What are you Listening To Right Now? - and more

[OnTheBlitz]

Digging them Blitz. Day off, empty house, get to open them up.
The PIO's in the tweeter and 0.01 Ruskie bypass caps on the mids was the key.
Glare is gone. Crystal clear and deep, tight bass now. Bass I never knew smallish 8" sealed boxes could give.

 

[432HzBob]

Running 4.4 Ohm out the back door. Let's hope the Kenwood M1 basic is up to it. So far, the one amp the RS6's haven;t clipped or smoked.

 

[Rob84]

Don't get me wrong. I like Neil, However.....

So do I. A great musician for sure!

 

[MAC TED]

SKIT I ALLT--Dungen

2010 on KEMADO RECORDS.

 

[Rob84]

Me too. IDK why I have such a strong love for her, but I do and it really saddens me to know she is gone. Just one in my generation I guess.

I hear you, brother. It happens and you have to deal with it. We all have artists we have a strong connection to for whatever reason. Not hard to fathom why you felt the way you did when she passed away.

 

[432HzBob]

Track testing is coming to a conclusion with promising results.
Next step is real world sea trial shakedown testing.

 

[needforspeed]

One of Kevin's freebies, Thanks again

 

[MAC TED]

I hear you, brother. It happens and you have to deal with it. We all have artists we have a strong connection to for whatever reason. Not hard to fathom why you felt the way you did when she passed away.

I felt awful when Johnny Cash died. Not just because of him being a great musical artist, but mainly because he was a great human being.

 

[Rob84]

Here’s something to consider. It’s well known that Beethoven lost his hearing entirely and continued to compose music afterwards, but his hearing deteriorated over a period of years, not months.

He apparently discovered how deaf he was becoming when he saw birds being frightened by the sound of the bells of Stefansdom, Vienna and couldn’t hear the bells himself.

I wonder how much his mind had been filling in up to the point of that realization, if that tale is actually true.

It seems to me that the brain is the true organ of hearing and can fill in a huge amount of information before noticeable deterioration in sound quality occurs. Everything between the source and the brain contributes, of course, to the perceived sound. Seems like an interesting subject to me, but also a can of worms, so I’m not going to start a new thread on the subject.

Nice perspective, Kevin. I think the brain is often left out of conversations like this and it shouldn't be. To me, the babble about "audiophile sound quality" never considers the grey matter between our ears. Psychoacoustics is an amazing field and can probably answer a lot about why we perceive speaker A as sounding better than speaker B, or analog vs. digital, etc, etc. Yet, most audiophiles tend to dismiss psychoacoustics as conjecture.

 

[needforspeed]

Track testing is coming to a conclusion with promising results.
Next step is real world sea trial shakedown testing.
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[Rob84]

Neil is a fan of everything that's old, especially technology. Old cars, old trains. That's right, I just remembered, Neil owns Lionel Trains.

He does??

 

[Delmarva]

LOL, it is all personal preference Honestly, I get just as much enjoyment listening to YouTube videos through my CELL phone as I do the stereo....It is about the music in the end....

Whaaaaat….?

 

[needforspeed]

Conversation Boxes?
Is that anything like a Confessional Booth?
I believe one of Rob's desires in a tt was that it have a USB connection for vinyl ripping. Just reminding him that it's not a requirement.
>>slinks back under rock<<

 

[OnTheBlitz]

Nice perspective, Kevin. I think the brain is often left out of conversations like this and it shouldn't be. To me, the babble about "audiophile sound quality" never considers the grey matter between our ears. Psychoacoustics is an amazing field and can probably answer a lot about why we perceive speaker A as sounding better than speaker B, or analog vs. digital, etc, etc. Yet, most audiophiles tend to dismiss psychoacoustics as conjecture.

I touched on this topic yesterday
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index....-to-right-now.278564/page-10774#post-11616225

 

[Rob84]

Hi, Rob. Not all vinyl was recorded very well either. I'd gladly rather listen to the latest re-mastered cd version of EXILE ON MAIN STREET than the original vinyl release.

You are not kidding , Mac. There are plenty of vinyl recordings that just were not done well. Jefferson Starship Winds Of Change comes to mind. The master tapes are so bad that they cannot even make a decent cd remaster of it. Always sounded muddy to my ears, both the vinyl and cd.

 

[Leebob]

Do it to it!!!

About 3/4 done. So far so good

 

[OnTheBlitz]

Whaaaaat….?

I'm selling the stereo and getting this:

 

[needforspeed]

I still have my NAD 6300. I haven't played it in years. The DRAGON was equalled at the time by the top of the line European TANDBERG player. The TANDBERG as was true of most European equipment, had far less buttons. The Japanese loved their buttons.

I read that, And the TOTL Tascam had a nicer transport. Suspended cassette or some craziness

 

[Rob84]

I felt awful when Johnny Cash died. Not just because of him being a great musical artist, but mainly because he was a great human being.

I felt awful when Robin and Maurice Gibb passed away. They were decent human beings aside from their mega stardom.

 

[Delmarva]

He does??

He did...well, he was a minority owner.
He bought into Lionel to keep it afloat as his autistic son was a big model railroader if I recall the story correctly.
Neil is a consultant now and no longer a minority owner following their last flirtation with the bankruptcy courts.