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GREAT looking room, Ohighwayman!
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Balmer,
Any speaker will be in your face if you sit too close to it and your chair is up too high or you're standing. [
] []Tube equipment should not bemisused as some kind of equalizer. Horn speakers are not for everyone. I've found you either love em or hate em.
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P.S. Lest we get too carried away with nostalgia - - they sound "ok", but clearly not up to today's best sounding audio gear.
That's not my experience at all whatsoever. I guess it depends exactly what you are comparing though I'll grant you that. As a blanket statement it's nonsense to claim that modern junk is better than the classics of hi-fi.
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You never know with the Oconomy the way it is . . .
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I don't know why some of you all are laughing. I've been in other threads where people are swearing up and down about equally ridiculous items.
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Hi Giovanni,
Good to see you post here. I've found that one should never judge a speaker good or bad except with one's own ears. I have not heard this theater speaker as of yet because no one will tell me the name of a theater that has one. There are several people who have a pair of them in their homes though. I know I wouldn't spend many thousands of dollars on something without first hearing it but maybe I'm just more skeptical than most people. I've seen a lot in my time. Audiogon is full of audiophiles who bought the hype of a stereo component and were disappointed and put it right up for sale again. The careful shopper avoids a lot of heartache by auditioning before buying.
Regards.
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Didn't Robin live in S.F and summer in Washington D.C.? He had a sort of way about him. Never saw him with a girl.
I've noticed in the past that the guys who make the most fuss about homosexuals are either gay themselves or concerned that they might be.
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All the Crown amps I've heard sound like crrrrraaaap. My first experience with La Scala speakers was with a Crown amp. I had figured at the time that the La Scala speakers were just bad speakers.
It seems to be the case, though, that many Klipschheads have damaged hearing and can't tell good sound from bad sound, so . . .
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Sweet story, Mr. Crossman.
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It's a 45 rpm record.
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That issue was written by some hack creating an alternate history. It's worthless.
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But, I'd be interested in picking up listening skills from you guys to get more enjoyment out of the music. Any ideas, things you've learned? Rituals of habits that you enjoy while listening? Things not to do? After all, the gear and the music is great, but the end game is what we get from it. At least I think thats the end game? How about you?
Back in my day when young ladies were a good deal more shy, music was used when making-out to enhance the mood for love.
Some do's and don't do's from back then:
DO: Play music that she wants to hear, whether you like it or not. Think folk Joni Mitchell.
DO: Play music with "important" lyrics and pretend that you understand her interpretation of them.
DO: Play records on a turntable with an auto return function. You don't want to be interrupted in the middle of something to lift a tonearm.
DON'T: Play so loud that you can't hear her talk about herself.
DON'T: Criticize the way she gets her fingerprints on the record's grooves and scratches them a little when setting the needle down. She'll peg you as anal and a control freak loser.
DON'T: Obsess on your stereo equipment. Brag up your gear to your buddies. All your girl cares about is whether your hi-fi works or not, and then she wants to forget about it.
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I need to really work on my post count on here...seems like I've been posting away for the past 6 months and I ain't got nothing in the numbers game.
You may have felt like you shouldn't comment on something unless you could offer expert advice. But just dive right in! No one else feels constrained. There's folks with TENS OF THOUSANDS of posts.
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Have you played the explosion at the end of the Terminator track all the way up yet?
I had it at about half volume once and an hour later, had some dudes from Oak Ridge National Labs, dressed in black breaking into my door... they were saying something about protecting national security and siesmic waves....
Once people have had their hearing damaged, their ears are not going to get better. It would be as silly to trust someone's audio judgment who had damaged ears as it would be to trust a blind man's opinion of a painting.
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When I have the time I am going to incorporate the new suggestions into a list.
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1...K-horn 1947
2...K-horn 1948
3...K-horn 1949
4...K-horn 1950
5...K-horn 1951
6...K-horn 1952
7...K-horn 1953
9...K-horn 1954
ETC.
JJK
Sounds like you are a vintage K-hornist. [
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Strange but true . . . Chet was a better singer than a trumpet player. Technically nothing special but, at his best, the emotional content was out of this world.
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No doubt, Billie Holiday's sultry voice will melt ice cream from 50ft. away.
I have not tried that.
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I don't think too many people are putting too much effort into your research.
Obviously. Makes me wonder why . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I usually paint late at night,, I have a few mics set up outdoors,,, and mix the sound of wild birds, frogs, crickets, cyotes,,, This gives me the feeling of being closer to the animals i paint,,, In the winter its a different thing,,,listening to the high wind of a snow storm,,mixed with a Mahler Symphony,,At times a dog in the distence barks or a owl screetches... Maybe they dont like my music.
This is the bizarrest listening experience I've ever heard of. How do you protect your outside microphones? How do you run the cables into your house?
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Fortunately I can apreciate newer Neil Young, Eagles and others. I like my weekend morning Enya (I know it sounds odd but it is very relaxing stuff) and Harry Potter soundtracks. Occassinaly you find a reisue gem like Dave Edmunds 2 cd box set. I do 3 or 4 box sets a year to hear unreleased versions or songs not published in the past.
While I am hesitant to question someone who listens to such outstanding music as Harry Potter, I must say that unreleased versions are usually unreleased for a reason: They are second or third-rate crap that the artist and producer originally rejected. Then years later a label decides to cash in and puts out sub-standard work for completists.
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Do Blue-Ray concerts really sound that much better than DVD concerts?
No, sir, they surely do not.
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"...I probably spend more time dusting my stuff or chatting about it than listening to it, but I'm not a well man. I'm not allowed a beverage of choice so that may cut down on enjoyment. In my 20's and 30's there was always music in my life. As I get older I just enjoy silence. Is that wrong?"
Pretty much the same over here as far as music goes. I'm not "well" either, but I don't think it relates to my depression. It's a combination of being burned out on the music I've been listening to for 30 years and not being all that thrilled with the recording quality of the majority of things I've bought in the last five years -- and I don't see much point in pursuing good recordings of music I don't like just so I can hear my system sound good.
I will say that at this point in my life I find HT much more enjoyable, and the sound quality of a good DVD or Blu-ray concert makes even the best of my CD's sound profoundly bad by comparison. Silence is preferable to bad recordings that amount to little more than adding to the noise I already have going on in my brain.
If you don't like recordings from the last 5 years but earlier ones are fine, then it's obvious that it has nothing to do with your system. It's the way modern recordings are mastered. The funny thing is, DVDs are also mastered poorly, but you just don't notice it because you are caught up with the visual stimuli.
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Would someone post the addresses of some theaters that have Jubilee speakers?
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I have my Thorens turntable up for sale
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Thanks, I didn't know that. Are you allowed to have pictures of the Messiah up though that's okay? Just teasing ya. I know there is only so much the guy can do when he's got so many lobbyists in his administration and Nancy Pelosi actually running things.