Hello John.
What do you regard as ''really high grade circuit board material'' ?.
So, schematic by JC, layout by Hu Flung Dung in Taiwan ?.... Parasound use your schematic and name, but if they screw up the layout, who gets the bullet for bad reviews?.[/quote]
Yes.
I do most of my listening from my sun room annexe, whilst doing stuff on my PC, or soldering iron in hand.
I have two listening pathways...via sliding glass door, or via laundry room, supplemented by natural outdoor sounds, mostly bird life such as Kookaburras, Cockatoos and other birds (zero traffic/neighbour sounds).
I find that this is very useful testing..I have nature sounds as reference, and this nature sound reference helps to make any 'defects' in the system sound readily apparent, and no matter how small any sonic defects are.
When the system is sounding properly good from the sun room, listening in the lounge room sweet spot is spectacularly good.
When my system is sounding 'right' to me, I find all others listeners are more than happy with the sound, and unable to pick fault.
So, I am saying that critical audition by the designer is perfectly valid, and required.
Dan.
Just to again emphasise that key metric of performance mentioned by Dan - when a system is 'zoning' then it sounds good irrespective of where you listen to; whether that is outside hearing it through glass doors, from the far end of the house internally, or just a few inches from a speaker driver ... 😉
Yes.
The other big metric, is what sound is going over the front/side/back fences.
If it is good, your neighbours will be happy, and you can get away with a lot.
If it is bad, neighbours start hurling rocks/bricks/abuse.
On the occaision that I turn the wick right up I close all internal/external doors and windows, but sound still escapes of course.
The other day, a neighbour from over the road struck up a conversation by saying that my hifi sounds good.
He is not a sound expert, but I am sure he would be the first to say so if the sound was bad from his house.
When I got home Friday afternoon, another neighbour directly over the road had his system cranked up....I couldn't wait to disappear inside and close the door !.
Dan.
That ol' competition thing, eh?? Some friends who are into music listening to some degree heard a version of my fiddling years ago, which was running at high volume levels ... "can do as well as that ..." must have triggered in the mind then, and next time we visited them they revv'd up the volume of their very ordinary gear - to show what they had ... oh dear, 😱 😱 😉 ...
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Beats the sound of horseshoes on asphalt concrete pavement, when I open a window.
(on the other hand, I'd likely try to shoot the birds to eat them)
I have had that experience also 🙄.
The expression 'cloth eared' comes to mind.
There are no soundoffs in the street, the neighbour got home Friday arvo and wanted to play some tunes.
There is no competition....my system wins hands down 😉.
My usual level is moderate, and at night outside is silent.
Even at moderate levels, my system is audible from the footpath...I sometimes wonder what passers by think of my varied music selections.
That said, the sound from the footpath is delightfully clean, clear and well, musical/realistic.
Just now, I am enjoying some piano music..I don't know what make of piano, but it does sound like there is a real piano in the lounge.
My next project is to build a remote controlled (radio coupled) line level signal polarity switcher....I find it's a nuisance to have to get up and go to the lounge to flip the acoustic polarity every second track 🙁 .
Dan.
Does closing the windows keep the smell of the horse**** out ?.
Aussie legend has it that you throw a few rocks into the pot with the Cockatoo.
When the rocks are tender, the Cockatoo is ready.
Dan.
Way too noisy, Dimitri.
Only good for watching yachts and ships enter the bay, or help kids go on a school trip by wearing funny hats.
Giving money for people to laugh at/about me, how deep can a guy sink.
(I had tuition by nuns of the same monastery as the ones who started this school. Each year, one of the Curaçao nuns who came over, gave a lecture on the island and the people)
Much nicer are the late evenings at the bay upwind (= ariba), 10 miles east of your image.
Once every now and then, some guys practice on their drums at the beach/road strip, right on the other side of the water.
On really lucky occasions, with a hopper dredger or a semi-sub oil rig docked on the left, lighting up the bay with hundreds of bright lights.
Nothing any sound system can compete with.
(somewhat ashamed to admit I adore iguana soup)
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You're being optimistic, Dan ... how it goes is that, when the rocks are tender, remove and eat them - and throw away the cockatoo ...
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Regtig snaaks Jacco 😀
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