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Romy the Cat
Boston, MA
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Joined on 05-28-2004
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Yesterday was a truly wonderfully
day. I spent the whole day to play with playback, had a LOT of fun with it found
some unexpectedly good solutions that made me very excited.
The project with IB is
over, the result is surprisingly good. There are some very minors things that I
would like to work on but it is good enough to leave it as is. I use the horns stack
+ a dedicated midbass channel with Vitavox 15 driver as a direct radiator with
IB sections at the bottom. I do not use the woofers tower at all. This is kind
of strange configuration but it does produce a very interesting result in my
view. The proper question would be how the overall sound I go got in this
listening room with direct radiator midbass and Infinite Baffle might compare
to the overall sound I go in my former listening room with Midbass horn and ULF
section. I will be posting my commentary on this subject when I am ready to
comment on it but as a preliminary view I might say that IB topology VERY positively
surpassed me.
Another very interesting move
I made is to setup a pilot or TV playback. The projector TV playback integration
with my main listening system is always a bitch. From one point of view we
watch crappy movies, kids watch cartoons, Amy’s father watch his sports. I am
not willing to run Milq and the rest of playback to make YouTube cartoons to
sound better. From another hand we watch concerts and operas on the large
screen and I would like the quality to be good. The on-demands integration did
not work out well and always was a compromise, so I did an interesting move
that pays off very well.
Amy insisted to keep the woofer
towers in the room, the woman likes how it looks. So, I decided to convert the
woofer towers into the TV playback. I took a small mini monitor I build years
back around the sensational Focal Utopia TN51 tweeter. It a small 2 way
monitor with passive radiator that sound very respectably. I complimented it at
the bottom with the whole Woofer Line Array crossed at 70Hz with first order
and powered the whole thing from another Yamaha B-2. This threw a spectacular
HUGE sound, exactly I needed for TV programs. The TN51 take a compression of sound
like no tomorrow and I very like like hos the whole thing sound.
So, I have an independent Audio
and Video playbacks that happen to be in the same location and that do not talk
to each other: very easy and elegant. The Video playback is a fully SS and cold
running… the ultimate audio “pilot” system…
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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