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Disco_Steve ·
At Bath University UK on the 4th of October, their will be a HI-Fi sales bloke, coming to the University to set up some redicioulsy exspencive speakers and cables and cd players and stuff and show us how good sound can be!
I'm the Chair of BUMPS the Bath Universty Music Production Society, so if you come along you will meet me too 🙂 and your welcome to ask lots of horibly hard questions about DSP and all other GEEK stuff to me and Jeremy (the sales bloke). as well as the lectueres who will turn up, who I exspect will be the highly knolagable types
He promessis to not make the 'show' a pure sales pitch, but of cause their will be some sales element to it, otherwise their is no point him coming.
I have no idea at all at the mo on what time durring the day. and I can't cover your exspences so you will have to make all arangements yourself sorry.
please get back to me if you think you would like to come, so I can get an idea of turn out.
Steve
rl ·
hehe, maybe he can talk about the mathematics of silk shielded audio cables, de-magnetized CD's, and such...
Disco_Steve ·
yea I exspect most of it will be compleat bull, but the sound will be wonderfull! and well worth hearing
trogluddite ·
The fella must be really desperate for sales, surely student loans are intended for buying lots of beer? 😈
Sounds good though - took me ages to find anywhere local to me recently that would let me properly audition a pair monitor speakers. Ok, so I only had a £250 budget, but I wouldn't buy a £20 pair of shoes without trying them on in the shop.
So many studio gear places these days expect you to part with your cash after nowt more than a 5 minute demo in the hubbub of a big retail warehouse. We used to have a lovely little place in Otley where they'd even make you a couple of cups of coffee while you played a selection of your own test material in a nice acoustically treated room, even if all you were buying was a cheapo <£100 compressor - guess that's why they couldn't compete and went bust!
Disco_Steve ·
the market has just gone!
not becasue people dont want it, they just dont know they want it!
people buy a very cheap system now and it is OK. you can hear ... enough.
its not like 'before' when a cheap system sounded so bad that people knew that their had to be better!
mastering is so loud now that almost everything is destroyed.
'the' place for good quality sound is film and people end up spending £1K on a suround sound system, get 5 KRK rocket fives (or equivelent) and a blue ray player. are really impressed but dont feel like they got a thousand pounds worth of speaker. because in 'the old days' you would have spent that 1K on a sterio system, and so each speaker would cost £500, and the results would sudently be at that tipping point where you can 'hear all the things you whish you could hear' that a better speaker gives, you can hear its imperfections, you can hear that its not good quite enough. and BAM, their is a hudge desire to get an even better set of speakers and cables etc to make it sound better and better and better.
and the HIFi buff ends up contnually upgreading thier system never ever being trully happy!!
even audiopholes now generally dont reach that point. or if they do they play mp3s through the system so they can never reach that point because the codec has removed all th 'stuff you 'can't' hear'
so the HiFi market is dead. very few people sit down and listen to music. like a concert in their homes.
and that is what HiFi is, you have a concert in your home.
your concert, your home, your system, your love of sound.
his hope is that some lectures will come who will be impressed and want to fork out a few K.
He also siad that he did a demo an cambridge uni, and the people their were very impressed. and he thought that he might have created a few HiFi buffs, so his plan is for a long term investment. maybe someone who goes will come back in 3 years time!
Steve
MegaHurtz ·
If anything id like to upgrade to set of more expensive, pmc`s or genelecs. (as opposed to my bm6a`s)
But I agree a propperly "loaded" copper cable can sound better than a feedbacking gold or silver one.
And a cheap active speaker sounds worse than a cheaper passive one.
So I guess the biggest money saver would be to buy a good stack of amps when you are ready for it.
Not too long ago I reccomended a friend on a 300 budget to go look for hifi.
He came back with a set of dynaudio`s that sounded redicilously nice, for 200 he took em home.
So if you are on a budget go and get some passive hifi speakers. They will knock the krk and
cheapere genelecs right out of the park. no competition at all.
Disco_Steve ·
my mate dan has a pair of those, bm6s'a
I really didn't like the porting, the bass comes a second late out of the speakers!
dan always uses them with the foam port fillers in which helps allot, but I've heard better speakers at the price point.which is a piety because in other ways they are great speakers.
I like passive non ported speakers best 🙂
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