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On 4/1/2018 12:22 PM, wrote:
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. I once had a complete 4 channel, "Quadraphonic" Sansui system with four large speakers, two Sansui stereo amps, a Sansui 4 channel processor/decoder and a Teac 4 channel tape deck. Quadraphonic was the fore-runner to surround sound but was plagued by different recording standards and lack of pre-recorded material. Enoch Light released a few tapes and 4 channel encoded vinyls back in the 70's. |
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On 4/1/2018 12:22 PM, wrote:
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. I have a pair of 80's vintage Bose 901's and the Bose Equalizer that goes with them. I don't use them anymore but they are still in great shape (speaker surrounds are not rotted, etc.) Properly set up they still sound very good, especially if you add a subwoofer at very low volume. |
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On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 12:22:24 -0400, wrote:
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. Hooked up to my computer, the Bose Lifestyle system makes great sound! |
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