BTW, my turntable, LP12, got seriously upgraded. The soundstage now is much better ( It was awesome before ).... even during a crescendo, the soundstage stays honest and constant... meaning that the soundstage is not modulated by the loudness of the signal.
Purely mechanical things....
So the problem now is that I can hear how crappy sound engineers can be. Before, the Keel subbase got installed, there was a bit of midrange resonance that made most records sounds good. Now those resonances are gone...
I was listening to the Decca reissue of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Julius Katchen, Solti, LSO. This is supposed to be a great performance (it is) and a good sounding recording (well..)
The problem now is that the balance between the piano and the orchestra is off. The root cause, I think, it that the mikes are right in front of the stage. So, either the piano is too loud or the orchestra is too soft. I normally set the volume to what we hear in a live performance... and our seats are at row L, mid hall.
So, I can't quite get the soundstage right.
This is the same thing I hear with those super duper million dollar systems... they get to be too accurate and the crappiness of the recording technique shines through. The very best ones make you feel like you're suspended 20 feet in the air in front of the orchestra... duh! That's where they put the mikes.
Maybe we need a "Soundstage Sugar" box with a knob that restores the resonances and distortions that we hear as soundstage?
Mind you, I've been listening to the recordings with a direct radiator... I should try the Maggies. They got their own sound, their own brand of "Magnepan Soundstage Sugar"
BTW, the soundstage problem doesn't happen with studio recordings or with small ensemble live recordings where the depth of the soundstage is shallow enough.
Purely mechanical things....
So the problem now is that I can hear how crappy sound engineers can be. Before, the Keel subbase got installed, there was a bit of midrange resonance that made most records sounds good. Now those resonances are gone...
I was listening to the Decca reissue of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Julius Katchen, Solti, LSO. This is supposed to be a great performance (it is) and a good sounding recording (well..)
The problem now is that the balance between the piano and the orchestra is off. The root cause, I think, it that the mikes are right in front of the stage. So, either the piano is too loud or the orchestra is too soft. I normally set the volume to what we hear in a live performance... and our seats are at row L, mid hall.
So, I can't quite get the soundstage right.
This is the same thing I hear with those super duper million dollar systems... they get to be too accurate and the crappiness of the recording technique shines through. The very best ones make you feel like you're suspended 20 feet in the air in front of the orchestra... duh! That's where they put the mikes.
Maybe we need a "Soundstage Sugar" box with a knob that restores the resonances and distortions that we hear as soundstage?
Mind you, I've been listening to the recordings with a direct radiator... I should try the Maggies. They got their own sound, their own brand of "Magnepan Soundstage Sugar"
BTW, the soundstage problem doesn't happen with studio recordings or with small ensemble live recordings where the depth of the soundstage is shallow enough.
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what?
that's still counting as turntable, and not just a ultraexpensive audio gimmick from Proud Albion?
buy EMT and start enjoying in music, instead of endless upgrades
I'm at the upgrade.... my old Lingo is working perfect. No need to change. My "old-new" Ekos 2 has superb bearings even after 22 years. The Radikal is a great upgrade, the Keel is expensive but worth every penny.
I've had my table for 35 years. Over those years, not counting cartridges, I've put about $10K into it. The only thing that I paid MSRP was the Radikal. I figure it's worth every penny. Over 35 years... three upgrades.... Lingo (used), Radikal/Trampolin (new), Keel (used) T-Kable (new) and Ekos 2 (used). And now I got parts that I can sell nicely... black Ittok in extremely good shape, desirable.
EMT... you guys and your bent tonearms.... doesn't that constrict the sound? Maybe you want to buy my used Ittok tonearm? It's black, works great!
Maybe I gave the AI machines a bit too much credit for your username... time to move you down a notch...
