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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | All I know is that when Temp was wailing on the OFC, I could feel my fillings rattling in my teeth sitting in front of him from 5 feet away... |
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Location: Texas | Well said T ;)
Of course a 12 string would be louder, but I guess the question is about 6 string guitars. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | the "Shiny Bowls" need to be recognized here... even against the Adamas... these guitars stonk! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | 6 string 1719 |
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Location: ranson,wva | loudest was the adamas w681 i had. cleanest sounding ovation ive owned was a early 80's 1567 legend ssb...but now thge loudest ovation ive got is the celb cc057 loaner from iffy lol |
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Location: NJ | Well, that answered Templeman's question . . . |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | And a few of us have either the 1688 Adamas I or the 1685 Adamas II 12-str or both...then, unless the competition is limited to 6-strings, the Adamas I/II 12-str will lead the pack.
:D :rolleyes: ;) |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | '68 Josh White. |
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Location: big island | if 12 stringers are disqualified, it certainly isn't my elite 2078T so it will have to be the 1537-4 when it arrives. i think the W597 i used to own is louder than this elite 2078T, acoustically speaking. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | My OFC #2 is the loudest acoustic, but my Viper with Carvin pickups through 2 Marshall full stacks mic'd through the PA at the Blaisdell Arena in Hawaii is probably the loudest I ever got. |
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Location: SoCal | Acoustic, Miles, acoustic...... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I finally got around to trying to "test" mine last night. The Ute seemed louder than the OFC. Of the woodtops, the 30th CL and Matrix were quite loud, but they were first and last in the test. I think the 30th CL has medium strings and all the others have lights.
So the definitive results of this test: I don't know. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I don't know about loud, but I did an interesting (and unintentional) study in sustain. All of my decent guitars are hanging in a walk-in display area with hard walls and wooden floor. A nice little reverb chamber. I was installing some wooden molding on the door threshold and my wife yells "American Idol is on TV". So I bang in the last nail, the guitars are all ringing like hell and I go watch TV. An hour of American Idol, a ham & cheese sandwich and half the local news report later and it was time for bed. I came back up to turn off the lights in the music room. Slothead #42 was still vibrating. Damn ....
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Location: Hong Kong | ... Slothead #42 was still vibrating. Wow, that's really interesting (& amazing).. |
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Location: Jet City | I just made sure last night. I put my son in front of me and made him decide. I only have 3 Acoustic Os, so it was a short test.
The winner...
#2 was the 6774 Folklore
Last place was the 1778LX Elite |
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Location: NJ | The SlotHeads ARE a study in perfectly & efficiently converting physical vibration into sound (& vice versa).
In our old GardenApartment, 54 used t'hang on the wall in the living room.
Whenever we watched a movie, I had to move the guitar into the bedroom, as the sympthetic vibrations (and their sustain) was quite distracting when you were trying t'watch a movie . . . |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by cliff:
I had to move the guitar into the bedroom, as the sympthetic vibrations (and their sustain) was quite distracting when you were trying t'watch a movie . . . Then I guess you would have to move it back into the living room if you were gonna ....um, nevermind.. |
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Location: big island | ...snore |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I still haven't checked but I've been playing the Super Legend Prototype (read 1537) lately and it's on about a volume par with the Tak 45. |
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Location: big island | (if this thread wuz not specific to the loudest 6 string acoustic ovation model, my takamine EF340 is clear and louder by far than every other guitar i own.) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was talking to somebody on this board about how all the guitars ring when I sneeze. Maybe we should combine this thread with the snot blob thread. |
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Location: Poplar Bluff Mo | UTE! |
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Location: closely held secret | 1581.
...or the 768. It's hard to tell. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You want sympathetic vibrations????
Be in a room with the Nationals on the wall when the dog barks. Cliff knows, he was there. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I would say the loudest I have is the 1688-8 #1000.
But I still haven't checked.
Keep in mind that loud and tone are closely related but not always the same. I think back to the side by sides that Debanjo-Steve and I did after AmeliaMatt and picked the Tak 45 as the best sounding and one that we would always choose first, even though it was not the loudest.
To Randy's point the Tak Bluegrassers are loud (and good too!). The 1537 family of guitars are good too. A straight acoustic Adamas will be right up there too |
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What is your loudest Ovation?
