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Another very interesting aspect of the Water Dropping of Macondo is a dramatization of silences and influence of LF decay. Macondo has no own noise and the Super Milqs are dead quiet. However, the perceptions of silence with the Water Drop tweeter and without it are different.

I always thought that the character with which orchestra decays into silence is purely a property of reverberation time at low frequency in a given listening room. I have head some stunningly sounding rooms, made so smartly that when a good orchestra went into silence the rooms demonstrated so “un-fucking-believable conviction” that I was tempting to jump form my listening chair and run, chasing that collapsing sound. After that, I spent years on more or less successfully experimenting with delay channels, artificially mocking up the desirable RT60 patterns… Well, I assure you that I have quite developed and quite acquired taste on the subject…

So, how bug was my surprise when the Water Dropping changed the decay perception in my room. Sure, I know about the relation between UHF and ULF and softening of LF is something that I was perfectly expected from a good tweeter (in my vocabulary “fast bass” is insulting phrase). What I was not expecting the degree in which it took place and it’s affect to decay. I would say that subjectively the orchestral decay with the Water Drop is equivalent to an extension of reverberation time 1.5 times. Any person who knows the subject would read it at tell you that I’m a patz. If I read someone ease say it I would surely presume that the person is an idiot. However, it is what it is and I do testify that when I increase the reverberation time in my room approximately 1.5 times  then I have subjectively have the same decaying affects as when the Macondo is Water Dropped.  However, with the Water Drop tweeter it even more fan as it has an ability to “pump drama” into in silence. The silence is a silence but with Water Drop for whatever reasons THE SILENCE IS MORE PREGNANT WITH EVENTS. It feels like the Water Dropped silence is contaminated with some kind of deadly micro-organisms that might eventually grow up into the “War of the Wars” monsters…

Anyhow, whatever it is I find it is very-very positive change and it looks like this effect is not depending from a crossover point. I would LOVE to hear the Water Dropping in a large room of 1500-1700cu feet in context of a proper installation that would be capable to do bass … proper. It might be a very educational to experience and I wonder if the silence dramatization and effect of subjective LF decay prolonging will take please in a large room.

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