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I've had my table for 35 years. Over those years, not counting cartridges, I've put about $10K into it. The only thing that I paid MSRP was the Radikal. I figure it's worth every penny. Over 35 years... three upgrades.... Lingo (used), Radikal/Trampolin (new), Keel (used) T-Kable (new) and Ekos 2 (used). And now I got parts that I can sell nicely... black Ittok in extremely good shape, desirable.
EMT... you guys and your bent tonearms.... doesn't that constrict the sound? Maybe you want to buy my used Ittok tonearm? It's black, works great!
Maybe I gave the AI machines a bit too much credit for your username... time to move you down a notch...
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I have 2 pairs of ( different gen) Bose Roommate
and they're great for listening the music
and I don't need to upgrade them every now or then, when some Brit decide his account need few zeros more
and they're great for listening the music
and I don't need to upgrade them every now or then, when some Brit decide his account need few zeros more
Bose Stereo Nowhere..
I admit they make great headphones for airplane crews.
Well made, in mono, with a nice mike so the paid crew can talk over the PA to the hapless clowns using the cheap plastic stereo headphones in the cabin.
"Aaaah... this is your First Officer, the sound you hear now is the Tower at LAX, our ETA to Gate N56 is in 14 minutes."
Or the ever entertaining sound of the pilot when suddendly disengaging from the tanker above us, descending 1000 feet and sending all of us in the back almost floating in the air.... - that's why everybody in the plane has to strap down during certain manouvers...
"Aw Sh####t!"
Precious moments in life, brought to you in glorious MONO by Bose.
I admit they make great headphones for airplane crews.
Well made, in mono, with a nice mike so the paid crew can talk over the PA to the hapless clowns using the cheap plastic stereo headphones in the cabin.
"Aaaah... this is your First Officer, the sound you hear now is the Tower at LAX, our ETA to Gate N56 is in 14 minutes."
Or the ever entertaining sound of the pilot when suddendly disengaging from the tanker above us, descending 1000 feet and sending all of us in the back almost floating in the air.... - that's why everybody in the plane has to strap down during certain manouvers...
"Aw Sh####t!"
Precious moments in life, brought to you in glorious MONO by Bose.
Thank heavens "AI" can't spell or use proper punctuation yet. No danger of replacing humans yet.
It's an enumerated type. You can not put apostrophes in the mnemonic. You'll get a compilation error. Trust me, I spend my days editing, compiling, linking. loading, executing and testing code.
Have you ever done C or C++? I did do LISP once upon a time... that was a long time ago...
@Zen Mod I do confess. But I do not repent. I never expected the Serbo Croatian Inquisition...
Here's the review at Stereoreviewphile of the latest EMT table.... of course, the more expensive TT always wins:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/emt-928-ii-record-player-page-2
"...For a comparison, I played the same Ahmad Jamal album on the three-times-as-expensive reference system, a VPI Avenger Direct with its VPI Fatboy tonearm and Hana Umami Blue MC cartridge. The VPI presented the record as more of a live event, with a deeper, broader soundstage. Acoustic bass had more weight and presence, and dynamics became more graduated, less abrupt. But the VPI sounded slightly recessed compared to the EMT, and it lacked the EMT's intense drive. The EMT wore its bold personality on its sleeve, while the VPI sounded more relaxed, with an obviously superior soundstage..."
WTH that means... huh? I suppose the Linn LP12 just hangs its Caledonian personality under its kilt. 😉
My Linn has no umami, you see.... that haggis has absolutely no umami.. come to think about it, I never thought umami had any color... I guess I missed out my calling for marketing skills.
Have you ever done C or C++? I did do LISP once upon a time... that was a long time ago...
@Zen Mod I do confess. But I do not repent. I never expected the Serbo Croatian Inquisition...
