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[j.hall]

OK, the questeds are officially mine.....they aren't going anywhere......

now....anyone want to buy my old monitors?

three speakers, bunch of spare parts, and a flight case for one pair.

they are good....not fabulous, but good.

[Ross Hogarth]

Good Choice ... I use the H108's as my main speaker and have for 8 years now .. I love them ...
I also love my Pro Ac 100's but not as all around rocking like the 108's
Now as far as the amp .. I think the dependable Bryston 4B is best for me ...
I love the way it responds on the Questeds ... it makes a great combo

[j.hall]

i'm thinking about a new bryston 3b SST as my amp.

not sure i need the extra juice of the 4b.

[Ross Hogarth]

"You like a da juice"

I believe that you should get the 4B, No question ... You will see that the ....
"Juice is good" .....

seriously though ...
check ebay
Bryston has a 20 year transferable warranty ..you can't beat it

[j.hall]

yeah but the sst is pretty new, and they probably won't be hitting ebay for a while.

and the improvements to the amp is enough to warrant buying a new one.

i've really thought this through.

i've heard the questeds enjoy a lot of power....maybe the 4b is the way to go

you running a sub?

[jakabo]

coming from a relative newb, i'm just thinking out loud...

If you are primarily mixing at home (J in your case I'm making the assumption you are keeping the amp at home and not in a mobile rig or something).

What volume do you usually mix at? I've been realizing as I do more and more, I am naturally mixing around 85dB (obviously doing spot checks & random listening it gets cranked, unless it's ns-10's and then I naturally seem to end up 6-8dB louder by the end of the day...I dunno why...I f'in hate those things...but that's that's an altogether different, beaten to death issue).

This is really more of a question...assuming you have a decent noise floor (and barring major design changes as amp power increases), if you're not worried about headroom what does the extra power give you?

It's great to say get a 4B rather than a 3B (btw I actually have an older 3B and love it) but when/how do you decide "I think I need the 20xxx rather than the 10xxx"?

A lot of times during tracking & overdubs the control room monitors are rockin, etc (this is not w/ the 3B fwiw)...but otherwise???

Just curious...
ken

[Ross Hogarth]

On some speakers headroom is really important. It has nothing to do with how loud you are listening, just about the sound coming out period and on the Questeds,the are a bit of a hog for power and sound waaayyy better with a 4B
Now as far as an SST over an ST over and NB?...I leave that up to J and his wallet
I got an 8 year old 4B,that means 12 years of warranty left at the time, on Ebay for $500 ... good deal but they are out there..now I would venture to say that a new SST is going to run in the middle 2k and above?no/yes? so my vote would be for a used 4B

[j.hall]

to go further then ross did.....headroom in amps is all about clarity in frequency response

if you have good headroom in the amp your high end will be clearer and your transient response will be better......

i've heard the quested H108's really open up sonically when they have a lot of power amp pushing them.

a 3b SST is about 2k, so i'd guess the 4b is around 2.5k.

[drumsound]

There's a 4b for sale at Tape Op.  

Did you sell the Wrights?

[lucey]

And a new 4b SST on Ebone for $2150  right here

[j.hall]

drumsound wrote on Fri, 14 January 2005 14:20

There's a 4b for sale at Tape Op.   Did you sell the Wrights?

thanks for looking around guys, i appreciate it!!!!

tony....the wrights are still packed up in my basement.

three speakers, a spare cabinet, x-over, and tweeters, and a really nice flight case for one pair....

these are off brand speakers so i'm starting to think i'll be stuck with them.

[mastermind]

The Questeds are an excellent choice! I'm sure you'll be happy with them over the long run (I almost ended up with a pair of their bigger boxes for mastering but in the end decided to stick with my Dunlavy's).

I've used both 3B's and 4B's over the years and I agree you'll probably want the extra grunt of the 4B... as we all know you can never have too much power ("there's no replacement for displacement" as we say on the auto boards...).

I've also used regular B's, the ST's, and the SST's... right now my setup for the Dun's is a pair of 7B's on the bottom and a 4BSST for the top.

I would say go for at least and ST model... it's quite a bit nicer than the older boxes... I haven't noticed that much of a difference between the SST and the ST's.....

Anyway... my $.02!!!!

best,
trev

[j.hall]

the sst's have a separate PSU for each channel which sort of intrigues me.

if they don't sound noticealby better, then i can get a 4bst for a lot cheaper then an SST.