What I learned recently

[Rowdy S13]

Well seeing as how Im not working at the moment, I decided to go to EVERY audio shop in my area. That eventually led me to a Tweeter near by where I looked at sub's. When I first said something about subs, I was instantly met with "All I need to say is Martan Logan" So since I was playing somewhat dumb, I said show me. We walked over to a nice lil set up which included...
Martin Logan towers
Krell Pre Amp
Krell Amp
Panamax power center
All Audio quest cables
and a Martin Logan Decent sub
All of this fine equipment and the souce was a 150 dollar Sony 5 disc CD player!!!!! I naturally commented on it, the response was "Eh, it works" Anyway this was all in the open, not in one of the rooms where it could really blow someone away. I must say it filled the very large area almost with ease. After that I wanted to see what else there was in the store.

Next we went into a room and I instantly looked at the floor and saw a tiny polk audio sub and began to make fun of it We tried to hear it in the room but there was a horrible ground loop (which when we heard it he looked at the cable and was like "Well thats not a sub cable" ) so we took it to where the decent was at. He hooked it up there and we listend to the same track (Some pop crap song with **** bass) When the bass was SUPOSED to hit he looked at the sub then back up at me and said "Thats cranked up all the way"

So you may be wondering what the point of this all was.....






There was no point, I was just bored and wanted to describe the difference in a $2000 sub and a $299 sub One will fill a large area, and sound killer doing it, the other wont do anything really.


Sean

 

[Adam]

Entertaining! Thanks. Sounds like you had some fun.

I've got family in Schaumburg, and I lived up there for a summer back in 1994. Nice area.

 

[Rowdy S13]

Thanks, I did have fun. I was messing with the guy basicly the whole time. At first he seemed ok, but then he said a few things that made me loose respect for him quickly. Such as, "Bose sound good for what they are" and "Cables should be 50-80% of youre budget" "I stay as far away from HDMI as I can, its just no good"

So as you can imagine I didnt get much out of that visit, just had some fun. After that though I went to a place Ive passed by a million times but never visited, that was worthwhile. It was a nice small place, packed to the hilt with really nice stuff. Its the first time I saw some brands that get talked about on here quite a bit, like PSB, Paridgm, and so on. I was just VERY bored that day, and this area happens to have a decent amount of audio stores.

Schaumburg is great, there is everything here. The traffic gets to me sometimes, but I can deal with it. You just have to stay far far away from the mall on the weekends. It get crazy over there, stupid tourist. I rember when they had a Bang and Olfsons in that mall though.


Sean

 

[Adam]

I rember when they had a Bang and Olfsons in that mall though.

Sean, I've been there! Cool store. Too bad that I went there long before I had the means to buy any of it. Some interesting stuff.

 

[Rowdy S13]

Sean, I've been there! Cool store. Too bad that I went there long before I had the means to buy any of it. Some interesting stuff.

It was a cool store, and I still dont have the means to buy anything from it There is another store a lil north of me that has a B&O store inside of it. Its cool to go look at that stuff every once in a while, next time I go I want to sit down and give it a good listen though. Ive never actually listend to anything they make, I always just play with it

Sean