I attended a meetup of the Suncoast Audiophile Society yesterday.
AJ gave the demo.
It was only nine miles away, how could I resist.
A borrowed room at the Sun City Community Center, estimated dimensions 25 x 40 x 9.
The big speakers have a coaxial horn / midrange at the top, a pair of woofers, and a subwoofer on the back.
The front half of the "box" is open (cloth sides and top), the rear half is sealed box for the rear sub.
The bookshelf has an 8" woofer and waveguide tweeter, also active. An array of 4 closed back mid/HF drivers was mounted to the back of the bookshelf and could be used with either set of speakers.
I don't know if the crossovers were active or passive, I might guess passive.
Both speakers were active designs. They appeared to be more tech demonstrators than fully finished "for sale" items.
A Mytek Brooklyn DAC was used for the front speakers. A pair of surrounds were also set up, possibly driven by an Emotiva DAC.
Sources were from the Laptop, wireless to the shrine, Tidal streaming, hard-disk files, optical disc were sources.
No DRC was used. Seemed a little off on the frequency response, but who knows, it being an unfamiliar room and system.
Bass was not boomy. That's always a plus.
Imaging was a little more diffuse than I am used to, maybe due to the use of rear speakers, which isn't something I have, or am acquainted with.
Apparently some of the tunes were fully MQA decoded, but nothing made me notice which were or weren't. It occurred to me to ask to be sure since the Mytek does MQA and Tidal can send it.
Of course, my single demo tune request was not part of Tidal's repertoire.
So, my first Audiophile meeting, ever. Scratch that off my bucket list.
Now, all I have to do is attend a Show sometime and my audio life will be complete. I've already visited a Dealer.
Sal1950 is in the second picture. I do not appear.
The directions to the place were a bit unclear, which is why Sal is still wearing a frown.
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Here is AJ's company site:
http://www.soundfieldaudio.net/
AJ gave the demo.
It was only nine miles away, how could I resist.
A borrowed room at the Sun City Community Center, estimated dimensions 25 x 40 x 9.
The big speakers have a coaxial horn / midrange at the top, a pair of woofers, and a subwoofer on the back.
The front half of the "box" is open (cloth sides and top), the rear half is sealed box for the rear sub.
The bookshelf has an 8" woofer and waveguide tweeter, also active. An array of 4 closed back mid/HF drivers was mounted to the back of the bookshelf and could be used with either set of speakers.
I don't know if the crossovers were active or passive, I might guess passive.
Both speakers were active designs. They appeared to be more tech demonstrators than fully finished "for sale" items.
A Mytek Brooklyn DAC was used for the front speakers. A pair of surrounds were also set up, possibly driven by an Emotiva DAC.
Sources were from the Laptop, wireless to the shrine, Tidal streaming, hard-disk files, optical disc were sources.
No DRC was used. Seemed a little off on the frequency response, but who knows, it being an unfamiliar room and system.
Bass was not boomy. That's always a plus.
Imaging was a little more diffuse than I am used to, maybe due to the use of rear speakers, which isn't something I have, or am acquainted with.
Apparently some of the tunes were fully MQA decoded, but nothing made me notice which were or weren't. It occurred to me to ask to be sure since the Mytek does MQA and Tidal can send it.
Of course, my single demo tune request was not part of Tidal's repertoire.
So, my first Audiophile meeting, ever. Scratch that off my bucket list.
Now, all I have to do is attend a Show sometime and my audio life will be complete. I've already visited a Dealer.
Sal1950 is in the second picture. I do not appear.
The directions to the place were a bit unclear, which is why Sal is still wearing a frown.
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Here is AJ's company site:
http://www.soundfieldaudio.net/
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