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Price Paid:
$600.00
from Hi-Fi shop Summary:
SONY SAVE 750 (Model before 835)
The SONY SAVE 750 was more expensive than the 835, it has white speaker cones with black suspensions and a better sculptured aluminium enclosure. Its subwoofer is much more attractive and larger with a grey flared port in the superb silver front. It uses the 835's wall mount supports - amazing - titanium plastic ball joint swivel supports, easy to put up - easier than the metal Realistic Minimus 7 supports. Also it uses the standard SONY stands, which are very useful if the front speakers are standing in front of a window. Sound of this system is impressive with the Denon AVR 1802! Bass from the 24Hz sub has to be the death knell for big speakers like the Realistic Mach 2. This system with its SACD tweeters produces great satellite music in 5Ch stereo. But hook the sub up to an old Technics SU-Z2 or a nicam tv output and you have to suspect the Denon AVR 1802 sub output channel combination! These subs produce wall-shaking bass, but using a 1978 harman A-402 amplifier with Goodmans Imagio 120 loudspeakers, you get a chest thumping experience, stereo effects that leap back and forth between speakers and music peaks that leap out and zap your ears. The SAVE 705 doesn't do that from satellite using 5 ch stereo with the AVR-1802, but you have to look at the genius in these old Hitachi built harman amps of the 1970s. DVD is a bit better. Sound from 2 Realistic Minimus 7s and the Canadian Realistic SUB-700 subwoofer in push-pull, (M&K style) just about equals the SAVE 705, when using the Realistic Mach 2 tweeters! These push-pull subs produce huge spacious bass effects with these spherical baffle horn tweeters, (such horns widen the sound field, JBL still make such horns for professional stage monitors)stereo sounds that are felt despite the mono claim of the bass signal and when the SUB-700 is not in push-pull, it produces far more sumptious bass, apparently far below the rated 50Hz, but none of the stereo movement effects. Of course you can't just switch it to one or the other, but great as the SAVE 705 is, there are things it doesn't do, things which far cheaper 2 speaker sub/sats could do. It makes you think. The first Kenwood Pro-Logic systems made a hissy, very blurred sound, but their bass effects on Batman were enough to induce a heart attack. M&K sub/sats aren't up to that job either, they are very blurred, now Cerwin Vega sats with a REL storm sub do produce a stunning clear and spacious result, but you are paying much more and the sub is huge and ugly, with massed wires! Taking the SONY SAVE 705 or the cheaper, (uglier)835 system as a convenience system, it is as good as the 1990 "Realistic" brand Nicam stereo system it replaced. Plus the bass can roar like an underground train going through the whole house! This powerful stray bass is not necessary and the 6ft cable is a bit short to position sub far away from chairs. Tannoy and Lowther used horns to create such effects near the loudspeakers. Lower power bass might do, the HT-BE1 and 35Hz JBL sub/cube sat systems are worth looking at. Strengths:
SAVe 705 is silver, beautiful, compact, very stylish and an ideal replacement for the formidable Realistic 7 loudspeaker system. Back speakers have blue grilles and front ones silver! When you get new speakers you can't accept a loss of quality, if you get a wall shaking bass, a Realistic Mach 2 system replacement in a bargain, tiny sub/sat system, that is enough. Much more aesthetic than custom Realistic sub/sat 2 channel spkr set. Weaknesses:
Wall Shaking Bass is not chest thumping bass, great surround is not a thrilling ghost train like experience found with old 1970s stereos and GLL ICT 120 single point speakers. (Small short horn ICT versions of vintage long horn DC Tannoys with separate chest thumping bass driver and indestructable tweeter similar to Optimus Linaeum type in effects) Power-save function on sub is not much use. Does not have push-pull's leading edge bass definition using a horn like the the Realistic PRO-1377! Denon AVR 1802 is using a lot of watts compared to Realistic for very similar sound. Speaker cable sats has to be thin or can be tricky getting cable/pod set up! Stray powerful bass could upset your neighbours big time! This is a Realistic Maximus X-100 sound, it rocks more than the Mach One! (which has a 65Hz resonance frequency and brass wire in the bobbin! Hello copper drive systems!) Similar Products Used:
Realistic Minimus-7 and steel wall mounts, Realistic SUB-700 converted to push-pull and Realistic Mach 2 spherical baffle super horns - Wow! what a system with 2x13 watts rms of input from the tv!
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