martykl
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| Mott The Hoople Ncarv,Thanks for the heads up on the new Escovedo record.Marty | |
| Mott The Hoople I saw Alejandro Escovedo and Chuck Prophet do a wonderful version of Young Dudes at McCabe's in Santa Monica last year. Early in the show, Prophet talked about how he and Escovedo listened to the original Young Dudes album all through the making o... | |
| Revel Studio versus Parsifal Encore I know the Revels only by audition. They appeared to be a fine example of a straightforward, pretty neutral, extended bandwidth design. Again, limited exposure behind that judgement.I own Parsifal Encores and would agree with a lot of what's been ... | |
| What percentage of audiophiles use a sub ? MlsstlCompletely agreed. Hence, my last post started with "Mlsstl, I agree". I was only amplifying on your comments.Subs aren't for everyone and you can !definitely! end up worse off with subs if you don't get it just right.Marty | |
| Which cost more: your system or your car? Avon,I wouldn't say more pertinent, but maybe more interesting. My question ran to the application of disposable income among this crowd on traditional "big ticket" items (car) vs. this peculiar madness. Yours runs to a different set of prioities ... | |
| What percentage of audiophiles use a sub ? Mlsstl,I agree. I do use subs, but they are a PITA to get set-up properly. However, you don't need a professional to do it - provided you have a taste for the work. A good DRC subcontroller (like Velodyne or SVS/Audyssey), a good active x-over (I ... | |
| The pursuit of bass... First off,I completely agree with your assessment re: bass and the degree of difficulty in getting it right. IMO. getting the bass right is the biggest and (for the most part) most expensive technical challenge a full range speaker designer faces.... | |
| Moving from the Magnepan 3.6 to the 20.1 Zoltm, (sorry if wandering OT here)Velodyne web site for the DD series subs or SMS-1 sub controllerSVS web site for their DRC sub controllerJL web site for the (more limited) DRC feature in their subsI'm sure that there are more - but you can star... | |
| Moving from the Magnepan 3.6 to the 20.1 Another option is adding a subwoofer. I know that some here will not be receptive to this idea, but I've had more than a little success with my Maggie+subwoofer set-up (at least for my taste). I used to own 3.5s and currently own the little MMG, w... | |
| Musical Speakers - If you like that sort of thing. Jax,The people on this site are, for the most part, audio hobbyists. Audio hobbyists often (though not necessarily always) want to hear what is on the recording - for better or for worse. For many 'goners, that is precisely the point of this hobby... | |
| Subwoofer placement BTW,I'm surprised by the ACI comment re: "near wall placement" as so kindly posted by Jax2. It's true that this placement increases output, but -IME- it also provides much smoother bass response. In fact, it's not even close, as measured by either... | |
| Subwoofer placement Be careful with the "automatic" part of automatic room EQ. My Velodyne SMS-1 does a completely half-ass job on auto room EQ (paramteric controls are NOT employed in the "auto set-up"), but allows astonishingly good results if you're willing to tak... | |
| What percentage of audiophiles use a sub ? I'm a believer. I think that the great advantage of subs is room EQ in the bass via a(n external or built-in) subcontroller with DRC. With this arrangement, the main signal remains free of digital processing (might not be critical, but sure feels ... | |
| Mariachi CDs That last line should have been "and not completely authentic". | |
| Mariachi CDs Chet Baker has 2 mariachi/jazz records (Mariachi Brass 1 & 2, IIRC) that are great fun (though I honestly haven't listened in a while and should revisit them). Can't recall if the RQ is notable, ant completely authentic, but probably worth cha... |