keskiviikko 19. heinäkuuta 2017 19.03.25 UTC+3 James Perrett kirjoitti:
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:49:37 +0100, Iain Churches wrote:

keskiviikko 19. heinäkuuta 2017 13.01.30 UTC+3 Dave Plowman (News)
kirjoitti:


(Dave enthuses about Bose)

At that point in time, unusually good for a PA system. And likely a
million times better than anything you ever heard then. As most were
pretty poor then.

Sorry Dave, but that simply is not true! The best places in the 70's,
Marquee, 100 Club, Mandrake, Raffles, Ronnie Scott's (the old address)
all had Crown driving JBL. A vastly superior combination, and still the
choice of many venues and concerts today.


While there may have been expensive JBL systems that sounded better than
Bose, the average JBL system that I heard was pretty disappointing.
However, I remember they had a booth at one of the hifi shows where they
demoed some of their PA gear at high volume which sounded impressive - too
bad none of their customers seemed to be able to make them sound that good.

At that time, JBL and Altec were used for both serious PA rigs and also studio monitoring. I have see plenty of Bose in home theatre applications
but never in a studio control room.

I would have to add that, of the venues you mention, I've only ever been
to the 100 Club and I don't remember being particularly impressed with the
sound (although I don't remember it being bad either).

Most clubs redecorated regularly, so sound systems were updated too.
The 100 Club was a difficult location for SR. But the jazz nights were particularly good. I played there a few times and was a member of the audience much more frequently. I always tried to sit centre, fairly close to the band.

One cannot expect the SR in such a location to match what one might expect to hear in a concert hall. But a club gig has a magic of its own:-)

Iain