May you be blessed by his noodlyness. Ramen
Love it when it snows
Nothing quiets things down like a nice blanket of snow. The roof is muffled, and the forest too. But I think there may be even more going on. Doesn't snow often here, but every time it sure does seem like the power is cleaner. For sure the listening is better.
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Of course there’s a common ancestor but if you’re going to use something to compare human behavior with at least stick with a vertebrate by going back half a billion years to a common ancestor Little late to be saying "of course" don't you think? You do know "of course" is reserved for things that are obvious. Having so recently demonstrated a total lack of understanding of evolutionary biology its a little late to be using "of course". But you know that, right? Of course you do. Try and understand, you are in way over your head here. Ordinarily I enjoy few things more than tearing apart a smugly pontificating liberal. In this case though for your own well being you might want to take a minute- well okay one minute eighteen seconds- and think about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmMW5w-z-I |
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For sure no tweakings, cleaning, controlling, modifiying, will transform my 6 inches bass Mission Cyrus 781 Driver in a 12 inches driver...But I dont need anymore bass at all...I own already a pro subwoofer and I never install it more than a few minutes....:) One of the most important thing is not so much , how deep your speakers can go, but how clear the frequencies will be, producing a cut-off but tactile clear bass and an holographic image of each organ stops... Then you will be impressed by my 40 hertz bass, and mostly a 3-dimensional imaging of the multiple organ stops I never listen to before my tweakings...I cannot stop listening the 12 hours of Walcha Bach... I want but I cannot... :) That speaks volume about my broken Speakers the best speakers of Mission by the way... I had like you know already more than 25 golden plates in my audio system + all other tweaks and they works... I think that almost all audio system had a tremendous potential that it is possible to awaken modulo the right tweaks...But you know already all that...And you are lucky to be able to afford the Omega Path Technology... I will not kill myself because I cannot tough, I am lucky to own the "poor’s" version of something relatively equivalent that works also very well even if it is not so good for sure... My best to you... |
Yeah well 40 with everything else is pretty good. Lower is better but 3D is better still. A lot of the beauty really comes from subtle details like the character of the pipes and the way the immense acoustic space reverberates. You could get lost in that. Thinking of which, one genre of music it would be nice to have on my shelf. |
Ordinarily I enjoy few things more than tearing apart a smugly pontificating liberal.MC, therein lies your problem. Anything to the left of you, you consider liberal. With you it's all binary as there is no middle ground, no grey, no nuance. You're so far off to the right that the territory you despise includes centrist, mainstream thinking, as well as the left leaning side of things. All the best, Nonoise |
Exactly my point... I listen to the acoustic reverberation and it is beautiful... Each pipes has his own texture and now i hear it clearly...Bliss indeed... I know this cd files for 30 years, and I think that this hypnotic playing was never met by another ...I am moved to listen to it for the first times really... There is other audio system implementation way better than my audio system, but I am on this threshold now where more is better but it is not absolutely frustrating if you cannot afford it...Music is music, no more 2-d sound, then this musical experience in my room is enough for me...I am proud to have created this by myself tough... :) By the way, 6 months ago, I wrote a short review of these speakers on Hifiengine, and I just read that another guy who made some measurements confirm my impression and also my bass appreciation of these more than good speakers...Mission Cyrus 781..... I take much time to choose not only my speakers, but my dac and amplifier...It is not easy feat when you cannot listen to them before buying... I study hundred of hours, probably one thousand :) but at the end my choice are so good and the price paid so low that I cannot resist to smile each time I think about that....I calculate that a real upgrade of my electronic components, to really more than just improve them a little but going much higher, will cost me around 15,000 dollars...It is something when you think that the total cost of my amp+dac+ speakers is 200 hundred dollars, if I dont count 100 dollars for the cleaning of the amp and replacement of old catalytics...A deal...Even homemade and low cost, my tweaks cost me more … :) But remember that without my tweaks these remarkable electronic components sound like trash to my ears before the tweaks, if not trash, they sound "dead" and I was not happy even if I know that they are the best electronic audio components for the price ….Without the embedding tweaks no system play at his potential, never mind the price... :) |
I made a budget system for a friend with small 2-ways like that. $1200 altogether including power cords, speaker cables, interconnect, and Cones for everything. Because even at budget level its all about the tweaks. Then it was set up on one wall in my listening room. Originally just to break it in before delivery it sounded so good it was all I wanted to listen to for the few weeks it was there. Even dragged a few people from work. Because few will spend $12k but many will spend $1.2k. Everyone was impressed, and yet I'm sure it was tweaked out nowhere near as extensively or well as yours. Also this was components selected almost all from reviews and recommendations, no personal auditions or comparisons. Even so its many years later and I still think about that and how wonderful it was. So I have no doubt your system is wonderful. Way better than what I had, which was pretty darn good. And about the cost to upgrade, which probably people find hard to believe, but it sounds just about right to me. That little budget system, it didn't just sit there. It was played with. Crazy things no one would ever do, like put $1200 interconnect in a $1200 system, I did stuff just like that with this system. At first it was just out of curiosity. People always saying how good your system has to be to hear a difference, what its worth spending or not worth spending, its not worth it with those speakers, yada yada all that kind of thing. Basically proved all that stuff is just flat out wrong. Everything matters. The performance you can wring out of even the cheapest gear is way more than people think. Only hardly anyone ever tries. You actually are doing it. |
