Not sure where to put this, but decided on the Lounge.
Planning to take my new speaker boxes out on the terrace tomorrow, 17th of may is our National day.
And it's really weird that we're supposed to keep distance and stuff like that, so I'm planning to make up for it by putting my setup outside and blast out our National Anthem "Ja, vi elsker (dette landet)" (Yes, we love (this country)) so the whole neighbourhood get's the idea.
Normally all the kids would march on the streets together with marching bands and all the grownups would stand along the sidewalks to cheer them along, afterwards it's tradition (at least for me) to give the kids whatever food they want all day, there is no limit to ice-cream, waffles, cake, hot-dogs, spare ribs or anything else they want. Only hard rule we have is to have a breakfast together with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.
The city I come from (Aalesund, tried to write the a with the circle over it, but lots of weird symbols came on the preview 🙁) is about 500km away, and although the celebration revolves around the same things like kids having fun, traditional "contests" like the bag races, potato or egg race, lotteries and stuff like that. It could not be more different, in Aalesund every year I would happily be awakened around 07:00-08:00 sometime because a marching band was making noise outside, there was tradition for a specific circus to be there at that day so we had elephants in the streets together with jugglers, clowns and acrobats. So much fun, no stress, everyone has a good time. That time is never coming back, and the place we live now is very quiet. A few years ago we woke up because one of the "Russ" cars was driving around the neighbourhood blasting out a techno variant of the national theme at 07:00 in the morning, that made me so happy because there's never any noise here.
I've been to Oslo a few times to celebrate the day, and it's very "pretty" would be the best way to describe it. I do think it's more stressful and expensive than I like, so the celebration is better enjoyed in a small town IMO, it is a much "closer" (regardless if you know anyone) and enjoyable experience.
Really looking forward to the celebration, but the circumstances makes it very weird.
Strongly considering splurging on a recording (by 2L studio) in 24bit/352.8khz by Forsvarets stabsmusikkorps (Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces). I am never going to be able to hear the difference between the 96khz one and the 352.8khz one, but somehow I feel that the National anthem deserves and demands a bigger space on my harddrive.
So I guess that sums it up, and it seems like I probably just convinced myself to get the huge file-format despite being completely unable to discern any kind of difference in quality... 😀
Here it is on hdtracks in case anyone's interested.
HDtracks
It's the best national anthem of all! 😀
(This post might contain some infinitesimally biased opinions)
Anyone else preparing/having a celebration that they want to brag about are very welcome to do just that. 🙂
All positive vibes and national anthems are welcome!
Planning to take my new speaker boxes out on the terrace tomorrow, 17th of may is our National day.
And it's really weird that we're supposed to keep distance and stuff like that, so I'm planning to make up for it by putting my setup outside and blast out our National Anthem "Ja, vi elsker (dette landet)" (Yes, we love (this country)) so the whole neighbourhood get's the idea.
Normally all the kids would march on the streets together with marching bands and all the grownups would stand along the sidewalks to cheer them along, afterwards it's tradition (at least for me) to give the kids whatever food they want all day, there is no limit to ice-cream, waffles, cake, hot-dogs, spare ribs or anything else they want. Only hard rule we have is to have a breakfast together with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.
The city I come from (Aalesund, tried to write the a with the circle over it, but lots of weird symbols came on the preview 🙁) is about 500km away, and although the celebration revolves around the same things like kids having fun, traditional "contests" like the bag races, potato or egg race, lotteries and stuff like that. It could not be more different, in Aalesund every year I would happily be awakened around 07:00-08:00 sometime because a marching band was making noise outside, there was tradition for a specific circus to be there at that day so we had elephants in the streets together with jugglers, clowns and acrobats. So much fun, no stress, everyone has a good time. That time is never coming back, and the place we live now is very quiet. A few years ago we woke up because one of the "Russ" cars was driving around the neighbourhood blasting out a techno variant of the national theme at 07:00 in the morning, that made me so happy because there's never any noise here.
I've been to Oslo a few times to celebrate the day, and it's very "pretty" would be the best way to describe it. I do think it's more stressful and expensive than I like, so the celebration is better enjoyed in a small town IMO, it is a much "closer" (regardless if you know anyone) and enjoyable experience.
Really looking forward to the celebration, but the circumstances makes it very weird.
Strongly considering splurging on a recording (by 2L studio) in 24bit/352.8khz by Forsvarets stabsmusikkorps (Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces). I am never going to be able to hear the difference between the 96khz one and the 352.8khz one, but somehow I feel that the National anthem deserves and demands a bigger space on my harddrive.
So I guess that sums it up, and it seems like I probably just convinced myself to get the huge file-format despite being completely unable to discern any kind of difference in quality... 😀
Here it is on hdtracks in case anyone's interested.
HDtracks
It's the best national anthem of all! 😀
(This post might contain some infinitesimally biased opinions)
Anyone else preparing/having a celebration that they want to brag about are very welcome to do just that. 🙂
All positive vibes and national anthems are welcome!
Ålesund - does Ole Gunnar Solskjær still live there ?
I've been several times - lovely place.
