Just the usual marketing tactic, your hearing isn't good enough or your equipment isn't good enough depending on the time of the year.
Myself also, though I've had a few shining moments with the instrument. I tried to keep it up, but it's faded to zero over the last 20 years...
I started to learn to play it using a red-rubber ball end mallet, but never got that to the point of getting on a stage with it. Makes a neat tone and you can punch the speakers right out of the cabinet with it. I used a compressor to avoid that.
At the moment, I qualify for all three. Being a gorgeous summer day here...
Eeeeww! I'd end up in the hospital emergency room if I brought any such device in there...
I thought I listed 2.
I saw
- hearing
- equipment
- time (right/wrong, now/then, winter/summer..)
Qualify for the 1st two for sure, maybe the wrong time to be critically listening looking at the sky out there!
Spying on me when I'm not fully clothed would be crime and punishment rolled into one.
Wonderful show! Pat's solo, as it leads into "Hejira," can still give me a chill. So sad that only two of that amazing lineup are still with us!
If you haven't heard it, check out The Story of i by Patrick Moraz,* circa 1976. Jeff is relentless throughout, although he's sometimes hard to find, the music is so wonderfully manic. This is one of my desert-island records.
*Unfortunately YouTube doesn't do this one justice, since the adjoined themes are chopped up into little track-pieces.
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Maybe my point wasn't clear. In the past you have talked about consulting experts (expert food tasters, or whatever) before commencing experimental design. An expert listener could help validate the design. For example, in the Electronics Design speaker cable article I recently quoted, the authors stated that differences in dacs are easier to hear if reproduction equipment is good enough. An expert listener could advise you if your equipment (amplifiers, speakers, headphones, etc.) were of a type to make recognition of cable differences easy, hard, or very difficult. How else would you know, or do you even care? If you don't care, there is still missing information about what was actually measured: differences is cables, or reproduction equipment masking effects of cable differences. Furthermore, for cables that differ in shielding effectiveness, local RFI/EMI might make cable differences more or less distinguishable at the test site than in the lab. Again, how would you know?
Love Joni's "Mingus" too. The wiki entry mentions the "experimental sessions" thought to be lost, available as a bootleg Mingus (Joni Mitchell album) - Wikipedia
Et voila YouTube
Et voila YouTube
You don't question the level of listening expertise of those who report hearing the difference but you do when people report not hearing the difference. When DACs, cables and amps have signal fidelity deviation far below audible threshold, it shouldn't make audible difference when compared to those components having signal fidelity deviation even further below audible threshold. That is unless there are other factors involved such as personal bias, placebo, or level mismatch.
Well I keep getting ads for penis enlargers. Better tape over the camera Like Scott advises.
Today my friend’s wife left the city with her children. We had an almost bachelor party with good wine. Now we were able to listen to music louder than usual. Mr. van den Hul just changed the world. His cable really transformed the stereo system.
We listened to jazz rock and pop music. Such as the Bill Evans trio, Thin Lizzy, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple , Kansas, Boston, Bee Gees, and many more. Everything sounded completely different and simply magnificent. A friend simply laughed that those who do not hear the difference in cables are either just deaf or never compared the difference.
We listened to jazz rock and pop music. Such as the Bill Evans trio, Thin Lizzy, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple , Kansas, Boston, Bee Gees, and many more. Everything sounded completely different and simply magnificent. A friend simply laughed that those who do not hear the difference in cables are either just deaf or never compared the difference.
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If I had to make a choice, I would prefer to read ads about pennis enlargers rather than ads about speaker cables
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I've tried a number of adblockers, although not advertised as such, the free version of Malwarebytes seems to do a good job.