As soon as I heard your short Escaflowne clip, I knew what the second song was going to be...except that I thought it was a real Haruhi song, and not a classic music put into Haruhi.
Interesting, that We're All Alone by Haruna is the first Earthquake generator on my new (used) large speakers that generally has zero to light bass in a slow song.
After one week, I moved my speakers from their test setup position away from the walls (where they will sound proper, but be in the way and can't stay there) to be closer to the walls. Took over a week of experimenting with shifting and angling them around to control the bass in this room. It's a usual process, but more dangerous than I've had to deal with before because these speakers are spec'd lower than any I've owned before, down to 34 Hz (full range 34 Hz ~ 32 kHz ± 3 dB) and this average-sized living room is bigger than I've fought with before.
Fortunately these ancient speakers are sealed (no hole in them to poof out bass) and filled with pillow stuffing, and have knobs in the back to balance the sound. I have the bass turned down to minimum (others might use equalization, but for now I dislike that, I think you need to control bass room resonances at the root and not cheat). Subwoofers are for dodos too: I hate bass.
The result of my tweaking is that these big speakers intentionally sound like puny little girl speakers and have extra light bass on most songs, and extremely well balanced on all low notes free of room resonances, except for a very few songs that contain super deep bass, probably like 20 Hz ~ 40 Hz, in which case there is a literal earthquake in my house. It sounds really bad, not steady clean sound or notes, but quivery and like something unidentifiable is shaking in an unpredictable and un-rhythmic way, out of sync with the bpm of the song. I've gotten it to a tolerable level (perhaps even amusing) where I can listen to any song again, but for a week I could not listen to certain Earthquake generators without fleeing the room in terror.
Biggest example I've found so far is predictable: the
Maid in Abyss song. To me it was always obvious this was an earthquake generator the first time I heard it on real speakers (I could not tell on TV speakers during the show itself) and you said that you noticed it was an earthquake generator only later. I think it depends on your earphones/speakers.
But in any case, it turns out that Maid in Abyss is a
real Earthquake generator even beyond what I had heard before on my various good quality speakers. What I hear on these large speakers: starting out at 0:00 there is no super deep bass, just normal very loud and fairly deep bass. I would have called that an obvious earthquake before based on how it sounds, but there's no shaking. But starting at 0:08 and for most of the song thereafter, the scary Rumbling begins. I want to go back to check on my other good speakers, but my old media computer is broken at the moment so I can't for a few weeks.
Not surprisingly, some songs went in reverse. The best example is
Accel World ending which was one of the worst earthquake songs that I knew on all my other good speakers, ultra loud and boomy and muddy, mushy bass. However on my very large speakers, the bass is relatively mild and precise. For the first time, this song sounds good to me on decent speakers. I'm guessing this song has crazy loud bass but only in the 60 Hz ~ 80 Hz range at lowest.
I still need to hook up my prior set of speakers that I had been using (for this thread) the past two years, but while they are pretty respectable and I thought were going to be better than my very large speakers, now I expect they will lose the contest.
I've also got one, possibly even two sets of new (used) speakers made out of metal body on the way. No idea if they will arrive safely though. They might fall off the boat or plane and sink in the ocean, or get dropped and broken on the ground, and if so then I will have possibly wasted many thousands of dollars. Specs are 32 Hz ~ 50 kHz ± 2 dB so if that's correct, I'll have even more earthquaking with those. Like most newer speakers, they have an air hole in them and no knobs to control treble/mid/bass (some of the biggest models in this line do, but they can cost $20000 to $35000+ retail for a pair and weigh 200 pounds each, so I was scared to ship that over) plus those all go down to spec'd 20 Hz ~ 50 kHz.
P.S. - Wow
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Jan 13 2024, 15:06
