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In the Thread: Experience Music Horn Installation @ VSAC

Post Subject: About the RCA enthusiasts that I have witnessed.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/9/2009

Which RCA driver you use? RCA had a few drivers the pre and after war. I am familiar with a few after war drivers that I tried in my 330Hz horn and I was not impressed. Reportedly the pre-war MI-1428B shall be the one to play with; I did not have this one. I think the 1428B is the one that Cogent replicated. I am not a big fun of Cogent’s results but I heard it long time ago when they in my view used it absolutely improperly, I have no idea what they do nowadays and I never had my own Cogent drivers. The MI-1428B is the one I think that Jonathan Weiss used when I visited him a couple years back. It is very difficult to say anything about the sound of that MI-1428B. It looks like has some interning moments but all interesting moment in the sound were completely shattered by very incompetent and very senseless organization of that playback. I did have an intention when I was going in there to ask Jonathan to play for me the individual drivers of his installation to figure out how the whole sound is shaped but observing what Jonathan had absolutely no interest or even a capacity to express interests about Sound I did not abused him. I spent in there a day and believe of not we did not even talk about sound or about what his installation does. Jonathan was for whatever reason very self-intimidate and kept lot of efforts for damage control – it was in a way a pity to see, so I did not push his buttons as he felt extremely vulnerable and very insecure. His installation looks like used RCA driver for all channels the whole trip was in my view absolutely not educational as it did not demonstrate the capacity of RCA sound but rather demonstrated the outcome of a typically deranged audio efforts.

It looks like there is a community of RCA uses around the Oswald's Mill but I have a very a very uneasy feeling about the atmosphere that rules among those people. Knowing personally many of them I did not see in them honest and adulterated interest about sound or about audio (I do not even talking about music – 30 seconds conversation with Jonathan about music will make you deaf) but rather they exhibit a very strange cult-fraternity attitude. I was very distressed a few years back (I think it was 2004-5) when they had their annual meeting and each of them made a lot of effort to publicize the “beautify of the sound” they got at the Mill but the very same people in private conversation with me not only admitted that the sound was horrible but they invested a lot of efforts to dump dirt to each other. I was not there and I do not know how accurate their assessments about sound were but I know that in this environment there is no reasonable audio criticism is possible and frankly there is no my respect or interest are possible. Those “RCA enthusiasts” had their annual meeting last month right here in Boston near me but I did not spend efforts to be invited. I know very well what kind sound they had in there and what height of audio interest was dominating in there. It is not really my level….

I tell you this story to indicate the general level of awareness that I observe around the RCA-biased people so far. In fact, your few comments are a very first attempt to talk about RCA sound I heard. I did not know that Jeffrey Jackson used RCA. I know that he one of those idiots who deal with Jonathan Weiss (who fancies himself a “designer” recently but I feel that Jonathan and the celebrated “angeloitacare” are the same person), so Jeffrey might pick some RCA idea from there. I was under impression that Jeffrey uses GOTO drivers, from what he expressed at this site he sounded perfectly sane and I hoped he would be able to make GOTO to sound at least demonstrable. I did not know that he went for RCA drivers. Frankly, the whole atmosphere among those that I observed around RCA very much turned me my interest of from RCA drivers. It might be pity as RCA did in past some interesting things… I wish the RCA audio efforts from past were not wrecks by the idiocy of some current RCA ”enthusiasts” that I know….

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