Hello! Back home after a fab road trip from Gurgaon. Its only been three days since the meet but it seems a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.
It was great to meet & interact with you all & hope it was mutual. Must thank Rahul & Subho for doing their best to hold such a meet , it was hearting to see the young chaps showing such interest in what I feel is dying hobby & hope they keep up the learning process. Also thanks to Ashish for sponsoring it& last but not the least must thank the weather for being pleasant
& not as chilly as it was in the days earlier.
We had planned to get the smaller pmc & amphions for the meet, but we had a stopover on the way where the pmc & belcanto was for an audition at friends house. We heard it & were awed by the dynamics & revealing nature of the set up, since there was talk of wanting a revealing set up for the meet we somehow managed to load it the innova & started off with hope that it will be diff experience for members as it was a big revealing speaker, which there were none in the list. Also we felt it was better to have only one set up rather than two as the time required to set them up would be double.
No Hi-Fi set up is perfect regardless of the design, price etc. It will always have something lacking or wanting & it differs from listener to listener. Any new set up requires at least an hour if not more to connect with as its a new experience & one has to forget their current experiences, understand what its doing in that particular room.
I hope we try & understand that the PMC IB1s is a studio monitor & its not designed for home audio. Hence it does require a good room & may be with some acoustic treatment.
Since there are lots of bouquets & Err mostly brick bats for esp PMC Ill have to first point at the positives.
1.The first song we played was the MJs thriller: it clearly showed the noise from the computer; still the opening of door had, might I say for a lack of better words so many different sounds to it. It was not even slightly evident on any other set up.
2.When the mac was attached & played thru pure music it did sound much better & the tyco drums were fast accurate & had impact. In fact it was the only time during the show where there was dead silence in the room except the creaking ceiling & resonating box on the pillar.
3.It was showing the diff in recordings very clearly no matter what kind of music was played. Be it Madonna, George Michael, Elton John etc. We could make out how difference in analogue, digital recordings
4.The speaker sounded much more forgiving when it was re positioned a bit during the demo of Shivas dac & transport. It clearly showed the diff in the same tracks being played be it thru the transport, a 44 bit rip or a hi res download.
5.In such a small room the driver integration even in near field was seamless, even though its a mid field monitor.
What we couldve done better.
1.May be we couldve stuck to the original plan got to the smaller speakers & played safe
2.Couldve taken more time to get the lock in the room, But I guess we could ve been thrown out as everybody was getting impatient as we had already taken 30mins to start it.
3.Get our own stands, but we couldnt due to lack of space.
4.We failed in understanding the limitations of the venue. Even though it was very well described & rahul was kind enough to get the carpeting done on our request.
Also we must apologize for being late as unfortunately our car tyres were stolen in the night & we had to go through some trouble to get new ones.
Hope it will all be taken in a good light & constructively. As pointing fingers, ridiculing or demeaning any one is certainly not the way forward .Hope we all learn from our mistakes.
Cheers.
