HMP 1500 Demo
Thanks Retro;
I just plugged these puppies in; laid the woofs on their backs because the foams are gone, wanted to hear them despite the fact the surrounds are gone. The nice thing about the 1500's is that you can split the box in half for easy moving and maintenance, allowing the woof section lay down.
The original owner didn't have them hooked up for demo due to the foams being shot (nor did I want him to), but he emphasized how 'clear' they sounded. Now I know why, my ears went south after about two minutes of listening, now I'm deaf above 1kz. :yes: My gosh, these things really push the highs. I'm surprised that Pioneer didn't put a larger mid on this set, seems lacking to me, but maybe when the woofs are repaired I'll have a different impression.
I'm wondering if Pioneer had our natural deafness to highs and lows in mind when engineering the set. According to a tech I spoke with a few decades back, most of us are rather deaf to the extremes due to the rigors of life, machinery, natural listening range limitations, etc., and need to boost the highs and lows to compensate while listening. I can't verify that, but generally when pushing through my EQ's I'm boosting the highs and lows to get a sound I prefer as well, depending on the speakers being pushed. These speakers seem to do that by design.
Just my two cents. That's pushing sound through HALF my G-22k. I'll try them through my Marantz to see how that colors the sound, then take them out tomorrow to try with my main system, along with some Sansui SP 7500X's for comparison with my other Pioneers. Tighter space here in the office, plus the wife's asleep on the other end of the house... (well she was :worried: )
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some minutes later) Yeah, the Marantz definitely sounds better.
I'll pull out a couple of more systems that I've been waiting to test to see what fits best. Can't wait to get them out in some space tomorrow to see what the room and other system does for it.