Hi David,
 
 DM> listening to music instead of trying to listen to hardware.  And if
 
I prefer to play music actually, and listening is a close second. I
have no predjudices about equipment, only what gets the job done, and
what gets the job done always leads back to hardware. The 90's Yamaha
surround receiver and Adcom power amps were a definite upgrade from my
70's Kenwood receiver and 70's Crown amps I was using before this
latest upgrade. For its time the Kenwwod was a workhourse of an amp,
and I actually dragged it on stage at a few gigs in the 70's when I
needed more power for my bass - it had an honest 200 WPC into 4 ohms.
The JBL speakers I have now are better than the Pioneer and Cerwin Vega
Speakers I used before as well - actually the Cerwin Vega's were from
my stage rig. I even tried my hand at building my own crossovers and
speaker sytems at one time, and I actually wound my own coils before
eventually deciding an active crossover was a better idea.
 
 DM> you discover everything sounds better to you when you push all 12
 DM> sliders of the equalizer up 3 dB, that's fine by me.  I certainly
 
Your assuming how I isten to my stereo again. Back when I had the
Pioneer speakers I had no choice but to do that and more, because the
speakers were horrible, but with the JBL's my curve is fairly flat.
That does not mean I will give up my EQ's. In fact, seperately
adjusting each speaker in my surround system was the reason I got the
Adcom's, as the Yamaha surround receiver had pre-outs but no power
in's, so when I added the 15 band EQ's for the mains, center and
surrounds, I needed external power amps. In the process I got more
power than the Yamaha gave me, and in the case of the surrounds much
cleaner power. In addition the built in low pass output for the
subwoofer on the Yamaha was a joke, as it was too high at 200Hz, and it
didn't have a high pass for the mains, so in effect I had two speaker
systems covering the bass, which made it needlessly muddy. Now I have
an seperate active Crown crossover between the mains and subwoofer's.
 
Does that mean I have the perfect system? No, but my wish to get a
better center channel speaker will have to wait. Could I get better
speakers on the mains? Yes, but only with even more expense, that I
can't justify. Would a 24 db crossover work better than my current 18
db crossover on the subwoofers? Perhaps, because I hear the 24 db
crossover has better phase response. Being a bass player I personally
dislike a crossover in the bass region as I perceive the slight hole it
leaves as the sound shift from one speaker to the other, but my main
speakers don't have the deep bass response I want. Regardless of what I
can hear and afford, the original post was a comparison of the same
song on both CD and HiFi VCR, and finding the tape much better on this
occasion. I never directly compared the two formats as close before, as
I don't think I ever had the exact same song and mix on both formats
before, at least that I didn't record myself; recording a CD on my HIFI
VCR, using a HIFI tape sounds just like the original CD to me from a
casual listen.
 
dschmoll@nyx.net (David Schmoll)
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