I really could not give a monkeys if he likes the cubes or not , it's his loss in my opinion. But what I do care about is an accurate exposition of what he was hearing and why he was hearing it .
So he says
there’s excess of bass no matter what + is uncontrolled, slow and spoils the midrange..
it feels like the bass wants to do all but excel at nothing: there’s rumble and it affects midrange badly
He elaborates
What is an excess of bass?"
my friend, excess is "an amount of something that is more than necessary or desirable" and this easily understood and not needing explanation I guess. The cubes are not producing balanced sound as there's excess of bass that goes right to the midrange and ruin vocals and with a bass heavy music there's undefined rumble and far from tuneful, controled or agile bass.
Once again is elaboration is patronising and unhelpful . Everyone knows what excess is .
So , for him the cubes had two much bass . Now bass is one of those bollocks words in hifi and is often used to ask stupid questions you will find over hifi fora “ recommend me a speaker cable that will give me more bass”
As we all know it means low frequency sounds . But what frequency . There is no standard definition and it usually incorporates frequencies from 20hz to 350Hz.
So logically , an excess of bass must mean an excess of output from the speakers at these frequencies . Trouble is this covers an awful lot of music , from Mike Rutherford’s bass guitar on in the cage , to Collins drums , to some of Gabriel’s lyrics .
So, If I am hearing speakers with an excess of output at these frequencies then surely it would manifest itself in what I hear and I would be able to describe it ? And how does an excess of output between 20hz and 350hz effect the frequencies above ?
There are two possibilities . The excess of bass is inherent to the cubes or that it is a combination of the signal it is being fed and in room response. The cubes are omnidirectional and thus placement is important .
But there is no detail of what he placed them on , size of the room , bay window , experimentation with placement , distance from the wall .
What we have is Darius lazy mealy mouthed impressions of the cubes and an attempt to portray the issues he experienced with them as an inherent problem and to top it off , they may if you are not careful kill your children .
So , do me a favour ,he did not present a fair and balanced view , he presented a load of clap trap to justify his personal choices and it did this by using a whole host of meaningless hifi crapologyy
Please feel free to disagree
