Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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This is a helluva on opportunity for you. If you disconnect one of the woofers on the other 60, you can hear what an M5 sounds like...sort of. BTW, if you disconnect the tweeters, that's what a Bose 601 Series III sounds like!
House of the Rising Sone Out in the mid or far field Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated
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Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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I was describing this to a guy at work and he says it's not right. It's fake and shouldn't sound that way. He says it doesn't sound that way at a bar, at a rock concert or at a concert hall. Your friend is sort of right... it is fake in the sense that recording engineers put a lot of work into making it sound like that... but it *is* what the album is supposed to sound like. The fact that it doesn't usually sound that way in a bar or rock concert or concert hall (without the audio processing) is kind of irrelevant... although anyone who has heard ELP performing Tank live (or Heart / Mistral Wind, or any of a bunch of other examples) knows that sometimes it *does* sound just like that in the concert hall.
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Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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Agreed. This is why I now choose my live performances carefully. An acoustic jazz performance in a dark, intimate Boston nightclub 5 years ago taught me that sound can have depth in layers. v4 gives me that.
BTW, are LFRs 8K?
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Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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Don't know yet... I was out of town last week and split this week between digging out and being off sick. Hoping to pick them up next week. Looking around at my living room thinking it is going to be the weak link... probably time to move some equipment downstairs and see if I can do better there, with actual walls rather than just windows. I still plan to set up the LFR's in the living room first to get a decent comparison against existing speakers though.
M60ti, VP180, QS8, M2ti, EP500, PC-Plus 20-39 M5HP, M40ti, Sierra-1 LFR1100 active, ADA1500-4 and -8
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Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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Living rooms are a nightmare. They are no place for speakers of any kind. Listening to road noise provides more pleasure.
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Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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This is a helluva on opportunity for you. If you disconnect one of the woofers on the other 60, you can hear what an M5 sounds like...sort of. BTW, if you disconnect the tweeters, that's what a Bose 601 Series III sounds like! lol wouldn't I need to have gotten the high powered version to get the sound of the M5?
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Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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The HP driver is more linear than the standard driver when it's cranked. "Cranked" has never been defined by Axiom but I'd say you're not likely to exceed 50 Watts average for your listening. That's 20% of the designed average which should be well under "cranked".
House of the Rising Sone Out in the mid or far field Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated
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Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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IMO the HP driver should be targeted at gamers and war movie buffs. I love mine.
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Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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The single HP driver in my M5HP sounds better than the driver in the M3v4 and M80v2 at all listening levels.
House of the Rising Sone Out in the mid or far field Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated
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Re: Ordered M60, VP150, now thinking M5's and VP180...
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I had a bum driver when I got my M22v.4. Just contact them and they'll fix you up really fast. The drivers are an easy replacement just be sure to make sure that's the only one.
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