Week Thirty-Three – The Wife’s Off, With Me!!
OK folks, this week is likely to be a little thin on the ground as I go into semi-vacation mode for a fortnight as my darling Babe is off work. However, I will be putting in some geeky hours and we do have some nearly finished reviews to get published.
One is the slightly surprising Clarion SRV 313, a compact under-seat bass maker that isn’t especially powerful but does use the interesting MaxxBass process”>, said to make the bass intensity more evenly spread through the cubic excited. Here’s a quote: “MaxxBass creates harmonics that you can add to the signal. These harmonics trick the ear into perceiving low bass frequencies that may not actually be present in the output. This psychoacoustic illusion can be used for mixing and mastering to enhance the bass response for playback on any system. MaxxBass can also be used to mix for installed systems, such as commercial sound systems, theme parks, outdoor distributed systems, personal stereo systems, and more.” I guess us lot come under ‘and more’. I know Big Mick uses it for mixing Metallica! That’s stuff that isn’t in the review and I can tell you that Clarion UK had no idea about it, which made me feel smug.
Other reviews nearing completion are the Vibe BlackBox Stereo4 power amplifier, a sexyful slab of much blackness and lumpen power and the CDT Audio CL-6EXT, a set of coaxials made by one of the finest speaker geniuses I have had the pleasure to meet” He’s the real thing, right up to a certain other worldliness and has garnered so many winning reviews at just about every price point for his awesome speakers that he has forgotten how many!
OK, if you read this far then here’s a scoop.
The entire Talk Audio site is about to go through a typically Guru-brilliant evolution as it enters it’s tenth year. (year four of the online Talk Audio Magazine) This entails astonishing amounts of data work that is frankly beyond my ken as we change from three bits of software from different software houses with names like Joomla and vBulletin and another thing to run the banners that pay for everything these days, to a suite from a different software house. Thus, the forum and the magazine will be a tad closer to each other in essence and the speed at which stuff can go live will increase as I get control of the ‘publishing button’ – which really means that the new framework is so much less dangerous to let be used by the likes of me. For I am the webmaster equivalent of one who is not permitted scissors and sharp things.
Furthermore, instead of mere lists of articles, news, car write ups and reviews once you have drilled away from the mag front page, there will be much prettier picture-inclusive pages underneath. All organised by latest or else by various cross referencing methods yet to be finalised. All I know is I can’t wait and I am deeply grateful to those in the background with the rarefied web expertise sorting all this out.
Gotta finish those reviews…..so,
I’ll go get on, then.
Adam Rayner – Online Editor