The performance you can wring out of even the cheapest gear is way more than people thinkYou are right Millercarbon, and more than that, the performance of a one million dollars system will be under his potential without the right implementation tweaks...I listen to one on youtube… For sure I listen to this one through mine, not really to it... :) But this was sufficient to know for sure what this system was lacking. It sounded like a fatiguing microscope, even through my system, not like a musical fluid instrument... Even through my cheap audio system I was able to detect this evident flaw, unbeknownst to the owner because he cannot imagine that after paying this amount of money for an audio system he missed the essential part and that part would be and must be the acoustical, vibrational, electro, embeddings with the necessary tweaks...( Most people trust only electronic components and measurements for warrenty of audio quality, almost nothing else and beside that anyway, most people dont trust their own ears ) It will cost under 500 dollars to transform this one million system in a pure musical instrument... But if we must saiy that to this proud one million dollars audio system owner's, I am not sure that he will listen to the freaks tweaks …. :) |
People are seeing China and India polluting more and more but Greta never wags her finger at themThanks for the straight talk miller. Don't worry though, virtue signaling warriors have a carbon tax to chase those dirty american jobs to other countries where they pollute far less. Think globally, shame constantly and you get bonus points if you blame the U.S. |
No need to apologize....and agreed, the 'temp pest' of the later hours is primarily prowled by the likes (or dislikes) of Me.....;) And the virus language is ripe for ruin... Always been a fan of Cyrano de Bergerac, with Gérard Depardieu playing our noblely nosed hero, he of unknown love...able to verbally destroy tall egos with a volley of verbs...*G* Doing that in this era is like using a silencer on a .22....unheard, unheeded, until actually struck. The response is typical: "Well...FU2!" *primate growl and grimace* "Hmmm...offer accepted. Do you have a suitable companion for me?" *Icy S* (Tears them up every time....) |
asvjerry The Cyrano with Depardieu is indeed one of the best film for me for a while... :) My best to you Nimble asvjerry... |
The fact that other countries pollute is not a reason to not stop polluting it's another bogus argument. You have to start somewhere so start at home. Greta Thunberg and her fellow young people, and likely some of your kids and grand kids will need an earth to live on clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. Believe what you will but climate change is not about us it's about them. This is not virtue signaling this is life and death and the future. |
If you think about it if these mats in the panel box really did what they claim they do, reduce energy consumption that would go a long way to help solve the problem. How about it, you guys that claim it reduced your energy bill and froze your orange juice what say you ? Not to mention the company that makes them would pass Apple in revenue. |
The sign read: Due to budget cuts and deferred maintenance the light @ the end of the tunnel is non-functional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nCugGQZO0 I'd like to get off, but there's nowhere else to go. |
I am an optimist, because for me death is only a word and the transformation of a little speck of matter called " my body"... But I am very pessimist because of the unnecessary suffering before death... The will to look for truth is the key to free ourself from ourself... Perhaps truth is too precious to be owned... Perhaps truth is this light at the end of the tunnel, that comes only if you called for it.... Alas! asvjerry I try my best, but I can only badly imitate you... Good night my friend....it is late indeed... |
millercarbon Thanks very much for this beautiful video of Alan Watts... "Never wake up" coexist eternally with waken up... For me this is the scale of the universal consciousness, freeing itself from itself, being with and without object, co extensive from the void to the plenum... Like the silence between chord... For me there exist a photo of this universal consciousness; mathematics, and music, gives to us, for one, the skeleton and for the other, the expressive face of this miraculous Being of which we all participate... Good night my friend.... |
mahgister, for me death is only a word and the transformation of a little speck of matter called " my body"...Have you ever considered the possibilty that the truth is there is no other transformation but physical decay? (assuming no cremation) |
We always hope for something better, either in the here and now or the hereafter. Just settle for making it better now, because it's all you've got. And on that note, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HHDg0_-ezQ All the best, Nonoise |
