farts, johnsons...
Both operate on the push-pull principle.
Checkered Demon
There's a reference I haven't heard in a long time.
You may not have been stuck in time, or abducted, though anything better than Freekowtski's farts
(Crumb, Shelton, Wilson, and Jaccovitti, what else does a dope-head need, besides a hairy armpit shag on a regular basis)
Like Armando's stiletto, ZAP delivered!
Oh yeah, Tricky Prickears the blind deaf and dumb cop....
"I am always amused by tests, supposedly conducted under rigorous conditions, that purport to "prove" what many of us hear regardless of the "proof." It is as though statistical analysis could possibly replace one's visceral and emotional reactions to music."
Boy, that's bad! He has no clue, AND can't reason. Mixing up apples and bycicles. And people READ him??
jan
Just to set everyone's mind at rest - I've mentioned my el cheapo Aldi TV music setup several times, which does some things remarkably well if I take sufficient care - it uses a HDMI cable between Blu-ray player and set ... and this is the cheapest one from local DIY electronics store, Jaycar. About $10, no-name, in a bare plastic bag ...tell me about it. during the course of a random conversation a friend ask me if I can fix his broken HDMI cable. I'm like... come again, please? he looks very surprised and I'm really not getting it. I tell him that the probability of finding a HDMI connector at the local parts store is zero and likely no-one actually sells such thing, because it's kinda difficult to solder so many close and thin wires and a new cable is less than $10. he looks at me confused and says "but I read that there's no way you can get a decent one under $80".
Much simpler? The fact that controversy has raged for decades, about what's important, and what's not, seems to imply the opposite ...Don't confuse precision instrumentation with domestic audio; audio is much simpler. Audio is not supposed to be sensitive to its environment, so to the extent that it is sensitive it is poorly designed/built - whatever the price tag. This might be expected in very cheap stuff where quality is not a major consideration, but it should not be a problem in better systems. The fact that it can be a problem is a sign of weakness, not strength.
I may build some DIY audio for myself and for simplicity choose to omit RF filters; I then may suffer the consequences. I would not expect good quality commercial audio to omit RF filters then claim that the resultant sensitivity to the RF environment and fussiness about cable quality is somehow a positive feature and a sign of 'fine discrimination' - yet this is what sometimes happens.
IME virtually all audio is sensitive to its environment. Granted, I've 'learnt' to be more sensitive to some quality factors than seemingly many other people, but this has helped me to understand where a system needs to "go" to subjectively come across as realistic, and natural - rather than just hifi.
Fussiness is definitely a negative - however, making an audio system truly robust in the face of factors which so easily add audible artifacts is no trivial exercise, I've found ...
Much simpler? The fact that controversy has raged for decades, about what's important, and what's not, seems to imply the opposite ...
Amen.
Well, not exactly. I was banned from the Flat Earth Society just last year. Some things linger longer than you might think.BTW, the "flat earth" thing ended in ancient Greece, when the diameter was (surprisingly accurately) calculated.
el cheapo
Would you believe I've never built anything serious with under 1/4'' thick steel panels on welded frame cases, 5/16'' aluminum threaded panel cases, loudspeakers under $1K parts cost, in 30 years time, and yet to see the inside of an Aldi.
Much simpler? The fact that controversy has raged for decades, about what's important, and what's not, seems to imply the opposite ...
Can you think of any other possibility?
It appears that everyone listens to playback in different ways, noticing qualities in the sound which the person next to him is completely oblivious of ... and vice versa. So, the importance of aspects which influence sound are going to be highly variable, one person to the next ... your "important" may never be someone else's "important" ...
For example, many people here seem to be very sensitive to FR imperfections ... for myself, it's the presence of unsavoury, disturbing distortion artifacts ...
For example, many people here seem to be very sensitive to FR imperfections ... for myself, it's the presence of unsavoury, disturbing distortion artifacts ...
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