I have Windows 7 so don't know if it will work with Win10.
Control Panel - Fonts - Find aCharacter ( on LHS )
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I remember being on a ship on Norway day.
The cooks had really gone to town with local specialities.
A mountain of lobster and shrimp.
Steak
plus
Sheeps head
Lutefisk
No-one ate the lutefisk or sheeps head!!!!
Andy
I've been several times - lovely place.
I have Windows 7 so don't know if it will work with Win10.
Control Panel - Fonts - Find aCharacter ( on LHS )
...............
I remember being on a ship on Norway day.
The cooks had really gone to town with local specialities.
A mountain of lobster and shrimp.
Steak
plus
Sheeps head
Lutefisk
No-one ate the lutefisk or sheeps head!!!!
Andy
Ole Gunnar Solskjær is from Kristiansund, and he's been working with the Molde team a fair bit.
That's the wrong side of the fjord, the Ålesund side is called "Sunnmøre" and the Molde/Kristiansund side is called "Nordmøre", so it's all the "Møre" coastline, but differentiated between the northern and southern part, naturally divided by the Romsdal fjord.
Perhaps you're thinking about John Arne Riise, he's from Hessa which is in Ålesund.
I'm not into football, there's so many people that have an interest in that sport, so I don't have to. 😀
Perhaps something happened to the characterset when I messed with the font sizes? Seems fine now, same computer and everything.
That's the wrong side of the fjord, the Ålesund side is called "Sunnmøre" and the Molde/Kristiansund side is called "Nordmøre", so it's all the "Møre" coastline, but differentiated between the northern and southern part, naturally divided by the Romsdal fjord.
Perhaps you're thinking about John Arne Riise, he's from Hessa which is in Ålesund.
I'm not into football, there's so many people that have an interest in that sport, so I don't have to. 😀
Perhaps something happened to the characterset when I messed with the font sizes? Seems fine now, same computer and everything.
I did celebrate that when I got home, but it was impossible to get into building sites and industry buildings barefoot. Not to mention it was -4c that morning, and my driveway is filled with coarse gravel.
Had to celebrate it indoors.
Not a big fan of skipping socks but wearing shoes, it's either wool socks + shoes or nothing.
At any rate, I had several neighbours come over and tell me they where so happy I pumped out the music on our National day, very moving to get the national anthem played like that in the morning. Everyone driving past slowed down with the windows open, people out for a stroll where smiling, waving and filming. One of my neighbours went for a walk in the forest, he claimed to be able to hear it 2km away (unverified).
The police and fire brigade also had a thing where they drove slowly around with some professional PA rig, but it had a very hot top end and no bass impact or "slam" at all.
My relatively compact 3x15" setup sounded very nicely balanced and I could feel the ground and the terrace vibrating, the kids had a few dance performances on the sidewalk.
Success! 🙂
Had to celebrate it indoors.
Not a big fan of skipping socks but wearing shoes, it's either wool socks + shoes or nothing.
At any rate, I had several neighbours come over and tell me they where so happy I pumped out the music on our National day, very moving to get the national anthem played like that in the morning. Everyone driving past slowed down with the windows open, people out for a stroll where smiling, waving and filming. One of my neighbours went for a walk in the forest, he claimed to be able to hear it 2km away (unverified).
The police and fire brigade also had a thing where they drove slowly around with some professional PA rig, but it had a very hot top end and no bass impact or "slam" at all.
My relatively compact 3x15" setup sounded very nicely balanced and I could feel the ground and the terrace vibrating, the kids had a few dance performances on the sidewalk.
Success! 🙂
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Michael Barone, the voice behind the weekly radio broadcast "Pipedreams" saluted Norway in his program yesterday morning.
How was the lutefisk?
How was the lutefisk?
I think lutefisk is great, but it can sometimes be a challenge if it is served like jelly.
Either way, it can be somewhat of an acquired taste. A bit like rakørret, or olives can be a challenge for some.
Either way, it can be somewhat of an acquired taste. A bit like rakørret, or olives can be a challenge for some.
Oh yes!
Not the day to pump out the house, d'n'b or breakbeat, but I did try with some the kids like (that I'm able to tolerate) and it was great! A bit of jazz, a few tower of power tunes went really well.
I also tried them on some metal, but a lot of that is so compressed, sounded good, but got those waves of compression thing and no proper "slam".
Not alot of speakers can do a convincing job of imitating a matching band at the right volume , outside in near 1/2space, but these did it really well. Very dynamic, good impact.
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Will see if I can get some video from Kadeks phone when she gets home from work.
Not the day to pump out the house, d'n'b or breakbeat, but I did try with some the kids like (that I'm able to tolerate) and it was great! A bit of jazz, a few tower of power tunes went really well.
I also tried them on some metal, but a lot of that is so compressed, sounded good, but got those waves of compression thing and no proper "slam".
Not alot of speakers can do a convincing job of imitating a matching band at the right volume , outside in near 1/2space, but these did it really well. Very dynamic, good impact.
Edit:
Will see if I can get some video from Kadeks phone when she gets home from work.
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