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brutal
04-07-2007, 11:42 AM
After cleaning up the craggy 4310's I picked up off CL, and hooking them up to my primary system, I did some A/B listening, comparing them to my L112's.

I feel the 4310's have snazzy mids, bright highs, but lack that rock solid bass and certain brilliance present in the L112. The mids were at a slight disadvantage given the two claw marks through one of them. Otherwise, no contest. The L112's just rocked them. Somewhat expected given the decade of time between the two.

However, I also put them in a smaller environment and did A/B against the L56's I picked up a few weeks prior. No comparison there, the 4310's certainly do shine when compared to the L56's (no surprise.)

In the smaller room with a tighter soundstage ('bout 4 feet apart) the 4310's really strut their stuff. Clean, crisp, tight bass. Significantly less boomy than the L56 2-way. Kinda what I expected from a studio monitor.

L112 v.s. 4310
Yamaha RX-V2400 feeding Yamaha M-80 250wpc@8 Ohms amp (.003 THD)

4310 v.s. L56
Yamaha RX-V850 feeding Yamaha M-4 120wpc@8Ohms amp (.005% THD)
(my wonderful C-4 pre-amp finally gave up)

Zilch
04-07-2007, 12:04 PM
4310 is a nearfield monitor. If you're using it near boundaries (wall, floor, corner,) plug the port to kill the boom in the bass.

Adjust the "presence" to near-zero if you find the mids too "forward."

Yes, there's nobody home in VHF from that tweeter....