what are you listening to?

Letting the K's eat tonight. Was a fucked up week at work, home, hell everywhere..... TOOL...real loud, Infected Mushroom....REAL LOUD....starting to get the bad juju on the run....
 
laatsch55 said:
TOOL...real loud, Infected Mushroom....REAL LOUD....starting to get the bad juju on the run....
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Blast that bad juju outta your life...

Getting the disc packs played...

Stratdoc, since you are new I'm playing the 370 CDs a friend gave me a while ago. Alphabetized and loading a cd changer with 5 generally without duplicate artists of music I probably haven't heard much before. I'm getting close to the end of this group, he gave me about 900 a few years ago. He's 15 years younger, grew up in a different area and era so there is a lot of new to me music.

Last two sets
Van Morrison Astral Weeks
Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Squarepusher Ultravisitor
Soundtrack Until the End of the World

Today:
Valentin Silverstrov Metamusic & Postludium Music for Piano and Orchestra
Ultravox Lament
Underworld Dirty Epic / Cowgirl
Vitamin Z Rites of Passage
The Verve Urban Hymns
 
Bunch of stuff. Loud. Mary Black's Shine, Reckless Kelly Wicked Twisted Road, Omar & The Howlers' Big Delta, Traffic Welcome To the Canteen (those congas), Johnny Cash The Man Comes Around. Trying to ascertain what I'm really hearing with these single drivers. One thing I will say, if Cash's Hurt is any indication, this is a pretty muscular little system. It's pretty much all I need in 12x14 feet.

Now about that occasional harshness...
 
Been doing JIB's all day...

Infected Mushroom--- "I'm The Supervisor", " Converting Vegetarians", " BP Empire"
Shpongle--- " Are You Shpongled" " Nothing Lasts But nothing Is Lost", "Tales Of the Inexpressible": " RedRocks 2015"
And finishing up with Tool---" Fear Inoculum"
 
Stratdoc said:
So, spoke with Benchmark. They thought the thermal shutdown was from playing the amp for 3 hours or better at that volume level. Said no problems with the 4 0hm speakers. It is stable at all impedance levels. I told them once the amp cooled, we played at the same volume level for another hour with no issue. They said if it happened again let them know and I might need to send it in for a go over as a bit unusual. The album we were playing at the time should have had no impact on the amp's heat.

Second AHB2 on the way.
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I have been living with the second AHB2 amp for a few days in a passive vertical bi-amp configuration. I have swapped back a forth between a single AHB2 and my A21+. To my ears, and my wife concurs, the two AHB2 amps vertically bi-amped provide a significant sound improvement. Bass is tighter and more punchy, particularly at lower volumes, wide dynamic range and separation, more nuanced highs and mid-range.

Am I deluded, or am I hearing what I think I am hearing - easy to convince yourself of improvements in this hobby. ? Many will argue that passive bi-amping provides no improvements, or marginal at best. Folks at Benchmark say they have experimented with passively bi-amping the AHB2 amps and that it is system/context dependent. Have measured improvement in some systems and not others.
 
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