From dave@bombfactory.com Mon Oct 04 20:17:49 2004
Subject:Re: Hammond XK-3...my two bobs worth.


No... That's not the type of artifact I'm talking about. It's the
type that makes cymbals and tambourines hit you in the face more on a
CD reissue than the original. Not the obvious artifacts which were
present in the bad clones of yesteryear. I do recommend you do your
own personal shootout. You may be surprised.

/Dave

>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "vocedave2002" wrote:
> >
> > OK... Who's going to do the blind A/B/C with the XK-3 a real
> Hammond
> > and the V5+. That's really the only way you can judge... not by
> > using your memory (which is easily fooled). Also, adjusting the
> bass
> > doesn't make up for timbral problems caused by digital artifacts.
>
> Hi Dave,
> I think I have pretty damn good ears, and I say the XK-3 doesn't
> have any perceptable digital artifacts. My remark on turning up the
> bass was about his complaint that he would have liked more bottom
> end, nothing more.
>
> However, the XK-3 *can* be put in a mode that only an H-100 or X-66
> owner could love -- that mode provides extra tonewheels on top,
> and to a B-3 fan sounds like your basic poop on a stick. To hear
> this sound, one only has to listen to the original onboard Joey D.
> demo, and wait for the full organ and squabbling passages. Sounds
> like, guess what, digital artifacts! It's not. It's those infernal
> extra tonewheels. (The demo has since been redone, AFAIK.)
>
> -O "I Hate Clone Shootouts!" F