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NY Times visits Ojas

Ilkless said:
He's referring to Great Plains Audio, isn't he?
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Presumably.

I've gotta say I am having a hipster response to this massmarket media attention to tubes and horns.
I was doin' tubes and horns before it was cool.

Guess I am going to have to go with 8-tracks and Panasonic Thrusters now...



 
I always thought the Great Plains was in the north, like Montana and Wyoming. "Live and learn."
...My xwife had to move to OK when she was a teenager...coming from Boulder CO. :rolleyes:


mhardy6647 said:
I've gotta say I am having a hipster response to this massmarket media attention to tubes and horns.
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I beat you to it. :-| .....I even thought of rhino horns.
The Panasonic is cool, I like those sets. ...Minimal...more so than bunches of little black boxes with weird buttons and hold-and-press for 2 seconds, and...:rolleyes:
 
:D I didn't say anything. Sometimes it's better to keep the streams of consciousness to myself.


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^^^ One of my favorite-est movies of all time. :)
(bleak as it is)
 
Katji said:
I always thought the Great Plains was in the north, like Montana and Wyoming. "Live and learn."
...My xwife had to move to OK when she was a teenager...coming from Boulder CO. :rolleyes:
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Great Plains Audio is in Oklahoma City. In the late 70s and early 1980s, Altec Lansing was struggling financially. Their factory was at 1515 So Manchester Av in Anaheim CA at the time (right across the street was Disneyland, and they used Altec components and amplifiers pretty much exclusively). Altec eventually sold their factory to survive and moved to smaller facilities nearby. By this time, I had left my engineering job there and gone back to college. Eventually Altec moved everything from California to Oklahoma City, where Altec owned University Sound, which manufactured University speakers. They operated there for a period (don't know how long) until they went belly up and/or were sold. I don't know this for fact, but it is reasonable to assume that the folks at Great Plains Audio are ex-Altec/University employees, and that they acquired some or all of the original Altec tooling. They of course would have the tribal knowledge of all of the Altec drivers.
 
mhardy6647 said:
^^^ One of my favorite-est movies of all time. :)
(bleak as it is)
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Someone criticised it [here] the other day. I'd be glad to see it again.
...I've thought of it lately, how that Chief guy was right to be silent. Vow of silence. Nothing wrong with that, old tradition. I think he was quite sane. If I ever find myself in that situation, I'll try to take one of them as inspiration. Or both. :>
Bleak. Well, that's what reminded me, it seems like it was in some bleak Great Plains place.
 
This thread is a duplicate - original is here:
 
Yeah, to no surprise, not up the alley of most ASR members I’m sure.

I’d love to hear his system! Looks rad!
Apparently he set it up at some art show and it brought in crowds of people who were just rapt at the sonic experience.

Reminds me that some of the most realistic sound I’ve ever heard in terms of recorded orchestral music was at a great old but highly regarded movie theatre back in the 90s, no doubt using horns somewhere behind the screen. Only time I’ve heard a orchestra reproduced with a sense of scale, acoustic power and presence of the real thing. (Though actually experienced similar in some other great movie theatres)

I have a hunch Ojas system would have some similar strengths.
 
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I have no idea why I opened this thread, probably an accidental click. The NYT article will not open for me, it says my quota is all used up. I don't remember reading another NYT article, but then maybe one was too many. But whilst here I went to the OJAS site and hovering over the "Natural Sound" image this came up:

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OK... Still don't know the nature of sound. :)
 
DonH56 said:
I have no idea why I opened this thread, probably an accidental click. The NYT article will not open for me, it says my quota is all used up. I don't remember reading another NYT article, but then maybe one was too many. But whilst here I went to the OJAS site and hovering over the "Natural Sound" image this came up:

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OK... Still don't know the nature of sound. :)
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Someone has a PhD in Woo-ology.
 
Anahata is one of those Veda things that "certain type of persons" have picked up, and he cannot in any way relate it to his business of loudspeakers and so on. Suggesting some association with his "Natural Sound" theme, an esoteric way of saying "cosmic sound."
 
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I was their several times, the exhibition runs till august 5th, it is in a museum and the "Dream" Listening room is only one exhibit.
The program changed every week.
This guy is not a designer of streetwear any longer, he simply builds high end gear now.
His ideals are pure and non commercial, this is not consumer gear.
He is somewhat of a savant.

Sorry some people are so judgmental and ready to label people Hipsters as a disparaging remark without hearing the results of his work.
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