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| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. @grislybutter You win hands down! Luckily no cellphones back then to memorialize your humiliation. My only celebrity encounter was a good one--got to meet and yak with Ian Anderson for about 30 minutes backstage in Caracas, Venezuela after the ... | |
| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. @unclewilbur What a great story! When i saw them it was Denver's Mile Hi Stadium and the hilarious part was that Neil Young (who was not there to perform) was sitting and rocking out on the side of the stage smoking a J (i assume) while they sang... | |
| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. @77jovian @grislybutter I'm no vocal expert either; however, many sources say she had a 3 octave range but it was the purity of her contralto that set her apart from other female vocalists and she was once quoted as saying "The money's in the base... | |
| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. BTW in later years i always wondered why the Carpenters came to Laramie of all places--i guess they were booked at a lot of universities and that's the only one in Wyoming... | |
| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. @unclewilbur I can't remember if there was an orchestra with them or not but i kind of doubt it although there is a pit at the A&S auditorium. Yes, i heard many of the songs from that album and Yesterday Once More remains my all time favorite... | |
| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. @unclewilbur thanks for the reminder--a dose of Karen is relaxing in these crazy times. I was lucky to have experienced my first two concerts featuring male and female vocalists as follows (although at the time i didn't really know how lucky i wa... | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers gosh--so few choices below 100K but i'll try: High Efficiency if you want to try some cool tube flea amps: Avantgarde--definitely a statement speaker i've always wanted to hear Low Efficiency: I'm with the Rockport crowd--heard some Cygnus at ... | |
| What has been a favourite moment in Audio? One of my favorite moments was back in 1977 when i read about and then implemented a "Hafler Hookup" adding two small speakers in the rear--hooked up in series--to create a mock surround sound. It was amazing with live recordings and made you fee... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @captouch Well, speaker placement does play into it to the extent speaker location can emphasize strong nodes even more--but i was initially confused about superimposing all the nodes and wondering where there wasn't one--but then i only paid atte... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @captouch Just to clarify, i have a pink noise generator that helped to confirm the modes and whether or not i was strengthening them with my speakers (eg boomy bass that you've experienced). I moved my speakers around and the basic modes did not... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @captouch My understanding is that the modes are based solely on the dimensions of your room regardless of what kind or placement of speakers--the speakers will only excite the room modes more or less in the locations shown so the graphic shows yo... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @captouch The graphic shows at what frequency modes exist with biggest concerns below 250Hz for bass integration and below 150Hz for where you don't want your speakers or subs or turntable located--but there's another 3D room graphic as i recall t... | |
| Thoughts on Speakers for a Small Audio/Video Room @captouch From the pic you sent above w/ the Sonus Faber's (?) it appears to me that you need to play with moving further away from side walls--just a guess--but when you do that your listening position does change-closer to speakers. Have you ... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @nubiann I'm with the crowd here that says DAC is far more important--clockwise, power supply-wise, galvanic isolation wise--everything-wise. If you use Roon, Roon's own streamer the Nucleus or Nucleus + is excellent. @russbutton +1 | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm @dogberry According to this it's a "myth" that dust is mostly dead skin https://www.livescience.com/32337-is-house-dust-mostly-dead-skin.html Couldn't read the Canadian dust study w/o a subscription... FWIW |