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Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Sony SS-B1000 Bookshelf Speakers
The Sony SS-B1000 Bookshelf Speakers
It is probably pointless to add yet another review to Sony SS-B1000 that says “good for the price”. Everybody knows that by now. What I have noticed is the few reviews that say the sound is muddy or there is no midrange or highs. (I will discount the complaints about “needing an amplifier”)
I will start by mentioning something I have seen in no other review: When I opened the box, there was a notice from Sony taped to the top of the wrappers on the speakers. A warning, actually. It said to be sure to connect the speakers to an amplifier “near” the maximum rating of the speaker. It went on to say that failure to connect them to a “sufficiently powerful” amplifier would result in tweeter burnout.
So, the question is: What is “sufficiently powerful”?
I will spare you the boring details of my research, and give you the bottom line. Do not connect the Sony SS-B1000 to an amplifier of less than 40 Watts RMS per channel. At 40 Watts and up, you are pretty much safe no matter how much you crank it. Below that, you risk clipping the waveform going to the tweeter. The clipping will distort the sound and apply what amounts to a straight DC voltage to the tweeter voice coil. This voltage heats the wiring until it melts the lacquer coating on the wire and shorts out the tweeter. (maybe more than you needed to know)
The tweeters use a large amount of the power in, and handle the upper midrange as well as the highs. Severe clipping and/or burnout would result in weakened midrange, no highs, muddy sound.
Not exactly a review, I guess, but maybe it will help some buyers decide whether they want to try these or not.
If you are curious, I have these hooked to an amplifier putting out 105 Watts per channel. Plenty of reserve power, achingly clear and bright highs. Bass is barely adequate, but OK for most stuff I play. You can always mess with tone controls, but turning up the bass doesn’t boost the bass so much as richen the lower midrange which is carried by the woofer (also, turning the bass up too much results in a “boxy” sound). Voices are quite clear. I could use better speakers, but these will do until I get around to upgrading. It could be a while.
I highly recomend the Sony SS-B1000
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