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No telling exactly what factors are at play here, but one is allowed to think and feel outside the box; it's just that it can be hard to "recapitulate". I probably have company in cases of "seeing sound" or "hearing smells", etc. It can take some rea...
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If we start with the idea that a given hi-fi and a given
recording have “own sound” and practical limits, and a given listener “knows
something about Music”, then what do we have when we introduce recorded music
via hi-fi to the listener in qu...
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Just so. Quite a while ago I went to hear a group of musicians playing Stradivarius instruments provided by a Trust that owned them. Let's just say I've heard more engaging music, and I've also heard better sound. I recall talking about it with a nex...
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Well, Romy, good luck where everyone else so far has +/- fallen short, including Jung and Joseph Campbell. Frameworks and platforms can be useful, like launching rockets, but the Collective Unconscious is a Big Subject, and surely the appearance of T...
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Robin, as you suggest, I did indeed have some specific things in mind when I chose and developed The Loudspeakers for myself, after a very long haul up to that point. I have tried to share about it in this thread, in my own, non-linear way, still try...
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I guess anyone who has that agenda might have to put that first. Not I. Like you said in a little earlier post, we talk about impedance and cone resonance, nuts and bolts, that sort of thing, and naturally it winds up just like the Accuracy vs. Musi...
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The idea behind writing about The Loudspeakers might serve me to write about anything in particular, except - despite some long digressions - this thread was meant to record my own thoughts about The Loudspeakers in such a way as to distinguish them,...
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Even worse, the mind goes, along with the body. So, what's left after that? Consciousness? It is nice for me that Music still moves me, as lots of other things I used to do flew away like the stars after the Big Bang. Regardless of how we style ourse...
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Pain can surely make Jack a grumpy and ultimately dull boy. Audio lives and dies on it's face. Meanwhile, where there is a will, there's a way, and one can't smoke Death or Taxes.Best regards,Paul S...
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Quite a list! There are times when I am listening for something specific that I have heard before and want to hear again, or I may want to hear it better. I do a lot of listening while I try to be still and stay ready for whatever happens, even if I ...
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Hard to say at times when words need "air quotes". Like everything else, we have to learn to navigate with varying signals, weak signals, also gaps and contradictions. Either one wants to repeat something or one does not. "Different audio methods" co...
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Some time ago I posted here about "Building on Accidental Success", more or less your notion of serendipity, this coming from simply "adopting what works". "Looking back", I still hope to be able to "look forward"/repeat perceived success through und...
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Romy, there are plenty of reasons why Sisyphus might want to do something else, and developing tolerance of dichotomies might well be accompanied by a departure from normal habits, including audio. Good luck with the things that still hold your inter...
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Although I have mentioned “mining” Music many times
before, I think I have not elaborated on it, despite this practice is the
reason for most of the major changes I have worked on my audio system over many
years. The Loudspeakers are case and ...
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Jarek, Congratulations and All the Best for you and your Family! Children are psychic catalysts, for sure. I would not be surprised if your listening habits change, and you can chart/"work with" these changes, apropos. Even if you "only imagine" you...
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Early on in electronics DIY I was surprised to learn the differences between "what the equations predicted" and what I was actually getting, in terms of measurements and sound. For instance, I was initially surprised to find that "non-inductive capac...
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Hi, Edgar. For sure back EMF is a factor in driving "FR" loudspeakers with amplified audio signals. It looks like this guy is trying to sell more efficient motor/generators? Have you figured out how to apply this idea to loudspeakers driven by amplif...
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I read or heard many years ago that the word "education" was from Latin, educo, to draw forth. Meanwhile, OED has it as late middle English. I like the idea going in that there's something There to draw from. I hope we all gain from our mutual associ...
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(with appologies to the ghost of Marshall McLuhan).So, what does one need to know about media theory to use hi-fi to listen to music? I have to say, nothing, since there are plenty of people using hi-fi who couldn't care less about any sort of intra-...
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Is it permissible to bring up the relationship between
Nietzsche’s typewriter and Romy’s new software? Whatever the cause of the
transformation, I am delighted with the new, syntactically streamlined Romy!
Paul S
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Time to add that the previous post was (perhaps too) focused on thoroughly scripted Music and it is shaded by the idea of playback. "Spontaneous" Music is different enough to merit its own thread, whether Eastern/Asian, or Jazz, whatever, and it migh...
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It seems some people are moved by "Eastern" thinking on these things, Zen, as it were. Here things might be "reduced" or "streamlined" to a sort of metaphysical symbology. Look at gardens, for instance. One gets the idea that one might look anywhere ...
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A whole lot happens between the time that someone composes a piece and we "finally hear it". Included in this observation is the fact that we "have to hear it" before "we know we don't like it". Immediately to mind pops Gary Karr's "The Spirit of Kou...
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Well, Robin, I agree with every word you said. I was simply moved on an ontological level by your previous post, yet not so moved that I threw in the metaphorical towel. I have supposed for some time that we can stipulate in such a way that it at lea...
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Many will recall the old statement, give enough monkeys
typewriters, and give them enough time, you will have all the great books.
Well, I, for one, do not plan to oversee this enterprise, which fails to prove anything
because it simply posts ...
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One man's Stargate is another man's ayahuasca, and another man's Webb telescope. It's good to have a nice, thorough shake-up every so often. Can we say, broadly speaking, that perspective is involved, AKA, "viewpoint"? Of course "accuracy" needs coor...
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As though "the event existed ahead of time", or "it came to pass as I recognized it". We already accept that Time is variable.Paul S...
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Great Context, Robin. And from more or less the same time and place of origin, we have Handel. So much Music pouring from that area for so many years! Starting in my youth, I was agog at their familiarity with Music, including the way it seemed to pe...
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Great answer, Romy, at least for me. I still like Camus the more for excluding Stalin (the person), even at the expense of Sartre, and of course I do not conflate Communism with... whatever. I like the way you are working with language here, like a y...
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IMO, it is to Camus' eternal credit that he saw through Stalin, and I like to think his "standards" excluded the purely banal along with "too personal" Music. Romy, if all this means you have found a way to enjoy Bach at work, good for you.Best regar...
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