larsman
Responses from larsman
| Disbandment of the BBC Singers I'm one of those people, Jim! - If people like the BBC Singers, great - I hope they are saved! - I much prefer Eastenders, which is quite intelligible and only 30 minutes. | |
| What was the craziest location that you made an audio purchase from? @nonoise + 1 🤣 | |
| Your audiophile chair @mwatsme - Agreed, and I've got a Herman Miller one. I had a zero-gravity chair for a lot of years, but having something directly behind my head really messes up the sound and it's so much better now without any kind of headrest. | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? I'm not a true audiophile because I don't have probes in my brain. | |
| Sharing SACDs It might depend on whether the title is still in print. If it's not, there is no moral dilemma of any kind that I can see, and there aren't many SACD's coming out anymore or in print. | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? I don't know why you'd want to evaluate a system with music other than the kind that you like. Personally, I wouldn't care how music I don't listen to sounds on my system. I listen to rock and electronic, so how classical guitar sounds on my syste... | |
| Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update The whole point was charging people high prices for something they were misled into thinking they were getting, but actually were not. Not about sound quality, it's about getting what you are paying premium prices for. | |
| Hidden Gems in Classic Rock Albums @slantgut + 1 - recently got the box set of Electric Ladyland; I don't think I'd heard it since the early 70's, and I forgot how awesome that song (1983) was; Jimi's take on prog (before there was prog?)... That whole album is a masterwork. | |
| 45 Singles You Just Had to Buy How many versions/mixes were there of 'Battle of New Orleans' (always one of my favorites, along with 'Sink the Bismark' and 'North To Alaska')? | |
| Hearing Aids in 2023 .. Questions $8000 - $12,000??? I don't know where Jerry gets his hearing aids but I've been getting flagship model hearing aids for 20 years, most recently about 3 years ago, and the most I've paid for them for was $6000/pair. | |
| Hearing Aids in 2023 .. Questions I've been wearing hearing aids for over 20 years, and in my experience, the best quality ones sound the best for music or anything else; hearing aids are programmable, so you can have them set at one setting/curve if you're going to be at a dinner... | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? @robertgagnon - Happy to help provide some enlightenment, Robert - I don't get many chances to do that! 🤣 | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? @robertgagnon - you might want to check out who most contemporary pop artists are today and who their audiences primarily are... | |
| Top two most important sound qualities Indeed - the best you can possibly get is what the producer and other tech people can put on the source. And of course the 'source' can sound very different even in the same venue and performance depending on where you are. But yeah, that's great ... | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? @tylermunns + 1 |