RE: THX and Arcam's reply to questions.

["Nick Tyson - The Edge" <nick@xxxxxxx>]

Whilst they might claim that the THX spec is also an advantage for
music,
Lucasfilm unofficially do admit that the specs do not necessarily imply
an
particular performance benefit for music.

And the higher up the ladder you go, the further apart the ideal design
criteria become for music and movies eg on a high end speaker system
horns
will tend to produce a better movie sound wheareas tweeters may perform
better for music. However even when you get to a system like the JBL
Synthesis (I think the price on the Synthesis 2 - the middle model not
the
most expensive) which retails for around ?30k, which has both horns and
tweeters and switches between them depending on whether you're listening
to
music or movies, still doesn't sound that great for music given its
price
tag. It's not crap but I guess your expectations would be quite high
when
you shell out that much for a system.

You're dead right that good music speakers generally also sound good
for
movies but it doesn't necessarily work the other way round. It's just
that
if you're not concerned about music performance you can get something
that
sounds a bit more 'filmic' if that's a word for the same sort of money.
But
its this very fact that something can be 'tuned' for surround
performance
that makes them less good for music.

In summary, I think we agree.

Nick Tyson
The Edge
Tel 01473 288211
Fax 01473 288255
Email nick@xxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 November 2002 09:09
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] THX and Arcam's reply to questions.



Cheers Nick for the more sensibly worded version of my rant! ;-)

Just as a note on your "minimum level of performance" bit ... I
have
downstairs a five channel Rotel THX power amp. That's the original THX
spec (which became THX Ultra) rather than THX Select. Although that amp
has the THX badging to show that it has been certified by Good Old
George (TM) to meet the THX spec it actually sounds fairly pants when
playing music. Certainly if placed side by side with the Bryston 9BST
THX that I mentioned previously the difference is huge.

Phil



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