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In the Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston.
Post Subject: After all!!!Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/18/2011
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 Romy the Cat wrote:
As wonderful my Altec 21S plays video and pop crap as much it absolutely impotent to play any classical repertoire. In fat when I estimated it as 3 on the scale of Macondo 10 I meant the video concert and operas that I play on it. With pure audio with more or less demanding material it sinks to the bottom of the barrel.   I played today on the Altec 21S the Adagio form Mahler 6 – probably the most beautiful music Mahler ever composed and Altec 21S just destroyed it to level that it was a pain to listen. I do not need to make those experiments as it kills my libido to entire audio…

I kind of scratching my head and was wondering why my Altec 21S sound so bad with music and sound so good with films. Even playing the DVD/BlueRay with concerts it sound fine but if I play the same from CD it sounded like crap. For sure I blamed the Altec 21S but it is kind odd as the Vitavox with Altec 416 shell give MUCH better result then it is with music. I did my own crossover twice and twice it was very bad with idiotic thin sound. I am it would win the “Best sound at some kind of Show” but in my home I was not acceptable.

Well, a few days ago my local audio guy visited me, the one that lent me Oppo player that I use for the video room. Inspecting the player he informed me that the player was configured to play 7.1 channels. I had no idea about it and I never even went to the played setup. He reset some configuration on the Oppe player and what the deference it was! What do you know, not my Altec 21S plays very fine not only movies but also regular music. As sound gets louder it does not get thinner and it does sound MUCH different now. I did not invest any time to tune it but as is it has very nice result.
 
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