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In Reply to: Re: "loss of sharpness in transient attack" posted by kenster on March 28, 2007 at 05:29:08:
No, I meant I had posted a reply to Software Engineer's response to my original post and it seems to have either not got added to the thread of somehow disappeared from it. It said pretty much what I said in the post you replied to.I think there are lot of factors which affect the sound we get. I don't go for major surgery like you, but that's mainly for 2 reasons. I don't k now what I'm doing when it comes to most major surgery, and I also am a lousy quality handyman. I stay away from the sort of interventions you like to make because I know I would make a mess of them, so I concentrate on the things I can do.
Originally I had my REL in the music system and I thought I had achieved a pretty seamless integration. There were no tonal shifts that I noticed in the bass region as one moved into the area with sub coverage, I'd found a location where music timing didn't seem to be affected, and the sub never appeared as a separate source. All in all, I was feeling damn happy about my sub results. Then I changed the receiver in my HT system which was, at that stage, a 2 channel system, and got a Denon with auto-setup and Audyssey equalisation functions. A week or two after I got the Denon, I just had to try the REL in that system which, until then, had never had a sub in it. Bad move. The sub never went back to the audio system because it made a much bigger difference for me with soundtracks rather than music and because the Denon integrated it into the total sound much better than I'd ever managed to do it myself in the audio system. A major aspect of that better integration was the synchroinising of arrival times.
I think I now could put the REL back in the audio system and do better than I had previously, having heard the way it works in the HT system, and I keep telling myself that I should try that one day. It seems, however, that I can't be bothered. The Dynaudio Contour 1.3 SEs in the music system have more than adequate bass for most of the music I listen to, and good enough bass for the rest. I do lose something but not as much as I gain with the REL in the HT system, and the loss in the audio system is a loss I'm prepared to live with since the 1.3 SEs sound so good anyway. I'd also added a bit more acoustical treatment to the room and made a few other minor changes since acquiring the REL and didn't lose as much with its removal as I had anticipated, which made things easier with the change.
I don't think perfection is possible, but it continues to amaze me just how much improvement can be obtained by paying attention to the things that we do feel up to working with. No doubt I could do better if I went down the major surgery route on some things, but there's enough areas where I do feel like playing and fine tuning to keep in in improvements for some time yet without venturing there.
David Aiken
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