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In Reply to: RE: Measure 13, 15 and 22 posted by Chris from Lafayette on November 24, 2024 at 01:13:17
Your sedulity is enviable, and your points are well-taken. This topic now seems to have been exhausted - I certainly have!
Had not realized that inmates publish lists of their equipment - yours seems to be very large and expensive, though I don't recognize a lot of the names.
I watch YouTube videos on my iMac. I know that many people think that the iMac internal speakers deliver good tone, but I find it a bit too 'mellow'.
Instead, I use the Sony earbuds that have served me well for over five years. Found a little socket on the side of the computer where I can plug them right in, and that kills the internal speakers (which I have never been able to find anyhow).
For my extensive CD collection, I use a Sony DiscMan (big Sony fan), which fortuitously also accepts the same earbuds.This is the combination which most closely resembles the sound of the Walkman I had as a youth; I absolutely feel that nostalgia is the most important consideration when listening to music (though - as Simone has taught us - even nostalgia isn't what it used to be.)
Those earbuds have an added benefit in that they seem to reduce extraneous outside noise as well as producing good tone. This is very helpful in drowning out the constant bleating of the llamas we breed on our hobby farm. Turns out we would have been better off going with alpacas, but that is another story.
Follow Ups:
Thank you for the generous comment.
And wow - I had no idea about your breeding of llamas - that's VERY interesting! The things we find out about the other inmates here!
Finally, I kind of agree with you about the importance of nostalgia in music listening, even though, as you say, "nostalgia isn't what it used to be"! ;-)
And thank you for this interesting discussion - probably more civil on your part than on mine! ;-)
Thank you for your gracious reply.
Now I have a confession to make: Only the first two sentences of my last post were true.
All the Sony stuff was a parody of the many professional musicians - performers, composers, theorists etc. - I have encountered over the past 60 years who know nothing and couldn't care less about even rudimentary audio reproduction; those who, after listening to decent audio, either don't hear the difference or consider it akin to raising llamas - something only for weirdoes.
Your response to my parody tells me that you are, at heart, very kind, and that is much appreciated. (And no, I don't raise llamas, though I am indeed a weirdo.)
My main system is in a basement room ca 24 x 12, where the speakers are about 4.5' out from the wall and I sit 15.5 feet out. After the damping and diffusion were sorted, the next greatest improvement was adding Dirac full range. Have measured the FR with Dirac on, and tweaked some bass anomalies with PEQ.
Because the 3.7i are ruthlessly revealing of whatever is on the recording, I adjust bass/treble/width etc as necessary, and sometimes just add the Quad or Harmon tilt.
Cheers!
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