lonemountain
Responses from lonemountain
| I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ... @erik_squires You make perhaps the single most powerful point in the active vs passive argument: does anyone care? For many, flying blind, going by other peoples opinions and the power of brand marketing is too powerful a set of conditions to ov... | |
| ATC SCM40 @steve59 With all due respect, I work with ATC so I am terribly biased in their favor, but I have worked in the speaker industry for 40 years with many different manufacturers including those with large engineering departments (such as JBL). I ... | |
| can subwoofers make things worse? Small rooms are always the source of the a lot of issues, as the bass wavelengths are longer than the room itself. So is also our visually driven tendency to want to put a sub in a symmetrical location- half way between our mains for example. So... | |
| My speaker upgrade journey - and a few questions @cdc This is the biggest issue with demos, trying to [sonically] relate one space to another when you really cannot. | |
| My speaker upgrade journey - and a few questions @cdc I know its not about baffles or or square boxes. 100s sound very open in a proper environment. Was the room small? Its the room Im guessing. | |
| My speaker upgrade journey - and a few questions @cdc Yes I am the importer for ATC pro and consumer and have been for 20+ years. Worked for JBL and EV before that and repped many high end consumer lines going back to the 80s including Dahlquist Genelec any several more. I dearly love hi fi ... | |
| My speaker upgrade journey - and a few questions @cdc I caught that comment about the ATC dome midrange having an effect on dispersion- you are right it does- you are wrong in that drastically improves it, not degrades it. This wider dispersion aspect of performance is a core value of ATC engin... | |
| Greg Timbers interview Now that was was a nice article and interview on real enginering. Greg is a legend, he spans the time from James B to modern day. | |
| ATC SCM40 @jallan That’s pretty accurate overview ! I remember that GAS amp (I hate to say I’m that old) as at the time, they were excellent for the money. Ampzilla/son of was a great amp, more reliable than many others at the time. SAE was similarly reliab... | |
| High quality recordings any genre I think its always tough in these " whats a great sounding record" hreads as it hard to tell with a poster if its the music that makes it a great album or whom mixed (or mastered it). I tend to follow the mix engineer, as these are the folks most... | |
| High quality recordings any genre @mapman @drmuso Ryan Ulyate Now Available In Dolby Atmos: Ryan Ulyate’s Act 3 (Immersive Edition) | IAA (immersiveaudioalbum.com) | |
| Was 1971 the high point of popular music? I agree the early 70s was amazing and it was the diversity of popular music impressed me. Today pop music tends to follow a similar path. For a while everyone sounded like Ariana Grande, now it's Taylor, Olivia Rodriguez, etc. BUT the diversity... | |
| High quality recordings any genre @mapman I must congratulate you on a very good take on music. This is the way people who make it (tracking/mixing/mastering) feel. If you want to check out something very new and quite extraordinary, check out ACT 3, Ryan Ulyate. I attended ... | |
| Receiver with subwoofer level buttons? I wouldn't say more remote buttons are always positive or user friendly. The OP mentions he doesn't use 90% of them already. Having more "places" to turn things up and down, change phase, crossover points etc also create blind alleys some folks ... | |
| ATC SCM150ASLT @phusis I think you misunderstood what I was trying to express. 380Hz is the crossver point ATC uses from woofer to midrange (in active or passive versions of their 3 ways) therefore avoiding the worst narrowing effects of the various sized LF ... |