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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Arnott" data-source="post: 147956" data-attributes="member: 304"><p>Re: TDA Users</p><p></p><p>I of course will now have to get TDA EQ. My first impression of the TDA is, YAY! I have a set up in the living room that we use almost only for dance, either with just us, or when we have a dance party, and others are invited over. It is right in the middle of the house, so it is too intrusive to use a lot, just for casual music listening, if this makes sense. Before, I had used LibInsts to set it up. So with just a little bit of dabbling, I had some minor changes. The system has a preamp, that I send the subwoofer out directly to an amp, the lows and mid/hi are on a powersoft M series, 4 ch amp. Right away I could see that I did not have good alignment with the lows and subs, and I changed the lows to mid highs delay about .2ms. It is interesting to me to see the whole spectrum in time, rather than to independent bands, and compare the time difference. The EQ "mellowed" a bit. Not as much HF, which surprised me in such a small, and relatively well behaved, space. All of the comparisons are done with playback, no live mics, but the sound reminds me more of how the Coda boxes I have/had sound. There have been other small changes, but no much so far. When my wife listened to it, she immediately commented that it sounded more natural. And she does not usually have much comment on the sound. (When we saw the Black Swan, the film had so much wow/and or/flutter, that the sound track was warbling the entire night. All the piano stuff was driving me nuts, and then after that, the dialog too was noticeable to me, but she had no idea. I have learned to try and keep my disgust at a low, but usually at movies it is with suspension of disbelief, not something of this nature.) </p><p></p><p>We very rarely do house concerts, and have one coming up this weekend, using this same system. I will be very interested to see how this set up behaves with open mics. I am very used to doing a lot of tuning with an open mic, to try and keep the mics from interfering with the sound system. </p><p></p><p>Toodles for now, Jack</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack Arnott, post: 147956, member: 304"] Re: TDA Users I of course will now have to get TDA EQ. My first impression of the TDA is, YAY! I have a set up in the living room that we use almost only for dance, either with just us, or when we have a dance party, and others are invited over. It is right in the middle of the house, so it is too intrusive to use a lot, just for casual music listening, if this makes sense. Before, I had used LibInsts to set it up. So with just a little bit of dabbling, I had some minor changes. The system has a preamp, that I send the subwoofer out directly to an amp, the lows and mid/hi are on a powersoft M series, 4 ch amp. Right away I could see that I did not have good alignment with the lows and subs, and I changed the lows to mid highs delay about .2ms. It is interesting to me to see the whole spectrum in time, rather than to independent bands, and compare the time difference. The EQ "mellowed" a bit. Not as much HF, which surprised me in such a small, and relatively well behaved, space. All of the comparisons are done with playback, no live mics, but the sound reminds me more of how the Coda boxes I have/had sound. There have been other small changes, but no much so far. When my wife listened to it, she immediately commented that it sounded more natural. And she does not usually have much comment on the sound. (When we saw the Black Swan, the film had so much wow/and or/flutter, that the sound track was warbling the entire night. All the piano stuff was driving me nuts, and then after that, the dialog too was noticeable to me, but she had no idea. I have learned to try and keep my disgust at a low, but usually at movies it is with suspension of disbelief, not something of this nature.) We very rarely do house concerts, and have one coming up this weekend, using this same system. I will be very interested to see how this set up behaves with open mics. I am very used to doing a lot of tuning with an open mic, to try and keep the mics from interfering with the sound system. Toodles for now, Jack [/QUOTE]
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