[artur9]

I still want your wife to randomly stuff Sorbothane inside her clothing and walk into your audio room to see if you can tell a difference. It should be a blind test but I would also want you bound and gagged for the heck of it.

Since you like A Clockwork Orange I'm surprised you didn't suggest a test like the one Alex underwent that had the warden drooling.
One with sorbothane placed about and one without. If @bcowen can hear the difference under those test conditions, he may be on to something.

 

[Paladin79]

Since you like A Clockwork Orange I'm surprised you didn't suggest a test like the one Alex underwent that had the warden drooling.
One with sorbothane placed about and one without. If @bcowen can hear the difference under those test conditions, he may be on to something.

I have bet with him before but it needs to be more than a 50/50 chance to prove it to me.

 

[Plautus001]

...yes it was. And I remember that Todd used to cram 25+ minutes of music on an LP side in the Utopia days. Because of this, the low-end was limited to ~50 Hz. Still loved his music. Something / Anything? (1972) is still one of my favorite all-time albums, IMHO. It was spread across four LP sides, so it wasn't bass-limited. I listened to it on my first system (with the Sony TA-5650, DCM Time Windows and that crazy Stanton 681EEE cartridge with the built-in brush) and I could rock the (i.e., my parent's) house!

Todd lived in Novato, CA back in the late '80s when I started working for Autodesk in Sausalito. I walked into the office one morning and he was sitting next to my friend Jamie Clay at Jamie's workstation; they were using Pixar's RenderMan software to create the album cover for "Nearly Human", his first album with Michele Gray. Super guy, very soft spoken and kind. Wow. Cool memories!

Love this album!!!

 

[Adam Balm]

Love this album!!!

Ditto

 

[Adam Balm]

Ditto

I still have his two lp's he released on the Ampex label.
Big fan.

 

[Slackaveli]

A pair of Audio Research Ref 750's will drive yer Apogees...easily

LOL. I see what you did there.

 

[Ripper2860]

A deviation from the previous Jazz/fusion recommendations. More on the traditional and classic Jazz side of things. The Ray Brown Trio (Ray is a talented stand-up bass player) delivers an intimate and engaging live performance that is very well recorded. It is a Telarc label offering so it's got to be good, right? I think you folks will enjoy this one.

Tonight's Jazz recommendation is...

 

[golfbravobravo]

It should be the 8th of August.

I'll bite. Why?

 

[Topo47]

Unfortunately Cowgirl Creamery have closed their retail shops (Ferry Building in San Francisco, and Point Reyes Station), which had a wide variety of cheeses from many sources besides their own. Their cheese making continues and is sold at food specialty shops and also at Whole Foods (at least in the Bay Area). I crave and pick up their triple cream Mt Tam on a fairly regular basis.
https://sf.eater.com/2022/8/4/23292296/cowgirl-creamery-point-reyes-station-closing

Mt Tam has been a favorite of mine as well. As I see it you can order a gift box on line and have it shipped overnight FedeX, coordinating with the recipient to be home for the delivery.

 

[bevanc]

I'll bite. Why?

In Terry Pratchett's discworld, 8 is a magic number. 8 days in a week, with Octeday being the 8th day. Octarine, the Colour of Magic, is the 8th color of the rainbow and can only be seen by wizards and witches.

 

[Slackaveli]

Unfortunately Cowgirl Creamery have closed their retail shops (Ferry Building in San Francisco, and Point Reyes Station), which had a wide variety of cheeses from many sources besides their own. Their cheese making continues and is sold at food specialty shops and also at Whole Foods (at least in the Bay Area). I crave and pick up their triple cream Mt Tam on a fairly regular basis.
https://sf.eater.com/2022/8/4/23292296/cowgirl-creamery-point-reyes-station-closing

Amazon gots you covered. https://www.amazon.com/Mt-Tam-2-pac...27f4b8f845e2364ca7e89f5a2ca071ce&gad_source=1

 

[strider1007]

Geeeez man, what'd I do to you (today)? You'd make me endure an entire afternoon of "Does the sorbothane make my butt look too big?"

Just say "Yes!" once and I promise you it'll be quiet the rest of the week..

 

[jonathan c]

Or .... break out the following:

 

[adias]

 

[dstrimbu]

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.

I am a big fan of Art Noxon's research and writings. I read his treatise on room treatments a little differently; the room reverberation time (RT60), if not managed, would allow sounds to propagate - a.k.a. echo - long enough to mask lower volume tones and transients.

Noise, echo - one thing, two words?

/ds