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In the Thread: My new “New” listening room, 2024
Post Subject: More perspectives...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/19/2024
I put kids to bed and was listening at night at low level. The idea which was spinning in my head was the following. Okay I have good result but why and what does it mean? Was it a precise mid bass dialing to the rest of my system, to my ulf channel, to my specific listening room or it was all together projected to that specific amplification loading? I actually I have no answer.
Another very interesting idea that percolated my mind was a relationship between speed of midbass and density of midbass. Let's take the best mid bass I heard outside of what I do and outside of horns domain. The honor would go to large Wilsons driven by first generation of Lamm ML2. It is important to know that it should be large Wilson, starting from Grand Slams, the small Wilsons are not interesting. I did not hear newest large Wilsons but I heard Alexandria with ML2, supposedly properly installed by Wilsons own people. If we discard lower base which is absolutely not appropriate for this price range they did superbly interesting job in mid base. It was super high contrast, surprisingly dynamic for low 90's dB sensitivity. However even then, without knowing what I know now, I detected that this spectacular mid base was always spectacular. It sounded like each orchestra get converted into Chicago under Sir Georg Solti and each piece of music was flooded with overly errected brass. It was very impressive but in the end of the day it was still on algorithmic signature ever present in music.
Even then, and it was years back I was wondering how to able to teach watch Wilson's to be able to play mid-bass. I think I wrote about it at my website many years ago. Most of the midbass out there are just tubby single monochronic note. Wilsons did something remarkable introducing contrast and dynamics of mid base in thier large models. I have absolutely no idea how they did it but they did. Since it is always have this super impressive character I presume that they super idel driver via a crossover. In my topologist since I have active amplification to each channel I am able to make loading of the driver more accurately, permitting it be able to play slow if music calls upon it. Also, in my situations at twins of my 15-in Vitavoxes complemented above this my upper base horn. Does it have anything to do with anything?
Now it is important note. To properly research. To get proper answer to all those questions and to convert an accidental success to organized theory how mid-passing playback should function is a matter of couple years research and experiments. It is certainly not what I am trying to do. Also, it is important to note that I did not use any methodology proper methods to navigate my efforts. Even now I refuse to make an elementary frequency sweep of my playback. I certainly will but at this point I do not want it to de:rail my thinking. That new characteristics of midwives density, the impact and the importance of it in a playback configuration come as a purely accidental discovery. The most important is to understand that since it is accidental Discovery I do not proclaim that the result I got the best implementation of midbass density as a concept. I just do not know at this point. I have the result but what this result mean it is still not clear to me.
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