Group Therapy > NY Audio Rave
Non-AudioCircle perspective on RMAF
Emil:
Anyone know what manufactures are paying to have a circle over at AC?
Bigfish8:
--- Quote from: Emil on October 11, 2009, 06:31:40 AM ---
Anyone know what manufactures are paying to have a circle over at AC?
--- End quote ---
Emil:
Most of the manufacturers that pay have their on site at AC.
Ken
zybar:
--- Quote from: mgalusha on October 11, 2009, 06:29:09 AM ---While I can see the idea of not allowing people to crap in a vendors sandbox it unfortunately leads to exactly what is being discussed here. Personally I just don't post in almost any of the AC vendor areas, it's not worth the BS involved. Almost certainly the feedback is 100% positive and any real issues are likely to be binned.
As a general thought on posts regarding how something sounds, no matter where, show/friends/dealer/home I tend to take nearly all of them with a large does of skepticism. At RMAF 2008 I helped a buddy and manned one of the rooms. It had the large Analysis Audio speakers, a pair of Specton amps in mono, a ModWright pre and my tubed squeezbox as a source. We were using some of the Kaplan Cable power cords, Synergistic Research IC's and some horrifyingly expensive speaker cables though I can't remember the brand at the moment and we had a fair amount of room treatments.
Though I knew that folks perceive things differently, sitting in that room for three days and observing/discussing/listening to peoples thoughts really drove home how different we hear. I had one guy sit for 20 seconds and leave saying "not working for me" to a guy who must have spent 2-3 hours in there over the course of the weekend saying how wonderful everything was. And of course pretty much everything in between. Some loved the sound, some hated it. The end result for me was I treat much of what is written about something as rubbish unless I have learned that the writer's observations tend to align with mine, base upon other things they have written about and that I've heard.
And there is my 0.12 worth. :)
mike
--- End quote ---
What he said. +1
That's why I miss Audio Central. That was the place you could challenge the blind followers or get a less unbiased viewpoint.
George
pmkap:
Actually, one of the best sounds at RMAF 09' was the sound of Mike Galusha's mancave with Gedde's Abbeys powered by his Mac 275.
I spent time in a room with $37k monster speakers, Fertin fieid coil drivers complemented by beryllium mids/tweets. Just horrible; a VOT sound done bad. I sat there thinking that if that was the sound they were seeking, big, tonal and dynamic, they'd be far better served by Mike's Abbeys. And how did they seek to improve the sound of their room, by adjusting the VTA....
You just cant make this stuff up.
-Paul
Scott F.:
--- Quote from: pmkap on October 11, 2009, 07:41:31 AM ---Actually, one of the best sounds at RMAF 09' was the sound of Mike Galusha's mancave with Gedde's Abbeys powered by his Mac 275.
--- End quote ---
I agree completely. Mike's system sounded awesome. Sort of knowing the sound of the SP speakers, I was expecting a similar sound with the Gedde's waveguide. Boy was that assumption wrong :duh
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version