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In Reply to: In Tucson... posted by TomLarson on April 21, 2007 at 11:13:53:
Or even in Springfield, reading Stereophile while listening to music is an enhancement to both, not an interference.It even helps at the symphony. Years ago subscribers to the Eugene Symphony were invited to a rehearsal and I had walked over to the bookmark and bought a stereo magazine (TAS?) while waiting for it to start. Great fun, listening while reading and looking up once in a while to watch the orchestra. Felt right at home...
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So does that make you a former Duck? I don't think I went to the symphony ever while I was a UofO, but I did hear some great concerts--including Dave Bruebeck and Joan Baez. And I still remember those performances, the terrible acoustics of MacArthur Court notwithstanding.
No, I've lived here quite a spell but have never actually been a duck.The Hult center definitely has better acoustics than the pit, especially if you have the right seats. It was built around '81 so may have been after your time. Unfortunately they had a rum philosophy when they built it and designed it to use artificial reverb. However if you sit within the field of the first reflection off the shell it's pretty good. And it doesn't echo...
are done in that very way. It keeps me from listening too hard, finding flaws in the recording and/or listening to the system instead of the music.
Reading while listening is a good indication of the quality of the music I'm listening to. If it's special, I'm not doing much if any reading. If it's not, I read voraciously.All you Freudians out there can make of this what you will.
John Crossett____________________________
It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
to encounter some of the same challenges a dealer does from time to time, and that is a tendency to focus more on the equipment. "Let's see how it handles this next riff, blah, blah, blah." I have found that a couple of glasses of wine takes care of that curse even better than reading. ;~)
Oh we reviewers do listen for what the equipment is doing - when we have our reviewers hat on. But when we don't.....
John Crossett____________________________
It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
Ostensibly, so are mine. That's why I tell myself I do it--read while listening. But I'm not so sure (for me) that it's true. And here's another thing--in my Honda (NOT while I'm delivering papers), with whatever speakers came standard and a $200 Pioneer cd player--I get tremendous musical enjoyment. I will think sometimes, oh, gee, I bet this sounds better on my System, but if I don't have those thoughts, I just enjoy. I have thought sometimes it has to do with the array of speakers "surrounding" me, and also that the distractions (watch out!) while driving, really take my mind off sound quality.
You know how cynical some people can be. ;~) I can report that the same phenomena exists in my battleship Crown Vic.
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