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  1. A perfect memory could be tested. I read a list of twenty terms to you, and you repeat them back to me from memory. I can compare what you remember to my list, and score the accuracy.

    But a perfect auditory memory? It's untestable. How could anyone else know whether you remember what a performance sounded like? How can you yourself know if you remember it correctly, or if you just think you do? You're asking us to believe you, based on faith.

  2. I've rewritten this several times. I started by takeing the bait. Dumped that and started a technical discussion. BS and a waste of time.

    I'll try this. I record location music from the most delicate of instruments in the most demanding acoustic situations. I NEVER forget the sound of a given instrument in a given space. When I hear the playback of an event I have the ability to judge precisely what differs in the playback from what I heard in the event, and most of the time the reason for it. The TI chipset digital amp I use as one of the amps in my main system offers playback at any level that does not reveal its presence. I am not sure what others are looking for in an amplifier, but that is all I ask.

    If you are an "armchair" audiophile who listens to nothing but off the shelf stuff, your ability to determine accuracy is severely limited, IMHO.

    Dave

    Obviously, Dave, none of us here have anything even approaching the superhuman ability of your golden ears and auditory memory. Makes one wonder why any of the rest of us simpletons even bother to post anything when we could just wait for your take on the matter and have THE TRVTH revealed.

  3. More coaching going on!!

    Exactly what I was thinking! I just love these casual asides "Anarchist" drops in like the "Miller effect" and

    An optimized triode implementation involves making some additional

    changes beyond merely disconnecting the UL taps and sticking a resistor

    between pins 3 and 4 on the output tubes.

    Too funny!

  4. Many folks think they are the most attractive Klipsch speaker ever made--even folks who don't care about audio will compliment their appearance.

    Many folks think they are the most attractive speaker ever made by anyone.

    In Alaska, you'd be doing all right paying $1000 each.

  5. I believe Paul suckered me
    into helping him carry up a bunch of LP's he was trying to sell, along
    with some other stuff he wanted to demo with? I dunno, but I can't
    believe how heavy the boxes were.

    Now we learn the real reason Dr. Who prefers CDs to LPs: They don't weigh as much.

    I figured that Dr. Who, being a youngster in a group of old farts, would be the logical choice to help me haul up two boxes of records. I gave him the lighter box that had only 50 LPs in it, and I took the one with 70 LPs.

    I enjoyed your AKFest review, Doc, especially the part about telling the guy with the fancy turntable that it sounded the most like a CD player that you had heard. That must've crushed him.

  6. A few things that sounded bad in certain various systems:

    Rattling when turned up! I'm not sure if it was the speakers physically or something else in the room, but I think it was the speakers themselves.

    Room-sized vocalist instead of real-sized vocalist.

    Flat imaging.

    Lack of dynamics: On a familiar recording, not enough sudden impact when you know it should be there.

    At least a couple systems were downright unpleasant to listen to, and I had to leave. I'm guessing it was distortion. And the offender here were the vocals!

    There was a system I called Roger in to listen to, but in the meantime they had changed the music and what had sounded very nice now sounded very bad. That meant their system couldn't handle just anything, and in this case they were the ones choosing the material.

    But I don't want to over-emphasize the negative. There were some very nice systems that would probably make 95% of people happy. As I'm thinking about it, some of these included some of the more modestly priced equipment. I wonder if there can be a negative correlation on price and quality [:)]

  7. Call me horny, but I liked the La Scalas and a pair of Altecs down the hall better than any other speaker systems at AKFest. I did hear a lot of good gear and also some other stuff that I would have not wanted for free, including the most expensive items there. At least the presenters seemed to like their own bad-sounding equipment, even if no one else did. Some of it sounded okay in its range, but when pushed a little would horrify you. Interestingly, though, it wasn't the auditioners who pushed the volume, but the presenters, and they seemed oblivious to the shortcomings they were revealing. Go figure. But there were a lot of rooms that had quite enjoyable systems, if not as engaging as I'm used to at home.

    This year there were two or three systems showed off exclusively with music servers, some with CDs, and some exclusively vinyl. The vinyl sounded the best, no matter what Dr. Who says.

    Craig's La Scalas were, for the great majority of the time, kept at levels where you could carry on a reasonable level conversation, without shouting. No headbangers around this time!

    I sold some LPs and CDs dirt cheap, and picked up several nice records. Gilbert (not the Klipsch Gilbert) played a fantastic recording of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, that I hadn't heard before. I'm going to have to buy this.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Kamakawiwo'ole

  8. Mine does - and it is a bit of a PITA because it is just slightly louder than I can listen with the rest of the house asleep. On those rare ocasions, though, when everyone else is out - oh boy does it sound good.

    True audiophiles are single.

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