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Post by speedysteve on Apr 11, 2024 18:27:05 GMT
Yes, once visionary CEOs get complacent / lose their way.
Mind you, we are hardly their target audience. I can't prise my daughter's or their boyfriends away from Spotify, no matter what! They do send me podcasts to listen to from time to time! All sorts of interesting subjects too. Different strokes...
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 11, 2024 18:21:31 GMT
Is the spade for the 'shallow grave', Steve?! 😂 No, it's a spade for digging up scores of Box hedging that lined our flower borders - all stone dead, moth caterpillars and then blight got them all. Lots of properties all around here all lost theirs too!
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 11, 2024 16:23:24 GMT
The round exponential mid bass horns, once powered by Eninence Kappa 15As, trialled with the Legendary Vitavox 15" drivers, then used for a couple of years with JBL2220 15" drivers - then reworked and extended and used with Kappa 12A drivers for several years; are now out in temp storage, on their way to either a new home (unlikely), or the skip. I'll keep the rear drivers mounting boxes as they are nice 21mm birch plywood and can be dismantled and the wood reused. Had them 11 years in one form or another. The SH50 / Synergy system is too compelling 😃 not going back. This evening I'm testing the SH50s further away from the front wall - nearer the sofa. 12' from listening spot. Might bring them into the room a bit also. Each change requires a quick measuring and phase time alignment with the tapped horns. The good thing is the SH50 works as a unit. Once the 3 drivers are set up with the measuring mic 1m away, EQd and phase coherent, that's it for them👍 Also as they are horn / reflex bass there's no extra kick sitting further away, as with front loaded bass horns.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 10, 2024 20:02:21 GMT
Like a BIG jet taking off, or more like an Epstein drive from The Expanse 😀 Spans 18 to 30Hz with a 25Hz peak!
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 10, 2024 19:16:35 GMT
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 10, 2024 16:40:08 GMT
I assume you enqueue new tracks while playing? The tracks show under the playlist tab? Can skip forward in the Now Playing tab (as long as you have enqueued multiple tracks). Never assume! No, I don't do that. In fact, I don't appear to use the queue at all. I do one of: - search for an album and play it - search for a track and play it - browse through a Qobuz playlist and play a track I'm not looking for the next track at any time because I'm busy listening to the current one. Ah, that strategy is bound to cause Bubble / Rendu lock up for me sooner or later.. I found others on the internet had the same flashing 0.00 in the Now Playing view. Like on pause but total lost of communication and function. Luckly the Rendu control panel can always be Http'd to reboot. I sumised this is why Sonore don't specifically recommend the Bubble app. They must have had it reported to them over the years. Of course the bug might have been fixed in later Rendus but website recs lag sometimes.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 10, 2024 13:19:13 GMT
I played my system for a musical friend today. He plays the guitar really well!
He's into the heavier side of things, think artists Tool and the like. He was quite happy that I opened with ACDC Tunderstruck✊ Then played some Tool tracks for him.
He commented "Usually ordinary 'hifi' falls a bit short"
He was amazed at the Sound PRESSURE Level effortlessly achieved by the SH50s.
I explained the background of them, and how pared down mine are compared to full driver compliment😱 Full compliment would give me +6dB😁
Then onto John Butler Trio and Nils Lofgren for some lively acoustic guitar.
Could not get over the level of detail and speed. Noted the soundstage too. He's using headphones and ear buds mostly.
Played a couple of room shakers too, just to really shock and awe. These typically have 25 to 30Hz bass, no problem rattling your fillings with fidelity. Workout for the tapped horns Skipped the 18Hz church organ - wrong target audience 🙂
I'm still impressed by these things.
Gonna be interesting times ahead demoing..
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 10, 2024 13:15:27 GMT
That is what sooner or later causes failure for me! Enqueuing and playing from the queue is the way I can tiptoe around Bubble/Rendu and get a session out of it. I've only used Bubble. Keep adding to the one playlist until it breaks or I break it Need an adult to show me what to do 😀 I assume you enqueue new tracks while playing? The tracks show under the playlist tab? Can skip forward in the Now Playing tab (as long as you have enqueued multiple tracks). You can clear the playlist queue at any time. Under that tab, top right - 3 slightly slanting horizontal lines. That might buy you more stability - not always though. I usual do that at the end of say an album. Or before I change tack and enque more tracks..
