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Sounds like you need to start a new thread.
Ehh, couldn't really find much. Googling said 188 to 224cm, but who knows.
Sounds like you need to start a new thread.
HEA, I resemble that remark. LOLTo be fair, this is what hearing looks like at 80 years old.
What I abhor about continuously giving such speakers the time of day is that it exaggerates the trade-offs needed for a horn speaker - that the great dynamics, high max SPL and directivity control must necessarily sacrifice FR, distortion and phase big-time (as with Voltis). Thus, it cultivates an ill-deserved reputation of horns as a wildly-temperamental class of speakers for only the most ardent and dedicated.
The truth is that the sacrifices needed are much more minimal than Volti-style designs would indicate. Reviewing a Danley would be very educational for Stereophile.
Realism is drum sound in a recording is moot, because most listening is done at much lower volume than a real drum set. If you do a basic mic up of a drum kit and play it back at near the actual spl of the original, it’s going to sound very similar, while at lower levels not. Given that most recordings feature mixes of instruments that have naturally different volume ranges blended, realism is not relevant, and much trickery must be used to pull together the illusion of a coherent mix. Back in the day when small combos might be recorded with one or two mics, drum set often was too loud, or had to be set way back, giving a different ambience compared to the close mic’d instruments.It's mostly mixing technique. Fact is, reality is the last concern of a producer at a recording. People are used to the sound of close-miked unreality.
But that, again, presumes a certain goal: that a piano should always sound like it does from an audience's perspective in a hall, or whatever.
There are certainly reasons why someone may want to replicated that perspective - if you are trying to replicate the sound from where an audience would sit further away.
But that's not the only valid approach IMO. The fact audiences sit at distance is essentially a contingent, practical fact to some degree. They aren't playing the piano, and typically many people are watching, so many end up quite a distance from the piano, and that is a contingent fact of concert-going.
But as someone who plays piano, I find that nothing beats the sound of actually being in the position of playing the piano. The vividness and richness of every note is elevated relative to the ever-homogonizing effect the further away you are in a hall. I used to just hit a single note, or chord, and would just luxurate in the rich tone and rumble of being right near the body, sounding board and strings. So I LIKE the closer, bigger sounding micing of pianos, where I hear more of the luxurious timbral nuances and dynamics of the player.
Similarly, in many orchestral recordings it's often assumed you want to create the homogenized sound of the orchestra from hall perspective. And again that's an understandable goal. But I'm one of those who, like the piano scenario, really appreciates the individuality of instrumental tones and textures, which become more vivid when closer to the instruments. Which is why I often liked to sit quite close to orchestras. And so, while I can appreciate many of the "mid-hall perspective" recordings, I also really love a more close up sound recording as well. (All that with the caveats that even mid-hall/back hall sounding recordings often incorporate close micing with distant micing, but the final mix creates the more distant perspective).
133 pounds??? I hope you won't be asking for a listening test as I won't be lugging that to second story to hook up to my main system!Would love to see them (or ASR) review a Danley.
https://www.danleysoundlabs.com/products/loud-speakers/synergy-horn/sh50/
To be fair, this is what hearing looks like at 80 years old.
Very true, the reproduction of a good hard rimshot can produce spl's outside the capabity of most systems anyway. On the other hand it is the very rare recording of music in the popular genre that can even offer cymbals that don't sound more like the burst of an air hose.Realism is drum sound in a recording is moot, because most listening is done at much lower volume than a real drum set. If you do a basic mic up of a drum kit and play it back at near the actual spl of the original, it’s going to sound very similar, while at lower levels not.
I've noticed that most drum sound on commercial recordings is dynamically limited one way or another. I've made recordings of a rock band using a handheld recorder, though I used various dynamic and condenser microphones and an outboard mixer. The band has a very loud drummer, and the recordings were overwhelmed by the drum sound. I found the application of a compressor made everything else easier to hear. If a recording has the true peak levels of the drum kit, it will probably make the overall levels of the mix a mess.Very true, the reproduction of a good hard rimshot can produce spl's outside the capabity of most systems anyway. On the other hand it is the very rare recording of music in the popular genre that can even offer cymbals that don't sound more like the burst of an air hose.
133 pounds??? I hope you won't be asking for a listening test as I won't be lugging that to second story to hook up to my main system!
Very true, the reproduction of a good hard rimshot can produce spl's outside the capabity of most systems anyway. On the other hand it is the very rare recording of music in the popular genre that can even offer cymbals that don't sound more like the burst of an air hose.
Try this: Drums & Bells Loudspeaker Evaluation CDVery true, the reproduction of a good hard rimshot can produce spl's outside the capabity of most systems anyway. On the other hand it is the very rare recording of music in the popular genre that can even offer cymbals that don't sound more like the burst of an air hose.
OH MY, I thought you were pointing me to a cool download, he wants $25 for the cd plus whatever for shipping?
Sorry for the offense. It is what it is.OH MY, I thought you were pointing me to a cool download, he wants $25 for the cd plus whatever for shipping?
What do you think my name is, Savage? LOL
Yeah, except for the part that with horns I expected it to truly be above average"Impressively high sensitivity."
Yeah, Diogenes would have died of old age in his barrel...One can have a commercial enterprise and still act ethically. I admit that in this business, it's the exception.
SO WHAT?! Now we're complaining about a guy who uses a big drum kit???Somebody is compensating, but not Steve Jordan.