Page 1 of Playing music on a Wharfedale 750 through a Sherwood Amp

I am trying to improve the sound through my Wharfedale 750. I have the two units connected via a coax digital connection and a standard phono connection (I have tried swapping from digital to analogue but to no avail!!), neither seem to offer the type of sound you would expect. I have also noticed that the sub does not seem to get used when listening to music, is this correct?

Any help would be useful.

You perhaps need to be a little bit more specific in defining your problem. The Sherwood amp range are reasonably priced amps, but they don`t move any mountains, and are better suited to AV than music anyway (as most budget priced AV amps tend to be).

What would be helpful when re-posting this question in the appropriate forum (i.e. the Hardware Forum) is to quote :

(1) the exact model of amplifier
(2) how big your room is (roughly)
(3) what speakers you`re using (including sub)
(4) what brand the interconnects are
(5) what sort of sound you`d expect to get as opposed to what you actually get.

This information may gives us a little bit more to go on.

Thanks for advance for posting in the Hardware Forum.

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1. The model of amp is the Sherwood 6106R
2. The room is approx 22 x 12 ft (L x W)
3. Centre Celestion 35, left & right are B&W LM1`s, rears are Kef S60`s and the sub is a Celestion 80.
4. Cambridge
5. The sound seems to be rather `tinnie` if you know what I mean, it seems to lack any real bass even in stereo mode.

Thanks

I seem to remember a similar problem when I bought my 750s about a year ago. I was trying to compare it with my arcam alpha 6 cd player and remember that the sound was awful. From memory I think I had to disconnect the scart lead to make it sound better. Hope this helps.

You are using a DVD player playing music to a AV amp, of course the sound isn`t going to be great. I know what you mean by thinny, I have the 750 too but I use a Marantz CD6000KI (£500) to player my CDs and it`s fed into a Marantz PM6010KI (£400) using a pair of VDH The First Ultimate (£320) interconnector. Speakers a B&W DM602S2 on Atacama Stands using QED Silver Anniversary biwired.

The Sound isn`t the best you can get but it`s pretty damn good and real because the components are design for music and not movies. I use the same amp and speakers for DVDs, although I don`t have 5.1 surround, it does have tremendous impact and timing in the sound. I have tried the Wharfedale with CDs, it`s bad compare to my CD player but accpetable because the rest of the setup did the best with the signal. However garbage In, Garbage Out so the sound will never be the best they could be if you keep using the Wharfedale amd the Sherwood doesn`t help either.

I think there have been comments in the past about Sherwood amps being poor with music.

I have the RD6106 driving a pair of Mordaunt Short MS20i`s and find it`s music playback to be spot on.

In order for the sub to work you have to set the amp up correctly, there are settings for different sizes of speaker (small/medium/large) and some combinations disable the sub ie. if you have large fronts/centre & rears. Youre best off reading the manual and messing about till its sounds right I can`t remember off the top of my head exactly how you set it up.

As far as there not being a right lot of bass you can adjust the bass/treble levels to suit.

I would recommend buying a dedicated CD player for your music, my DVD player sounds OK but like anything electrical if its a jack of all trades it`ll invariably be a master of none.

good luck with it.