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IMF owners thread!

Yvan_donald said:
Maybe one on top of each other on special rack,or right left right left away from each other,8 feets but more distance in center from each other on the 35 feet wide or 45 feet ?
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So many options, you're right on stacking - can you imagine stacking pairs from all 4 corners (8 speakers), with a very specially selected set of amplifiers ! That would be a nice experiment. That could be IMF heaven.
 
A pair of Wilson Alexandria is more suitable,never hear a set of these,me two love to try two Pair's with Bryston 9B-sst using 4 channels stereo mode.
 
Yvan_donald said:
many good bassist: Jaco Pastorious,Avishai Cohen,Ray Brown,Ron Carter,Percy Heath,Marcus Miller,John Patitucci,Steve Rodby,Tal Wilkenfeld to name a few.
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Sadly, Chris Squire from Yes is battling a very rare serious type leukemia right now, but is responding well, it is publically reported. A close gal-friend of mine is friends with Chris's wife Scottie and we're hoping a good prognosis. Stellar bassist.

Playing Yes - The Ladder album track "New Language" so many times with RSPM MK IV had Squire loosenening a few floorboards here and was worth every listening session !
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Yvan_donald said:
Maybe one on top of each other on special rack,or right left right left away from each other,8 feets but more distance in center from each other on the 35 feet wide or 45 feet ?
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That would be cool - like a horizontal line-array ProSound/Sound Reinforcement arrangement spread out nicely.
 
Wilson's are super - I once had an interest for model Sophia's (like a crush on a much-younger Sophia Loren) !
 
My brother play drum,me I like to listen music,specially live dvd, PCM stereo,younger I love prog rock (Genesis,Yes,Gentle Giant,ELP,Strawbs,Led Zeppelin to name a few),Chicago,Santana,Loggins and Messina....classical:Malher,Brahm,Bethoven,Bruckner ....mostly big symphony,Violon cocerto,piano concerto,vocal mostly women Bjork,Emeli Sande,Sade,Corinne ray bailey,Sarah McLachlan.... ,jazz came late,all of the above listen a lot,Al Di Meola,Pat Metheney,Jeff Beck,Eric Clapton,Buddy Rich,Chris Botti,Dixie Chicks.like acoustic a lot
 
Wow, amazing -we really do like all the same stuff.

For classical I like all the dramatic Russian composers & Mussourgsky is my fav. Nice to see someone mention Corine Bailey Rae -she sings on some Marcus Miller albums - saw MM live with Miles Davis outdoor concert way back when. His bass laid such a full, enveloping, thick, syrupy foundation under the music it was just spectacularly overwhelming. Much like the IMF t-line effect, or super hi-end speakers do. Saw "Three Friends" (Gentle Giant) live -stupendous -really wonderful someone mentions GG - saw them do their 1st album live here in town "River" was exceptional. Sade's bassist gets a great sound on recording. All you mention -incredible talents, Buddy, Jeff Beck -his '70's fusion was sensational-uses all the best drummers, just like Gino Vanelli did from Storm At Sunup, Gist Of the Gemini & Nightwalker lps & live tours. His new now touring band is hot, very talented.

For IMF workout, based on artists you listed: Genesis - Trick Of the Tail -whole lp, especially 1st & last trax for lo-bass workout -whole album captivating. Jan Hammer Group with Jeff Beck Live - tune Darkness - Earth in Search of a Sun. Am friends with a former Santana drummer - Rodney Holmes - his band's keyboardist & I played in band back when we were 16 years old. Al DiMeola....just astonishing. Saw most of the ones you listed live & such great studio recordings. So many great musicians you listed !
 
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Moussorgsky pictures at an exibition,Chostakovitch 10 th symphony,firebird,rite of spring.Yes, Corrine ray bailey,didn't no her was working saw a news paper saying live in Montreal.So after work,go to the place buy ticket outside from a fellow who have one extra and watch the show,love it, buy all a CD-DVD.Saw Genesis with Peter Gabriel (73-74-75).Jeff Beck $150.00/ticket,invite my daughter to see it with me.Sade these 3 guy are good musicians,long time I didn't hear some Gino Vanelli.Like to listen some Depeche Mode,great show.Bit different
 
Yvan_donald said:
Moussorgsky pictures at an exibition,Chostakovitch 10 th symphony,firebird,rite of spring.Yes, Corrine ray bailey,didn't no her was working saw a news paper saying live in Montreal.So after work,go to the place buy ticket outside from a fellow who have one extra and watch the show,love it, buy all a CD-DVD.Saw Genesis with Peter Gabriel (73-74-75).Jeff Beck $150.00/ticket,invite my daughter to see it with me.Sade these 3 guy are good musicians,long time I didn't hear some Gino Vanelli.Like to listen some Depeche Mode,great show.Bit different
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Pictures is my #1 fav classical piece. Shostokovich amazing. Great shows you saw & cool your daughter went along - she saw 1 of absolute best guitarists - I bet she was excited & left the show astonished from his talent; for me Jeff Beck just rises above everyone else, but that's just my likes. Maybe have another 10 or 15 fav skilled guitarists - Holdsworth is up there, McLaughlin, DiMeola, Santana, Zappa, Hendrix, Howe, Schon, Satriani, Vai, missing more, but if I could only listen to one, it's Jeff Beck.

Check out Alan Holdsworth on Tony Williams New Lifetime - Believe It album, an lp cover to cover that is phenomenal, every song.

Great exchanging with you, so many really cool topics, most we kept related to IMF or what sounds great playing thru IMF !; it made a really good day, gotta go for now-
 
Hi,luker I have read a bit on MK III thread,they are old threads,but to me it seems, many members are not so familiar with IMF,some of them want to modify the speaker big mistake, if you could change the super tweeter for the original celestion hf 2000 it will sound better, but hard to fine and a bit expensive these day because of rarety.And if your X-over is not the improved model,that's a big plus to have.A lot of people seems to put the B-139 as one of the worst bass speaker,say it's hard to control (wobling),doesn't accept to much power,the B110 kef is not so good,very low efficiency,really having the MK III for over 30 years old,it's all BS for me,and with the right equipment it's hard to find a more complete speaker,specially for the most demanding music like the classical symphony's.At the time they came out not to many audio reviews was made on this specific model ,and today what people remember: hard to drive,too much bass,slow bass,dark sound?They where to good at the time compare of what was available to drive them.Yvan
 
Hi,now I found reference standard MK III pictures from IMF site,and surprized it's the model like mine with the fiberglass honey comb, I will put pictures soon,you see on the grill the IMF logo with "reference standard" besides or under,same 2 controls in the back,Yvan'
 
Reference Standard MK III

Hi, pictures of Reference Standard MK III,like you see it is exactly the model I have except newly call IMF Ref.Stand.Yvan
 

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