No, he's got it right, Towel Day always falls on the Glorious 25th Of May. It's also Geek Pride Day, of course.
Moody Blues!
• Exactly why @bcowen insists on double-wall / triple-wall cardboard for his domestic high-rise "boardominium". Plus, he demands that each corrugation layer is criss-crossed -- for maximum strength!
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lol I bet it will be amazing. After a few mellow records I will be ready to start tackling a Tyr build.
Those are only used as charcuterie boards, some have just put them on display. A local professor bought both of those and paid far more than I asked but that helped me cover costs for those less fortunate. I am a Gemini and not far behind you, June 8 for me, 68 was taken in my name here so I upped it to 79.
"A properly treated room means you will listen to more of your system and less of your room." I forget who first said that, but it was a saying I picked up at THX back in the day...
.... ergo? .... a properly treated head means you will listen to more of your headphones and less of your head.
Have a great listening experience. Enjoy!
You do know that's not an either/or question?
I agree (and also my granddaughter's birthday!), but what about the reference to the Great A'Tuin?
I hear you. I went through my tube phase earlier. For about two years I was Oracle with Koetsu, via SME 309 arm, into an OG ARC SP-3A. I came THIS close to replacing with either SP6 or 11, but, since by then I’d fallen in love with the Apogees, I decided to optimize around them… evaluated everything in the top tiers back then, Krell, Pass, Threshold, Classe’, ARC, CJ, McIntosh and more… and the Classe’ pair had the most synergy.As best I recall we generally lose an octave after age 50 but it is not enough to affect most music we hear. I also believe in something called trained hearing. Some might not hear a difference in tube sound when first exposed. I started with tube gear at age 14, I was later exposed to Dynaco tube amps and even built some of their solid state devices. After many years with solid state I longed for Class A tube sound like I heard early on with Klipschhorns. When I could not find a tube headphone amp I liked very well, I designed my own.Now as far as DAC’s there are few higher end units I have not heard, I will listen to the opinion of any one person and make up my own mind but I am often interested in the opinions of large groups in blind studies. Will they agree or disagree with my personal findings? Oh and we take time to train people how to listen to various examples. Sometimes it is not enough to approximate 20-20,000 hearing.
Oh and I do rotate a Yggy inro my system on occasion, it is in my top five.
As best I recall we generally lose an octave after age 50 but it is not enough to affect most music we hear. I also believe in something called trained hearing. Some might not hear a difference in tube sound when first exposed. I started with tube gear at age 14, I was later exposed to Dynaco tube amps and even built some of their solid state devices. After many years with solid state I longed for Class A tube sound like I heard early on with Klipschhorns. When I could not find a tube headphone amp I liked very well, I designed my own.
I didn't know the Great A'Tuin had his own day; so would that be May 23rd or May 25th or...?
I’m certain it wasn’t distortion, it was just loud enough (for her taste) to bother her and she called me on it. I’ve had it louder for much intrinsically brighter material (e.g. Peter Gabriel’s So, for all it’s merits is a bit “hot/tizzy” even on LP) and it didn’t bother ME. She really thinks 80dB is too loud. (Her limit is more like 70dB on Pink Floyd or Rush which she’s just not into…The above feeds into my hypotheses that what is perceived as "bright" is actually noise from clipping somewhere in the chain. Turn the volume down, and the clipping is less and everything sounds a bit better. There are "bright" pieces of equipment, too, but most things described as bright I think is that sort of clipping.
In terms of loudness, when I had my Janszen Valentina P8 those would get loud without one noticing and that was cool and a bit dangerous. There was even a warning in both the manual and the Stereophile review about that. It sounded so good so loud
The inventor of the tube trap had a blog post about how the "echos" from a stereo playing could "fill a room with noise" and make loud music unpleasant. Putting in sound dampening walls (probably floor and ceiling, too) would let people play music louder and still enjoy it more.
