Rockport Lyra

LL21 said:

Hi...I also listen to Gorillaz, Rodrigo y Gabriela (Live in Japan is great), Calexico (again, their live with symphony orchestra album is great), Dead Can Dance, plus a lot of Hans Zimmer soundtracks (Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises, both Sherlock Holmes, etc), intimate and large scale orchestral, plus a lot of deep house music, blues, jazz, classical from solo to small ensembles to full-scale orchestra/chorals, even organ (though not much organ), etc.

Overall, I would say on the following, I find benefit with the 4-tower:
- deep house...for obvious reasons with all the electronic bass, synthesizer work
- orchestral + deep synthesizer: sound tracks, but also Vivaldi with a 20-piece ensemble...it is truly thrilling to hear as if 20 individual players are (or almost are) lined up in 2 rows, side by side in a really large room.
but interesting I also find it beneficial on:
- live band music (when Nirvana Unplugged really feels like a live stage, it is thrilling)
- jazz clubs...where the sense of the club space around you because of the bass providing the acoustical venue cues
- blues
- ensemble classical (ie, quartets, etc) where the recording venue is particularly well captured

Now interestingly, I would have guessed that a room of 17.5 x 40 x 11 would share the most benefit from this...and arguably it does. But I STILL found in our earlier room (16 x 30 x 7.5) where the system was firing down the SHORT side not the long side, that the bass made a huge benefit to the overall PALPABILITY.

There is 'rarely' a bass note you actually HEAR from a piece of music with vs without the sub on (the Velodyne has a mute button so easy to test). Yes, when you turn the sub off, there will be [some] musical notes with much reduced/lessened in impact...but that is not where the sub becomes indispensable. For me, it is because you nearly always feel PRESENCE because of the sub, even if the music has stopped but the editor allowed the recording to continue before it fades out...you still feel like you are IN THE VENUE without the instruments playing, but as soon as it fades out to no signal...[snap!] you are back in your listening room.

The other things I would add is that it comes down to personal preference...if what I described is not addictive for some (I am sure it is not for all)...then it is not at all necessary. I just know for me, I would not do without it. Hope that helps.

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jfrech said:

Thank you, mine are finished, in the crates and on the way...

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jfrech said:

I'm hoping later this week, waiting on the freight company to give an ETA

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jfrech said:

I'm hoping later this week, waiting on the freight company to give an ETA

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jfrech said:

Lyra's show up tomorrow 5/25 from the freight company. They maybe in my garage for a day or two before piano movers can get them upstairs. Dealer thinks it'll be a 2-3 day, 10-20 hour project to dial them in. And then maybe some very fine tweaks over the next few weeks.

Also ordered 1 Gen 6 Transparent cable upgrade (DAC to Pre), however will get to listen to the Get 5 for a few weeks before it goes back for the update. Curious how this helps also and the speakers should be mostly broken/dialed in.

I did change the carpet in my listening room, so that's the only change from the Altairs to Lyras. My Altairs are now in some lucky listeners room in the Austin area.

Pics to come soon.

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jfrech said:

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jfrech said:

Yes ! The movers come at 4pm today. They'll be in the room by evening....

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jfrech said:

Love the color. New carpet also.


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