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Re: Piffle [message #2874 is a reply to message #2873] |
Sun, 26 March 2006 09:33 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
Manualblock
Messages: 4973 Registered: May 2009
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Thanks. So what we do here; unlike the women, is formal nonsense and busy talk? I've never heard that expression. Good one. I've always enjoyed talking to women; and I tend to agree that my hobbies are kinda pointless. I probably should be spending more time fixing the house. "Excuse me Mr. big-shot electrical genious; maybe you can fix the overhead lights in the den? I need a flashlight to find the bathroom in there."Anyone remmember a TV show called the " Life Of Riley"; with William Bendix?
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Re: Thoughts [message #2884 is a reply to message #2879] |
Sun, 26 March 2006 12:53 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
Shane
Messages: 1117 Registered: May 2009
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Well, most any guitar music I kept ---Clapton, Vaughan, any blues of course, and anything that had a song or technique I admired on it. Any hair band junk that didn't have a cool guitar part on it went. That was about 99% of them. Granted, most people don't take into account that a lot of those musicians were studio musicians with impeccable technique and abilities, but the songs were just soooo cheesy. Unfortunately it was either that, or Billy Ocean--ewwww. Course we had Metallica and such so not all was lost. Like I said if it wasn't a classic (Stones, etc....,I hadn't listened to it in at least a year, and it was something that could be replaced later, out it went... Now equipment is another matter. My main system until this fall was a 1978 Kenwood Integrated amp and same year tuner with a set of Polk Monitor 5B's. But after hearing the Stoetkit and other tube amps at Waynes, I have future plans for a tube system. Unfortunately, I don't make much money and with two kids it'll probably take me a year or so to just gather all the parts to build that 6EM7 amp.
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Re: Piffle [message #2885 is a reply to message #2881] |
Sun, 26 March 2006 13:10 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
lon
Messages: 760 Registered: May 2009
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Talk about taking piffle to a new level. :-/ Oh well.
I know that in the Fitzmaurice forum there's a lot of musicians.
But the stuff they build -- you know for rock bands and stuff-- how many of _them_ do you think are tone deaf or have tinitus? As to the live vs reproduced . I think I good argument can be made for the is it live or is it Memorex question. By this I mean that the critical faculty is using a false comparison: radio or other prerecorded processed sound.
I got into all that after a bad build. What the guy said about the build in a very professional hobbyist way had to be bs. He had to be tone deaf. I've come to think this about anyone using a driver under 4 inches like the Tangband W871. My TB's have gone into everything: TL, sealed box ported out the back. I did get sort of a good effect from open baffle on a board but that is less than handy or elegant. Hey, maybe it's me who's tone deaf. I really don't have any good baseline for comparison. That's why I proposed audiology exams. I mean if you can spend thousands of dollars on a rig, it should be small change to have an exam you prob'ly haven't had since grade school.
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