Need Help With a Senior Moment...and A Lack Of Bookmarking

[fuzz092888]

So I'm having a little bit of a senior moment. Somebody, I think here, posted an article a while back about a guy who built a custom 5 channel room. Horn speakers, horns were built into the room, pretty much floor to ceiling. He also had a wall of electronics and EQ for the speakers.

There was also something about his son and being able to hear his son sitting in front of the speakers playing a drum kit and then being able to playback a hi res recording he made of that and how it sounded identical.

Anybody remember this and have a name or a link to the article?

TIA

 

[adk highlander]

I cannot be of any help but it sure does sound interesting and I would like to read it.

 

[highfigh]

So I'm having a little bit of a senior moment. Somebody, I think here, posted an article a while back about a guy who built a custom 5 channel room. Horn speakers, horns were built into the room, pretty much floor to ceiling. He also had a wall of electronics and EQ for the speakers.

There was also something about his son and being able to hear his son sitting in front of the speakers playing a drum kit and then being able to playback a hi res recording he made of that and how it sounded identical.

Anybody remember this and have a name or a link to the article?

TIA

Something by Irv Robinson?

 

[Irvrobinson]

So I'm having a little bit of a senior moment. Somebody, I think here, posted an article a while back about a guy who built a custom 5 channel room. Horn speakers, horns were built into the room, pretty much floor to ceiling. He also had a wall of electronics and EQ for the speakers.

There was also something about his son and being able to hear his son sitting in front of the speakers playing a drum kit and then being able to playback a hi res recording he made of that and how it sounded identical.

Anybody remember this and have a name or a link to the article?

TIA

Highfigh is correct, it's me posting about live recordings, but your memory needs a tune-up. ;-) I did record my step daughter playing the flute (she has a BS in flute performance) between my speakers, and then had her play along with the playback of the recording. While you obviously can't fool anyone about an orchestra recorded in a huge venue being live in your living room, the evidence is that you can make a very convincing recording of certain solo instruments, and a flute is one of those instruments.

My wife is a professional drummer (meaning she gets paid regularly), and I have made several recordings of her various kits in our house. While the recordings are very good, when she's rambunctious on her rock and roll kit it's so loud (in a residential room) that my system really can't make it seem live. Very close, but it doesn't fool me like a flute or a piano playback can. I also have a recording I made of a violin, and it's convincing much of time, but there are some loud shrieks that aren't so convincing. In a small venue a well-played violin is louder than one would think.

 

[fuzz092888]

Highfigh is correct, it's me posting about live recordings, but your memory needs a tune-up. ;-) I did record my step daughter playing the flute (she has a BS in flute performance) between my speakers, and then had her play along with the playback of the recording. While you obviously can't fool anyone about an orchestra recorded in a huge venue being live in your living room, the evidence is that you can make a very convincing recording of certain solo instruments, and a flute is one of those instruments.

My wife is a professional drummer (meaning she gets paid regularly), and I have made several recordings of her various kits in our house. While the recordings are very good, when she's rambunctious on her rock and roll kit it's so loud (in a residential room) that my system really can't make it seem live. Very close, but it doesn't fool me like a flute or a piano playback can. I also have a recording I made of a violin, and it's convincing much of time, but there are some loud shrieks that aren't so convincing. In a small venue a well-played violin is louder than one would think.

Hey Irv, I didn't remember that about your daughter, but I do remember you wife being the drummer.

Although this wasn't you. The article is years old by now. This was a custom listening room, built from the ground up. 3 floor to ceiling horns for the front soundstage. The two surround horns are hard to describe without a diagram, but from an overhead view, they actually used the two extra walls to build horn throats.

I've been searching all day and can't remember the name of the guy or the magazine it was featured in, although I think the article focused more on the EQ, which was many many bands of EQ per channel. The new search function and even display function of the new forum makes it extremely irritating to try and search through all 8K of my posts and doing a website search of AH through google is equally as clunky.

 

[Rickster71]

You've probably already tried an image search on Giant Horn Speakers..... some really interesting results.
This is the first one (not what you're looking for) that popped into my head; under floor subs: http://www.royaldevice.com/la repubblica-eng.htm
Amazing the lengths some people will go through for good sound.