My salutations glupson Have you ever considered the possibilty that the truth is there is no other transformation but physical decay?Sometimes our belief comes from irresistible experience and intellectual fact that are impossible to negate... I cannot make you see with my eyes, nor this world, nor the skeleton of the universal memory, nor living with his living flesh, but I can assure you, by my own only tough, for me it is a fact, no more a possibility, all that exist exist like a part, like an organ of this universal memory... Numbers and geometry are for me way more than dead numbers and dead geometry...( before my relative understanding of quantum mechanics about the concept of "thing" that lives and that decay, numbers were my great revelation about the stuff that makes all )...So in consequence of that, the complete annihilation in a timing fashion, in a timelike manner, the absolute disappearance of anything, makes absolutely no sense at all... Time is not what we think it is...All that exist, exist, and transform itself linked with all there is, and this eternal and infinite origin is the only free source of all that exist and this origin which is a source does not live neither in the past nor in the future... I speak about "universal memory", if I speak about my own vision motivated by the experience of numbers, but William Blake this great genius, the only one not afraid of Newton, speaks about "divine imagination"... It is the same thing perceived at different angles... When i said in another past posts here about "snow", that a snowflake literally reflect and mirror the universe it was literally true for me geometrically speaking and arithmetically...The rest is a necessary constructive creation of this process in which we all participate... The sequence of prime numbers reflects and betrays the existence and the skeleton of a living memory, the metabolism of creative imagination...The rest is love or dust.... My perceiving smile join your skeptical one, and perhaps the two can make a world ?... :) My best to you... |
Reading myself, and not able to erase my post after the 30 minutes , I realize that my words sound like from the mouth of a Guru... :) Perhaps I will ask for your money? And then I will buy the Zotl Berning Amplifier, and the Harbeth speakers, and the Denafrips Terminator dac….And tweaks their embeddings … A very cautious study of the ratio price/ quality audio market, push me toward these pieces of audio...They are not the best there is, but they are known universally and praised, and never bashed products...I had faith in Berning amplifier, without ever listening to them, faith that this zotl tech will beat the Sansui AU 7700, a legend from 1978...My speakers after my Tannoy were the smaller Mission Cyrus 781, one very good speakers in the mid or low price market, I had no doubt that the Harbeth will eat them, even as good as they are...For the dac,Starting Point Systems NOS dac, the one I own is already so marvellous for price,i cannot hope anything way better under the price of the Denafrips Terminator... This all amount to 15,000 dollars...( I add a power supply)…. I am very sad to announce the dissolution of my sect, for moral grounded reasons.... :) Keep your money.... I am sad tough....Even if I can live with my tweaks actual system the way it is.... Geoffkait was right, there is no cure... :) |
So in consequence of that, the complete annihilation in a timing fashion, in a timelike manner, the absolute disappearance of anything, makes absolutely no sense at all. Behold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMRrCYPxD0I |
Getting deep now, since self awareness humans have feared death so to help cope with this reality that is witnessed daily man in his infinite wisdom created God or Gods which pushed him or ferried whichever myth you followed to a new life or continued existence of some sort. Now we have gone beyond the old Gods that interfered with humans in mischievous ways to the cosmic God or universal consciousness that will permeate all the universe for infinity and upon death or for those more sensitive upon our transformation we join in this universal consciousness. But like all things humans have conjured from his base fear of nothingness from clumsy spirit demons of antiquity to the new age beauty of the universal, deep down he knows it's all BS and in the end we're worm food and this universe will die it's eventual heat death. |
djones51 I understand your vision, and what is the lucid critical intelligence that justify it and which ask for... But ultimately, even in Mathematics, the truth of an idea, the veracity of a perspective on life or on numbers, is justified not by his apparent truthfulness but by his fertility...This is the ultimate view because we are free creative beings...We must choose in which world we will inhabit because we will create it... Being a nothingness or a plenum it is our choice at the end like at the beginning...All is equal yes; except by this criteria and question all is decided : which is the most fertile action, idea, or imagination? Because it is the most fertile that connect us all.... I choose what is the most fertile....Mathematics teach that also since Kurt Godel… Philosophy must know that since Goethe that place fertility above sterile truths...And Love is only after all the union of truth and fertility.... :) |
Astrophysics teaches us the universe began and it will also end. It began with a magnificent expansion and ends a cold empty void, each star so isolated none can be seen from another until they too go dark, a vast empty space when the universe fulfills it's destined end of entropy. No need to mourn it's death or ours it's just life either individual or universal. |
In a billion years our sun will grow so large, it will consume Venus and Mercury and bake any life out of existence on Earth. 4 billion years later it will have grown and swallowed Earth. It will all be moot by then as our contribution to the universe will be filed under "whatever'. All the best, Nonoise |
Contemporary astrophysics is not an absolute truth, it is a continuous endeavor like other practical sciences... For example for Sir Roger Penrose, whose cosmology is not amateurish, there is no beginning and no end... Thermodynamics is only a fragment of a more universal science and vision, then any conclusion by thermodynamics on the fate of the universe is very narrow vision... I prefer mathematics....And for a mathematician, speaking of limitations or finite things only, is a way too much narrow to only work with that...Infinite is the smallest game in town... More than that it is possible with mathematics yoga to sustain a clear vision... Alas! it is not possible to impose a vision, we must work wit it really....And at the end fertility of vision is the only goal... |