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| Joseph Audio RM-33LE vs DeVore Gibbon 8, my experience. This is getting hilarious uberwaltz! But in a fun way. I'm enjoying reading your roller coaster ride with these speakers.Never heard those older Joseph RM 33s. I wonder how they stand against the newer models that I'm so enamored of.I know tha... | |
| Break in blues Reminding myself to stop worrying about "did I just throw away $1300?" panic. uhm........never mind.... ;-) | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? Re Carver,I grew up listening to my Dad's set up, which consisted of the Kef 105.2 speakers, driven by Carver's M-400t Magnetic Field Power Amplifier Cube, and the Carver C-1 Sonic Holography preamplifier.It was incredible sound and certainly intr... | |
| Joseph Audio RM-33LE vs DeVore Gibbon 8, my experience. Oh, sorry, you'd been asking about trying different cables with the Josephs...and I missed that you mentioned the Gibbons were in play.You are playing with two of my top favorite speaker brands! (As my own long speaker journey thread attests). | |
| Joseph Audio RM-33LE vs DeVore Gibbon 8, my experience. So you mean you swapped cables on the Joseph speakers, and now find the sound more to your liking, is that correct? | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? Ok, we are talking about imaging. (And soundstaging)I don’t know what I should consider an "extreme" case of imaging and soundstaging, as the imaging/soundstage of my system changes with the source. One minute I’m listening to a singer in a tiny... | |
| Break in blues The devil is ocd And falling for the "everything need break-in" mantra to begin with.I’ve never fallen for this, and I can not remember a single audio device I’ve ever bought that had to "break in." Not once, ever, has anything "sounded awful" and... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? Uhm...yes...it is obvious and well known, that in many cases (though not all) the imaging and soundstaging is an artificial creation. And of course the image/soundstage of the real event would be different for listeners on either side of the music... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? rvpianoAll stereo imaging of any singer is "disembodied" because...there are NO BODIES ACTUALLY THERE. It is a "disembodied" voice. That’s what I mean - ANY image of a singer’s voice between a pair of speakers is a "disembodied voice" - a trick ge... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? rvpianoMaybe you’ve never heard the type of holography I’m speaking of. It’s not typical imaging, where the soloist is in front of rest of the rest of the forces as you would hear in real life. It’s a disembodied sound, almost ghostly, hanging in ... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? rvpiano,If a singer is panned to the middle of a stereo mix, or if you are listening to a mono mix, virtually any half decent pair of speakers will produce the effect you just mentioned of the singer seeming to be in the middle of the speakers, ha... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? I’m afraid, then, I have no idea what you are talking about rvpiano.What in the world is "trick holography?"A speaker doing soundstaging and imaging sounds 3 dimensional and hence "holographic" in that respect. And it’s all a "trick" as it’s just ... | |
| Could I be a Retail Wretch? Sorry, I’m another vote for it being "low class" to use a hi-fi shop to demo stuff you plan to buy elsewhere cheaper.For one thing, I have to admit flat out that cheapskates annoy me.(I don’t mean someone who can’t afford something; I mean someone... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? I presume the OP is referring to what is typically called soundstaging/imaging. (I’ll just use "imaging" for short here).My take:It is quite important as part of the experience in listening to my stereo.Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother having "stereo"... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? "It is a parlor trick, although I agree it can be pleasant on small combos (jazz, folk, chamber). You simply don't hear it with live music, even sitting close to a jazz combo. "You may not hear soundstaging/imaging in live music (which I find s... |