Poll: Audio Science Review in the World (2024)

[Mart68]

I think you do Stoke-on-Trent a disservice.

Not so sure, the picture he posted is fairly representative .

The thing is you live here long enough you get to like it that way, and when you go to other cities they all seem a bit too Disneyfied.

This is the bit I live in, does not looks so bad on a sunny day (which is rare) and from a distance:



World famous A500 'D Road' running on the right from top to bottom.

I'm originally from here (almost literally I was born over to the right hand side and back a bit).:

 

[diablo]

I actually liked the non-pretentious photo. And the weather looked like a genuine British weather

I dunno if it is due to climate change but the British weather seems to look like that a lot more often these days. That's been the norm this winter, interspersed with the odd bitter-cold sunny day.

 

[DanielT]

I actually liked the non-pretentious photo. And the weather looked like a genuine British weather

I live in Dubai currently. And this is my new ride. Low HP but big tank. (my photo)

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It has its point in showing all possible sides. The rougher pictures if they have some artistic finesse in that case.

Here is a picture taken without any mention of finesse. A shopping area in Linköping, Sweden. Shops and snow that melts and mixes with gravel so it looks dirty. It's just a boring picture of a moment in everyday life.

By the way, I liked your picture on the other hand.

Check the white stretch in the foreground of the picture.

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[Colonel7]

Maryland,USA

 

[Mart68]

No, unfortunately I don't. I lived here 18 years. I can't wait to move out. Should happen soon.
Almost any place/city got its good and bad. Stoke is mostly bad.

18 years is nothing, I've got 34 in. After about 25 years you get to like the post-industrial dereliction and the crumbling Victoriana. Yes, it rains all the time but we're not made of sugar.

 

[Candoumi]

Working in Lyon (France), but I'm from Cantal :

 

[Liya]

Not so sure, the picture he posted is fairly representative .

The thing is you live here long enough you get to like it that way, and when you go to other cities they all seem a bit too Disneyfied.

This is the bit I live in, does not looks so bad on a sunny day (which is rare) and from a distance:



World famous A500 'D Road' running on the right from top to bottom.

I'm originally from here (almost literally I was born over to the right hand side and back a bit).:

Didn't know we have any other forum members from Stoke.

 

[Liya]

18 years is nothing, I've got 34 in. After about 25 years you get to like the post-industrial dereliction and the crumbling Victoriana. Yes, it rains all the time but we're not made of sugar.

As a documentary photographer I have made a few good stories here in Stoke. It can be 'picturesque', depending how you look at it.
btw. my picture was taken from one of the windows of Staffs Uni building. I could take another picture from a different window of - say - Catalyst Hi-Tech cool building looking at Science Building. But that would not represent the city accurately.

 

[IAtaman]

It has its point in showing all possible sides. The rougher pictures if they have some artistic finesse in that case.

Here is a picture taken without any mention of finesse. A shopping area in Linköping, Sweden. Shops and snow that melts and mixes with gravel so it looks dirty. It's just a boring picture of a moment in everyday life.

That is the worst thing about snow. I love snow in the forest, or in field, all white and clean. But in a city, it immediately turns into a large pile of watery mud. Miss snow, don't miss that.

I dunno if it is due to climate change but the British weather seems to look like that a lot more often these days. That's been the norm this winter, interspersed with the odd bitter-cold sunny day.

Summer is still the best two weeks of the year then?

 

[SteveC]

Hello from Wisconsin!! These two pictures were taken on the same day.


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Are you positive you weren't in Indiana?

 

[Mart68]

Didn't know we have any other forum members from Stoke.

There's just us I think

I think your original pic got it spot on.

It was loads better years ago with all the factories still working. Like going back in time to the 1950s. But they've knocked so many of the interesting buildings and streets down now, and replaced it with modern bland tat. Or in some places, nothing at all.

 

[Lukasjr]

Groningen (Netherlands). The street in which I live now. The picture was taken in 1928 when the distribution radio's were delivered.

 

[AndreaB]

I see many Italians on ASR, very good!
Now I make the "French cousins" angry....
In my small TOWN we produce little audio but a lot....

 

[Mosquito]

How many Italians, I would never have said.

Strange, I would have said that italian audiophiles are among the major haters of ASR..

 

[AndreaB]

Strange, I would have said that italian audiophiles are among the major haters of ASR..

It does not seem...
Italy is not just Pizza and Mandolin

 

[Esprit]

Strange, I would have said that italian audiophiles are among the major haters of ASR..

Sorry but I didn't understand your comment.

 

[Dennis_FL]

Venice, Florida

 

[Wizard509]

Northwest Florida, U.S.A. - about 40 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. The driveway is about a 1/4 mile long. It is about the same distance to the closest neighbor. The elevation increases about 120 feet from the road to the house.

The image shows about 27 acres. The property includes 240 acres and is surrounded by another 450 acres or so of pine forest.

 

[antcollinet]

And the weather looked like genuine British weather

Well I took the Spitfire photo, so that is genuine British weather also

 

[antcollinet]

No, unfortunately I don't. I lived here 18 years. I can't wait to move out. Should happen soon.
Almost any place/city got its good and bad. Stoke is mostly bad.

I'll admit I wouldn't choose to move there from here.