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The Absolutely Amazing Thing About Loudspeakers....

egellings said:
I wonder what it is about K and W that radio stations have one of them as the first letter in their call signs.
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That is the way the FCC (or whatever dept handled comm radio, BITD). K was west of the Mississippi, W was east of the Mississippi.

Thee letter stations were known as clear channel stations, like WLS 890, and no other station was on that freq.
 
Individually, I call records, records or LPs . Records, of course, covers all the variations. As a group or entity, I may call them the same things or, when talking about them in a conversation about them compared to, or in relation to, other media, I may call them vinyl. English presents lots of options. :D

Doug
 
I kind of feel that any speaker in any system can get the essence of the music, which is all that most folks want out of it, which is why hi fi really isn't more popular. Some of us really like to experience not simply the raw essence of the music, but dig into the atmospheric part, so that we can really feel like we're closer to the point oft the creation of it. Even if someone is able to hear the clarity and greater sense of dynamics that a higher quality audio system is capable of, it may not improve the experince for them as they are only after the raw essence of the thing, which they can get from a little Bluetooth speaker...
 
RunOutGroove said:
I kind of feel that any speaker in any system can get the essence of the music, which is all that most folks want out of it, which is why hi fi really isn't more popular. Some of us really like to experience not simply the raw essence of the music, but dig into the atmospheric part, so that we can really feel like we're closer to the point oft the creation of it. Even if someone is able to hear the clarity and greater sense of dynamics that a higher quality audio system is capable of, it may not improve the experince for them as they are only after the raw essence of the thing, which they can get from a little Bluetooth speaker...
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That's more or less where I have landed after 50 years of audio-fooling-around.

When I listen to this....

quote..
Stood there boldly
Sweatin' in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
I'd never felt that strong
Like a rock

[Verse 2]
I was eighteen
Didn't have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock
etc. etc.etc
end quote

It wallops me in the soul, whether it's from a car radio, BT speaker, Magnepans, or my Bose stack. Making it louder, adding more bass, adding more tinkle won't add one IOTA of more impact.

This is not to say that a great stereo isn't a cool thing (I still have a tube preamp), but its "greatness" is less important than the listening. I could go out and acquire some $10K speakers, but at my age that would be misuse of savings for the first thing, and I doubt it would add much to my listening pleasure.
 
DesertRatt said:
That's more or less where I have landed after 50 years of audio-fooling-around.

When I listen to this....

quote..
Stood there boldly
Sweatin' in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
I'd never felt that strong
Like a rock

[Verse 2]
I was eighteen
Didn't have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock
etc. etc.etc
end quote

It wallops me in the soul, whether it's from a car radio, BT speaker, Magnepans, or my Bose stack. Making it louder, adding more bass, adding more tinkle won't add one IOTA of more impact.

This is not to say that a great stereo isn't a cool thing (I still have a tube preamp), but its "greatness" is less important than the listening. I could go out and acquire some $10K speakers, but at my age that would be misuse of savings for the first thing, and I doubt it would add much to my listening pleasure.
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Well... for me there is certain music I dig that isn't recorded in anything like high fidelity and for that I feel like I can be just as happy hearing it on my car stereo as my home system. Lots of other records I have seem to lose something for me if I'm not hearing them played back on something really hi-fi though. There's a certain thrill that I get with certain well recorded peices of music on a good system that I would certainly miss if wasn't able to hear them that way. Certain stuff in my collection, I might not even listen to at all, if I only had a Bluetooth speaker to play them with. Sometimes it's not even the really expensive perfectly engineered recordings that really come to life on a good system, but other kinds of things. I was just listening to a recording of some Javanese Gamalon music, that I believe was made a number of decades ago. It's a field recording made with what I'm pretty sure was early (and probably very expensive) digital recording gear. It's recorded outdoors with the ensemble seemingly very spread out and the the background sounds of birds and insects seeping through the quiet parts of the music. Without the spread, dynamics, detail and overall "you are there" quality, this music loses a lot of it's magic for me...
 
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