RE: Grainy Sound

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RE: Grainy Sound

Posted by Pat D (A) on June 26, 2012 at 19:46:51

In Reply to: RE: Grainy Sound posted by eleiko2@verizon.net on June 26, 2012 at 04:41:40:

The ADS speakers did have a good reputation. Some of my early Telarc recordings were monitored using ADS 1530 speakers, and they used Schoeps microphones. What kind of shape are your speakers in? They are fairly old and sometimes things can go wrong with the crossover caps and the drivers after many years.

Poor recording quality is always a possibility. It used to be that many choral recordings were not very good, or maybe I was just unlucky in some of my choices back then in the late 70s. Still, I have a number of choral recordings by Philips, Telarc, London, EMI, and Denon, etc., which are good enough to use for auditioning speakers

E-stat is right that there was an upgrade to the Quad 405. The Quad 405-2 came out in 1982, with some more current capacity and some different parts. I expect that's the one you have, anyway. There was a not very expensive kit to upgrade the older models to 405-2.

While the 405-2 was still not an amplifier to drive really difficult low impedance loads, E-stat might be surprised at just what it would drive. I heard the Snell type A in a store, and driving them to loud levels was this tiny little amplifier, a Quad 405. It must have been in the '80s because it was playing Haydn's Paukenmesse, and I knew the music because we had performed it. Reviewer Leonard Feldman of the old Audio magazine found the Quad 405-2 drove his ig Kef 105 speakers very well, and of course, a number of people drove the Quad ESL-63 with them. I haven't found enough information on the ADS 1230 to know how hard it is to drive, but I doubt if you have any problems there as you would have noticed.

It's a nice amp though I went with the bigger Quad 606.

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Topic - Grainy Sound - eleiko2@verizon.net 05:23:03 06/25/12 (13)

Large-scale choral is my favorite reference sound - Feanor 12:57:48 06/29/12 (0)

RE: Grainy Sound - Kirk57 17:15:31 06/28/12 (1)

RE: Grainy Sound - eleiko2@verizon.net 04:33:52 06/29/12 (0)

You could still have a fault in the crossover. Have you run a frequency sweep to see if any band stands out - cfb 06:08:30 06/27/12 (1)

RE: You could still have a fault in the crossover. Have you run a frequency sweep to see if any band stands out - eleiko2@verizon.net 11:41:08 06/27/12 (0)

RE: Grainy Sound - SgreenP@MSN.com 21:50:14 06/26/12 (0)

RE: Grainy Sound - Inmate51 00:03:18 06/26/12 (0)

Process of elimination - E-Stat 21:57:13 06/25/12 (0)

RE: Grainy Sound - Pat D 17:06:06 06/25/12 (3)

RE: Grainy Sound - eleiko2@verizon.net 04:41:40 06/26/12 (2)

RE: Grainy Sound - Pat D 19:46:51 06/26/12 (1)

RE: Grainy Sound - eleiko2@verizon.net 04:02:01 06/27/12 (0)

RE: Grainy Sound - Pro Sound Guy 08:16:48 06/25/12 (0)

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RE: Grainy Sound - Pat D 19:46:51 06/26/12 (1)

RE: Grainy Sound - eleiko2@verizon.net 04:02:01 06/27/12 (0)

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