J.M. Noble
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You're better off going to their regular shows most of the time. Playing for a few people just doesn't have the same energy and it shows.
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You're better off going to their regular shows most of the time. Playing for a few people just doesn't have the same energy and it shows.
And mix with common people? Yuk
Steve H
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Saving a lottery winner from a life of buying luxury audio equipment and being churned by audio dealers is a good thing. Saving us from having to read about his audiophile journey is even better.What ???
"increasing returns". Now that's reprehensible.
yes, at least use the appropriate antonym for Christ's sake.
H1-X (eVTOL) is said to have "secured a special airworthiness certification from FAA", under their MOSAIC (Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification) rules.
One of these rules must be that eVTOL must be airborne for 40minutes or 60miles, prior to...
Exactly. Best audio to be had is not about best gear to be had.
It's about best total implementation.
And a large room is a huge improvement over small rooms.
Around the turn of the century, I had the opportunity to construct a room a little larger than the dimensions above about 350 cu m.
It was off the back of a sprawling farmhouse, and built with precise dimensions to try to optimize modal distributions. Acoustic treatment to level out, reduce decay times.
Truly wonderful sounding room.
Only real mistake in design/construction, was the ceiling & roof weren't fully solid enough to handle outrageous sub excitation without resonance. Sub-only could talk pretty loudly.
The sub resonances were fully masked by high SPL music, but when the same SPL and sub setup were heard outdoors, a new level of cleanliness was to be heard.
Anyway....there is a metric shit ton of different good speakers and gear...that will all work just fine.
A really good implementation is the ticket.
my 2c
HalSF
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My response to this scenario has radically shifted since I’ve been progressively brainwashed by ASR and alienated by plutocratic luxe-worshipping in the “high-end” world over the past few years.
I once would have wish-listed old-school Big Iron components from McIntosh and Audio Note and big speakers from Joseph Audio or KEF and a super-fancy turntable and cartridge, and the kind of stuff that shows up in audiophile “end-game” wet dreams.
Now I think I’d stick with what I currently have and love — Class D amplification, $3K speakers, reasonably priced bang-for-the-buck source components that measure great — and make big donations to animal welfare, wildlife conservation and habitat restoration, food security and affordable housing organizations, justice for immigrants and refugees, and the fight against fascism. I already have great sound.
I once would have wish-listed old-school Big Iron components from McIntosh and Audio Note and big speakers from Joseph Audio or KEF and a super-fancy turntable and cartridge, and the kind of stuff that shows up in audiophile “end-game” wet dreams.
Now I think I’d stick with what I currently have and love — Class D amplification, $3K speakers, reasonably priced bang-for-the-buck source components that measure great — and make big donations to animal welfare, wildlife conservation and habitat restoration, food security and affordable housing organizations, justice for immigrants and refugees, and the fight against fascism. I already have great sound.
I've found that my tinnitus lessens my lust for large systems that play really clean and really loud. I literally don't need anything bigger than what I have, at least for my current square footage.... 
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The reflective flooring makes me believe that they didn't measure anything in that room, let alone calibrate or EQ it.
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I am only seeing your post 11 months later, but I inherited - I'm not quite sure what - from my mother. Problem is, she visited a bunch of regions famous for rug-making (Iran, Turkey, Syria, China, etc), and even if we still had her travel notebooks, she only wrote them for her own amusement, and her notes often lacked any context, so they were kinda meaningless to anyone else.
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I have never bought a lottery ticket in my life... In the belief that my purchase would simply increase the winning-chances of someone everyone else.
My cousin had offered me to go 50/50 on 200BitCoins in 2014. I thought it was a "d*mn stupid wager" as an investment of $30k that was free-loading in my retirement kitty.
If I was my cousin today, I'd spend 3/8ths of his 100BitCoins for an ocean-going heavy, 60-foot catamaran.
Designed for absolute speed and hybrid (ICE/wind/electric) everything.
To be sail-ready within a few years, w/personal design involvement… from hull, to sails, to whole-boat (I/O) music system.
My cousin had offered me to go 50/50 on 200BitCoins in 2014. I thought it was a "d*mn stupid wager" as an investment of $30k that was free-loading in my retirement kitty.
If I was my cousin today, I'd spend 3/8ths of his 100BitCoins for an ocean-going heavy, 60-foot catamaran.
Designed for absolute speed and hybrid (ICE/wind/electric) everything.
To be sail-ready within a few years, w/personal design involvement… from hull, to sails, to whole-boat (I/O) music system.
Yes, I will give you permission to board my cat... but only if you allow me to get back my land-feet on your island!I'd buy the worlds largest island or biggest I could afford.
Keith_W
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All I can tell you is that those are "tribal / country" style rugs - repeated geometric motifs. They look very valuable, the knot count is pretty high! They also look real - the tassels are part of the rug and not stitched on afterwards (indicating a handwoven rug and not machine woven). You should get them valued by an expert for insurance. I am far from a Persian rug expert. You're lucky, I would love to own a rug like that.
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That makes sense to me, as she was particularly keen on visits to ethnic minority areas. It measures about 90 x 170 cm: I'm guessing it's a largish prayer rug?
Dude that was a Greenland joke from January. I guess we're going for Venezuela too.Yes, I will give you permission to board my cat... but only if you allow me to get back my land-feet on your island!
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