Justin & Jerry's Hifi Blog

[wiicrackpot]

I see, so another way of noise shaping to your room and your pallette then, lovely thing to look at if i may say.

[jandl100]

Well, I want to use it for improving the sound of old classical LPs - they can be very wayward tonally - often bright, also often dull. The Behringer will sort those issues with a couple of twiddles on the controls.

Also a lot of older LPs have skewed stereo imaging - leaning strongly toward left or right, so a balance control is good for those.

And some piano recordings, especially, have you seated inside the piano - the image is the full width between the speakers! Not realistic. So the Behringer allows the stereo width to be adjusted - made narrower (or wider).

A really neat bit of kit if you want to bugger around with that sort of thing.

For the many LPs that are OK, just turn the Behringer off and it takes it completely out of circuit.

And it's great to watch the display change with the music!

[Barry]

And some piano recordings, especially, have you seated inside the piano - the image is the full width between the speakers! Not realistic. So the Behringer allows the stereo width to be adjusted - made narrower (or wider).

I often find it is difficult to discern the orientation of the piano: are the bass keys on the left or the right of the soundstage? Or to put it another way, is the pianist facing you or has his/her back to you?

Probably depends on how the piano is miked up, especially if multi-miked. have you found the Behringer to help in this, or does it not bother you?

Regards

[jandl100]

I can't say that it bothers me. After all, in a concert hall with the piano side-on, it's really a point source anyway and dominated by the reverberant field. I prefer a narrow piano on audio playback and I'll use the Behringer to achieve this on my piano LPs.

[Barry]

I can't say that it bothers me. After all, in a concert hall with the piano side-on, it's really a point source anyway and dominated by the reverberant field. I prefer a narrow piano on audio playback and I'll use the Behringer to achieve this on my piano LPs.

Agreed the piano is side-on in the concert hall, but I rarely listen on bore-sight. I like to sit close by, on one side, so I can see the pianist's hands - and want this illusion at home on my system.

I do get it with some recordings, but not all.

[MartinT]

Funnily enough, I have always preferred right-of-centre seating for orchestral works so rarely get to see the pianist's hands.

[nat8808]

Funnily enough, I like to listen to pianos with my head inside the lid - not often you get to do that though in real life unless some sound guy is letting you place the mics on stage during a rehearsal!

So hearing it like that on a record is good sometimes..

[jandl100]

The latest addition to my ongoing hifi menagerie ....



Only just unpacked it and plumbed it in.

Cor. - it don't 'alf sound good!

[MartinT]

Interesting, Jerry. Different philosophy from Ayre. McCormack drives a video display to allow perfect control of DVD-A etc. discs. Ayre eschew any video output, using combinations of controls (not entirely successfully) in order to select menu-driven discs.

Both are based on Pioneer drives.

[jandl100]

Me & the missus have just watched a DVD-Video of Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore and Trial by Jury thru the McCormack.
Excellent sound & visuals!