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In Reply to: Wow... another Oswald's Mill blowout! posted by Steve Schell on May 1, 2007 at 01:11:57:
Both Steve and Jonathan are being a bit coy about how wonderful the sound became on Sunday night. Lots of you reading this may know that the house system at "the mill" is a rather over the top primarily RCA theater horn system. Primarily, because the RCA bass section is circa 1950 horns, the lower mids are 1930's RCA FC and the uppers are Bill Woods genius/RCA topped with a touch of Fostex. Throughout the weekend the sound improved, though at the start it was generally thought to be bass shy and perhaps even a bit disjointed by most who were familiar with it in past years. Still better than 99% of anything else out there in the rest of the audio world by a long shot but still not quite right. Different systems were assembled and shifted around as other posts have discussed, and various amps that went on to sing with other available speaker systems had their turn driving the big horns as a rite of passage before being generally let loose to roam about the mill, but the center was still in the main room, with the main system, and those in the know knew it wasn't at full potential. Jonathan had moved a few things around. Some aspects were better but not all and small combos, for example, were stretched unnaturally wide. Sunday evening as the sun was setting Steve, self-effacing Steve, started to play some recordings he had made of events that, at least in these modern times, are a bit out of the ordinary. More common in the 1950's, but not the mainstream now. Recordings of BIG things in their natural settings. Trains going through a station. Fireworks. Airplanes. Helicopters passing by. Real sounds made by real, and really BIG machines. They sounded O.K.... But O.K. isn't what Jonathan's system is all about. We moved the speakers in about ten feet from each side and listened again. Steve and Rich took out the measuring string and set exact distances to the middle of the room. They checked polarity and Doug E., master tech, used simple tools, held a flashlight in his teeth, and tweaked the connections. Finally all was declared in line and in sync and we listened again. We listened to a train passing through the mill. We listened to fireworks exploding that made you involuntarily shut your eyes and flinch from the concussion. We heard a helicopter approach and then pass overhead. Overhead.... Then eerily alive recordings of musical sculpture that were right there in the room. String ensembles that were absolutely correct and seductive vocalists from exotic places whispering exotic things right into our all too undeserving ears. Hard rocking things rocking hard. Someone who should know thought it sounded better than it ever had. Frankly I would have a hard time imagining it sounding any more glorious but, of course, there's always next year. I was honored to be there.Walter
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- Re: Wow... another Oswald's Mill blowout! - Topper 22:01:38 05/06/07 (1)
- Re: Wow... another Oswald's Mill blowout! - rjd 22:35:47 05/06/07 (0)
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