Boy, Oh Boy! Towshend!

Hey @benzman - big Pat Metheny fan. How do you rate this album's content, not just SQ? I have so many of his albums that some of them are pretty similar to prior releases. For example, I have the From This Place recent album which I bought because I hadn't gotten anything new from him for a long time. It is a double album and it is solid for sure, but not much different from some of his other stuff and is not really distinguished like the White Album, American Garage, Offramp, Watercolors. Some other excellent ones, although great, I would not be able to tell you what album a given song came from - Still Life Talking, Letter From Home, Secret Story, Imaginary Day, We Live Here.....It could be that they were mostly only available on CD when I bought them, so they never get played on my stereo.

Every time I buy an album where someone raves about SQ it seems like I am not big on the actual music. I am not trying to demo my stereo, just like listening to music. Of course excellent SQ is a big plus, but not the primary criteria, so your honest opinion is appreciated.

I am a big fan of his older stuff. First Circle probably being my fave. The new album is a little more structured than recent stuff. Not crazy about the first tune but the rest is pretty nice. Does sound live, especially with the podiums. Live recordings with the podiums are really a treat. You can actually hear the audience layered in front of the performers. I was away from my system for four days  and you really get a feel for how good things sound after a break. Only bad thing is I used to thing my Mercedes had decent sound system but not really exciting anymore with the addition of the new room and upgrades.

I don’t have First Circle. Not sure why I never heard much about it. Sounds like you’d recommend I get that before Side eye NYC. Now let’s see how hard it is to find it on new vinyl.

I bought the Seismic Bars in 2015 when they first came out, I was unhappy with the supplied plinth that Tannoy provided with my speakers that I bought in 2014, the dealer that sold me the Tannoy speakers did not understand how or why the Townshend bars could be better than Tannoy’s own supplied plinth, so I invited him round to my home and we swapped between the two plinths/bars multiple times, he could not understand how much better the sound was, he fed this back to Tannoy, who probably ignored it :-(

A few years later I was given the opportunity to try the Podium version, but I could not detect anything too much different in SQ between the podium ( more expensive ) and the bars ( cheaper) , so I kept the bars and am still very very happy with them :-)

My floorstander speakers are Tannoy Precision 6.4’s and weigh 22kg, so my bars are Size 1, and they sit on a concrete ground floor in my lounge TV room that measures 6m x 6m

My centre speaker - a Precision 6c sits on a strip of black sorbothane, and is only used for 5.1 movies, I thought about using some Size 2 bars under it, but I resisted because the centre speaker sits on top of a fairly substantial sideboard, that houses the amp and oppo player, so I convinced myself that it would not really help all that much !

My Tannoy speakers really punch well above their weight, and for what I paid for them, they sound twice as good as they probably should, all thanks to the Townshend bars.

@pcourtney   

Agreed!  Still loving my bars under my Belle Klipsch and Nobsound under my Turntable. Maybe time to step up that game as well as under my integrated.