Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, GAmoore@a... wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 1/5/05 11:29:35 AM, kamm@s... writes:
> 
> > Anyway I agree with you - mostly - but I would not blanketly 
accept that if
> > you pay more money, you'll get better speakers. It only increases 
your
> > chances of getting a better speaker.
> > 
> 
> There are occasional blind listening tests in the magazines. I just 
read one 
> in one of the British magazines (Sound on Sound, Future Music, or 
Music Tech). 
> I remember one conclusion was that the low end M-Audio's were well 
liked by 
> their experts, but not the low-mid range M-audios. They divided the 
tests in 4 
> or 5 price groups.


I bought a set of KRK 8's for my listening and they sound great. The 
problem is when I burn a cd, it never sounds the same as what I hear 
in the KRK's.

>  >> It was his opinion that speakers simply don\ufffdt work. \ufffdThat they are a
>>>  completely unfaithful way of reproducing sound and that the 
>>>engineers in the
>>>  audience really aught to come up with a new paradigm.

He has a point! They all have problems. But the best ones are pretty 
good these days.

>  > What about those Bose Radiating pole speakers?

They're good for what they do, which is spread sound around. But the 
imaging is nonexistent. They're not for the studio.

>  You know whats strange ...
>>  there are these 'audiofile' stereo components which have gear much more
>>  expensive than most studio amps and monitors. I wonder why that 
>>technology is
>>  not used for studio monitors.

What technology isn't used for studio monitors? I think it it's all used. :)

Studio mains speakers are at least $10K/pair normally - at least - 
and mastering studios have incredibly expensive monitoring set-ups.

From: James Ryan <jeryan@...>

>Not familiar with the Bose ones.  I am familiar with consumer stereo
>salesmen, and you do pay a lot for those gold wires inside and ultra hip
>industrial design.  I think Les was talking about eliminating the coil
>wrapped around a toilet roll, slipped over a cylindrical magnet and attached
>to a big honking rubber-suspended cardboard cone on a hub cap frame concept.
>Maybe like vibrating plasma or radioencephalotrinc direct to brain auditory
>sensor transmission devices, eliminating the cave man hardware intermediary.
>
>:)

Magnapan (spelling?) speakers were around when I was selling stereo 
equipment in 1975 (my first job out of high school before I went back 
to college). They used electrostatic elements and had a very sweet 
midrange.

There's a guy in San Diego County - American somethingorother is his 
company - who was working on speakers that used sum/difference 
signals in the mHz range, which he could project on a wall. That was 
a few years ago and we haven't heard anything, so I guess it didn't 
work.

The technology worked as a weapon, though.
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Nick Batzdorf
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