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In Reply to: the "anti-hero?" posted by Green Lantern on January 29, 2016 at 05:44:21:
In the mid-1970's I lived with a pair of Bozak 302's driven by Mc 75's in a second-floor apartment. Very late one night, a party downstairs got unbearably loud. From previous encounters, I knew that trying to reason with the occupants below would go nowhere. So I laid the speaker enclosures face down on the carpet, cued up a bass-drum passage in Sir Michael Tippett's Four Ritual Dances from Midsummer Marriage, turned up the volume on the preamp, and lowered the tonearm's cueing lever. I played all of two drum strikes, enough to unleash what felt like a reverberating Richter 4, before raising the cueing lever and returning the enclosures to their upright positions.
I heard a few "what the hell's" from downstairs, and then dead quiet. Then a knock on my door. It was my next-door neighbor asking me, "Did you feel that?" "Yeah," I deadpanned, "I wonder what it was."
No one came up from downstairs, but the ambient noise level there reduced by several decibels and stayed that way for the rest of the night. And I never again had to deal with a "downstairs" problem.
Jim
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