@frazeur1 ...*G* Back @cha'...and Happier New Decade to us all!
(Just for grins 'n giggles I'm waiting for 2:22am, 2/22/20 to buy a Lotto tix; just to see if I can force some $ynchronicity...*L*)
Monster, glad to 'hear' that....placement is a major element for omni's & dipole drivers. It's worth the effort...and it's just plain entertaining to 'play with the New Toyz' for an extended series of 'serious listening forays'.
After all, it's what we do best...Right? ;)
@cmckasty, actually I have heard a pair of Obelisks...Really! Now, in all fairness, they were..OK. Pleasant, but didn't grab me by the ears. It may have been the demo room (most suck, frankly; audio shows aren't conducive to fair observations IMHO), the 'upstream equipment'....but I'd bet it was what was on the TT @ the time....
That, more than anything I've noted, with my Walsh or the bulk of what I've heard, is the major hurdle....
There are recordings on any format that exhibit that delicious sense of 'air', the space about and between the performers. Or the technical artistry of a 'really good mixdown' (I prefer 'mixup' in that sense; but it Does have a negative connotation that's kinda sad...).
Too much comes off as flat as month-old roadkill...even with Walsh in Surround. Fun to play loud, but...it makes one think the engineer phoned it in...from another state...
As for 'from where' and/or 'in what sort of' is debatable...*L*
@m-db , 'round' (let's say 'cylindrical'...more accurate anyway *S*)
I'm using cylinders as supports, but also as 'enclosures' much the same fashion as the Ohms. But 'port-less', and the length/diameter has been 'adjusted' to bring the fundamental fq to attempt to 'park it' where it could be more 'helpful' than a hindrance. That, and they're Stuffed with polyfill...*G*
(If one doesn't, the 'back wave' sounds like Rudy Vallee and his famous megaphone....but it's hilarious to hear Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" sound like that...)
Anyway....y'all keep playin' @ playin'...
(Just for grins 'n giggles I'm waiting for 2:22am, 2/22/20 to buy a Lotto tix; just to see if I can force some $ynchronicity...*L*)
Monster, glad to 'hear' that....placement is a major element for omni's & dipole drivers. It's worth the effort...and it's just plain entertaining to 'play with the New Toyz' for an extended series of 'serious listening forays'.
After all, it's what we do best...Right? ;)
@cmckasty, actually I have heard a pair of Obelisks...Really! Now, in all fairness, they were..OK. Pleasant, but didn't grab me by the ears. It may have been the demo room (most suck, frankly; audio shows aren't conducive to fair observations IMHO), the 'upstream equipment'....but I'd bet it was what was on the TT @ the time....
That, more than anything I've noted, with my Walsh or the bulk of what I've heard, is the major hurdle....
There are recordings on any format that exhibit that delicious sense of 'air', the space about and between the performers. Or the technical artistry of a 'really good mixdown' (I prefer 'mixup' in that sense; but it Does have a negative connotation that's kinda sad...).
Too much comes off as flat as month-old roadkill...even with Walsh in Surround. Fun to play loud, but...it makes one think the engineer phoned it in...from another state...
As for 'from where' and/or 'in what sort of' is debatable...*L*
@m-db , 'round' (let's say 'cylindrical'...more accurate anyway *S*)
I'm using cylinders as supports, but also as 'enclosures' much the same fashion as the Ohms. But 'port-less', and the length/diameter has been 'adjusted' to bring the fundamental fq to attempt to 'park it' where it could be more 'helpful' than a hindrance. That, and they're Stuffed with polyfill...*G*
(If one doesn't, the 'back wave' sounds like Rudy Vallee and his famous megaphone....but it's hilarious to hear Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" sound like that...)
Anyway....y'all keep playin' @ playin'...