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Is it time to just quit?

Time to just quit?                      
Buying audio stuff?                             
Posting to an empty house?                          
My gut feeling is no one is posting in the regular 'free' threads. Maybe they all are paying to post? I could not know, since I am way too cheap to pay to just post 'exclusive'.  Being natural paranoid, I think everyone is posting over there, not here?                                       
Then I also just hit my limit on credit card Paypal. Now I have to become "verified' or no Paypal.    
This also happened at a fortuitous moment, when I was starting to overspend...             
So no buying OR selling here for me (unless I am willing to get the Paypal CC. Which I have to think about)So maybe the Universe is telling me "Time to quit".???  
Not quit listening to music, just NOT buying more stuff and NOT posting more gibberish.
elizabeth
reubent
3,587 posts
 
@geoffkait - Hey Geoff. I was looking on Amazon at the track list for the XLO Test CD. I don’t see any particular track called "speaker position". Which track do you use for setting speaker position? Also, are there instructions, regarding placement of speakers, in the liner notes for the CD? BTW here are the test tracks listings:

1. Technical Tracks: Channel Identification
2. Technical Tracks: Voice In-Phase
3. Technical Tracks: Voice Out-Of-Phase
4. Technical Tracks: Clap Track
5. Technical Tracks: 3 1 5 Hz Test Tone
6. Technical Tracks: ’Prof.’ Johnson Does Something Spatinal
7. Technical Tracks: Demagnetizing Sweep
8. Technical Tracks: Demagnetizing Fade
9. Technical Tracks: System Burn-In
10. Music Tracks: Mono, In-Phase
11. Music Tracks: Mono, Out-Of-Phase
12. Music Tracks: Stereo, Out Of Absolute Phase

Thanks.........
elizabeth OP
6,726 posts
 
Ani DiFranco Same title album, (debut) 1990 Righteous Babe Records. For a first album amazing clarity and from the sound... $$$$ recording equipment used.                           
Typically 'unknowns' first recording get ho-hum to poor recording equipment and damaging mastering for the first album. Not here.                             

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geoffkait
14,147 posts
 
Re the XLO Test CD, the “speaker placement track” is the out of phase track. The instructions are spoken by Professor Keith Johnson, “The best sound will be when you hear the sound coming from all around you, with no particular direction. The best sound when you’re in phase will be when you have the most diffuse sound when the system is out of phase.”
reubent
3,587 posts
 
Thanks Geoff!
devilboy
818 posts
 
For me, I found I was addicted to the excitement of opening a new brown box.
It was that, "Six year old on Christmas morning" feeling.

Then the best thing imaginable happened to me. I lost 95% of the music in my Mac Mini. I switched to streaming and lost the desire to buy new equipment because when I listened to my Mini I listened to the same stuff over and over and over, constantly critiquing.  I wasn't enjoying. It wasn't fun anymore. It was work. 

Since I've had this awakening, I've realized how much of a racket the high end is. It's a disgrace what manufacturers are charging. 

If you think $2,000 for an interconnect is reasonable, what would your reaction be if your wife came home with a $,2000 mink coat?

I'm out.
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