Sharing some audio recordings from my listening session this past weekend

artists?

@fastfreight 1) ES Posthumus, 2) Bill Evans, and 3) Fleetwood Mac

Here is another great song from last week’s listening session:

My Favorite Picture Of You
 

My Favorite Picture Of You

Nice one. Recording sounds great! Thank you! Alex/WTA

Sounding great with electronica:

Starburster

Not my fav kind of music. But I could listen a couple of minutes (love the beat!). Your system sounds musical and relaxed. I wish bit more forward and solid in mid/human voice, but better than almost all mega buck systems. And your system sounds clean (less veil/glare) unlike those super expensive systems which mostly sound thick veil/glare. I haven't heard the relaxed music from other system (other than mine) for a long time. With right music like My Favorite Picture Of You, I could listen your system for a long time. Great system. You should be proud.  Alex/Wavetouch audio

carlos269 OP     Sounding great with electronica:  Starburster

Sound good on my well optimized low cost system...

In fact it sound better than some very much costlier system as evaluated from my low cost one .

I dont see the room acoustics but it sound good...

Congratulation!

My wife is also enjoying how the music that she likes sounds played back on my OKTAN6 system:

Don’t Start Now

@mihorn Alex the audio recording of your systems sounds very nice. How are you making adjustments to improve it sound? Speaker positioning? Crossover adjustments ? or something else? Sounds much better than it used to sound. nicely done. The audio recordings embedded in these systems videos are a great tool to make adjustments to improve one’s system. Too bad more people don’t understand this and take advantage of this powerful and inexpensive tool to yield higher performance sound quality out of their systems. Some I guess would rather just pay a lot more money for a more expensive component and hope for the best.

@carlos269 Stated  " Too bad more people don’t understand this and take advantage of this powerful and inexpensive tool to yield higher performance sound quality out of their systems. "

Which Tool ?

How Does One Learn About It ?

Where is it Purchased From ?

Other info discovered suggests there is a bespoke set up for driver frequency ranges? I assume a Digital Type of X over? 

@pindac The tool is audio recordings of one’s system from the listening chair position/location. You use this tool, the audio recordings, to make assessments and them you make adjustments to yield improvements to the sound you hear in the room.

Not only digital crossovers can be adjusted and tweak. In my OKTAN6 six-way horn system, I make adjustments to the Finemet transformers based crossovers to change the resultant sound at the listening position.

It just takes a reiterative process to fine tune the resultant sound the sound that you are targeting in your head. There are a number of methods to make adjustments, the adjustable crossover is just one of them. As you mentioned, making changes in the digital domain is another way, and technically the most precise and least subtractive way of modifying the resultant sound.

My wife and I enjoy 80’s New Wave and Post-Punk music. As much as it is said about sound of early 80’s digital recordings and specially those with low production costs, I believe that your system should sound resolving on all types of recordings and not just the CAN audiophile demo tracks so often played, which sound good even on a Bluetooth speaker. Here is a great song from the days when creativity and self expression were an an all time high:

A Way

Thanks for kind words!

My final sound adjustment is spkr tuning. As you know, putting more stuffing inside spkr cabinet makes the spkr sound to forward - vice versa. I adjust the speaker sound to same position with the original music.

My spkr is 2 ways. The woofer’s front sound is in-adjustable.

1) Adjust amount of woofer’s back sound to balance (mid-range position) with woofer’s front sound (refer to the sound of orig music). Small felt pieces are added (or removed) through the back port hole. 

2) Next adjust tweeter’s front sound by covering up AMT tweeter. Cover up too much’ll sounds darker (mid heavy) sound. Cover up less’ll sounds brighter.

3)Adjust tweeter’s back sound by add or remove tweeter’s back cover material (through back port hole). Too much cover up will sound piercing bright forceful sound. Less cover up will sound messy/confused sound.

Alex/Wavetouch audio

carlos269 OP

@mihorn Alex  How are you making adjustments to improve it sound? Speaker positioning? Crossover adjustments ? or something else? 

