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My sister does, indeed, listen to NPR, so she may have heard it there, but it was relayed to me by my sister. And of course, my inner nerd says, "why do they have to be mathematicians?"

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one says, "I'll have a beer." The second one orders half a beer. The third one orders a quarter beer. The fourth one orders 1/8th of a beer. Before the next one has a chance to order, the bartenders stops him and says, "you're all idiots, I'm pouring two beers."

Dan, you're right, I missed that. Still seemed like an overgeneralization. Completely agree with this and ironbut's statements (and others) -- and disagree with the prejudice against a 2.1 system -- they're quite a common way of monitoring, and many custom installations for mastering basically separate all the elements. And I don't think bookshelf speakers are going to fare any better. I don't care how close you listen to 6 inch woofers in any enclosure, you're just not going to get that low frequency reproduction. You should do the same thing with bookshelf speakers as you did with studio monitors, you'll hear for yourself. That said, the Dynaudio BM5A's have 7 inch woofers and are said to go down to ~45 Hz or so, so that (7 inch woofers) might be a decent compromise, for non-organ or techno music. (The low E on an electric bass guitar is approximately 41 Hz.) And the 8 inch woofer in the Dynaudio Special 25 is certainly adequate without a sub for most pleasurable listening (although it has a slight midrange suckout that someone who's picky about acoustic piano reproduction might continue to have issue with), but now we're getting back into the category of "pretty big for a desktop" category, so I imagine any speaker with an 8 inch woofer in a decent enclosure is going to have size problems.

If you're talking about the Rokits, you're talking about an entirely different animal. The VXT8's that I hear all the time sound fantastic. I'll ask to have him play a piano recording I'm familiar with the next time I'm over there, but I trust his ears above yours. We'll just have to agree to disagree.

Goddamn, those are still gorgeous.

Had a delicious Rockfish Oscar Madison ("Grilled Maryland rockfish served over rice with lump crab and fresh asparagus. Garnished with a classic béarnaise sauce.") in Annapolis at "Boatyard" with the fam.

UK Reunion Live in Tokyo from 2012, w/Eddie Jobson and John Wetton

Also KRK VXT8s with sub. Sent from mah phone-blet via Tapatalk

I was just listening to a pair of ATCs the other day that reproduced piano fantastically. Sent from mah phone-blet via Tapatalk

Notwist live One of my favourite live experiences was seeing Notwist live on the Neon Golden tour. RIYL alternative of any sort, including Radiohead

Majeure. More Tangerine Dream than Tangerine Dream.

Yeezh.

And what are those speakers, Reference 3A?

Yup, Gira Swans, you're right. Scary is a good word to describe them. I couldn't even imagine listening to them if I was in a "vulnerable"/"impressionable" state. But that's where I live now.

I was just giving you a hard time, Wayne. If it really bugged me, I would have, indeed, merged the threads.

Okay, listened to Everyday Robots again -- damn this is really kind of slow and introspective. When listened to in context of other more energetic albums, it's fine, but on its own, it's just kind of boring.

Yuh, those were fantastic. I told Jeff he needs to get them for his piano instead of listening to the built-in speakers.

It annoys me that this isn't in the kickstarter thread. Do they merit their own thread? No, they don't.

Fuck Coaxials. Fuck ribbons. Quad 12L Actives are where it's at. You have your head ears roughly in the plane of the tweeters and you're done. They got no bottom, but you have a little bit of budget left over for a sub. I listen to the Equators all the time, but the budget on them were $300 -- if you got more dosh, the Quads are the best in their price bracket. I have no experience with the Emotivas. Yet.

Commas save lives.

Tori Amos, Unrepentant Geraldines -- live streaming preview from Amazon

But there's a comma!

IQ, The Road of Bones -- \mm/ -- modern prog + mellotron -- totally dig

Yah, me too.