Picked up a mint pair of SDA CRS +'s...I'd like to bring them back to their former glory, or better.
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91rtstealth wrote: »Diana Krall-The Look of Love
the main piano riff on the intro is: E flat, D, C, and back to D....and that particular D is the one just above middle C..so it's around 588hz. THAT note really cuts on Polk SDA's.
I just played that track on my SDA 1C's. What I'm hearing is the nature of a piano recording not a speaker flaw. Go sit down at a piano and press down on that key. Sounds normal right? Now really bang down on it like your angry. You will hear that obnoxious resonance. I gave away my piano to an aspiring young musician some years ago but traditionally my family has always had pianos in the living rooms so I'm familiar with this anomoly.Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus -
I'd be more focused on that 500hz resonance issue.Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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91rtstealth wrote: »got it..thanks..but "better" is a subjective concept..the only way to find out if you like something more or think it's better is to find out for yourself...everyone perceives sound, and life in general, differently....
That escalated quickly! 😝
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Sheffield Sound Lab records in the 80s were recorded directly to disc, no mixing boards involved.
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91rtstealth wrote: »got it..thanks..but "better" is a subjective concept..the only way to find out if you like something more or think it's better is to find out for yourself...everyone perceives sound, and life in general, differently....
That escalated quickly! 😝
I'm not sure if that came off as hostile or not..but I certainly didn't mean it to. I'm simply trying to state that the idea of something sounding "better" to someone is a matter of taste...it's like me trying convince someone that Pizza is better than Sushi when they can't stand the taste of cheese or tomato sauce..haha...
some people love the sound of bright, in-your-face sound signatures...I do not....and we're both right..haha..for the record, i'm not saying these SDA's are bright and in-your-face..it's just an example...Sheffield Sound Lab records in the 80s were recorded directly to disc, no mixing boards involved.
I don’t know if that’s still the case. My stuff is old!
I have one of those CD's..it's a great metric for testing audio systems. I used to use it when installing sound systems in cars back when I did that for a living. I still use it to check PA systems to tune a room. However, they still had to use mics and therefor, mic preamps, and often times those have EQ....one of the most revered mic-pre's of all time is the Neve 1073...and it has a parametric EQ built into it. You almost always need at least a high pass for most instruments and vocals..and drums almost always sound like absolute dog diarrhea if you don't remove 300-500hz from them....and this is mainly because they are close mic'd....no one listens to drums with their ear at the edge of the rim, but that's how they are usually recorded....so you usually have to remove that boxy sounding 300-500hz range from them in order for them to record well...and trust me, those drums on the Sheffield Labs recordings sound AWESOME....and I am particularly anal when it comes to drum sounds..that's what i've been mainly playing for 36 years, professionally for 15 years now.....drums sound gross without 300-500hz cut. So in summary, musicians and audio engineer's love EQ and compression. They are our best friends. haha. And when I say compression, I don't mean file or data compression..that sounds horrible. I mean signal or wave compression...that's how you squeeze all of the goodness out of a great vocal performance. -
Sheffield info
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I said that (mostly) in jest and I get what you're saying. On the other hand, the OGs here, of which @pitdogg2 is one, have steered me 100% in the correct direction every time with their recommendations. I haven't taken every suggestion from everyone, but those that I have I've been more than happy with.
I'm not one for swapping tweeters, tubes or capacitors in a quest to find the ultimate if I can lean on someone's experience that I trust. But, I know there are those out there who enjoy doing that and would rather find out for themselves what they think works.
Brian
