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In the Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat?
Post Subject: Macondo and wife satisfaction.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/8/2017
Amy last night delivered the most brutal insult of my playback
I have heard for years. Usually I very much like when stupid internet audio
with audio IQ leas size of own shoe to “criticize” my playback. This is real
fun to hear them and it is a real fun to mock their uninformed stupidity. I also
like when people I care criticize” my sound. It is always educational to hear
another perspective. In case of my wife her very minor, not even criticism but
a request, was absolutely devastating and hurt my ego a lot.
So, here is what happened. Amy is playing with Boston Philharmonic
this week, it is Mahler Second in Symphony Hall. Last night as I was moving
Macondo around the room as I get more interesting result she came and we did
some listening together. She asked me to play different Resurrection interpretations
that I like, I picked a few and among then there was one Japanese recording that
happened to have very little compression and relatively low recording volume. So,
to play it Macondo/Milq were in max gain. As we start to listen the Scherzo Amy
asked to get more volume. I was staying there, flipping my eyes and said that
it is all that I have and I can’t do more. “it is shame”, Amy said. Fuck!!! I
felt so bad. I am OK to lay down 1250 “audio professionals” and to convince them
that they are idiot from birth but I can’t handle my Kitty dese to have a few
dB more volume when a playback in unity gain.
It is kind of said and pathetic that I feel this way but it
is what it is… With all humorlessness of the situation I think it does exposes
a cretinism that for a large room a gain or two stager amplification might not
be sufficient. Milq is perfectly made to have a balance between gain and power.
I might get rid of my Active Placette (theoretically and I can’t go it in
reality) and get a preamp with gain. As now I output max 4.5V to MIlq and I
still have my driver stage and output stage in A1. If I pump much more voltage into
Milq then the amp will go to class A2 and my indirect heated tubes will not
handle well grid currents. So, I am kind of wondering where I stay with it. I
think I can have up to 5.5V at Milq input. My PhonoStage can give I think 6V
and it is always enough, kind of fuck the class A2:-)! I might have an additional active
preamp and to activate it ONLY with low level recordings. This sounds like a
good idea to have handy to stop wife wiling and me not able to…
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