It's about time to have a place to dump some meet shots. Hopefully this will inspire others (ahem) to do the same.
This is from our most recent micro meet in the brew city. 3 K1000's, 3 LCD-3's, an XC, Abyss, modded KS, 007's, TH900, HD800, HP-1, K501, and Paradox. Yum. Amp-age from Cavalli and (not pictured) ECP and headroom.
Couple thoughts:
Got to compare an unmodded LCD-3 to my modded ones and what has been dubbed the Franken3's. The biggest jump is from stock to regular donmods, but there was definitely a difference with the new pad mod (along with whatever other voodoo dbel performed) as well. Didn't spend enough time to get a clear preference.
The XC was not particularly memorable in that I didn't even remember if I listened to it or not afterwards, my brother had to remind me that I had.
The modded KS was pleasant with the LS tonally, but did not have the resolution of the Stax. Assuming there are no squealing issues though (which there weren't when I was listening) it could make a good long-term stat listener as nothing stuck out as offensive.
After 3 listens in quiet micro meet environments, I just don't think the Abyss is for me. There are some tracks that it knocks out of the park but coming back to baritone male vocals and strings it just sounds hollow to me in those registers. This works out well for me as I wasn't looking for an excuse to spend that much.
Don had some good test tracks as always. I only tried two of my own this time, Johnny Hartman singing "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" and then got to freak everyone out with Leon Thomas singing "The Creator Has a Master Plan" live in Berlin.
Ball's in your court Blue.
