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Post Subject: Notes from the trenches.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/6/2021
OK, here are some notes. I do not generalize them, juts my
notes from my listening and my current conclusions.
All processors are different. Ridiculous but fact. I have 4
of them and they all with the same reverb parameters sound different. I do not
know if it is because they are over 30 years old but I slightly prefer the
sound on one processor over another… for
a given music… and given recording. How important it is? Absolutely not important.
The differences between reverberation effect of different recording makes the
things looks like irrelevant as far as quality processing concern...
The reverberation front channels do not work for me. I do
not think that I will be able to find anything that can successfully work with Macondo.
Dunnoys are very nice, but I can clearly here that it is not multi-amped acoustic
system. Playing Dunnoys alone is fine
but along with Macondo with short reverberation time is not good.
I have returned to 4ch configuration. The 6ch configuration
is not good for me. The benefits to have front reverberation is very negligible
but there is a hurtle for main channels. The only benefit of the front
reverberation is widening soundstage but in kind of strange ways. I think to
use the front reverb I need to rearrange the speakers. I do not want to spend next 10 years to learn
how position speakers in reverberate room. So, from now and on ONLY 2 reverb channels
in the back…
To my surprise the bass
for reverb channels is important, not the depth of the bass but the hue of the
base. I have a strong distaste toward to ported bass as if I hear my staccato
bass reflects with typical ported genetic “Um” I get distracted to immeasurable
less degree if it was the sound of Macondo but I did notice the effect in a reverberated
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