Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:20 pm
Hi!
I've been giving speaker advice to a number of members here and sent out a number of speaker drive units which I hope people have found useful . . .
The overall result on my organ is demonstrated well by the YouTube videos of Benjamin Scott, who is 17, performing yesterday. For the first time I've married the high quality sound recording to the video, although compression still degrades the sound significantly, but from these videos an idea of the success of my speaker philosophy and units can be gleaned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hARaveymVI Carillon de Westminster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOyMKVM0tvA Widor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqomRV2vEjc Fletcher Toccata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyX5b4-uyFg Liszt Evocation a la Chappelle Sixtine
However, there are areas which can be improved. I'm looking forward to hearing Clinton Knight's instrument where I recommended certain units . . . but that instrument is not the whole story. Earlier this year I blew up the unit on the channel for my Tuba stop and replaced it with a unit of the type he is using. It's good. However, for yesterday's concert I became bored of the Tuba stop and so got through a unit from my X-Ray hifi system to try on the organ again . . . and the Tuba came to life properly again. So I mended a spare X-fi unit and restored it to the Tuba channel permanently and we took it upstairs to speak en chamade. An organ builder at the concert said it was the next best thing to the tuba at St Paul's Cathedral . . . I understand there's an exciting recital at St Pauls' on Thursday - is anyone going?
If anyone wants advice for speaker installation or a sample of my cheap but excellent general purpose speakers used on most of my organ channels or details on the beast to use on a Tuba channel, please contact me.
(By the way, I refer to my hifi system as an X-fi system as it's not hi-fi - it's like looking into the music with a microscope: one hears glorious detail, more than is in real life, including what one does not want to hear like quantisation noise - but it really brings instruments to life, in front of you. For this reason, the Tuba really benefits.)
Best wishes
David P
I've been giving speaker advice to a number of members here and sent out a number of speaker drive units which I hope people have found useful . . .
The overall result on my organ is demonstrated well by the YouTube videos of Benjamin Scott, who is 17, performing yesterday. For the first time I've married the high quality sound recording to the video, although compression still degrades the sound significantly, but from these videos an idea of the success of my speaker philosophy and units can be gleaned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hARaveymVI Carillon de Westminster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOyMKVM0tvA Widor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqomRV2vEjc Fletcher Toccata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyX5b4-uyFg Liszt Evocation a la Chappelle Sixtine
However, there are areas which can be improved. I'm looking forward to hearing Clinton Knight's instrument where I recommended certain units . . . but that instrument is not the whole story. Earlier this year I blew up the unit on the channel for my Tuba stop and replaced it with a unit of the type he is using. It's good. However, for yesterday's concert I became bored of the Tuba stop and so got through a unit from my X-Ray hifi system to try on the organ again . . . and the Tuba came to life properly again. So I mended a spare X-fi unit and restored it to the Tuba channel permanently and we took it upstairs to speak en chamade. An organ builder at the concert said it was the next best thing to the tuba at St Paul's Cathedral . . . I understand there's an exciting recital at St Pauls' on Thursday - is anyone going?
If anyone wants advice for speaker installation or a sample of my cheap but excellent general purpose speakers used on most of my organ channels or details on the beast to use on a Tuba channel, please contact me.
(By the way, I refer to my hifi system as an X-fi system as it's not hi-fi - it's like looking into the music with a microscope: one hears glorious detail, more than is in real life, including what one does not want to hear like quantisation noise - but it really brings instruments to life, in front of you. For this reason, the Tuba really benefits.)
Best wishes
David P
http://www.organmatters.co.uk
David Pinnegar, B.Sc., A.R.C.S.
David Pinnegar, B.Sc., A.R.C.S.
