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In Reply to: Go figure posted by Quint on December 18, 2006 at 08:14:55:
I bought three of the Grungebuster 2's and I have stopped using them. Just wondering if the highs are better preserved on the 2.2?
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To my ears at least, the 2.2 does NOT roll of the highs. The presentation is smoother, but I can't detect any loss of HF information. I expect that the 2007 will be better yet, but we shall see.
The highs are better on my CDP w/ either the original Grungebuster or the 2.2- compared to not using one. I never tried a "2" - footers changed things on the HF too. As Al said a ball type that allows for horizontal play seems best to most people ears. Herbies tendefoot had nice(actually the best) image and dynamics but made the HF terrible. Somewhere a trade off must be made. Best you try things for yourself and find out what you like best. Herbies and a lot of other places have a satisfaction policy within 90 days.
At first I was very pleased and said so here on AA. Sounded richer in the mids. Then started to notice that some of the HF was rolled off slightly. Itg happened on one of my test discs where I have some subtle HF stuff, so otherwise I might not have noticed.Tested on Al Sekela's much more revealing rig. Same results. Al liked it at first, but when we used my and his test tracks, we each found that it lost a little HF in our respective recordings.
So I stopped using them but didn't pan them here, because I felt that would be unfair.
Herbiew makes some very good products and gives good service. That was NOT up for question in this case.
If the 2.2s are different and don't roll off HF, then I'd be interested again.
I use a bunch of his tube dampers, but the 2, while sorting things out better than without, seemed to lose the HF info. IMO. I settled on ebony pucks with points facing down as the best footer in my application.
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