What about the small Pass .5?
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@ct0517 Hi, Chris- not set up yet, not even restored yet. Will be sending the speakers to Kent, in the mid-West, hopefully within a week. We are moving out of our current house in NY and I thought this would be a good time to send stuff out for restoration rather than simply put it into storage. Oh, and we haven't yet bought another place to live, so it may be a few months till I can share some pictures. The Quad Its will be getting restored in Virginia, and I'll probably drop them off there, along with my old SP-10 table, for rehab. Our plan is to visit some friends in Nashville and Memphis, perhaps in NOLA, and eventually make our way to Austin, where I split time. That's where we will eventually relocate on a more permanent basis. The Black Sabbath- it does get a little play here. It was my introduction to Vertigo Swirl and once I got bitten by that bug, I started to explore the wonders of that catalog. Horses for courses. A little Janos Starker on the Quads could be heaven. Happy to post some pics once that system is set up. |
Right on Whart. Kent is a good guy over at EStat Solutions. I ordered EHT boards from him years ago. Can’t stress enough the importance of the subs here in the overall solution and fwiw, how "estatic" (sic) I am with the ones I chose. I found them in a recording studio - they were new in the box with full warranty. The Studio was using three and these were spares and for sale. Without naming brands, I will just say that when you have Phase, DB, Crossover FQ, plus more, all controlled with a small credit card sized remote control from your listening position. http://pdfasset.owneriq.net/7/59/759489fe-7a1b-4d1c-9604-af448eda70e6/759489fe-7a1b-4d1c-9604-af448e... Its hard to go back to a conventional sub with controls only on the box. You will never have to get up and go to your subs for adjustments. Make adjustments as you listen. Look forward to hearing about your adventure. Cheers Chris |
The Quad 57 can’t be beat for some music---small Baroque ensembles (well-recorded harpsichords sound in-the-room), acoustic music like Bluegrass and Jazz trios and quartets. And vocals of course! People who say that some speakers are not better for some kinds of music than for other kinds---that a speaker good at one kind will be equally good at another---are imo mistaken. Different musics suffer more from certain kinds of speaker failings than does other music. Sure, a speaker should be designed to reproduce all musics equally well, but a speaker’s strengths and weaknesses will affect different musics differently, depending on the nature of the music and it’s demands on the speaker. A speaker actually excelling in all areas of reproduction will be a very expensive one. For anyone buying on a restricted budget (who amongst us isn’t?), compromises and trade-offs must be expected and accepted, different speakers offering different strengths and weaknesses. As an extreme example, if a person listens only to solo piano, a speaker with even octave-to-octave tonal balance is a priority, other speaker abilities being less important to it’s reproduction. For a vocal music specialist, a speaker with low vowel-coloration will bring the most long-term musical satisfaction. For a Reggae music enthusiast, while those speaker abilities and attributes will benefit the music, they won’t to the same degree as will the speaker’s ability at rhythm and timing, which are absolutely essential to Reggae. If one’s speaker budget requires a choice between two speakers possessing different strengths and weaknesses, I sure would choose the speaker whose strengths are what my primary music requires and benefits most from, and whose weaknesses are what it suffers least from. |
^^^^^^^^ Hi Eric (Bdp24) In followup to your post, U know..... I keep changing music genres lately, more than usual. There really seems to be no rhyme or reason to it all. I can't explain it. I think it is due to stresses from the past holiday period. Probably the best feature of that Sub remote I mentioned in my last post, are the buttons along the bottom - 4 of them..... presets..... which can be selected for "four" personalized customized settings; One can set them if they choose, for different musical genres like Classical, Jazz, Classic Rock, Reggae, etc.... with varying amounts of DB, even different X over point for each, depending on how badly the music is compressed. Right now I have my four buttons set up for. 1) Classical 2) Classic Rock 3) Folk and 4) Adele The 4th category nicknamed such due to requests from my wife and her friends over the holidays. Should probably change it back to Jazz. Last two weeks in Dec can be a very stressful music period. Cheers Chris |
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