If the Orca's are new they will take some time to reach their full potential. The same goes for your new S.E.X. 3.0.
The Orcas sound their best after a few hundred hours. Play them loud.
Yeah, the ominous "break in".
I don't really enjoy music too loud at the moment though as I've often got headaches since 1-2 years.
And my room leaves much to be desired. Reverb time (RT60) is about 1s, which I find very fatiguing. Everything seems loud. And there seem to be some nasty standing waves.
For what its worth I have an old Cambridge SoundWorks 2.1 system for my computer as well. Mine is from back in the days when Henry Kloss was still alive and designing for them. It does sound very good indeed. But in my humble opinion there are no match for a S.E.X./Orca setup. Especially when you add a Blumenstein sub.
I recently put some old desktop speakers (Scirocco s30) back in to compare to Orca's and the Orcas are so much more lifelike it was no comparison. Its always fun to compare to old things that you thought sounded really good. But YMMV as everyone has their own preferences.
That's true, often switching to something better is not a big deal, but switching back to something inferior makes a huge difference.
I'm really not an audiophile, I just enjoy music. All that jargon (soundstage, resolution, tight bass, etc) doesn't tell me much, I can just tell if I like something or not. And sometimes even that is difficult.
