Dusty Chalk

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Add to that Dream the Electric Sheep. Might be the best one yet. I take that back, Cry is for the Flies by Le Butcherettes was my favourite, but tUnE-yArDs (or however it's capitalized) was a close second.

My provider has been all over the place tonight -- it was less than 12 earlier, now it's:

My main work computer speakers were a pair of Quad 12L actives. I had them on either side of the monitor, slightly toed in, and up on 3 reams of paper as speaker stands. That aimed the tweeters right at my ears. Ridiculously good setup. Oh, I have a sub now, maybe I should try to recreate that again, instead of the Dynaudios. Hrm...(debates internally with self)... I'm telling you this because...don't be shy about putting yourself in the sweet spot when you go in to audition. One of the good things about nearfield listening is that the room interacts less with things like first reflections, but edge effects are more pronounced.

Thanks for that post, Al, I wasn't finding it tedious. I suspect everyone has a topic about which they become cranky (I think we all know one of my main ones), and this is just one of theirs.

First Listen this week: Yann Tiersen, Infinity Jolie Holand, Wine Dark Sea Conor Oberst, Upside Down Mountain Haley Bonar, Last War Pasatono Orquestra, Maroma Also some Tangent and Pineapple Thief -- just been in a really proggy mood lately, the influence in being in a Facebook group that seems to have similar tastes as I.

Steve is no longer a Bay-area-er.

I buy vinyl! I should set up my vinyl rig, though.

Also, less flipping.

All I can tell you is, the best sound I've ever heard was out of a BHSE -- if it was coloured, I didn't hear it.

I might need to get those SRV ones, too. And the Foreignor and Doobie Brothers! Dusty want high-res yacht rock. (cries) So much want, so little monies. Well, plenty of monies, but even yet still more want.

You mean, no phones looked like that until they started putting touchscreens on them. Touchscreen -- most common shape is rectangular. EDIT: alright, maybe not. It still strikes me as much as Yamaha's patent on FM synthesis.

Unstable black hole is created and China becomes Ch'a?

Are you serious? THEY HAVE A PATENT ON THE ROUNDED RECTANGLE SHAPE that any sane smartphone-with-a-touchscreen developer would adopt so it would go smoothly into one's pocket? !?!? For fuck's sake... Sent from mah phone-blet via Tapatalk

Actually, it's $1249 now.

Thanks, Jack! Me: Airbag on Spotify -- really decent prog, I've been getting a lot of good recommendations from the Facebook Big Big Train group, IQ, Pendragon, and now Airbag.

Whoa, when did that get released on MFSL SACD? Must purchase immediately. Any others I need to know about?

No, the part about it being a touch screen and "smart-phone/iTouch-sized", yes, but ... I'm a software engineer, so I'm talking about the GUI -- it doesn't even look remotely similar (no sarcasm). EDIT: admittedly, from the one pic, haven't watched "the video" or anything. What Al does fascinates me, especially from the IP perspective.

Am I missing something? Those don't even look remotely similar.

Now what is Lydia Lunch going to masturbate to? I has a sad.

Bitten. Oh god damn this is good. Episode 10 just brings it. Get at least as far as episode 7. Do me a favor, y'all -- even if you find it's not your thing, let your Netflix play overnight with the sound down or something. They're still teasing us with whether or not they're renewing for season 2, and I have a feeling the more views of the entire season on Netflix, the better. The storyline in book 2 -- which will probably translate to season 2 -- will bring it up not just a notch, but by a whole order of magnitude, if they do it right. Also, there's lots of sex and nudity for those of you who are into that sort of thing. Mostly Greyston Holt, but some Laura Vandervoort (as well as others).

For the same exact position, I could see your point, but wouldn't it also be a function of where you place the sub? And wouldn't you therefore place them in different places? I will of course defer until I know more, it just doesn't sit with me, intuitively. dw, in answer to your very legitimate question -- directionality is basically a function of the distance between your ears, as the brain calculates it based on both amplitude and phase, and is not something you can actually measure with one mic, for example. And it doesn't just magically drop off when it hits a frequency, it just very quickly drops off once it starts getting around that frequency, since sine waves don't usually occur in nature, and the brain will use everything it has to try to calculate the direction of a sound. It will also combine sight with an internal physical modelling engine to compensate for the physics of the room/cathedral/open space/cave/cardboard box/anechoic chamber/what-have-you. If it has enough information in any one area, it'll use that (for example, you don't need that last one at all -- you can close your eyes and still be able to tell where a sound is coming from if it's very clear where it's coming from sonically). Look up standing waves. The physics of it are pretty typical physics (non-real-world, everything over simplified and over-generalized), whereas what dh is talking about is the real world application of physics, so kind of the next level beyond standard understanding of standing waves. No, sounds do not get caught behind objects, it's a by-product of the math. Sounds are localized variations in air pressure that move as waves in the audible frequency spectrum. They do not get stuck, they either transmit, transfer/absorb, or (eventually) dissipate. If they get stuck/stop moving, then they're not in the audible frequency spectrum. Chris, feel free to correct anything if I misspoke.

Potters' Pampered Palate: Whole Food Rest Stop

Happy birthday, Justin! (party favour noise)

I don't think you understand the physics of standing waves, man. They have to reflect -- at least once -- before it's a standing wave, so it's initial trajectory should have nothing to do with it.