kumakuma Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Frankendectomy Ralf11 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 6 minutes ago, fas42 said: Step by step ... the first litigation in the Lion Air crash, against Boeing, has been launched, and pilots associations are having a barney, with each other, about the matter ... hang on, we're in for a bumpy ride, . Who said systems were straightforward to get, just right ... Your use of this tragedy as just more way to push your ideas is appalling. Ralf11 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 11 minutes ago, fas42 said: If you want to go down that route ... I'm appalled that countries like the USA allow essentially unrestricted access to high powered weapons, which leads to regular massacres of innocents at far greater rates than any other country - if there's a buck in it, as in the powerful gun industry which has such influence in that country, then all bets are off. No idea how this relates to my point. Ralf11 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 19 minutes ago, fas42 said: Unfortunately, I'm not a natural business man - I'm an ideas person, and have always been that way - and that translated to not being that 'comfortable', these days; for a number of reasons. Someone recently told me that it is important to be able to understand where there is something not quite right, and then be smart about trying things, to resolve what troubles you. Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 44 minutes ago, fas42 said: Could a good example of this be a person always being a smart arse, and never realising that it's somewhat offensive; and wondering why people react in a negative manner to their behaviour ... ? All three clauses of your sentence are untrue. Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 9 minutes ago, STC said: Like this. FullSizeRender.mov 31.41 MB · 0 downloads Is that Frank ??? Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
Popular Post kumakuma Posted November 27, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2019 54 minutes ago, fas42 said: Air vibrating is physics, and a microphone relies on good ol', simple principles to make it work ... if it can register the frequencies that the human ear is sensitive to, then everything that matters will be captured. So you would have us believe that recording is easy but playback is hard? The reality is that they are, in fact, essentially mirror images of the same process and both suffer from the same technical limitations and issues. gmgraves, Teresa, 4est and 1 other 3 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 59 minutes ago, fas42 said: To repeat, I have been amazed at times how much information is there in the oldest, most primitive recordings - the nuances are there, the clues about the acoustics have been caught - I have had many 100 year old recordings pumping out at maximum volume, and all the vibe of what happened, back then, in the recording space comes through with full force ... quite remarkable ... You have fallen into the intellectual trap described in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 2 minutes ago, fas42 said: No. I can listen to an ancient recording on a normal setup, and it sounds truly awful - a cartoon, nothing to do with real musicians, a Disney nonsense - the difference when it is replayed well is quite dramatic. Swing and a miss! Perhaps actually read the article and think about how it applies to your example. 4est 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 20 minutes ago, fas42 said: Yes. All the microphone has to do is produce an electrical signal, in a very simple mechanical to electrical contrivance, and then pass then on to some type of recording mechanism - a USB microphone is a perfect example of how easy, how compact that can be. You have conveniently "forgotten" about all human issues George mentioned that make a big difference when it comes to final recording quality. Teresa 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 14 minutes ago, sandyk said: Governments rarely even get involved in Medical Research either, leaving that to big corporations etc. even though it would benefit the whole country for them to fund more research in specific areas where many of their Tax Dollars are needed to support their hospitals. Quote Did you know that NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, investing more than $32 billion a year to enhance life, and reduce illness and disability? https://www.nih.gov/grants-funding marce 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 21 minutes ago, fas42 said: You miss the point ... I want to watch TV, and not be disturbed by the visual contradictions of the colour in the image. Let's take a specific example - our current PM is being shown a lot, for some strange reason 😁, and the colour of his face is different in every situation - just this morning he was being interviewed, and his skin tone was very pink - why? Because the lighting and background were strongly in that direction, you could pick that every element on the screen was pushed in that direction. He has also been greeny yellow, red, orange, and even at times, gasp!, 'natural'. And each time the lighting of the scene obviously was directed in those particular directions - his skin tone matched what everything else in the frame strongly signaled. I don't expect the TV image to be "correct" - but I expect everything in that image to correlate with what my memory tells me how colours alter, depending upon the lighting conditions. I'm confused as to why you're not following the same procedure that you use with your audio equipment. Open that sucker up and start replacing everything inside that is degrading signal quality! Eventually your PM's skin tone will be totally natural regardless of how's it's been captured on camera. Ralf11 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
