It was one of the first Quads Columbia mixed so it has lots of engineering "acrobatics."
I was so disappointed in this one - the mix sounds all wrong.
I was so disappointed in this one - the mix sounds all wrong.
It was one of the first Quads Columbia mixed so it has lots of engineering "acrobatics."
I like audio acrobatics! They give my speakers a workout!
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yes, except with this one all the woofers on every speaker don't work much at all.
Specifications:
HF unit: 25mm soft fabric dome, ferrofluid cooled and damped.
Magnetically shielded.
MF/LF units: 90mm polymer-pulp diaphragm cones with 32mm high-power
voice coils. Magnetically shielded.
Crossover: 3-way, 8 element 12dB per octave slope at 300Hz and 3kHz.
High power low-distortion toroid inductor for bass.
Power Handling: 150 watts max
Overall frequency response: 35 Hz - 22 kHz
Frequency Response +/- 3db: 55 Hz - 18 kHz
Sensitivity: 90 dB/1 w/1 m
Impedance: typically 6 ohms
Terminals: gold-plated 2-way binding posts bi-wired
Weight: 20kg each
Dimensions: 180x840x250mm
Bass is not bad through my REL T-9, (10" active, 10" passive, 400 W) although this recording is far from bass heavy.
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With 4 full range Mission 775's, bass is rarely an issue. Those Brits make great speakers!
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play "Oye Como Va" then play the first 2 tracks...the lower bass difference is huge
The mix is straight off the Q8. It is one of those very early Columbia style mixes where there is no logic. The drums are split all over and get lost in the mix. Kicker back right, snare front left, cymbals back left, overhead front right. Spreading the drums thin like that doesn't work and they get lost in all the commotion.
It's cool if you like "all around the world" Quad, but it lacks any type of logic or focus.
Having said that, yes, the DTS disc is overly harsh in the high ends and suffers from some pretty serious noise artifacts. It's like listening through a glass of water or a very lowly encoded mp3. I've heard home-brew DTS discs that will blow the doors off this disc in terms of sonic quality. Tab's DTS discs are flawless. This one, should've been re-done like the Paul McCartney DTS.
I hate the way the drums are mixed on this. Annoying to say the least.
The DVD-A transfer from Mike Robin reel of this is insanely good. Sonically, it beats the bajingos out of the Q8 and dts versions. Of course, its the same "look-at-what-I-can-do-with-a-quad-pan-pot" mix. But superior nonetheless.