AddeR^ - Stats Reset

by **AddeR^** Sat Apr 01, 2017 12:06 pm

Current In-game name: [EK]AddeR^
Reason for stats reset : As you can see i havent been playing this game for a long time and now im bored of it and have alot of cars cash and props, and i want others to get a chance to buy these... im leaving vcmp cuz of my studies and other things to take care of. April fool lol and ffs please dont reset.

Should one push the yellow cones of small B&Ws with powerful Adcom amps? Or power big Klipsch with tiny tubes? Both of these trail combinations sounded good, though neither sounded great. BUT, it was startling how close the two lower cost combinations came to good, but not great, sound. With my Rotel, Dynaco, Pioneer M-22 reference amp and the Klipsch subs, the little speakers sounded remarkable good. The sub helped enormously. Wide placement on top of my 2 1/2' high Cornwalls helped with the sound stage. Vocals were just as nice on the cheap boom box speakers as they were on the Cornwalls.

The silver Sony speakers are very modern looking with a curved black face piece covering 3/4 of the front and two comma shaped ports peeking out from either side like the ram jet intakes of some Ferrari sports car. They look powerful, but they are not. They are two way speakers with a 13cm (5") woofer and a 2cm (3/4") pizzo tweeter. They weigh only 6 pounds, but feel even lighter. With my front end, the little speaks had no sharp and sweet nuances, but it was almost there. There was no warmth or magic, but it was still very good. My wife, who does not like all the bass that I love, preferred that combination instead of my Cornwalls. Of course, she said she liked the "little system better" so I can not be sure what her motives were.

I did not need much adjustment on the Klipsch sub; almost any setting helped the spiffy little boxes out, but the highest amount of equalization (close to 120 Hz) helped fill out the low end the most. In fact I turned the sub's volume knob 3/4 of the way before the sub intruded on the low end of the boom boxes.

The imaging of the Sonys was a little better when they were placed on thin metal candlestick stands 5 1/2' apart, 32" high in front of the entertainment center, but it was not wonderful or great. I was able to turn the Dynaco volume up to 9:00 on the dial, (the type B potentiometer more closely approximates the amount of power the amp is using than most other pre-amp volume knobs). This volume level is hard to withstand for long on the super efficient Cornwalls. But even then, I can't say the silver boxes rocked. They did rattle with the bass output from the sub.

When put back together, the boom box and the sleek speakers make barely pleasant, background Muzak together: The sum is far less than the parts. The role the sub played was huge: It added 200 watts of power, deep bass and a fullness to the sound. I could see daughters buying $150 boom boxes and $150 subs to give the system some meat and muscle, texture and tone.

Now the bad news: I will say that both combinations impressed me. They made me seriously consider the amount of spare change I keep adding to my sound system. As it is set-up now, my system reflects the law of diminishing returns: I keep investing more and more, yet get less and less dramatic sound improvements. Big, old horns warmed by a tube pre-amp from a plateau of power.

My sound system now costs three times more than the little boom box powering my big horns, but is it three times better? Hard to say - hard to admit, after spending all that money. I was perplexed and began to worry I was wasting money that I don't have to spend. I put my system back together, cleaned up the living room and sat down to listen to a big, wide dramatic presentation of all the tinkling highs, bopping lows and smooth mid range on the Michael Franks CD ...

BYE ALLLLLLLLLLLL