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Hehehe..... Santa will bring you some for Christmas, Steve! ;)
The perfect speaker? It doesn't exist. I need something that can do serious scale ('heft') and realism, though, at 'live music' playback levels without crying 'mammy, daddy' when the going gets tough...! :eyebrows:
Marco.
Santa is going to have to bring me a job first! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...10053437_2.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Marco
:rock:
I always preferred this one style wise:
http://www.avland.co.uk/aasp/jbl/092.../k2s9800se.jpg
:stalks:
I know there was chap on WW who had a pair of these JBL's, did anyone egt to hear a pair?
I would love to listen to some myself.
Big JBLs take some beating for scale.
K2s, aren't they? Awesome! I do love JBLs....although big Tannoys can easily do as much scale, and probably more ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by technobear
Martin (or anyone else), next time you venture up my way, you must pop by for a sesh and I'll frighten you to death with what the Lockwoods can do with rock music, in my wee room, scale-wise. Some people never fully recover.....! :eek: :eyebrows:
Marco.
Hi Marco.....
For large power duties the LS 5/8 will easily reach 115 db spl without distortion which is quite staggering (well staggeringly dangerous in a domestic setting as being a monitor speaker it does'nt actually sound that loud).
I know many folk have a problem with BBC designs but I first heard a pair of these when I was 15 in a BBC dubbing theatre and vowed I would one day own some - had to wait 10 more years before I did though. I've personally never found anything any better except the B&W Nautilus 801 which when properly driven did admittedly sound quite breathtaking...
Hi Stewart,
Yeah, you've mentioned those before and they sound right up my street... Got any pics of your LS 5/8s? :)
I need to buy/borrow and SPL meter some time. I've never actually measured how loud things can get with the Lockwoods, on the end of my TD copper amp, in a fairly small room, but it at times it must be frighteningly loud. The sound can pin you to the wall with its sheer visceral intensity...
Marco.
Yes the K2 S9800 was very nice but has now been superceded by the K2 S9900 which I think looks even better.Quote:
Originally Posted by technobear
My first choice would have been a pair of Everest D6600's followed by the K2 S9900, but at £44k & £28k respectively they were more than I could justify spending for a pair of speakers.
The Array 1400 on the other hand is a lot less at circa £9k and is not far off the more expensive models in performance. In fact the law of diminishing returns is very evident. It's also worth noting that the designer Greg Timbers used the prototypes for these in his own system rather than the range topping models he also designed.
Unless I manage to find a pair of secondhand D6600's for under £10k I don't think I'll ever part with my Array's. :)
If Marco pops in on his way to France then he could provide an unbiased evaluation of the Array's capability.