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Post by 405x5 on Mar 6, 2019 0:10:27 GMT -5
Steve’s a good guy, but he’s got it all wrong on this one. I was out one day doing deliveries in the company truck, armed with a cheap Panasonic cassette player, sitting on “the doghouse” (slang for the engine cover for anyone unfamiliar). For the next hour, that little player sitting on the motor was my “system”. The artistry, which flowed from that tape had my heart and soul pounding. A “system” means nothing if the artists can’t cut it. Bill Ok...…..well I DO get what S.H. was saying in his video, but I could not resist over stressing the most important (at least to me) aspect of the whole deal. To what he says, my system WAS really good, but reaching those low frequencies that some of my collection contained (like the bad ass low organ pedal tones and such) evaded me. Until I added the right sized subwoofer. proportionate to the system. Once that was done, I had that trip of spending many hours (and many days) revisiting my collection, and hearing passages of low frequency material that had never before been rendered, in the same space (room). And...…..I do have a great room for listening. To add to it, I expanded my collection to some additional pipe organ recordings just for the fun of it. Between the high power amps. and the 18 inch bass driver, I've made Captain Nemo a happy guy (and mee) And yes! It does go lower then the Panasonic portable cassette player sitting on the dog house of my work van. (He He He!) Bill
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Post by mgbpuff on Mar 6, 2019 9:33:25 GMT -5
O.K. listened to Steve G. and, yes, I agree with what he is saying. But Steve has listened to one hell a lot of equipment. Still if you sit down and begin to listen (in an audiophile way, of course, not doing something else) and you want to continue listening for hours, then you have a good system (for you). I have four different systems that cause me to want to just sit there and continue to listen. I have another system that I seldom listen to and when I do, I am not really captivated (but the system cost quite a bit).
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Post by adaboy on Mar 6, 2019 10:01:34 GMT -5
Where have you been for the last 10-15 years? 😆 It's the way of the world. Everyone tells other people things they already know. Its everywhere. I'm not a fan. You mean like sports commentators? "The Cowboys know they need to win this game because if they don't, they lose!!!" Right! Makes as much sense as a blind man asking a deaf guy if it's safe to cross the road.
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Post by creimes on Mar 6, 2019 10:25:43 GMT -5
Content DOES matter. But I agree with the Audiophiliac if ALL OTHER THINGS (like content) are equal. So let's be honest - NOBODY's going to sit around for hours on end listening to music that doesn't touch them. So saying that one can be inspired by a transistor radio, although true, is a red herring in this case. Although you can certainly find SOME recordings that will move your soul even out of a boom box, there are far more recordings that won't. However, if your system is good enough to let you hear the performance better, then many recordings that weren't that engaging through the transistor radio suddenly become far more desirable. And if your system isn't standing in the way of your engagement, then each winning piece of music makes you think of at least two or three more tracks that you want to hear. Just my two cents... Boom Good points, but does anyone really need Steve to tell you that? I think he had a quota to meet. Just let Steve be Steve, after all it is just Steve.
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