Ian J
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My favourite room at the Bristol show was the Gecko room featuring the top of the range M&K speakers with MX-350 sub, huge Sherbourne amp and expensive Runco projector. Total equipment cost was just over £20,000
They were playing "Chapter 34 - The Last Challenge" from the region 1 DVD Drumline. For the uninitiated, and that included me a week ago, this was a competition between two American college drumming bands consisting of perhaps 100 drummers using both snare and bass drums.
No great treble involved but it is all about dynamics and control in the midrange from the snare drums and huge power, depth and control from the bass drums. I thought that it was an astounding demonstration of the synergy of a well set up powerful system and I went back again for another listen.
I don't suppose that I was the only one who heard the demonstration and was impressed but I wonder how many people ordered Drumline when they got home.
I did and it turned up today. I have played chapter 34 several times already today and it shows the gap between my system and what is available for more money .
I have M&K MPS 1510 speakers which at £900 per pair rrp aren't cheap. This scene sounded good at home with the snap and precision of a good set of speakers but it certainly showed me that there was a gap between mine and the top of the M&K range.
The power and control of the bass drums was reproduced very well by my SVS subwoofer but not quite to the same extent as the M&K MX-350 but I suppose that at £700 against £2,000 I shouldn't really be surprised.
I also don't have such a huge and powerful amp as the Sherbourne either which doesn't help.
The moral of the post - there isn't one, I just thought that I would bore you all with a Drumline thread and perhaps some others might be brave enough to test their own systems in the Drumline Test
They were playing "Chapter 34 - The Last Challenge" from the region 1 DVD Drumline. For the uninitiated, and that included me a week ago, this was a competition between two American college drumming bands consisting of perhaps 100 drummers using both snare and bass drums.
No great treble involved but it is all about dynamics and control in the midrange from the snare drums and huge power, depth and control from the bass drums. I thought that it was an astounding demonstration of the synergy of a well set up powerful system and I went back again for another listen.
I don't suppose that I was the only one who heard the demonstration and was impressed but I wonder how many people ordered Drumline when they got home.
I did and it turned up today. I have played chapter 34 several times already today and it shows the gap between my system and what is available for more money .
I have M&K MPS 1510 speakers which at £900 per pair rrp aren't cheap. This scene sounded good at home with the snap and precision of a good set of speakers but it certainly showed me that there was a gap between mine and the top of the M&K range.
The power and control of the bass drums was reproduced very well by my SVS subwoofer but not quite to the same extent as the M&K MX-350 but I suppose that at £700 against £2,000 I shouldn't really be surprised.
I also don't have such a huge and powerful amp as the Sherbourne either which doesn't help.
The moral of the post - there isn't one, I just thought that I would bore you all with a Drumline thread and perhaps some others might be brave enough to test their own systems in the Drumline Test