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In the Thread: Macondo 3.0
Post Subject: 1year gonePosted by Bill on: 7/16/2023
I worked on the Dannoy's for about a year, first with the Vitavox bass driver, then using two tannoy red 10's using only the cone for the second unit to improve volume and bass reproduction. Changed out amplifiers, used original, English new knockoffs, and my trinnov altitude prepro, but could never get back To what he had for those two weeks. So returned the cabinets and charged him with rebuilding the speakers to his original configuration to see if it was a fluke. Maybe after he finishes his latest project.
As far as Romy's delay, he is actually using a Yamaha unit, which actually is supposed to mimic the delay, decay times and frequency changes of the hall sound from various concert halls. Yamaha actually went around to various concert halls, jazz veneues, etc., and recorded the Hall effect, then used that information to try to mimic what one hears in various concert halls.
What stereo can't do is give that concert Hall effect, melding all of the reverberation into the front channels. What we hear in a concert hall is actually only 80 to less than 20% of the actual artists, depending where one sits, and the rest is Hall effect. I used a similar system years ago to good effect, but with the trinnov using Auro 3D, which extracts the hall sound from the recording if there, and sends it to the surround(sorry I meant Hall effect) channels. Unhappily multimike recording stand out in worse quality. Auro 3D also does a superb decoding of 5.1 track sacd recordings. It is far superior to Dolby, and dts.
You don,t need great equipment for the hall channels, just good. If you have a couple or a few speakers, and maybe a receiver or prepro with Dolby or dts d3coding, and a preamp two channel out from your main preamp, try it out. Even better, get a Yamaha decoder like Romy, or a receiver wit Auro 3D like me, and enjoy. No more listening through a door or window.
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