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Continuous ,after it came out of H P's mouth there it was all over.
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Too much is never enough
.., or almost anything having to do with "microdynamics"?
N/T
Lots of rotten sound out there being passed off as "detailed" etc. when "hard" and "glare" just fit.
return of the real?
That word is "gay". Nah, it just doesn't work any longer.
Edits: 09/21/16
a gay old time, no doubt.
all the best,
mrh
repurposing of "gay".
He felt using it as a term for homosexuals robbed the English language of a perfectly good adjective and proposed "yag" for use instead.
Well, that never caught on.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
... can turn an adjective into a noun.
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reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
it's kid speak. And we could certainly use a few more kids collecting, and enjoying, vinyl.
Seems far less offensive than all of the pretentious prattle from the balding old guys in the hobby that call sounds "caramel colored", "underdeveloped" and "lacking in body".
I'm afraid to guess what you think of the word "turntablist"!
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...they should learn to call them records.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
......to any recorded performance in any media, including CD, DVD, open reel tape, etc. All being records of the performance.
Now it wouldn't hurt to get them saying LPs, 45s, and, dare I hope beyond hope, 78s, my favorite of all.
In the era I grew up in, records were big, flat, round and most often black.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
....as well. See link below. Like many words the meanings seem to change with time. Kind of like "vinyls" and "turntablist".
All the best,
Marty
....will stop reading Stereophile when they call them "Vinyls to die for".
Your point is well made ...I'm just very set in my ways.
I worked in an audio shop with a record section for years. When someone asked for a title we would ask if they wanted a cassette or a record. No mention of vinyl or LP.
Thanks for helping me understand your point.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
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I understand it has become common, but that just annoys me all the more -- mis-application of the word awesome. That suggests awe inspiring. And I've never heard any audio system come close enough to special live music to be awe inspiring. As my sister once remarked, "Now, the Grand Canyon is awesome."
Another bugger I see from time to time is "minty". Normally a nickname or catch-phrase will be an abbreviation or a shortened version of the base word. dB for decibel, Maggie for Magnepan, and Nak for Nakamichi come to mind. So why would anyone wanting to imply mint condition choose a longer word? In my mind minty suggests a pale green color or specific taste if one licked the component.
There, I feel better now. ;^)
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
Reminiscent of Victor Borge's inflation of language (two-derful for won-derful, etc.), is "perfect." "I would like a cup of coffee, please." "Perfect!" What's next: "perfectly awesome?"
And while I'm at it, what about "No problem" instead of "You're welcome?" Gaaaak!
I must wholeheartedly agree with "no problem". It's just poor use of the English language. I cringe when I say "thank you" to a store clerk and am answered with a "no problem". WTF is wrong with a simple "you're welcome"?
Clerks, service staff, and others replying "no problem" when they are simply doing the task expected of them. Aaarrrgggghhh!!!
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
to make the system reject them.
This was not incorporated into PINK FLAMINGOs for reasons unknown.
getting almond milk in your AM coffee is not.
A terrible lack of perspective slowly condemning a swell adjective to mediocrity.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
"slowly condemning a swell adjective to mediocrity"
Could be MUCH, MUCH worse. Think of what the word "Special" implies now.
Minty is one that bothers me too, I always figured that it was simply a typo however as t and y are right next to each other on hr keyboard.
FWIW, I've always taken "minty" to mean mean "not mint". IOW, it's the use of a form of "mint" to describe something that's not truly mint.
I wonder if "minty" is now being used as another word for "ment-ish", that is, something close to but not exactly in mint condition (or tasting like mint).
I think so.
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At one audio salon in Vancouver (no longer doing the same type of work), they'd send you home if they didn't see you tapping your toes. OK, small exaggeration.
For some reason
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Still wonder about the small "a."
8^)
after I've had a few hard boiled eggs LoL
All are aspects of real music that can be screwed up in reproduced music. The original Black Cube phono preamp, to cite one especially egregious offender, was practically a PRaT filter that made all music played through it sound like the musicians were recorded while performing underwater.
You have a link to this?
Thanks!
I wrote a short review of the original Black Cube for Listener but as far as I know none of the magazine's old issues are online. I completely hated the sound of the device and wrote so in my review.
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