John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part II

[scott wurcer]

There are two kinds of people:

those who can exprapolate conclusions from incomplete data.

The second kind?

 

[Bonsai]

He already mentioned both. Those that can extrapolate and those that can draw conclusions.

 

[keantoken]

I think we are supposed to extrapolate that the second kind is those who cannot.

 

[ostripper]

Extrapolation = a variable conclusion (with "boundaries ")

OS

 

[31697B]

It's all fun and games until
somebody divides by zero.

 

[31697B]

More things I've learned about/from this forum;


I DID NOT SLAP YOU.

I Simply High Fived Your Face.

 

[31697B]

If History repeats itself,
I'm getting a T-Rex.

 

[31697B]

I like my
middle finger best
because it
always sticks up for me.

 

[ostripper]

Keen ,
Your explanation of the harmonic "spray" in the MOSfet model error
mirrored my "pitchfork" assessment of it. Even Cordell was impressed !
PS - I have them now - I'm "dangerous".
OS

 

[31697B]

The second kind?

 

[bcarso]

I've been revisiting Bob Ludwig's LP's on Nonesuch and continue to be amazed at how little the "high" rez digital world has brought to the party.

Many of those are outstanding, and I tend to forget about them until I play one "by accident".

Lately I'm listening to Sheffield d-to-d's in remembrance of Doug Sax. Too many people dying lately, but at least some are provoking tributes.

I'm still nowhere close to understanding why vinyl can sound so good when we all know it measures so questionably. Toole is thoroughly disenchanted with the medium and gave me the last few feet of his LPs which he'd been saving out of nostalgia. I was tickled. Lot of d-to-d, test records, old spoken word and folk, etc.

 

[ostripper]

I like my
middle finger best
because it
always sticks up for me.

That borders on the porno scale.
In this world , many things "stick up" - tree's , mountains ,
ego's -- (other things) ooooh ....

OS

 

[bcarso]

There are two kinds of people:

those who can exprapolate conclusions from incomplete data.

This reminds me of a composer I know who said There are two kinds of composers: those who use the piano, and those who say they don't.

 

[keantoken]

These recent posts inspired me to invent a phrase - 'middle finger wisdom'. I doubt it's original but I reinvented the wheel a few years ago and still enjoyed it.

Sometimes you MUST be selfish. Not about hogging all the bacon but about simply about preparing your life to grow all your positive qualities. Only after you are clever enough that you never NEED to be selfish, can you even poke at altruism.

Middle finger wisdom appears to be knowing when to withdraw and help yourself, even if others are devaluing, wasting, or constantly begging for your attention.

However that is only my best guess as to the colloquial definition. In reality it could be something else entirely. Initial Google results show promise:

Then, I thought, if this one finger has so much power, what would happen if that power were directed more positively?

The Power of the Middle Finger | Prana Pages ? TeriLeigh

 

[fas42]

I'm still nowhere close to understanding why vinyl can sound so good when we all know it measures so questionably. Toole is thoroughly disenchanted with the medium and gave me the last few feet of his LPs which he'd been saving out of nostalgia.

(Sigh) ...

... 'cause the wrong things are being measured, .

 

[ostripper]

Blood alcohol level , maybe ?

OS

 

[fas42]

For me it works the other way round ... I have to top up on a bit of solid red stuff to tolerate listening to "poor" audio for any length of time, it nicely blurs the sound so it doesn't scratch my senses quite so badly ...

 

[scott wurcer]

I like my
middle finger best
because it
always sticks up for me.

Figures.

 

[31697B]

Figures.

8/0

 

[ostripper]

For me it works the other way round ... I have to top up on a bit of solid red stuff to tolerate listening to "poor" audio for any length of time, it nicely blurs the sound so it doesn't scratch my senses quite so badly ...

What is "solid red stuff"... something that you smoke ?

OS