Greg Viggiano

Adjusting the speaker placement is difficult because of where the rest of the system and TV are located. The room is also small (20x17) for the speaker size - so I plan to test with different power levels (thanks LT) this afternoon.

Thanks Kevin and LT- Re-positioning and re-angling the 9 kappas with 10-12 feet of separation did not provide a lot of improvement over the sound stage coming from my re-capped Infinity Kappa 6.1 - the acoustics from the 9s are beautiful . . . but, no improvement with the sound stage. A-B testing with easy system 1 / system 2 switching reveal a major difference in the possible sound stage. I have the signal processing zeroed-out with no holography. Having said that, running them together (system 1 + system 2) doesn't sound too bad. The room dimensions are about 20 x17 with an 8 foot ceiling. I don't have space to allow extra room behind the 9s.

Over the weekend, I was lucky enough to find a beautiful pair of Infinity 9 Kappas. Cosmetically, they are about a 9.5 with very good polydomes and four new woofer surrounds. I was hoping to get some Carver site community advice on how to improve the poor sound stage and almost complete lack of imaging. I have them placed as shown in the pictures below. Bi-amping with a 200 watt Soundstream and 100 watt TFM-15CB did not help. The cables are Audioquest Indigos. At this point, I am wondering if upgrading the capacitors on the crossovers would be a good solution - or greatly increasing the power amp(s).

Me and LT were talking about a roadtrip to see you. Dennis may be in Virginia around the holidays. If he travels down this way, we can have a little party at my place.

Thank you to Loner T for coming to Alexandria Virginia yesterday with loaner gear to troubleshoot the problem. After swapping a couple of amps / pre amps / speakers / and source units - the culprit was found to be the Nakamichi cassette deck's low output! Everything sounds wonderful again - especially the two C-1s modded by Dennis Miller!

Can you tell me which Carver site admin can help me with removing the limits on my email account. Apparently my box is full and no one can send me private messages. Thanks!

I swapped the speakers - same problem. I guess it's the TFM-15CB. Time to get a pair of M-1.5s While I'm on the subject of Infinity Kappas, does anyone know who can restore the Polydome mid range drivers with the same type of dome material?

I just got a pair of Infinity 7 Kappa speakers. They seem like they require a lot of power. My C-1 is paired with a TFM-15CB (100 watts). With the volume knob almost all the way up, the output volume level is relatively low. Is 100 watts too low for these speakers?