@carlos269 Thank You for Your reply.

I have not grasped it all, but will say Finemet is an interesting material and I had tried to purchase small beads to be used with PC Triple Wire as a design for a DIY Cable.

I have been very recently being reintroduced to Blondie since the earliest days of Debbie Harry's career as a Singer. What's not to like, she was of her time and must have Paved the way for so many females to be a front in the music industry.  

@mihorn You know exactly what to tweak on the design of your speakers to achieve the desire results in their sound. That great that you can adjust your speakers’ design to yield the sound that you are after without having to substitute amplifiers, cables and other components like the rest of the mainstream high-end audio world. If you take the concept a step further and put the adjustments and control in the hands of the end users that where my real-time transfer function adjustment system comes in.

You get the concept of adjustability, as opposed to rotating equipment carousels.

@pindac That late 70’s early 80’s scene at CBGB’s that Blondie was a part of was a scene like no other. 

Psycho Killer

Some of the Talking Heads cuts have really uncanny soundstage and imaging, even if one doesn't care for the group or their music.

Here's my take. Alex/Wavetouch audio   

My Favorite Picture of You

carlos269 OP   Here is a great song from last week’s session:

My Favorite Picture Of You

An 80’s dark-wave classic on the big OKTAN6 system:

Desire

@foggyus91 How is me adding content to my own thread SPAM? Care to elaborate?

@foggyus91 There is a feature on this forum which is called “Unfollow this discussion”. I’m sure that you will figure it out. As far as the audio recordings are concerned, they are only useful to those that have the capability & capacity to make use of them…..that part I’m afraid you might not be able to figure out. If your providence is from WBF, then I will not waste my time to try to explain how useful audio recordings from the listening position are. There are always opportunities to become enlightened if one is open to learning and understanding, but obviously not everyone is.

@foggyus91 Let me help you find your way out of the paper bag…. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the “Unfollow this discussion” button. That will help you with the notifications. Quite representative of the herd I must say.

Back to the regular scheduled program.

Recorded last night.  Alex/Wavetouch audio

Gypsy Nights - Craig Chaquico

I made a few changes to the Mermans. As always, this is a CD played on an Oppo-95 on a Yamaha RZ-Z9 RECEIVER in "Pure Direct" mode through the two inner speakers. There is no eq or room correction, either physical or electronic being used. Additionally, there are no fancy cords or wires being used. The recording was done on a Nikon D750 DSLR.

Just try to find a system for under six figures that sounds this real.
 

https://youtu.be/vJmMYZoRiIE

@toddalin Your system sounds very nice, even better after your latest adjustments. Many of the owners of six figure systems do not share audio recordings of their systems but those that do often do not sound nearly as nice as your system. Which goes to show you that this like any other hobby requires knowledge, experience, and understanding of the subject in order to achieve great results, Expensive components and deeps pockets alone will seldom yield great results. Many of the participants of this hobby thatt buy “tippy top” “Uber” expensive components and build  dedicated “acoustically engineered” rooms for their system often rely on their dealers & other paid professionals and approach this hobby as an spectators sport without delving into actually understanding the elements at play in sound playback & reproduction. Without a serious level of knowledge and commitment it is hard to achieve the highest level of performance from any system.

@mihorn Perhaps not the best track to showcase your system with. Try one of the Rodrigo Y Gabriela recordings if flamenco style guitars are what you enjoy, as I believe it will better showcase the sound of your system.

I am very impressed. Your systems sounds many $mill systems to shame. Sounds much better than last video. Great work! 

I can’t believe Oppo-95 can sound like this. Did you mod Yamaha Z9? It sounds very real.

Nit-picking is bit rough/grain sound due to, probably, cheap material cables.

Speakers are perfectly tuned for my taste. Great system! Alex/Wavetouch 

Toddalin

I made a few changes to the Mermans. As always, this is a CD played on an Oppo-95 on a Yamaha RZ-Z9 RECEIVER in "Pure Direct" mode through the two inner speakers. There is no eq or room correction, either physical or electronic being used. Additionally, there are no fancy cords or wires being used.

