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Scott, I guess it's subjective but IMHO, after installing two Dazzo #70 systems in two Larrivee dreadnoughts, installing a Dazzo system isn't really a crap shoot as the amplified tone in both my installations sounded really good from the get-go. This was without using Teddy Randazzo's method of moving around the transducers while plugged into an amp to hear the varying results. I just installed them between the 6th and 5th strings and the 1st and 2nd strings and all was well. Perhaps some other players installing a Dazzo system would feel differently about its tone? Don't know, maybe. This addresses your crapshoot concern as a player would have to install a Dazzo system or any other brand of system to actually evaluate what the amplified tone can do for them.
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I purchased and installed a HiFi system in the Furch Vintage 2 dreadnought that I purchased in Buffalo during a trip. The pickup sounded good... for a day. I have no idea what happened but it died in less than 24 hours. This was at the same time I was dealing with the Yamaha FGX5. I figured I'd have the HiFi to fall back on. After it stopped working, and I tried everything I know how to do, I just removed it and left it on the bench. I haven't dealt with it. I need to either return it to Sweetwater or call LR Baggs. But, since I had a gig, I just installed the K&K in the guitar. Those never fail me.
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Sorry to hear that. Caleb Elling at LR Baggs is always very helpful and responsive. [email protected].
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My only experience with K&K pickups is that I bought my D 35 from Bryan Kinsey, so they were installed correctly. After so many years not having to mess with EQ, I could not bear to put up with needing to adjust EQ in at least three frequencies. After I had Dazzos put in, I was happy. If you can put up with the EQ situation, K&Ks can sound fine. I don't want to. And there are in my experience, many casual players with very nice guitars who put K&Ks into them a plug in with no thought to impedance and seem fine with what comes out of the PA speakers, witch is less than pleasant. In truth, and it is truth, most in the audience don't know or care.
I guess it is more their use than the pickups themselves that bothers me, and yes, I know one guy who swears by K&Ks that has tried Dazzos, but did not, I believe, take Teddy up on his offer to swap them out. I have no problem at all with someone liking a particular product and using it again and again. I only have my experience to go by. I lost all interest in experimenting, rightly or wrongly, with something new when I've been happy. It's like a Blackface Super Reverb, or a telecaster. I know I'll like them, a lot. I'd be foolish to think probably the biggest selling pickup has no merit.
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I now hear my LR Baggs HiFi/Larrivee D-40R Blue Grass Special combo as sounding really good with a neck-relief adjustment of about .008" inches neck relief. So, I know many of you like a neck-relief of a ruler-flat .000" inches neck relief? My questions are: Do you use a feather for a flat pick? If you fingerpick (fingerstyle), do you breathe on the strings? Really, folks, IMHO, if you don't have some neck relief, adjusted to your mode of playing, then your tone will suffer whether playing acoustically or amplified.
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IMO, a K&K plus an IR is a great solution. An inexpensive 1024 sample IR loader intended for electric guitar cabinet emulation is all you need for a great tone (not audiophile, but all the EQ issues and quack vanquished). I'd be happy to generate IRs or coach anyone through using my code directly (Seamus/Shufflebeat is my latest convert to making his own IRs with my code). I fixed his problems sitting in a restaurant answering a few emails with my iPhone.
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I need at least .007" to .01" at the 7th fret for relief. Like Gary above, I need the relief for dynamics and prevent buzz. As far as the HiFi goes, my brief experience suggests it's a "good" pickup, but maybe not in the same league as others you've demo'd, or some passive options with high quality external preamps.
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Good Comparison Video: K&K vs. Anthem vs. HiFi
https://youtu.be/zaWjhFu5Uk4
Through headphones, or speakers, the HiFi is quite impressive and at least for this example, the Anthem is not close.
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They claim there is no mic in the A vs. B vs. C at the end of the video.
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