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Mr. Luddite

On 1/13/2014 9:13 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:50:04 -0600, Califbill
wrote:

"F.O.A.D." wrote:

Sort of church-related, but not. The last time I was in New Haven, one of
our hosts played a CD of Bach he had being played on the 1928-1929
Skinner Pipe Organ at Woolsey Hall (you know that place, right?), and he
was playing it over a Bose 901 system he's had in his house for years.
Well, the "lackabass" of that sound system was really noticeable, because
what we heard through his Bose speakers didn't sound anything like the
Skinner, which I've heard dozens and dozens of times. The pedal notes
sounded like intestinal gas being passed.

Pipe organ will show up lack of low frequency quicker than anything else.
The low sounds are below human hearing, so they are more felt, than heard.
Had a friend in the 1960's who played pipe organs at a few venues in San
Francisco as a side hobby to programming.

This set we have has a gut rumbling sub woofer. It does a great job
with "Top Gun". I think it is missing some of the "middle" if
anything.

Yeah, a lot of the newer sub woofers are designed for low frequency
effects in home theater applications and not so much for music reproduction.

As previously mentioned, I noticed that in the 18" servo driven
Velodyne that was a newer model compared to my older 15" Velodyne. The
18" had incredible effects for movies like "Top Gun" and "Das Boot" but
sorta sucked for music. The 15" is much, much better for music
reproduction.