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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel.

Post Subject: ULF Channel and LP playback.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/7/2011

Last and this weeks I played mostly LP records. I have only one arm and one needle setup after my move to new room – I did not decide that what final configuration I will have for my analog. Today, while I am in Brahms wave I played the entire box of Georg Solti with Chicago Symphony. This is a celebrated set from 1979 recorded in some kind of Chicago temple with spectacularly properly balanced sound. In context of this thread I will not be taking about Solti interpretation but the Sound made me to think today.

I forced myself today to shut down my ULF section and run the whole Brahms just from midbass channel. OK, my analog setup can do bass – I mean real bass not the puffy crap that frequently analog setups do. One of my definition of “real bass” is that it hold itself across all dynamic levels and when the midbass it getting very loud (and here is where Chicago show off spectacularly) then it does not sink the rest of the music. With bass crashing very heavy it look like Macondo, room and everything within holds everything very nicely, no character-even or any kind - just wonderful. The Midbass Horns do real wonder in my view. With this massive output from them they got to indicate own position above and behind but they do not. I truly do not want to touch anything with Midbass Channel – this setting the I got is absolutely locked and frozen.

The ULF is another matter. I feel that with analog it does not as good as with LP and I feel more and more need to turn ULF off. Sure my ULF will be revise in future but I still I wonder why with LP I find my ULF less tolerable.

The Cat

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