Loudspeakers, Headphones and Monitoring

‘If it’s too loud, you’re too old.’ I think I first saw this rock and roll wisdom attributed to Ted Nugent. And with the passing of the years it now seems Ted was exactly wrong, and in so many ways. In turns out if it’s too quiet when your old, that’s because you listened too loud when your were young. …

In the words of Cliff – ‘I like tall speakers’  enormous cabs with earth shaking bass, and late at night I log on to dodgy websites and ogle Isobariks, Harbeth Monitor 40s and hey big Spendors. But practicalities being what they are “I like small accurate monitors well  suited to my room”. It just doesn’t scan as neatly as “I …

I was busy last Sunday afternoon with an “Italian clamp” and a magic arm fixing a measurement microphone to a bit of handy furniture to squeak Tannoy’s latest monitors.  About eighteen months ago I gave their Reveal 6s a whirl and I was very impressed with what could be achieved at what seemed to be a bargain price.  The Precision …