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In Reply to: Peak Listening Levels - Some analysis and some thoughts... posted by DevillEars on February 28, 2007 at 09:22:27:
1) If your standards for comparison are the sounds heard when 6-8 rows back from the conductor at a symphony concert, then whether an amp has 250, 500, 2000 w/channel are an essentially irrelevant consideration... A system - including how the amp drives it - either "delivers", or it does not...2) The female portion of a household can have some strange ideas about the priorities surrounding an audio system... I took the flexible and pragmatic approach, declaring that since the wife's interest in cooking was similar to my interest in music, that I would allow her a completely free rein as to how she designed her kitchen requirements, but that I insisted that I would have total decision-making rights over arrangements for both the audio system and listening-room...
Where's the problem?...
Follow Ups:
... the "bullshit" analysis was purely injected to set the stage for the "thoughts" in what has obviously turned out to be a painfully unsuccessful attempt at humour...(sulks off to the fridge for another beer on a stiflingly hot evening)
to exporting a little of your "stiflingly hot evening" in our direction?...Our day has been decidedly cool, damp (lots of overnight rain), and windy, so we Brits could do with a little "shirt-sleeve" weather at present...
No wonder a frequent tea-break discussion topic in the UK appears to be planned holidays on sun-baked beaches, with a visual background of nicely bronzed bodies, etc...
On the other hand, I do believe that you have a somewhat rose-coloured viewpoint...As a counterpont to your visions of "sun-baked beaches" and "nicely bronzed bodies", please consider the following:
- South-Easterly winds that howl along the beaches turning the beautiful white beach-sand into a supersonic cloud of carborundum that scours you clean of all flesh
- Bronzed bodies that either weigh in excess of 20 stone or have more hair covering them than a mastodon of years gone by
- Sun-baked bodies, covered with lotions that - in combination with the heat - begin to roast the flesh and cause a stench of burning meat to permeate the seaside - drowning out the other attractions of rotting seaweed, seagull shit, fish corpses rotting in small pools, etc.
- Finally, picture yourself as but one of a milling herd of humanity, all blindly seeking the elusive nirvana created by over-fertile imaginations and that just does not, in reality, exist at all
From my perspective, I'll stick with my swimmin' hole and a nice lounger under a covered patio with a continuous stream of cold lagers to help assuage the effects of heat-stroke.
(end of semi-rant)
For my own part, I definitely avoid crowded beaches... I much prefer seeing them from afar (circa 400yds is often quite close enough) from the deck of a small boat... With sails, but no engine, there is usually enough peace and quiet to feed my soul, and the natural sail-driven speed of the boat gives a very satisfying feeling of being "tuned into" the elements...Naturally steering a boat is rather more pleasant when the hand guiding the tiller can feel pleasant sunshine on it, rather than "rheumatism-inducing" biting cold temperatures!...
PS: A Polish friend's wife last week-end announced that she was disgusted since I already had a better tan than she could manage when she was returning from holiday... I simply commented that somewhere along my blood-line there was propably a generous dose of "Gyppo" blood to account for the speed at which I obtained a tan...
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