I am listening to a mono CD of "Revolver." I built a Mono Stack!
Instead of having a massive pile of old pro audio gear stacked in the corner of my garage, sleeping, I now have some of it, facing outward and hooked up, making music.
I have wanted to build a floor to ceiling mono stacked cone wall for quite a while. In the past two days I have done so and the result is amazing.
It's not pure cones, though, using four HF horns and eight super HF bullets. I don't have enough JBL HF cones to complete what I am using down low. I hesitate to add third party gear, because this already works and I have just today got it going.
The "FACE" of the sound that I am hearing seems twice as high as the ten foot garage ceiling and maybe twice as wide as the entire garage.
I am sitting at my bench about fifty feet away and from what I am hearing, I expect to turn around and see a ten foot wide John face and a ten foot wide Paul face and a twenty foot tall Ringo kit. I am floating on what else Paul is doing and I can't point a finger at where ever George is; he is everywhere.
I had experienced this before, way, way back when I did this for a living, and I always knew that it would be fun to play with when I had the space. I have plenty of power on it, bi-amped, and that was the goal to get started. I wanted a large "whisper system." At my listening level, the meters only barely move every few seconds and never even come close to the milliwatt marker.
I need to make up some cabling and I will have it all quad-amped without anything to add. I am using a stereo two way crossover and two stereo amps - nothing more to add. Quad amping will help with voicing. It's all running flat out right now, no EQ or anything. All JBL, but the JBLs are essentially flat anyway, but I should "voice the stack" for even better sound.
You can't imagine how huge Johnny Cash sounds, the way his voice and guitar were recorded. It's all mono, but floor to ceiling large!
I keep hearing "you have to have stereo to have imaging," but I already knew better.