Thanks for suggestion. I have Rodrigo Tokyo concert album. Maybe next session. Alex/Wavetouch audio

My Favorite Picture of You - Guy Clark

You Don't Know You're Born - Mark Knopfler

carlos269 OP

@mihorn Try one of the Rodrigo Y Gabriela recordings if flamenco style guitars are what you enjoy, as I believe it will better showcase the sound of your system.

Last night’s listening session was on my Pinnacle horn system. The Pinnacle horn system is based on custom field-coil compression drivers for the midrange and high-frequency horns, and bass mid-bass horns, augmented with subwoofers.

For a comparison and contrast between the sound of my Pinnacle horn system and my OKTAN6 6-way horn system that I have previously shared audio recordings of in this thread, as well to other systems who have posted the same track, here is a song that my wife introduced me to:

My Favorite Picture of You on the Pinnacle Horn System

@mihorn

The Yamaha is original untouched from 2003 with well over 35,000 hours on it.  I’m on it’s second remote.

RX-Z9 AV receiver
Audio processing modes: Dolby Digital, Surround EX, Pro Logic, Pro Logic II/IIx; DTS, DTS-ES Discrete & Matrix, Neo:6; THX Ultra2; Cinema EQ; extensive proprietary DSP algorithms simulating 21 venues with 55 total variations
Minimum RMS output power: 170Wx7 @ 8ohms, 20Hz–20kHz, 0.015% THD; 50Wx2 @ 8ohms (Presence channels)
Frequency response: 10Hz–100kHz, +0, –3dB
Signal/noise (CD, 250mV): 100dB
Video frequency response: component, 5Hz–100MHz, –3dB; composite, S-video, 5Hz–10MHz, –3dB
Video inputs: 8 S-video, 8 composite, 6 component
Video outputs: 5 S-video, 5 composite, 2 component
Digital audio inputs: 4 coaxial (RCA), including 1 configurable for laserdisc RF (can also be re-assigned and used as a Digital Coax Input); 9 optical (TosLink)
Digital audio outputs: 1 TosLink
Analog audio inputs: 1x8 multichannel, 10x2 two-channel, 1x3 preamp in
Analog audio outputs: 7x2 two-channel, 9 preamp outs, 2 subwoofer outs
Other connections: iLink (IEEE1394), RS-232, Remote 1 in/out, Remote 2 in, 12V control out, AM antenna, FM antenna, AC in, 2 switched AC outlets
Dimensions: 171/8" x 85/16" x 181/2" (WxHxD)
Weight: 66 lbs
Price: $4500

The RX-Z9 was their pinnacle.   

"The RX-Z9’s manual indicates that, on dynamic peaks, the 170Wpc into 8ohms power rating can double when sent into 4ohms, producing an impressive 340W—albeit with no specification of the number of channels simultaneously driven. The receiver will even deliver a usable peak output of 540W into 2ohms—but for how long, only your hairdresser knows for sure."

I run it with an open speaker line for testing one speaker at a time all the time, and it doesn’t care.  I’ve even shorted the outputs and it reported it and shut down.  Removing the short and it was fine.

It operates HEAVILY in Class A as evidenced by the fact that it run hottest when the volume is muted.  This will actually bring on the fan after a bit.

When was the last time that you saw a RECEIVER that pulled 1,000 watts from the wall?

Vanessa and some friends dropped by for a session.  Nice to have the room to accommodate them all.

This is an SACD on an Oppo-95 through a Yamaha RX-Z9 RECEIVER in
"Pure Direct" mode through the two inner speakers of my design/build.  There is no eq or room correction, either electronic of physical, fancy cables or wires, or sub being used.

https://youtu.be/ApS2wScgU44

Another audio recording from this past weekend’s listening session on my Pinnacle horn system:

Unstoppable

Here is another audio recording from this past weekend’s listening session on my Pinnacle horn system:

Can’t Let Go

Lullaby