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On 6/4/2016 11:17 PM, geoff wrote:
On 5/06/2016 3:51 PM, Gary Eickmeier wrote: Just got a little subwoofer for the new car (Prius V) that is worth telling about. It is the Powerbass BTA8, an 8 inch woofer in a nice carpeted enclosure with amp and connections. http://www.amazon.com/Powerbass-BTA8...bwoofer+8+inch The concept is a new car with upgrade JBL speaker system, but is anemic in the bass. I can vouch for that approach being a vast improvement in car audio sound quality, and for one's aural health. With regular, even high quality, car speakers, there is usually just totally inadequate bass output. And in order to hear some bass the listening level is ofetn cranked higher than is good for you. Even a small sub can fill things out nand/or distortion from amp or drivers. This is the one I got, which is active, very low profile, and can run either from speaker lines or from a dedicated car-stereo amp sub output. http://www.jaycar.co.nz/Sight-%26-So...oofer/p/CS2286 geoff Thanks for this. The Kenwood sub woofer is now bought and installed under my passenger seat. Much better car listening experience. The Kenwood remote control can vary the low pass from 50 Hz to 125 Hz and has gain control to the sub. For checking mixes without the sub, one can use the remote control to turn down the sub gain, or alternately, to avoid the low pass altogether, one can switch off the sub out from the control unit itself (Alpine CD player). Tim Sprout |
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On 15/06/2016 4:38 a.m., Tim Sprout wrote:
Thanks for this. The Kenwood sub woofer is now bought and installed under my passenger seat. Much better car listening experience. The Kenwood remote control can vary the low pass from 50 Hz to 125 Hz and has gain control to the sub. For checking mixes without the sub, one can use the remote control to turn down the sub gain, or alternately, to avoid the low pass altogether, one can switch off the sub out from the control unit itself (Alpine CD player). Tim Sprout And now you can actually hear and appreciate bass in your car, without needing to crank to levels that would possible damage your hearing and compromise your ability in Audio.Production ! geoff |
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On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 5:35:36 PM UTC-4, geoff wrote:
On 15/06/2016 4:38 a.m., Tim Sprout wrote: Thanks for this. The Kenwood sub woofer is now bought and installed under my passenger seat. Much better car listening experience. The Kenwood remote control can vary the low pass from 50 Hz to 125 Hz and has gain control to the sub. For checking mixes without the sub, one can use the remote control to turn down the sub gain, or alternately, to avoid the low pass altogether, one can switch off the sub out from the control unit itself (Alpine CD player). Tim Sprout And now you can actually hear and appreciate bass in your car, without needing to crank to levels that would possible damage your hearing and compromise your ability in Audio.Production ! geoff To me, Subwoofers are like Joint encoded MP3 - If you don't care for decent sounding stereo, they come in handy. Speaking of Joint Encoding, I guess you could say I made one individual upset in the newsgroup next-door, since he claimed I don't tell anyone what I do for my impressive mastered sound. I felt bad, and dedicated a song to him. Wouldn't you know it, he bi*ched that I didn't Joint encode the MP3!! Jack |
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On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 2:11:00 PM UTC-4, John Williamson wrote:
On 08/06/2016 15:59, Scott Dorsey wrote: John Williamson wrote: If you want to hear *loud* with very little compression on the recording and post processing, listen to Phil Specter's Wall Of Sound singles and albums. They also have a decent dynamic range both by listening and looking at the playback envelope. They work well on everything I've ever used, from a grotty transistor radio earpiece in the '60s to a full range recording monitor setup in this Century, via an indecently loud disco I used to run at college. That used to MAKE my ears distort in the hall, but sounded fantastic from a few hundred yards away at the top of the nearby hill with a girl to provide company. ;-) What makes those loud is that the arrangement is so tight. There is something going on all the time, there is no space anywhere and no openings or sense of air. I know, and if he heard a gap, even for a bar or less, in the frequency spread he wanted, he put an instrument in it. The backline at his concerts was *huge* for the time. I've worked (As the tour bus driver, they'd not let me mess with *that* sound. ;-) ) with, not a replica exactly, but it was Junior Walker's son and his All Stars band, of it on a Motown Memories tour a decade or so ago, when the promoters used the wall of sound principle for the backing, and it was very impressive indeed, without being stupidly high in absolute levels. Loudness really comes from arrangement and performance. Gainriding can help and compression can help, but it's mostly in front of the mike rather than behind it. I agree 100% with that. I say, that's the reason why so many overdubbed, like The Kinks, Yardbirds, etc., and Stereo renditions were not available, since limited tape number of tape tracks were available. See, you don't need to increased DBs to make a louder sound, just fill in the gaps. It's like recording a pin drop, not very exciting (Ho-hum), but drop a million of them simultaneously, and it sounds like a clap of thunder!! Jack -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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