I suspect you underestimate audiophiles and the demand for oxygen free gold cables!
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Was always a bit scared as a student going into richer sounds, being a bit naive and thinking the staff were experts.
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My flatmate was an audiophile, I just stood there and looked impressed with his latest placebo.
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Audiophiles are a funny bunch. Listening to music they hate in order to fully appreciate the quality of their thermionic valve amplifier. Very human tribe.
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@IWRATS - I believe this is Nice - seems like there is some lag in "behaviour change" there too
https://twitter.com/AlTi5/status/1362041557474492418?s=20
good advert for physical separation
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Not quite 50p but my wife wants a telly that you have to pedal a bike to generate the power for it in order to watch it.
Anyone got an old turbo? Or some kind of high-powered dynamo?
I suspect you underestimate audiophiles and the demand for oxygen free gold cables!
As I always say, "Save the starter-motor cable for starting motors"
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Without audiophiles then The Blue Nile might not have got a record deal.
But yeah, it’s audio homeopathy.
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@algo
That is a radge design, one hundred.
Nice is notorious for attracting well let's be honest and call them gangsters, fascists and fascist gangsters. Driving was exuberant the one time I drove there. (I am not a fascist or a gangster.)
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Audio homeopathy - brilliant.
One of my neighbours - known to IWRATS - had some probably 1980s B&O tower powered speakers - probably cost him stupid money. He took them to B&O and they told him he'd have to buy new ones. Luckily he bumped into me on the way back and I fabricated some poorly soldered and bodged connectors, ran them under the floor, bought a cheap amp/selector thingy off Richer Sounds for not much and he can now deafen everyone in the vicinity.
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“my wife wants a telly that you have to pedal a bike to generate the power for it in order to watch it”
Is that for personal use or as the only way the household can watch telly?
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“ran them under the floor“
That’s dedication!
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@chdot - bloody mindedness. I was annoyed (as I always am) at the culture of discarding perfectly functioning objects. As evidenced by the bicycles I still own.
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“being a bit naive and thinking the staff were experts”
That’s not just an audio thing.
It’s why plenty of people go to Halfords to buy bikes, because they have the expectation (to some extent justified) that shop staff won’t know enough to intimidate them - compared with bike shops.
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“I was annoyed (as I always am) at the culture of discarding perfectly functioning objects”
Totally, but underflooring cables?
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“As evidenced by the bicycles I still own”
Well yes.
As some people have observed, most of mine are from the 1980s.
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@chdot - at the risk of thread drift - I hate exposed long runs of cable - in this case there was under floor access as it was a ground floor tenement with a hatch in one of the hall pantry cupboards - also very tight but accessible access holes under the floor between rooms and about 3 feet of height to work with, so actually relatively easy - already some access behind the skirting due to recent works. I'm too lazy to have done it if I'd had to take up the floor.
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I never got into audiophilia but can sometimes detect a difference in the way sounds sound different when a copy of the same audio file is being played through my old non-wireless non-touchscreen MP3 player compared to being played through my phone but using the same earphones. It's arguably 'better' through the MP3 player when it creates a bit more separation between instruments, but that's only something I've noticed by accident on a few particular tracks. I suspect it's the DAC. The way something sounds to someone else is always going to be relatively unverifiable, unlike a simple test of frequency response or the way that things like high-end camera optics can have their sharpness, distortion or colour rendition objectively compared with charts and things, but one person's "looks nicer" is still specific to them.
The occasional high-frequency bubbling on poorly-encoded MP3s is acceptable to me for the increased availability and portability of digital music. Lots of my type-specimen musical tracks are the version I listened to repeatedly on a cassette recorded from FM radio with all the associated compression, so it's not as if a .FLAC from vinyl through multi-thousand-pound components would sound 'right' to me anyway. That said, the rubbish speakers on phones and wee DAB radios hurt my ears.
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“at the risk of thread drift“
Checks thread title.
Nope, not a problem.
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I’m sure I read that, once a certain sound quality is reached, then any perceived improvement is mostly a novelty response which quickly wears off.
My hearing has a permanent hiss from years of standing to close to the PA at the front at gigs, so high end audio is wasted on me anyway.
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“under floor access ... hatch ... cupboards ... very tight”
Like I said, dedication.
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Is that for personal use or as the only way the household can watch telly?
The only way the household can watch telly!
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Thing for me with music is that I respond entirely emotionally to it and the reproduction quality matters little. I do enjoy the intense emotion of having good music physically shake you at a gig.
This is in stark contrast to my visual responses. Van Gogh canvases might as well be a different art form to reproductions of same.
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Years ago my sister and brother-in-law were having some work done to the house they lived in at the time, which involved having a new floor put down. While the floor was up anyway they got a socket to plug a speaker into put in at the back of the room somewhere for a surround-sound speaker. I don't remember exactly how it was connected to the rest of the system.
B-i-L has some very large speakers - one time we (me, my sister, b-i-l, their children) were all dancing to some music and b-i-l said "turn the volume up..." I was teasing him that he should be complaining about the noise and asking for it to be turned down..
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On buying a new piano, I hoped that we could find that beyond a certain price point we wouldn't be able to either hear the difference, or take advantage of it.
I was wrong on both counts (even for the Grade 3 proficient 13 year-old).
It was fun playing 6 figures worth of pianos over two days in London (they didn't ask the budget!). Thankfully space prevented consideration of grand pianos, so there was an upper bound...
Music reproduction may not have the same lack of ceiling!
Robert
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As I said, some good deals on hi-fi at Richer Sounds. That the staff are paid properly seals the deal AFAIAC. Bought my first separates there in the early nineties and have been a loyal customer ever since. Well except that time about ten years ago when Dixons had some decent mini systems.....but otherwise yes.
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I believe this is Nice - seems like there is some lag in "behaviour change" there too
https://twitter.com/AlTi5/status/1362041557474492418?s=20
It's Paris. Avenue Gambetta, rather than Boulevard Gambetta.
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@PS - thanks for that - yes that makes a bit more sense.
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“
New Spaces for People row: Cyclist tells of near miss as cycle lane makes him converge with articulated lorry
A seasoned cyclist has described a near-miss with an articulated lorry as he pedalled along a new cycle lane installed to keep cyclists safe.
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Tory Councillor, "well this one near miss means we should bin the whole thing."
After person killed on normal bit of road... Tumble weeds.
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Spotted was Comiston before EEN asked me to subscribe
Spotted Blue Nile up thread. They are in the Pantheon. To get into the Pantheon you need to only put out albums over a ten year period that my former Finance Manager rates as excellent (he is beloved of record shop owners inEdinburgh due to his vinyl buying addiction). So Bowie is in, Stones, Neil Young, Joni, he allows Tom Waits as Tom is my fave. But the Beatles are not in the Pantheon. He argues Macca is which is allowed as he let Tom in.
Blue Nile though. Ten years after Tinseltown they had still only realeased excellent albums (Tinseltown and Hats) Still counts. My former finance manager lives east Lothian and gets excited if he spots Paul Buchanan in North Berwick.
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