On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 09:59:29 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 4/1/18 12:51 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:54:49 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

You probably are right. Pretty soon we'll be seeing one liter engines
zipping "funny cars" down the dragstrip!

They are getting a 3 ton truck up to 60 in 6 seconds with a 213 Cu/In
engine. In the 80s that would have taken a high performance 350 or
400. It would have been a 427 in the 60s.
Engines have come a long way.





Apparently so, but somehow it reminds me of the guys who used to tell me
that those little Bose speakers put out the same quality of sound as
theater-sized klipschorns or wharfedales or other large, horn-loaded
speakers, or that "surround sound" is "more real" than what you hear at
an acoustically correct concert hall with proper miking. I never
believed that...taste, after all, is subjective. I have a CD of Mischa
Maisky playing Bach cello suites I play frequently, and I've seen him
perform in a small concert hall. I used to lug a copy of that CD around
to audio stores when I was thinking of getting different speakers. The
CD sounded like **** to me on new technology small speakers...the cello
sounded like a viola, which is tuned an octave higher.

The difference you can actually measure the performance of these new
HO gauge engines. It is not like just trying to describe what
something sounds like to you.
I agree the "Bose sound" is not necessary correct sound but Bose fans
swear by it. I still have 2 big Sansui speakers in the tiki bar and I
think they sound better than the Bose my wife has in the new room but
she likes the Bose sound more than the thumping base from those old
"leisure suit days" speakers.