martykl
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| Digital Drum Kits I understand the principle, as I have a Kawai digital piano. Digital keys work in a similar fashion and the current batch of high rez software (Garritan, Ivory, Piano Teq) is very good. I was just struck by the tone of Mr. Reyes' kick drum - a big... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano I agree with Dlanselm - a player piano is really the only way to go, but obviously your choice of source material is severely limited. By way of reference, even the hyper-sampled digital keyboard software like Ivory or Virtual Steinway isn't compl... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Map,The Bel Canto amp is class D. You may be right about break-in or amp matching as the tube experiment is proving most interesting re: dynamics. Could be the switch to tubes or could be time passing, but dynamics are improving - at this point, I... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Map,I've used 150 wpc Bel Canto and 200+ wpc TAD ss amps with similar results from my Ohm 100s - in a large room with dual Velodyne subs. To address your curiosity from a previous post, I'm now experimenting with KT88 (and KT66) based Prima Luna a... | |
| What would you buy Sub $350 Firewire/USB DAC Prof,I use a DacMagic with my digital piano via Mac into a quality stereo as a supplement to the piano's internal sound system. It sounds great! I use a Benchmark DAC-1 in my main system. In order for direct comparion, I hauled the DacMagic, (all ... | |
| Speaker advice I'll second the sub/sat approach. SVS sells a sub for $600 that -on paper- provides astonishing performance. The informed sub crowd on this forum, Bob Reynolds, Shadome and Drew Eckhart among others can provide more detail if you decide to go this... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Wine,You're not the first to observe that imaging is more characteristic of good stereo than of most live performance. However, it does contribute to the illusion of live performers in the listening room. Strangely, I find that the Ohms do an exce... | |
| Bookshelf Speakers That Bolt or Screw Into Stands The Sunfire CRM ribbon monitors (app $1,000 street price) accept a 1/4 20 screw. They are tiny, very fine sounding, and flexible in placement. However,they require a sub.Marty | |
| Feelies cover song question. Jaybo,I lived in Hoboken, NJ in the early'80s and the Bongos were the de facto house band at a local bar called Maxwell's. (The Feelies were another house band there which is why I wrote Feelies in the original thread when I meant Bongos.) I saw b... | |
| Feelies cover song question. I always thought it was a Bongos' original. Who knew?Thanks.Marty | |
| Bassheads-DSP important????????Velodyne SMS?? Off my recent experience:My personal formula (and ymmv) for good properly integrated, deep bass from a sub requires (in order of importance):1) SMS-1. Will allow you to "see" your room above the range of the subs as well as properly integrate the ... | |
| iPod Commercial/Reading Music Sorry, I should have noted that Music Ace uses a piano as it's reference. If your son is willing to learn piano and you can provide an 88 key midi controller ($200 and up)this could still be a great choice. Otherwise try to find a similar program ... | |
| iPod Commercial/Reading Music You could try the software package called "Music Ace Deluxe" from Harmonic Visions software. I'm going to use it to teach my daughter to read music - and she's 3 years old. I've reviewed it over the last few weeks and feel that it's probably very ... | |
| advantages/disadvantages of 2 subs..... Phase,If you haven't noticed from the above post, I might also have pointed out that Drew is an excellent resource for this question as is member Shadome. | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I drive my 100s with ss TAD mono amps, but I also own a pair of Prima Luna tube mono amps. I'll roll some KT88s into the PL and report back in a few days. All in the interest of science!MartyBTW, since I'm using subs, the Ohms should be a somewhat... |