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 10, 2024 12:11:46 GMT
You don't even add an album to listen to? You don't press play on a playlist? I do both, I play an album or play a (Qobuz) playlist. I don't add anything to a queue. That is what sooner or later causes failure for me! Enqueuing and playing from the queue is the way I can tiptoe around Bubble/Rendu and get a session out of it.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 10, 2024 12:09:17 GMT
Found it ! 3 dots, vertical in Playstore/Bubble Auto enabled already What I now need to do is find out what some of these apps I have installed are for and why I have them 😂 Some of it will be bloatware, unless you have a Google pixel and even then you don't require half of them.. Samsung are I understand, one of worst for bloatware.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 10, 2024 8:14:01 GMT
You don't even add an album to listen to? You don't press play on a playlist?
If I feed single tracks to the queue then it works better, but that isn't full functionality imo.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 9, 2024 21:02:35 GMT
Bubble lasted about 1.5hr then stopped. It was not the flashing 0.00 but just as fatal🙂 Couldn't revive without reboot. Back on mConnect now..
The two seem to handle adding tracks / playlists differently, if time to do so is observed.
Bubble adds then all at once it seems. It takes a while (sometimes quite a while) to get the added confirmation and sometimes just as long go start playing the first track, sometimes not.
mConnect it's instant play, there's no delay. I'm guessing it spoon feeds the Renderer track by track. Getting out of the way each time. My older Rendu perhaps has a smaller buffer / can't manage the stack properly at times or something?
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 9, 2024 18:34:57 GMT
[/quote]I'm looking in the wrong places, and lost Settings doesn't give me that[/quote]
Lost?
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 9, 2024 16:30:30 GMT
Checking Settings out Nothing obvious there I might let you have a look ! In Google Playstore on each app's page the menu 3 dots (top right), lets you enable auto-update. I think that's the default. Can't see why you would wish otherwise? Disabled and you may forget, there might be a Google OS update, that affects apps, you would be on the old app. Might stop working or behave strangely. You want app bug fixes too. These Android apps aren't as convoluted as say Volumio, where there were many things you'd set up specially that might get broken by an update.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 9, 2024 11:49:07 GMT
That or it just tells you about the update next time you open the app.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 8, 2024 21:29:35 GMT
I just threw everything at this latest version to see. My huge playlists, jumped around, added more huge playlists, enqueued more, pressed play on them etc etc.
So far (touch wood) it hasn't locked up like of old. Can it be they have finally fixed the flashing 0.00 play / pause of doom?
I hope so.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 8, 2024 12:24:00 GMT
I have to congratulate you Mike, your photography skills have improved no end! Sarcasm, the greatest form of wit😂
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 6, 2024 21:08:22 GMT
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 6, 2024 20:57:40 GMT
Always good when you've made a positive step forwards with no desire to go back to the old sound. Well done, Steve, for all the effort made in creating them. Time you changed your avatar! Ooh yes - and the avatar!
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 6, 2024 12:26:49 GMT
I've been reading lots of threads regarding folks experiences of the sound these horns make, indoors verses outdoors, room treatments, positioning etc etc. Also comparing the SH-50 and the SM-60(F).
My takeaways
-Some didn't like the BMS 4550 sound (me included).
- the odd report of slightly muddy waters in the upper bass (less so when used outside).
- The SM60F sound was not necessarily an improvement over the SH50 (horses for courses?). Some reports that the coaxial sound was a bit ragged.
These are interesting comments and the ensuing discussions very helpful in my deciding what to do next - if anything😃
So, where am I now?
I've addressed the BMS4550 sound - replaced it with a compression driver (Vitavox S2), I really like the sound of.
Personally I've not found the upper bass an issue at all - with EQ to stop the LF playing over the MF..
Easy to do with DSP, very much harder to address in analogue and still preserve the phase purity.
Without any EQ its pretty good still, but there is some colouration / that muddiness that was reported.
Now I've got the setup just where I like it, the sound is very, very good indeed.
There is still the question of what amp to use on the MF cones.
Presently I've not the slightest inclination of going back to the Le Cléac'h HF, Tractrix MF and Exponential LF'ish setup.
The tests of left channel old system vs right channel SH50 and the hybrid with Le Cléac'h HF with SH50 MF and LF verses the full SH50 both (with the same Comp Driver) gave me all the info about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the setups.
Perhaps it has also taken some time to make new neural pathways, for me to fully appreciate the Synergy sound?
A/B comparisons are all well and good, but we live with a system and its 'house sound' across many tracks and genres, over days, weeks, months, good recordings, bad recordings, new material, others music tastes etc.
The DIY SH50, admittedly somewhat tweaked, is certainly fulfilling my expectations and requirements.
Time to see if anyone local enough to me wants to collect some loooong, large exponential round midbass horns? 😂 Local tip, or bonfire (think of the environment!). The Tractrix and JBL2484s would be more marketable I think.
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