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Got the dbxDriverack Loudspeaker Management System in today. I opted for the Real Time Analyzer Mic also.
I have had the Ashly XR2001 running for a couple weeks now. Very nice analog unit. Just enough knobs and switches to keep it interesting. I found myself fuvking with them just enough to get things sounding like I thought they should. I've tried some other than normal settings, but really didnt mess with it to much didnt need to. Super quiet, didnt downgrade the system being in it. Matched up sonically really well. For 200 bucks what fuckin bargain. Years ago when I tried tri-amping the D-23 must have been screwed up, cause if it sounded this good back then I'd never gone back to passives.
Gotta hand it to AlKlappenberger, the man builds some SOTA crossovers, and pricey, the Extreme Slopes were 1600.00 for the pair
They were considerably better than the "Universals" we started with years ago. And the Universals were way better than the Speakerlab crosses.
BUT!!!, Itseemed as the passives got more hi powered hours on em they did not sound as good. I dont know what exactly I was doing to them other than pure torture but the sound quality was getting worse.
So....here we are passives to active analog, to active digital.
With actives I have been hearing things I have not heard before in a lot of program material. It's been that way with each upgrade. Did not think there was much room for that kind of improvement left...
. Oh....but there was. I've listened to more music this month than all of last year. A lot of it has been off theDarcy drive. With the actives it was not as screechy in the mids. About 80% of the stuff on that drive of 3.6 TB of music, listening fatigue set in pretty fast. Like in minutes on some stuff.
Not so when tri-amping. I dont know what exactly is happening to make it.more palatable to the ear, but God what relief. To be excited to get home and put on some tunes is a feeling I didn't know I would have again. The Darcy drive covers A LOT of years and different genres. A lot of stuff I've never heard. Then there's Amazon HD streaming, even good ol crunch rock sounds great...like Tools " Pneuma" DAYAM that's good at Mach 8....like you were in the 10th row, middle , in a venue where the sound man had her dialed in in 10 minutes and spent the next 20 tweaking this and that. Been to a couple of those , and the mancave is pretty damn close.
With the pure blessed resolution of the system now I find I'm not as eager to twist thatknob to the right as I was. Granted ,you cant have a conversation at that level still, but not as loud. Things seem less compressed, or washed over or whatever the fuck I mean.....but what a difference fellers...let's see how the digital know it all algorithms handle the signal processing for the.ol K's...which, by the way are inno way shape or form racist, prejudgemental, digiphobic, or processing snobbish. They just want clean,correct , inphase shit AND LOTS OF IT!
The Driverack, and AlK's extreme slopes. 96 d
Got the dbxDriverack Loudspeaker Management System in today. I opted for the Real Time Analyzer Mic also.
I have had the Ashly XR2001 running for a couple weeks now. Very nice analog unit. Just enough knobs and switches to keep it interesting. I found myself fuvking with them just enough to get things sounding like I thought they should. I've tried some other than normal settings, but really didnt mess with it to much didnt need to. Super quiet, didnt downgrade the system being in it. Matched up sonically really well. For 200 bucks what fuckin bargain. Years ago when I tried tri-amping the D-23 must have been screwed up, cause if it sounded this good back then I'd never gone back to passives.
Gotta hand it to AlKlappenberger, the man builds some SOTA crossovers, and pricey, the Extreme Slopes were 1600.00 for the pair
They were considerably better than the "Universals" we started with years ago. And the Universals were way better than the Speakerlab crosses.
BUT!!!, Itseemed as the passives got more hi powered hours on em they did not sound as good. I dont know what exactly I was doing to them other than pure torture but the sound quality was getting worse.
So....here we are passives to active analog, to active digital.
With actives I have been hearing things I have not heard before in a lot of program material. It's been that way with each upgrade. Did not think there was much room for that kind of improvement left...
. Oh....but there was. I've listened to more music this month than all of last year. A lot of it has been off theDarcy drive. With the actives it was not as screechy in the mids. About 80% of the stuff on that drive of 3.6 TB of music, listening fatigue set in pretty fast. Like in minutes on some stuff.
Not so when tri-amping. I dont know what exactly is happening to make it.more palatable to the ear, but God what relief. To be excited to get home and put on some tunes is a feeling I didn't know I would have again. The Darcy drive covers A LOT of years and different genres. A lot of stuff I've never heard. Then there's Amazon HD streaming, even good ol crunch rock sounds great...like Tools " Pneuma" DAYAM that's good at Mach 8....like you were in the 10th row, middle , in a venue where the sound man had her dialed in in 10 minutes and spent the next 20 tweaking this and that. Been to a couple of those , and the mancave is pretty damn close.
With the pure blessed resolution of the system now I find I'm not as eager to twist thatknob to the right as I was. Granted ,you cant have a conversation at that level still, but not as loud. Things seem less compressed, or washed over or whatever the fuck I mean.....but what a difference fellers...let's see how the digital know it all algorithms handle the signal processing for the.ol K's...which, by the way are inno way shape or form racist, prejudgemental, digiphobic, or processing snobbish. They just want clean,correct , inphase shit AND LOTS OF IT!
The Driverack, and AlK's extreme slopes. 96 d
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