geoffkait
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| Phil Collins Remasters I’ve oft wondered about that. That is I wondered how the Japanese were able to obtain the original tapes. Do they just give them out to anyone who asks? | |
| Room color opinions Institutional Green was the favorite color for rooms inside mental institutions, hospitals and prisons for like forever. Green, especially that particular dreary and putrid shade of green was assumed by almost everyone to have a calming effect on ... | |
| Room color opinions Even in the dark does the brain 🧠 know colors are there, you know, even when you can’t see them with your eyes? 👀 You know, like ESP. 😳 Let’s take the case of the colored magnets, does the effect go away when you turn out the lights? I think not. | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement Out of the black hole into the worm hole? 😳 | |
| Phil Collins Remasters One need look no further than the Offical Dynamic Range Database to see the progressive onslaught of aggressive dynamic range compression that has been occurring for the last 20 years. This is true for not only CDs but also vinyl and even SACD and... | |
| Room color opinions I don’t mean to be difficult but sound is the same thing as perception of sound. What you perceive to be the sound IS the sound. In other words, the sound you hear is not (rpt not) really completely determined by the enclosed system - the system c... | |
| Room color opinions As it turns out blue is best for walls whilst green is best for the ceiling. And, no, don’t try to pull the old controlled blind test thing on me. 🤠 | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Take’s a lot of energy correcting, moderating, admonishing, fending off, and damage controlling the trolls, don’t it? 😛In the sweet old country where I come fromNobody ever worksYeah nothing gets doneWe hang fire, we hang fire | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? Without philosophy we would not be having this discussion. | |
| Review Audioquest Hurricane (part 2) This leaves the door wide open for a sequel, Hurricane Part 3. Much like Sharknado. 🦈 🦈 🦈 Only this time he’s going to talk about all the stuff he promised, you know, like all the technical innovations and details and how controlling directionalit... | |
| Oh no, there's metal in your records! He would rather not talk about it? Ooooo! The mystery deepens. Very scary! 😳 | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? One problem I can foresee is some folks who demand or at least encourage are non technical. You cannot explain things that are technical to non technical people. Period. The issue is they think they know what the word technical means but they don’... | |
| Phil Collins Remasters I heard through the grapevine Phil Collins is back in the stu-stu-studio. | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... For any audiophiles like me, who’s always changing something, breaking in new electronics, new power cords, cables, adding or trying new tweaks, it is quite impossible to keep track of what cause is producing what effect. I’m not not even talking ... | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? Gosh, whatever happened to good old (1) psychology, (2) evolutionary biology, and (3) the study of sensory perception: philosophical, subconscious and physiological. Maybe add (4) flaws inherent in testing procedures. 😛 |