Here's the review at Stereoreviewphile of the latest EMT table.... of course, the more expensive TT always wins:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/emt-928-ii-record-player-page-2
"...For a comparison, I played the same Ahmad Jamal album on the three-times-as-expensive reference system, a VPI Avenger Direct with its VPI Fatboy tonearm and Hana Umami Blue MC cartridge. The VPI presented the record as more of a live event, with a deeper, broader soundstage. Acoustic bass had more weight and presence, and dynamics became more graduated, less abrupt. But the VPI sounded slightly recessed compared to the EMT, and it lacked the EMT's intense drive. The EMT wore its bold personality on its sleeve, while the VPI sounded more relaxed, with an obviously superior soundstage..."
WTH that means... huh? I suppose the Linn LP12 just hangs its Caledonian personality under its kilt. 😉
My Linn has no umami, you see.... that haggis has absolutely no umami.. come to think about it, I never thought umami had any color... I guess I missed out my calling for marketing skills.
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You're fully entitled, as everyone else, to decide what to do with own money, and what are proper ways of indulging your own taste
but don't tell anyone that I wrote this, it'll ruin my fame as Unbreakable Preacher
(don't fret, I'll mock ya even for having proper EMT , be it 927 or 930; linked one is for poor sobs with thin wallets)
It will certainly take a capital E without throwing up an error.
Yes, but that would be a poor choice wouldn't it, particularly if it can't meet the base requirement of proper punctuation in a display?
Cheers
@Zen Mod - That turntable choice of yours was designed by the Nazis to defeat the poor Partisans... you know that! It was designed to play Wagner over the radio, maybe some Beethoven... a design contrived to let the Fat Lady Sing At The End Of The Opera. Tito would never accept such a thing.
Might as well use this.. ( BTW, it looks like it's direct drive..... ROTFLOL )...
https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/elektronika-ep-060-stereo-—-a-rare-soviet-totl-turntable.664565/
@ItsAllInMyHead For @define'd macros, it is standard naming convention to use ALL CAPS. Then you wrap them all into an enumerated type so that you can use the debugger to chase the definition of the type. Right now I'm using some crap software written by Germans that decided to case the #define'd macros as uint32. So, the type is lost... and I have to grep/search through their code to figure out how that stuff works. Never mind that they used GOTO in a couple of functions - instead of "else if" as they should have done.
You haven't lived until you had to debug a bus error thrown by an interrupt when you install the device driver during system booting.
It's OK.... I just played this.... Turned it to 10... On my Caledonian belt driven table... with a NYC build wooden moving iron cartridge, P3 balanced to Iron Pre Bal to A2s over English Audio Notes...
I shut the stereo after that... you can't follow that.... At the crescendos, you could hear the maelstrom of notes. Clearly, loudly, LOUD AMERICAN MUSIC..... sometimes. well, you gotta love Loud American Music. And for that, you need, hmm... wait... a Scottish turntable.... hmmm..
What? Frampton was English? Bug off...
Do you feel like we do?
Might as well use this.. ( BTW, it looks like it's direct drive..... ROTFLOL )...
https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/elektronika-ep-060-stereo-—-a-rare-soviet-totl-turntable.664565/
@ItsAllInMyHead For @define'd macros, it is standard naming convention to use ALL CAPS. Then you wrap them all into an enumerated type so that you can use the debugger to chase the definition of the type. Right now I'm using some crap software written by Germans that decided to case the #define'd macros as uint32. So, the type is lost... and I have to grep/search through their code to figure out how that stuff works. Never mind that they used GOTO in a couple of functions - instead of "else if" as they should have done.
You haven't lived until you had to debug a bus error thrown by an interrupt when you install the device driver during system booting.
It's OK.... I just played this.... Turned it to 10... On my Caledonian belt driven table... with a NYC build wooden moving iron cartridge, P3 balanced to Iron Pre Bal to A2s over English Audio Notes...
I shut the stereo after that... you can't follow that.... At the crescendos, you could hear the maelstrom of notes. Clearly, loudly, LOUD AMERICAN MUSIC..... sometimes. well, you gotta love Loud American Music. And for that, you need, hmm... wait... a Scottish turntable.... hmmm..
