But, but, they BOOGIE and have PRAT to die for!! Are you deaf, man? :D
;)
Marco.
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But, but, they BOOGIE and have PRAT to die for!! Are you deaf, man? :D
;)
Marco.
Agreed they did boogie, and no doubt had PRAT, but I couldn't suffer to listen to them for long enough to appreciate that.
Tonal fidelity and imaging are more important to me than deep bass, dynamics and PRAT to the exclusion of all else.
Do you know of any recording studio, broadcaster or quality control monitoring suite that uses/used Linn "Army Barracks"? :scratch:
Linn Records? :D
Only kidding.
Marco.
Carol Kidd's dulcet tones, mixed on 'Briks - now there's a thought!
Marco.
Carol Kidd was never mixed on 'briks, I can assure you :lol:
I've said it before, but I HAVE heard 'briks sound enchanting. Memorable ones were a bolt-up-250 active pair with original SNAPS and NAIC's (12S pre) and loads of listening on tuner as well as LP12/G707/Asak T. Our demo passive pair sprang to life on a Quatre/QMI Gain Cell amp with could give 800WPC into 2 ohms. Clear sound, not at all harsh and a proper ability to drive the 3 ohm 'brik loading. Driven thus, the 1979 vintage 'briks could out speaker the original 801 and KEF 105, which both tripped out their protection circuits..
A last special shout to Jimmy Hughes, who had a few pairs of PMS active 'Briks through his hands. OK with his bolt-up 250's, they sounded SOOOOOOO good with his three Krell KSA50's..
Passive isobariks with weedy Naims? Forget it, the amps just don't have the power, any of them, and a NAP500 may not drive the load if it's bridged for voltage drive, rather than double-mono'd (don't know) for current output.. Gawd, even Avondale are moving away from that 1950's RCA PA amp circuit..... :rolleyes:
The Carol Kidd thing was just a giggle... :D
...which is why the best ones I heard were driven by 250W Stealth monoblocks, like these, each with a 1500VA tranny inside:Quote:
Passive isobariks with weedy Naims? Forget it, the amps just don't have the power, any of them...
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9129/stealthamp1.jpg
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/888/stealthamp2.jpg
They most certainly had no problem driving Briks, but which still 'farted', when certain bass-heavy material was played too loudly! :eyebrows:
I owned their ECS cousins, for a while, before they were ousted in my system by a 30W Chinese valve amp....
Marco.
I remember hearing 'briks at Congleton Hi-Fi, it was one of those demo evenings. Everyone in room coo'ed and was in raptures....except me. The sound wallowed in fat bass. Warm and cuddly - far more so than any moon-face Jensen capacitor! (sorry that's another thread). That's not to say they couldn't be great if setup and driven properly. All this demo showed was poor setup and the level of Linn indoctrination my fellow listeners had received.
I bet the bass problem was the deck (LP12 in its most fruity period) and setup loosely on a Sound org table which magnified the plump bass and the 'briks were passive ones?
Passive briks and REALLY wobbly bass drivers so the LP12 was doing bad things. My 301 and Salvation don't do this!