Quote Originally Posted by BillyB
One of the first things I tried to improve sound was upgrade my speaker wire.I purchased 4 conductor solid core wire in order to bi-wire the speakers.My local audio dealer suggested the brand(don't remember which one it is).He knew I was unhappy with the 703's and felt it might help.I was surprised it wasn't stranded wire.Was a solid core cable the right call?It didn't correct my complaints with the sound.I then upgraded to different interconnects from the same dealer.He sold me cables which they specifically try when brightness is a symptom.(again I don't know brand so I know you can't help me here). I noticed only a slight improvement in sound from the interconnect change.My speakers are two years old.While I don't use them much because I don't enjoy listening to them,I would think 2 years of even moderate use is a sufficient brake-in period.I'd like to point out that my sound complaints aren't subtle, these 703's are brutal in my system.Thanks for the reply.
original question to so much mud slinging. I'm sorry you've had no joy in taming the 703s. I played around with my system over the weekend and played all types of music at all volume settings, and although I admit its still not the perfect speaker, I'm just not replicating what you described. Perhaps I was lucky, perhap the company fixed up the problems, as one poster suggested, by the time I bought mine - after all, there is a years difference between mine and yours. On the other hand, perhaps its just the differences in our rooms. I moved the speaker a little further from the walls yesterday, and I think the overall sound improved even further. As an experiment, do you have the ability to temporarily move your system into a different room to find out if it is a room specific problem? Otherwise, since you are so unhappy with it, I guess there's no alternative but to replace them. I wish you luck.