Youv'e got it Zaikesman! Time to repent and make amends now. Greg's taste in Scotch is very highly recommended!
Cin-Cin, Detlof |
Happy for the moment, defenitely, YES! Let's see how long it lasts! |
Zaikesman, good thread! My investment,if I were to calculate store prices, is about 200k, spent in the course of the last two decades about. Satisfaction percentage is about 10%. But those 10% are pure bliss. Why so low, you may ask? Well I'm cursed with absolute pitch and am an avid concert goer. Live music is the benchmark and the goal for my efforts. A rather poor return you might think for all that dough spent. Not for me though, because there have been moments of rare rapture, which I would not miss for all the money in the world. This happens, when the mood is right, the performance musically outstanding and the system doing what it should. |
Greg, I envy you for your percentage, oh Wise One, myself , I suppose I've become a grumpy old curmudgeon. To wit:
JD, as a brother in arms as far as Spectral is concerned, I am rather curious in your case about the two factors this thread is about and which you did not touch upon sufficiently clearly, as far as my understanding of them goes: How much did you spend on your stereo and to what percentage are you happy with it. Without that input, your post seems to me a tad off topic. Regards, |
Dear Greg, thanks for the flowers, however after much professional hums and haws and much thoughtful twiddling of thumbs, I'd suggest that in actual fact you rather pretend that your system sounds like REAL MUSIC !! And that is the best of illusions we unfortunate audiophiles can have. If that doesn't work, it is indeed Craig's formula which is the most beneficial!! Cheers from the curmudgeon's listening chair! (o; Detlof |
Tibina, Serotininereuptakeinhibitors like Prozac are stongly contraindicated, since (amongst impairing other pleasurable things ) they reduce listening acuity. Scotch is excellent for hearing on the other hand, but as is the case with sidenafil or haldoperidol, you've got to get the right dosage to make it work best. The right dosage has to be found by experimenting: You have to drink and listen, listen and drink until one of the two is impaired. If you exibit a strong detrimental reaction to both, you've gone too far and should reduce listening by about two CDs or 5 LPs a day until you can hear that wind (flatus) again, bursting out in a sharp transient about three feet below and behind the second cornet in the third opening bar of Wagner's Overture to the Götterdämmerung on the blue garlicflower Deutsche Grammophon 123456 with Herr Professor Dr.Dr. von Karajan and his Berliners.(Bad luck for those, who do not listen to vinyl. They'll never know the true Nirvana, because this test is vital for the right dosage.) Statistics show however, that complications may occur with those subjects, who need more Scotch to get through the entire opera until its very end. |
Zaikesman, what offense pray, are you talking about ?In fact, the coronetist, in his noble efforts, venting himself, so to speak in true stereo, both Wagnerian and eisbeinish with Sauerkraut ("bier" being released rather in upwardish ventriloqy)gives a true pivotal point between the ethereal of music and the ethyreal of Scotch. If we were, as you suggest, to emulate the drinking habits of orchestral players, we would all be soon lost in brutish debauchery and be quite unable to find the right balance between palate and ear.
Besides, I feel the thread is anything but dead. Our detour into baccantian pleasures will, I hope, enable us to tackle those poor percentages in a fashion befitting a seasoned audiophile.
Thanks Laz28, maybe I should fool around more...its hard to be music lover and audiophile all in one person (-; |
Well it seems, that Zaikesman's excellent thread has given birth to a new benchmark in audiophilia, involving more sensual markers than ever before. Thanks to him and Ozfly we can now reach a level of certainty, which was quite impossible before this breakthrough. I was but the humble catalyst in this matter. DG 123456 will be much sought after from now on. Possibly they will now even bring it out on CD. Remains to be seen, if Redbook is capable of reproducing flatulent bursts really true to their very specific nature. I don't mind, if the good Scots will now collect more revenue. But I doubt that the folks at DG will use the new income to produce better sounding recordings. They'll probably spend it on more microphones and consoles to ruin the music with. Obviously they have a secret deal with Glasgow or Edinburgh. Herr Karajan was often at the festival there. Well, I'll sign off now, before I become fully paranoid. I'll rather go and see if there's still something left in the bottle. Good sniffing to you all! Detlof |
Dear Will, wouldn't know, but not be surprised at all: After all, nomen est omen, no?
(An afterthought: I feel really sorry for the unfortunate flautist, having to eat all those beans and onions with garlic before every performance and all that slavery to discipline the spincter! Just goes to show, composers can be bruthish beasts in their creative narcissism. The vita of Wagner comes to mind. Only Ludwig and Nietzsche didn't have to fart in helping to create the Gesamtkunstwerk, though in both cases those infamous flatus vocis did occur now and again.) Excuse me, must go get another bottle....Cin-cin, Detlof |
Rcprince, Zaikesman nice as always to be on a thread with you. Yes, all Jadis Preamps cheat beautifully in the midrange and what Rcprince found with the Lamm, I experienced with the Aesthetix IO, which is far more revealing, has better soundstage LAYERING and moves you closer to the event. However, I've found, that listening through the Aesthetix is always a capturing and thoroughly satisfactory experience, but with the Jadis, I stop listening critically and am drawn much more easily into the music. This especially since I equipped them entirely with Tele NOS of the 302s and 303s series. Yes, I'd also say, that the Jadis is kind to the software, whereas the Aesthetix, as obviously the LAMM gear as well, is more revealing and less coloured. However, the Jadis is like a beautiful women, who - although you know that she's not always completely truthful and above board - will enrapture you in such a way, that you don't much care about what truth is and enjoy the moment (to get back on topic ) 100% in complete bliss and happyness. Cheers, |
Rcprince I would!! You will find an increase in dynamics as well as in soundstage and placement of instruments, which you have to experience to believe. Tube rolling of course is a pain on the pocketbook and yes it is the same series you have and was so envious of. I found a German source through Ebay which was both honest and knowledgeable. Cheers, |
Greg, its "only" the 500, not the 800 alas, mais quand meme. Nice to have you here and on the other tube thread too! Cheers, |
Yes, I try to keep ye olde nose above the water...and above the various premier crus......Cheers, |
