipment, don't attempt to listen to it hahaha. But for me I'm ok because my memory cannot retain sound characteristic too long. So I'm fine with mid-lo fi gear because I can't really remember how hi fi setups sound.

Very nice. I'd want to listen to music in that environment.

Hi siles, pls don't turn up the volume too loud because if it gets broken because of consumer misuse then it will void the warranty.

Hi siles,

Preamps shouldn't add gain into a line level signal like an amp would, so normally it should not damage your speakers by double amping or overdriving the speakers to the point of damaging the drivers.

However, should you go over the top with the volume, you may damage the drivers. And since this is out of user negligence/misuse, it will not be covered in the warranty.

And to explain how such damage could occur, cyntrix had described what will happen to the coils if you drive them to very loud volumes. Also, if your preamp somehow causes damage because of double amping (or anything else for that matter), this will also not be covered in the warranty for the same reasons. Such speakers are not designed to be fed from a preamp, more so a modded tube preamp from a tube amp. Such link in the equipment chain may cause damage and it is under the user's responsibility, not seller/manufacturer.

you'll be surprised of how many products that can cause damage to itself if operated outside of their boundaries. Cars may blow their engine if idled in redline for too long, hairdryers may overheat with prolonged continuous use, handphone batteriss may explode if charged with an incompatible charger. Speakers are also
Bound by these rules, they may get broken if misused.

In the case of siles, he is using an external amplifier as a preamplifier that may, or may not, cause undue stress to the components well over its tolerance level.

I believe powered speakers will run well if driven to the max, provided they are not modified or amplified further from an external source. Manufacturers know what their speakers are capable of, and used amplifiers tailored to their specifications. But when other factors come in that may cause undue stress towards the components, this I believe shouldn't be covered in the warranty.

It may be easy to measure system specifications under controlled conditions, but with virtually unlimited possibilities out there to drive an audio chain of equipment, its only reasonable and fair that speakers that get damaged after being driven to excessive volumes/powers/gains are not covered in warranties. Here comes your question; how loud is too loud?

Don't know, as long as it doesn't damage the drivers. You want loud, go get a PA system. They go to hundreds of decibels. But that's another story.

This had been a wonderful discussion, but we have to drop it and move on at some point to give way to others.

Hey guys, need more information regarding this cute Swan S3W MKii.



Just gonna use it for light listening on my laptop and easy packing for moving about, though I do value sound quality a lot.

Got myself the Swans A30 yesterday, hooked it up to the Aune T1 line out connection. After powering up, first impression "That's so weird.". Then after a while it sounds really good and I like them very much.

The mids are good, not really very good to me, they're just good. I'm bothered by the placement of the speakers, they need to be tilted up to sound better but the base of the speakers are flat.

Has anyone ever compared the X3 with KRK Rokit 5? Got the chance to use the Rokit 5 for a few days and those speakers were pretty bananas.

Electrical equipments has a usable range of 220V-250V because some countries the voltage isn't stable or constant.
Can you take it back for warranty?

Try downloading a frequency app on your phone and check the buzzing is what frequency. If it is 50Hz then that's the mains power frequency and something could be wrong with the speaker power supply filtering. It happens sometimes.

That sounds like mains frequency.

https://youtu.be/LTVVvEJCbZw

Maybe my app idea wasn’t a good one since it cannot isolate it.

It could be the mains frequency failing to be smoothed by the power supply filtering stage but there are other possibilities.
The challenge to repair speakers like this is the amount of glue they use on components. Sometimes they’re not repairable.

One of the shops around jalan pudu probably can take a look at it