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Re: Intro to the world of Polk SDA 1.2TL
Been busy as h 3 LL….
But this thread put a tear and a smile on my face…glad I clicked
Kudos to you young man. Great gear, sad but inspiring memories, and a chance to share and enjoy a legacy
Keep us posted as your journey continues, especially when she comes to visit
Happy Holidays to you, the family, and your friends
But this thread put a tear and a smile on my face…glad I clicked
Kudos to you young man. Great gear, sad but inspiring memories, and a chance to share and enjoy a legacy
Keep us posted as your journey continues, especially when she comes to visit
Happy Holidays to you, the family, and your friends
txcoastal1
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Re: Capital Audiofest 2023
Yeah, many of the folks you see are ready to go. They have been there for 4 days (plus an untold amount of time packing and preparing for this). You only have 6 hours invested (plus your own travel time).
What you have provided for this forum, within the limited time you were there is awesome. Thanks for allowing the members here to somewhat live vicariously at the event through your posts.
Seriously, thank you. Folks don't realize how much effort it takes to do what you have done and still enjoy why YOU went there in the first place.
Tom
What you have provided for this forum, within the limited time you were there is awesome. Thanks for allowing the members here to somewhat live vicariously at the event through your posts.
Seriously, thank you. Folks don't realize how much effort it takes to do what you have done and still enjoy why YOU went there in the first place.
Tom
treitz3
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Re: Volume is everything.
One of the things that I have noticed at various audio shows and even with auditioning people's rigs, is that they sometimes feel the need to crank the systems up to where they are amplifying audible distortion. They may not notice it, or maybe they feel that people would be more impressed with additional sound pressure in the room.
The thing is, there does come a point to where a system and the room interact and the room starts to get overloaded. Of course, with more headroom, the system can be cranked up more but then what ushers in is the delicate balance between the system itself and the room. You can start to lose some of the attributes of the system because the room gets overloaded, masking the frequencies that offer you some of that essential imaging/spatial locationality cues. It blends in those images to where they get more collapsed onto each other, instead of being in there own space.
If you have any overponderance of the lower registers, the room can quickly get excited. This is when the aforementioned happens and at that point, it becomes a detriment to one of the systems benefits, only to achieve more sound pressure/volume in the room. This is an attribute for parties or casual listening, when sitting in the sweet spot isn't a concern but it becomes a deficiency when critically listening in the sweet spot.
I am not saying that all music should be enjoyed at 80db or at a certain volume. This is very song dependent.
A single guitarist, or maybe a couple of unamplified guitarists up on stage - You would not want to listen to this at 95Db. Well, you may want too, and that is your choice, but I sure as heck wouldn't want too. That's unrealistic to me. At 95Db, you lose what can be. Yes, you will still be able to place where the guitarists are up on stage but you may lose the subtleties of the air within the chamber (body) of each guitar. Slides and fingers hitting the body of the guitar will become greatly exaggerated. You would be better to simply turn the volume down to a point to where you get the best blend of ALL of the attributes your system has to offer, while being at a realistic playback Db level....as if the 3 guitarists were in your room. Try to match the same Db level they would be playing at live, in front of you. Instead of an unrealistic 95Db.
What I am saying is that sometimes less is more.
At last year's LSAF, I walked into the Raven room. They had two rooms and the one I am talking about is the larger of the two rooms. Long story short, the guy babbled on about how great the speakers were, about how many awards they had won, blah, blah, blah. Then he finally shut his yap and played the music.
I had to leave the room. It was so loud for the selection they were playing, that they didn't even realize they were amplifying distortion. It was that distortion that eventually drove everyone out of the room. They all stayed to listen to what he had to say but when the music started playing? They all scattered out of the room like cockroaches when you flip the light on. The time from him hitting play to an empty room (besides two gentlemen discussing something in another area of the room) was an estimated elapsed time of about a minute.
Now granted, this was a worst case scenario at an event. BUT, it has happened too many times in my travels, albeit to a lesser degree. I can't tell you how many rooms I have walked out of because the system operators didn't know what their system was capable of and they simply cranked it. What they thought was a good thing, actually became a detriment.
Tom
The thing is, there does come a point to where a system and the room interact and the room starts to get overloaded. Of course, with more headroom, the system can be cranked up more but then what ushers in is the delicate balance between the system itself and the room. You can start to lose some of the attributes of the system because the room gets overloaded, masking the frequencies that offer you some of that essential imaging/spatial locationality cues. It blends in those images to where they get more collapsed onto each other, instead of being in there own space.
If you have any overponderance of the lower registers, the room can quickly get excited. This is when the aforementioned happens and at that point, it becomes a detriment to one of the systems benefits, only to achieve more sound pressure/volume in the room. This is an attribute for parties or casual listening, when sitting in the sweet spot isn't a concern but it becomes a deficiency when critically listening in the sweet spot.
I am not saying that all music should be enjoyed at 80db or at a certain volume. This is very song dependent.
A single guitarist, or maybe a couple of unamplified guitarists up on stage - You would not want to listen to this at 95Db. Well, you may want too, and that is your choice, but I sure as heck wouldn't want too. That's unrealistic to me. At 95Db, you lose what can be. Yes, you will still be able to place where the guitarists are up on stage but you may lose the subtleties of the air within the chamber (body) of each guitar. Slides and fingers hitting the body of the guitar will become greatly exaggerated. You would be better to simply turn the volume down to a point to where you get the best blend of ALL of the attributes your system has to offer, while being at a realistic playback Db level....as if the 3 guitarists were in your room. Try to match the same Db level they would be playing at live, in front of you. Instead of an unrealistic 95Db.
What I am saying is that sometimes less is more.
At last year's LSAF, I walked into the Raven room. They had two rooms and the one I am talking about is the larger of the two rooms. Long story short, the guy babbled on about how great the speakers were, about how many awards they had won, blah, blah, blah. Then he finally shut his yap and played the music.
I had to leave the room. It was so loud for the selection they were playing, that they didn't even realize they were amplifying distortion. It was that distortion that eventually drove everyone out of the room. They all stayed to listen to what he had to say but when the music started playing? They all scattered out of the room like cockroaches when you flip the light on. The time from him hitting play to an empty room (besides two gentlemen discussing something in another area of the room) was an estimated elapsed time of about a minute.
Now granted, this was a worst case scenario at an event. BUT, it has happened too many times in my travels, albeit to a lesser degree. I can't tell you how many rooms I have walked out of because the system operators didn't know what their system was capable of and they simply cranked it. What they thought was a good thing, actually became a detriment.
Tom
treitz3
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Re: LSAF 2023 On like Donkey Kong
It was nice to meet you to Tim. I wished I could of stayed longer. As alway it was nice to spend time with chatting with everyone. Next year I will have to get a room and get in on all the late night fun.
dkfreebird
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