Popular Post kumakuma Posted January 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2020 9 minutes ago, fas42 said: Nice try... 🙂 The point is that I'm doing what anyone else can do, just by playing with their remote ... what's different is that I'm after a goal of working out the best compromise of using settings available to me, to deliver a picture that never "rubs me the wrong way". A broadcast may have overcooked colour, be washed out, have a savage colour cast, be blurred, ultra-sharp, poor motion blur - but always "fits" the context ... this is what my mind is most at ease with - I'm not trying to have the TV 'fight' the broadcast, make it look the way "I reckon it should look!" I was only half joking. Surely you must see that the fundamental problem is the same one that you believe you have solved in the audio realm. Ralf11 and tmtomh 2 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
Popular Post kumakuma Posted January 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 13, 2020 14 minutes ago, fas42 said: I was looking around ... found this open source software with a nice manual, explaining many aspects of colour manipulation - and then this page, https://www.darktable.org/2012/02/mastering-color-with-lab-tone-curves/. Ummm, this shows where I'm trying to get ... has before and after versions of images - this will obviously depend on how your viewing monitor is set up - but on mine the "before" is the one I want, and the "after" is the poppy, cartoony version that the TV wants to give me, and which I want to eliminate. So, I disagree entirely with what he's doing; he's adding makeup to "enhance" what hits the senses - and that's the wrong move, in my book. Manipulation is not the same as calibration. semente and Ralf11 2 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
Popular Post kumakuma Posted March 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2020 9 hours ago, fas42 said: Chris has gone walkabout - indefinitely, it appears ... Another possibility is that, like many others on this site, Chris has you on his Ignore List... Audiophile Neuroscience, 4est, Allan F and 4 others 1 1 5 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
Popular Post kumakuma Posted July 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2021 4 hours ago, fas42 said: If you spent as much energy on thinking about ways of improving your system, as you do on being unpleasant, you would be so far ahead ... 😛. The same could be said for you and the amount of energy you spend posting repetitive crap to this forum but I won't go there. botrytis, Racerxnet, Teresa and 1 other 4 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
Popular Post kumakuma Posted July 31, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2021 15 minutes ago, fas42 said: I may decide to delete posts which add nothing to the conversation. You bragging about how you're tweaking your system and quoting posts from other threads is not a conversation. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/conversation Teresa, March Audio and botrytis 3 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
Popular Post kumakuma Posted July 31, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2021 Just now, fas42 said: You do seem to have a problem with people describing how they evolve their setups to improve what they hear - last time I checked, many posts on audio forums tend to be about this ... Those posts are descriptive, yours are prescriptive. Big difference. botrytis and March Audio 2 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 11 hours ago, opus101 said: Are you a sock puppet for @March Audio by any chance? That doesn't even make sense. How can someone be a sockpuppet for themselves? Teresa 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 1 minute ago, fas42 said: Surpriiise, surpriiise ... the mask fell away ... Huh? Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
Popular Post kumakuma Posted July 31, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2021 8 minutes ago, fas42 said: Go to a live, acoustic concert. Record the audio using your smart phone - waving it around, and moving about while recording. Then play that back later ... does it sound "fake", or "awful" - or does it sound like you happened to be in the presence of live musicians, doing their thing? I would suggest the latter - and that's what convincing replay gives you ... This is one of the bizarre claims I've ever heard from you. There is absolutely no way that such as recording would sound anything like the real event. botrytis and Teresa 1 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 1 minute ago, fas42 said: Missing the point, yet again. What listening to the recording does is take you to the moment when you were at the live event - all the cues are present for your mind to take you to that place, because it triggers your memory of the situation ... if you were never at that precise event, the next best thing is that listening to the recording of some music making triggers a powerful connection to the sense of the vibrancy and art of the musicians - because you have so much hearing of that in your life. Most audio playback fails to deliver that - it's a cardboard cutout of what the energy of the music was like; and still is, on the recording. The job of a 'sorted' setup is to get the presentation over the line - that's the point of going to that extra effort ... I understand the claim. I just don't believe it. Teresa 1 Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 18 minutes ago, fas42 said: The March Audio moth emerges from its pupa ... Really? He seems the same as before. Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 13 minutes ago, fas42 said: Hmmm ... so, you never saw Jaroyd, or whatever it was, as the poster? Interesting. I've been busy today so never noticed until you mentioned it. The original posts are from him but the name Jaroyd appears in your quoted posts. The user Jaroyd seems to longer exist. I'm guessing he came back under a different account and then Chris edited the posts to match the original account name. The fact @opus101 cares this much about what he does is quite creepy though. Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
kumakuma Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 14 minutes ago, fas42 said: Okay, what was the most overwhelming moment of listening to an audio system, any audio system, at some point in your life of being interested in hifi ... and why? What September 1979. First year of university. Buddy's LP of Darkness on the Edge on a crappy portable stereo. Why The music. It's all about the music, man. Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my skull Link to comment
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