Posts by Severian (archived)
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What was the last film you watched & said "I really enjoyed that"
in Music & Film · Feb 28, 2012 20:51Trollhunter. Funky pseudo documentary in the style of Blair Witch Project or Cloverfield. Norwegian film, subtitled in English, really a delightful surprise.
What's playing RIGHT NOW?
in Music & Film · Feb 28, 2012 20:48Pink Floyd - Meddle right now, fits my mood. Actually my mood is more aligned with The Final Cut but I'm trying to avoid making it worse. And I still have my Discwasher record brush and stylus cleaner, along with a Picke…
The Audiophile & B&O
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 28, 2012 20:42Those old Columbia and RCA recordings are amazing. Of course, one of the best known classics of jazz that I just love is Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis, and that has to be one of the worst recordings in the history of music…
New to B&O
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 28, 2012 19:13Well, re bass remember you're dealing with a speaker with a 4 inch woofer, even with adaptive bass linearization there only so much air a driver that size can move. As for the treble, kind of surprising, as that tweeter …
Penta questions...
in The Workbench · Feb 28, 2012 09:52[quote user="GTS"] All valid points Jeff - a great response. I agree that Fs as a lower frequency limit isn't a primary concern, though as a physical property it affects a great deal. The notion of valid end termination …
New to B&O
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 27, 2012 20:45Get them off the floor but close to the wall. They were designed for wall or shelf mounting, it doesn't surprise me they would sound bad on the floor. Any small speaker will. Your ears should be at the same height as the…
Beogram RX2 - Looking to add some type of material to the platter
in BeoGram · Feb 27, 2012 12:25I think you'd mess the weight calibration up less than you'd change the vertical tracking angle of the cartridge as the record height is higher. How much that would change things depends a lot on the cartridge, I expect …
The Audiophile & B&O
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 27, 2012 11:43"Popular" music has traditionally suffered from poor studio work, and tailoring to sound good on boomboxes, radios, and cheap car systems ala the use of the old Horrortones (Auratones) to test the mix on. Some artists ar…
Penta questions...
in The Workbench · Feb 27, 2012 11:06[quote user="GTS"] [quote user="Leslie"] Foam. Have been using rubber before but it's quite difficult to handle! [/quote] Would imagine this changes the T/S parameters also, starting with Fs - probably not ideal. [/quote…
The Audiophile & B&O
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 27, 2012 09:56It's ironic that, after being given the best medium to date for delivery of music to the end user, CD, with flat power response, outstanding bass, channel separation, and dynamic range, that the music industry would use …
The Audiophile & B&O
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 26, 2012 12:28The Japanese amp/high end amp demo was set up by a group of skeptical objectivists, and was written up at the time, I think in the JAES but it's been a while so I am not sure of that, I could probably find out for sure. …
B&O pricing policy
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 25, 2012 14:38John, your post also pretty well describes the cutthroat discount store world here in the US as well. Not fun and it always feels kind of slimy. When I got my Beosound and Beolabs, since I bought them from a large chain …
The Audiophile & B&O
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 25, 2012 14:24Funny story, I feel sad for someone who will buy something they don't like as well because of what their alleged friends would say. There was an audio show once where a "cheap and crappy" Japanese integrated amp, I think…
The Audiophile & B&O
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 24, 2012 11:54John, I understand what you mean about the road to Damascus. Same path for me with this B&O. I think part of it is realizing how little difference the constant tweaking/maintenance issues made compared to more stable gea…
FYI ... Apple announces a new level of HiFi recordings in iTunes
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 23, 2012 16:41Oh I agree completely about Apple being great at marketing and making people think they are the 2nd coming. I'm not an Apple fan boy by any stretch, I have some Apple products, and generally find iTunes an OK music serve…
FYI ... Apple announces a new level of HiFi recordings in iTunes
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 23, 2012 15:18Nothing new here, every studio used to have a pair of Horrortones (Auratone) speakers, crappy little boxes with small whizzer cone full range drivers. They tended to sound like crappy car or boom box systems, and most al…
The Audiophile & B&O
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 23, 2012 15:11I guess I am, or used, to be what might be considered an "audiophile" but not an audiophool. One of the things that I find enjoyable about B&O is it basically freed me of the obsessive need to worry about different compo…
Packaging to die for!
in eBay - the right way! · Feb 21, 2012 12:31In this case the "little hifi shop" was Tweeter/Sound Advice. Sound Advice was a Florida company, tons of stores, that was bought out by Tweeter, which was more of a nationwide US company. My buddy worked there starting …
Packaging to die for!
in eBay - the right way! · Feb 16, 2012 12:07This is the kind of thing that really hacks me off, particularly with products that are as much a work of art as an audio component like B&O. Sloppy and careless, and shows no respect either for the product or the person…
What's playing RIGHT NOW?
in Music & Film · Feb 15, 2012 20:58The Mysterious Flying Orchestra, a late 70's RCA jazz album, each track a different artist. Really good jazz tracks, and I'm listening to it on my just reinstalled and dialed in system, Beogram 3300, MMC2, phono preamps.…