frankensteins monitors

[demon]

hello!

my blog-updater reminds me to update my blog. it says amongst other things:
"see the JBL 4435 wrapped in bubbles and stuff"



and:
"yo yo yo!!"

i dont think that i have to comment this.
mikey

[demon]

hello!

quick quick quick i gotta run to work but i cant leave without posting a little photo-story here:
this weekend i put away the 2360 to take a close listen on my new 2344:




they are ok so far. i miss the "magic" of the big ones, but they certainly got other points. like imaging very well in depht -some instruments appear nearly outside of the room!

after listening to that for a while i wanted to try out a new position for my subs and ended up like this:




gee, really great sound there, directly in front of my nose. but totally unbearable to look at/live with.
so, downgrade:



looks like half the fun but it sure wasnt. didnt notice any difference to the double-sub-setup (after adjusting the gain of course).

dont know why but i decided to put everything away and come up with the 4435, altough the woofers are still not finished.
(see next post)

cheers,
mikey

[demon]

and hurry hurry hurry the rest of the story:





the horns got installed and the grilles mounted, but i forgot to take a photo...

gotta run now!
cheers,
mikey

[Maron Horonzakz]

Clean up your room,,,I smell a rotted pizza some where....

[Eaulive]

This room is a dream, everything you need is there and nothing superfluous.... like a wife

[Chas]

Yes, I think I could say with absolute certainty, this guy has no wife and it's quite likely, no GF.

Funny, I am feeling a little envious........

[demon]

great, even on the internet i get only bad room-response
seriously i still havent gotten myself to care for the room acoustics, because i somehow fear the efforts and of course its not easy to measure without a standardized noise or something. wich brings me to the idea of using the 4435 as the reference to wich my room will be tuned. if i compare the frequency reading by jbl with my measurements in the room, i could manage to find out what to do. couldnt i?! this would involve, of course, some proper investigation and clever thinking, wich might become a problem...

(hey cool i managed to get around answering the questions about my rotten girlfriend and hot pizza)

anyway thanks for watching.

cheers,
mikey

[richluvsound]

4435's are an amazing monitor ansd nowhere near as room dependant as the 4345. I prefer the dispersion of the 2344 horn . they seem to fill the room more . imho !

rich

[Maron Horonzakz]

With the way your cloths are hanging,,,It makes a perfect anechoic chamber,,, Now all you need is a sweep frequency gen. and distortion anilyser plus chart recorder to get results... But where to put them????

[Chas]

Hey Mikey, good luck with tuning the room to your 4435's....until you get dressed for work......

[demon]

woofers home!!





they sound as tiny as they look.
no, really! now, where did i put my other horns, they must be here somewhere...

cheers,
mikey

ps: i will take nicer pictures when i have more light in. its dark and rainy all the time...

[JeffW]

That banana leaf looks about dry enough to smoke!

[demon]

yeah, i had the "red little spider of the fertile ones and the grapevine" as summer intern this year and my two big trees both suffered hard. i had to take one down, and the one you see is still not recovering.
got a lot of new sprouts though.
the box you see on the table btw contained a bunch of predatory mites i ordered to kill the red spiders. but they turned out to be vegetarian monkmites or something, since they didnt eat any of the others and i think they didnt even reproduce a whole lot. they transcended their predatory miteness.



cheers
mikey

ps: the biohelp-box is long empty of course and i used it to keep the screws for the monitors. i just say before i have to answer any questions...

[Maron Horonzakz]

Dont forget to change your underwear on your birthday.

[demon]

thanks for that craptacular comment, maron.
if you got something to say, speak up please but spare me this kind of conversation.

thanks
mikey