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  • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 7 months ago
    One would think if these Kalifornia people really believed in their global warming theories, then their beach front property wouldn't be worth the sand it's made out of.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 5 years, 7 months ago
    What to do? Since it takes a majority of Kalifornia voters to gift us with Moonbeams and Nutty Nancys, me dino recommends encouraging that state to succeed from the Union and crank up the socialist government most of the citizens would surely go for.
    Then let them reap what they truly deserve.
    Should any start crying to come back, the perfect song to sing to 'em has just jump out of me dino's dinosaur age memory banks~
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeY7...
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 5 years, 7 months ago
    Music has changed, in technical ways. I have a computer geek pal, who took music, pre-90s, and analyzed it on his computers. He swears the beat has been changed to be irritating. He even converted some 60s tracks and put them with the new beat, and it was very irritating. He thinks the change was government driven to create unreast. I just know that the same song, one with a heart beat compatible beat and the same song with the current beat, are really different in how they affect you.
    As to us, we are still trying to do the quad-sound, have only a few vinyl, but the old amp just dept going. We did upgrade to a current digital, for compatibility.
    As to Moonbeam, he is not focused on his state, only his only status, or what he can make people believe. He is so out of touch, he would not know until it all crashed down. I spent summers out there with my grandparents, who even then got endless free stuff. I could have got free college, but had enough of the valley people. Moonbeam won't be happy until they have no cars, the elctric grid crashes, and he can did up even mroe rural roads in the name of climate protection.
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  • Posted by NealS 5 years, 7 months ago
    Speaking of satellites, if only they had let Ronald Reagan build his Star Wars Program, they could solve California's real problem in an instant.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 5 years, 7 months ago
    California is good at botching even things they favor. Their big solar furnace is probably going to go nowhere, with all of the environmentalists going crazy over frying birds. Most of their wind turbines are stalled for lack of proper maintenance. At the same time, coal, oil, and gas producing/using Oklahoma has passed them in wind power production (combined with solar, reusables provide over 40% of OK's power needs). While California needs to buy power from other states, OK is exporting not only oil & gas, but electricity from wind power systems.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 7 months ago
    Whatever bankrupts the commie state quicker.
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    • Posted by Dobrien 5 years, 7 months ago
      Hi Freedomforall,
      Have you been traveling?
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      • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 7 months ago
        Yes, went to a high-end audio trade show for a few days.
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        • Posted by Dobrien 5 years, 7 months ago
          Pardon the pun , but that sounds good.
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          • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 7 months ago
            It was! We had been working on designing and building a tube pre-amplifier to unveil there, and we received overwhelmingly positive response from everyone who heard it - including the legendary Bob Carver. We matched it up with lots of different amplifiers and speakers and it was very successful against much more expensive preamps. (I'm streaming some jazz to it right now.)
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            • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years, 7 months ago
              Back when I had my Stereo stores, I took in a Tube amp, connected to Dolby noise reduction and played preamp tuners and tape system thru it. The old Tube technology gave everything we played through it a spacial character nothing but an Omni expander could come close to.

              Was a big fan of Carver stuff and Bose stuff. Was a dealer in Bose car amps and developed their direct reflecting system in the Auto environment.
              We also sold the very first digital radio made by Marantz...the computer was a separate plug in.
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              • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 7 months ago
                Interesting! Bob Carver has a new stereo tube amp that is being released later this fall via dealers.
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                • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years, 7 months ago
                  There was always something special about Tubes and sound...abet the annoying buzz and distortion...but at a reasonable volume the sound was as if you were there. That's what the Omni expander did for car stereo.
                  Most stereos you hear today are flat and the sounds are all jammed up.

                  I keep saying that I will start remastering some of my more cherished CD's, (like the Beatles collection) and turn them into music that will make you climax!
                  Still looking for a Bic +/- 18db 12 bands per side eq...would be nice to find an omni expander too but maybe I'll check out some of that carver tube stuff.

                  PS...I have a Bose system built in to the house/family room...just jack up to the wall...ran 10 gauge 100% copper speaker wire while building the house.
                  Did you know that one of the secrets to great stereo sound was to use equal lengths of wire for both left and right/Front and Back.
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                  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 7 months ago
                    The amps that were Carver's most popular - before the BoD and bean counters forced him out of his own company - were the solid state TFM series (some noted with a "t" at the end of the model number, e.g., m500t.) TheTFM's were solid state "transfer function modified" to sound like Bob's Silver Seven mono block tube amps. Bob's ability to make solid state sound like tubes was one of his advances that earned him the everlasting disdain from Stereophile Magazine.
                    See: https://www.stereophile.com/content/c...
                    He showed them a mid priced amp could sound even better than their favorite ultra expensive amp, and they never forgave him for it. They gave bad reviews for his monoblock tube amp when all other reviewers and audiophiles loved them. He even used those reviews to rub it in their faces.
                    Carver, Great, good, and ugly reviews
                    http://carvermk2.com/reviews/Carver%2...
                    I like the m500t and TFM-22 the best for the tube like non-fatiguing sound. They both deliver about 350 watts/ch to my 4 ohm Maggies.

                    Thanks for the tip on wire length. I'll give it a try.
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                    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years, 7 months ago
                      Another tip: Sound reflects at 90 degrees regardless of the angle of the surface it is reflected off of. So you angle the "speakers" in the direction you want the sound to go. (regardless of speaker shape, the sound waves leave the speaker at a right angle to the magnet, center and rim.) (you can imagine the challenge to get the right speaker angle in the auto environment but it was well worth the effort)

                      In Left/Right/Center systems; angle the center speaker, creating a concert hall effect. (that is the opposite of what is recommended).

                      Ideally, in 4 speaker systems, one pair should be direct and the other pair indirect; creating a slight delay.
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                    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years, 7 months ago
                      That was a trend I saw in Car Stereo, the more expensive the better; when someone that understood the parameters for good clean sound, not just volume, could create a mid priced system that could blow them away.
                      As Designer Audio LTD, We won many awards against mega priced systems until they change the rules of the contests thereby eliminating innovation.
                      My sales beat their sales and consumer satisfaction, so we created our own contests for innovators in the field in the 80's.

                      Another tip: sound reflects at 90 degrees regardless of the angle of the surface it reflects off. So, you angle your speakers to reflect the sound in the direction you want it to go. Ideally, one pair direct and the other pair indirect, creating a slight delay.
                      In Left/Right/center systems: make the center speaker indirect creating a concert hall effect. (that is opposite of what is recommended).
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                      • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 7 months ago
                        On remastering, I would think that unless you could separate the tracks of a recording it would be an exercise in futility to try to decompress (expand) a recording because in the original the compression is not applied consistently across all the tracks of the recording. I'm no expert on that process, however.
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                        • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years, 7 months ago
                          The idea is to attenuate those frequencies created by amplification that aren't related to the notes played when they offend or distort the overall sound: example: 100hz is a booming sound and normally should be attenuated. 1000 hz is another one to be attenuated, remembering this effects the surrounding frequencies as well. Ex. you can get deeper or higher sounds, beyond what a particular speaker is designed to produce by increasing the volume of the adjacent frequencies.
                          Of course this also depends upon the environment. Attenuate more in hard environments and less in soft environments.
                          This depends on taste also but never heard any complaints when I cleaned up the problem, distorted sound in a recording and gave them notes, sounds and experiences not heard in the original. I also would generally increase separation by adjusting each side differently.

                          The bummer now days is that I don't have the ears I once had...would have to use headphones and cross my fingers...laughing
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