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And waving a lighter!
You mean...smartphone.
(Been to any concerts lately? )
And waving a lighter!
They’re made out of circular 16” concrete forms at 34 liters volume, sealed and down firing. Ive built about 6 subs of various types and sizes and found I prefer sealed with an f3 37-43 Hz. Depending placement, power, and the possibility for a 3-6 db boost on the low end to taste. It’ll go down far in room and I don’t really care about 20 Hz high output (with 2 you will get it). This is a prototype that I still use (drum table) and it can be made to look traditional,( kitschy like this one) or midcentury modern depending on finish choices. The driver is a GRS12” high excursion. I’ll probably do a Dayton Ultimax or reference series for a low distortion driver next but the GRS sounds surprisingly good low passed at 90 Hz or below. I might do an in-cabinet built-in design for my office or copy @suttondesign ”books” sub.DIY? Curious been researching these for my application? Where did you get the design?
They’re made out of circular 16” concrete forms at 34 liters volume, sealed and down firing. Ive built about 6 subs of various types and sizes and found I prefer sealed with an f3 37-43 Hz. Depending placement, power, and the possibility for a 3-6 db boost on the low end to taste. It’ll go down far in room and I don’t really care about 20 Hz high output (with 2 you will get it). This is a prototype that I still use (drum table) and it can be made to look traditional,( kitschy like this one) or midcentury modern depending on finish choices. The driver is a GRS12” high excursion. I’ll probably do a Dayton Ultimax or reference series for a low distortion driver next but the GRS sounds surprisingly good low passed at 90 Hz or below. I might do an in-cabinet built-in design for my office or copy @suttondesign ”books” sub.
There's this thing called "iPhone"; they're saying it could become a game-changer.And what if the main revenue beneficiaries realized something like this was about to hit the market, what would they do to squelch/discredit/obscure if not outright buy and destroy?
Agree but eventually after several generations people would not remember the piles of primitive technology required to reproduce sound and the musical content would be all they think about.I think that gets at an important part of the appeal for many audiophiles. The appreciation of the gear itself, and also how that can meld with the listening experience.
Analogy: right now there's all sorts of amazing AI art. When I look at some of this stuff I can be pretty amazed at the images, some are gorgeous. But it's a different experience than I'm used to. Because when I normally look at a piece of art, a drawing or painting, my appreciation is bound up with my appreciation of the artist.
When I go "wow" at the brilliance of the art or the skill or inventiveness, that "wow" is aimed at someone: the creativity/skill of the artist. Every line, color choice speaks
to the skill of the artist.
But with AI art that connection is lost. I have a "wow" in terms of staring at the image...but there's no one to point it at, no one whose skill or creativity I'm appreciating. It's a very disorientating feeling sometimes to have this new disconnect.
Imagining a "perfect/invisible" system creates in my mind something of a similar disconnect. I'd be hearing awesome sound...but there'd be no real equipment to appreciate. And I would not have had any role in the process. One could say "well then you'd just be apprecating the skill of the actual musical artists!" But that is not what I'm getting at. I'm talking about the role an appreciation of the equipment currently plays in the role of many audiophile's enjoyment of their system. It's nice to see the components you selected after lots of careful thought and scrutiny. You have some role in the achievement in the sound you are hearing, even if it's simply selecting the parts. And there can be appreciation for the engineers/designers of the equipment you own - you are hearing what they achieved as well. If some invisible perfect system became commoditized, that aspect of the satisfaction goes away.
I think it may have happened already. Maybe not at ASR but everywhere else.Agree but eventually after several generations people would not remember the piles of primitive technology required to reproduce sound and the musical content would be all they think about.
Hahaha! Indeed! Kids these days stream music to a sound bar or Bluetooth speaker and don’t care about our hardware a bit! My stack of components is repellent to all who see it besides male cohorts. And even most of them have been broken and wouldn’t dare consider bringing anything similar home.I think it may have happened already. Maybe not at ASR but everywhere else.
It’s perfect & invisible, impossible to see it on your bench, but can you hear it?
Must have been Class D.Not at the moment- it's comletely dead. Getting parts for this thing is gonna be difficult.
I love the gear. So in a vacuum, I would miss the equipment.
But, if it meant that more emphasis was on the media and the overall reproduction, I would be fine with that. Like if the money and effort wasted on some of the frivolous equipment fads was redirected into frivolous things like modern equivalent over the top album concepts, like Quadrophenia:
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Not audiophile for sure, but stuff that was going though Pete Townsend's head ended up in a variety of formats for us to buy and obsess over. I think the gear distracts to a certain extent.