Another opinion on Counterpoint Amplifiers
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When I had my Advents, with the first Counterpoint, before my Vandersteens, I had a 15” down-firing non-powered sub. (Our favorite brand: DAK!)
The room was small but it helped fill that void. Also made a nice amp stand between my speakers (I had the rack on one side then).
Reproducing bass in a small room is like a short-scale guitar. The sound is the right pitch but the long scale has do much more “meat” to it.
The waveforms of low frequencies are long, and in a small room they are reflecting back onto themselves before they’ve fully developed.
Adding more/larger drivers and power plus room EQ all help but put the same unaltered system in a larger room and the bass “appears” and sounds more natural. It’s not over-amplified and being stuffed down your throat.
Sonetimes, using the same room but setting up on a different wall can make an improvement.
The room is as big a part of a good system as the speakers are.
The room was small but it helped fill that void. Also made a nice amp stand between my speakers (I had the rack on one side then).
Reproducing bass in a small room is like a short-scale guitar. The sound is the right pitch but the long scale has do much more “meat” to it.
The waveforms of low frequencies are long, and in a small room they are reflecting back onto themselves before they’ve fully developed.
Adding more/larger drivers and power plus room EQ all help but put the same unaltered system in a larger room and the bass “appears” and sounds more natural. It’s not over-amplified and being stuffed down your throat.
Sonetimes, using the same room but setting up on a different wall can make an improvement.
The room is as big a part of a good system as the speakers are.
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Got my Solid one amp, sounds really good
what do you guys make of this official upgrade for the amp ?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140703054926/http://altavistaaudio.com/solid1.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20121217024338/http://www.altavistaaudio.com/Resonance.html
what do you guys make of this official upgrade for the amp ?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140703054926/http://altavistaaudio.com/solid1.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20121217024338/http://www.altavistaaudio.com/Resonance.html
I also would not hesitate if he was able to do an upgrade. I don’t know what happened to Alta vista audio after he passed…
But when I spoke with him he lamented Counterpoint tying his hands to work to a price point. Alta Vista let him build what he really felt was the best so I suspect those will be spectacular. Very rare because with cost no object construction, they were pricey.
But when I spoke with him he lamented Counterpoint tying his hands to work to a price point. Alta Vista let him build what he really felt was the best so I suspect those will be spectacular. Very rare because with cost no object construction, they were pricey.