What? Frampton was English? Bug off...
Do you feel like we do?
927 and 930 are introduced in
so, there were no more Nazis left in Vaterland to be involved in construction of my ttables
entire process pretty well explained in books of Johannes Mario Simmel, in more or less funny manner, depending which of his books you take
anyhow, it's well known worldwide, if one want's to fully enjoy in any of historical Furtwängler's recordings, vinyl must be placed on EMT deck
I believe any of our Greedy Boyz living in Vaterland can vouch for last 2 sentences, if not for first two
Yes I know. Not the point. Why not spell out YOU_ARE if you want it proper etc. etc.?
I was just playing along with your joke that you are AI and using that example to tie in to the fact that AI won't replace all humans just yet because it's flawed.
You keep going back to software limitations... you used YOUR instead of YOURE or YOU_ARE twice in a schtick to convey idiocy in others. That's not a software limitation. That's a human error. I found it funny and a bit ironic, others may not.
You could have just as easily said that you never intended to spell it correctly or that you never meant to convey "You're or You are", but you keep blaming software limitations.
Cheers.
Ay..
FUNCTPTR ad_nauseum = (FUNCPTR) NULL;
void do_AI_main(FUNCTPTR ad_nauseum)
{
do
{
ad_nauseum = doSomething(ad_nauseum);
} while (ad_nauseum)
}
There.... AI at work... doing an induction machine.
May the Skynet be with you. 😉
I am the belt driven AI Root.
@Zen Mod How do you know that the 927 and 930 were not made in Argentina and Paraguay?
FUNCTPTR ad_nauseum = (FUNCPTR) NULL;
void do_AI_main(FUNCTPTR ad_nauseum)
{
do
{
ad_nauseum = doSomething(ad_nauseum);
} while (ad_nauseum)
}
There.... AI at work... doing an induction machine.
May the Skynet be with you. 😉
I am the belt driven AI Root.
@Zen Mod How do you know that the 927 and 930 were not made in Argentina and Paraguay?
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Tony, are you entertaining the Passpubsters tonight?
Nothing on TV?
Me either, just watching the Lonza cure tonight.
Hmmm.
Nothing on TV?
Me either, just watching the Lonza cure tonight.
Nothing on TV indeed.
Was working through the afternoon.
Had dinner with a nice Lagunitas Maximus Colossal IPA. Wife took out some really good tamales she made last week and froze (that works very well). With a good salad, salsa, guacamole, it was a great meal.
It's cold outside... so if I go out to smoke a cigar, I'll have to fire up the dual units in the propane heater and bundle up.
BTW - the "ad_nauseum" is something I've used quite a bit in my software. The task main is usually a loop. When you walk through an induction loop, you usually use a function pointer into the function you call, and it returns a function pointer to the next part of the logic tree to execute. You do this until you reach the end - either converge to a solution or fail.
It is a construct used for traversing a tree in inductive logic, which is what AI does.
Was working through the afternoon.
Had dinner with a nice Lagunitas Maximus Colossal IPA. Wife took out some really good tamales she made last week and froze (that works very well). With a good salad, salsa, guacamole, it was a great meal.
It's cold outside... so if I go out to smoke a cigar, I'll have to fire up the dual units in the propane heater and bundle up.
BTW - the "ad_nauseum" is something I've used quite a bit in my software. The task main is usually a loop. When you walk through an induction loop, you usually use a function pointer into the function you call, and it returns a function pointer to the next part of the logic tree to execute. You do this until you reach the end - either converge to a solution or fail.
It is a construct used for traversing a tree in inductive logic, which is what AI does.
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Hah. Saw Frampton in 1977. Giant Seattle Kingdome show with at least four bands before him including J. Geils Band. Incredible memories. Ticket stubs long gone, dammit, wish I still had them all.
Checked it out and one needs a ”custom gpt” to upload drek. $20 a month.
I’m dropping it for now, putting it in the do when retired-bucket