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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2016 21:34:33 GMT
I can assure you that you have not got a lot of self adjusting to do..
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Post by speedysteve on Sept 26, 2016 22:16:36 GMT
1/5. I'm 6'3", BMI 20, full head of hair, no glasses  Have liked Hifi since I was 15. Can't help getting older  |
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 26, 2016 22:21:38 GMT
To Steve and others: you're just not entering into the spirit of it all. Shave yer head & stick a cushion up yer jumper at least, will you. It'll make some of us feel an awful lot better about ourselves!
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Post by speedysteve on Sept 26, 2016 22:24:07 GMT
To Steve and others: you're just not entering into the spirit of it all. Shave yer head & stick a cushion up yer jumper at least, will you. It'll make some of feel an awful lot better about ourselves! I could also walk on my knees |
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 26, 2016 22:30:39 GMT
Yep, that'll do it.
Squint a bit too, if you wouldn't mind!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2016 23:14:36 GMT
Well I am certainly an overweight middle aged man, assuming that 38 is considered middle aged? I'd add that I can bore anyone senseless talking about hifi, and know a few like me |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2016 0:07:11 GMT
Majority in their 40's/50's but act out on Forums that nothing existed prior to the rubbish they use today. quite interesting if not frustrating to me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2016 0:09:21 GMT
last two bake offs i visited, virtually every system i head melted my ear drums & almost split my skull in half. how the hell people come to the conclusion Hi-Fi should sound the way they seem to believe really shocks me tbh.
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Post by Sovereign on Sept 27, 2016 6:25:45 GMT
last two bake offs i visited, virtually every system i head melted my ear drums & almost split my skull in half. how the hell people come to the conclusion Hi-Fi should sound the way they seem to believe really shocks me tbh. definately not the way it should be done, I'd probably walk out the door. Come to my next one if your local ME15 the banter is good, the music is good I just need to improve on the food a wee bit more. |
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Post by pinkie on Sept 27, 2016 7:13:17 GMT
last two bake offs i visited, virtually every system i head melted my ear drums & almost split my skull in half. how the hell people come to the conclusion Hi-Fi should sound the way they seem to believe really shocks me tbh. definately not the way it should be done, I'd probably walk out the door. Come to my next one if your local ME15 the banter is good, the music is good I just need to improve on the food a wee bit more. You know Andre, we rarely agree. Whilst the visits I made to forum members recently were not ear splitting, most HiFi folk listen louder than I do. Many I have found too seem to think that PA loud is necessary Actually - oddly, this problem seems to affect small venue live music too. I have "roadied" for local bands and run the mixing desk. Admittedly in a pub or club you are trying for loud, but not pain threshold loud. A typical jazz or classical performance will be nowhere near that level. Even stadium rock performances by bands like Floyd and Genesis are below pain threshold in normal seats But somehow HiFi is often an exercise in "pin you to the wall". |
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Post by kettlechips on Sept 27, 2016 9:04:52 GMT
2/5 here - must try harder. I've never attended a Hifi show either.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2016 11:17:13 GMT
definately not the way it should be done, I'd probably walk out the door. Come to my next one if your local ME15 the banter is good, the music is good I just need to improve on the food a wee bit more. You know Andre, we rarely agree. Whilst the visits I made to forum members recently were not ear splitting, most HiFi folk listen louder than I do. Many I have found too seem to think that PA loud is necessary Actually - oddly, this problem seems to affect small venue live music too. I have "roadied" for local bands and run the mixing desk. Admittedly in a pub or club you are trying for loud, but not pain threshold loud. A typical jazz or classical performance will be nowhere near that level. Even stadium rock performances by bands like Floyd and Genesis are below pain threshold in normal seats But somehow HiFi is often an exercise in "pin you to the wall". Its no so much the louadness it's the Brighness. A lot of people confuse bright Ear drum melting sound with Clarity. A system should never ever sound bright or toppy it should sound smooth with clarity. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 27, 2016 11:55:18 GMT
Always someone who wants to play an uber death-thrash metal warp speed guitar solo through a pair of 4 inch stand mounts to test out their suitability to recreate a 30Kw Festival venue I've seen that guy at other shows! |
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Post by Chris on Sept 27, 2016 13:59:21 GMT
2/5 for me. 6ft 5 - 18 stone but not really overweight. No big thing about pies but Mrs Chris does super home baking that I'm rather partial to as well as my own cooking. I don't consider myself an audiophile though and certainly not one of the pack. There's too much bullshit in hifi for all that.
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Post by pre65 on Sept 27, 2016 14:45:44 GMT
All this talk about pies has me wanting. 
So, into a local butchers to get a locally made pie, Sorry Sir, no demand for our pies these days -- WHAT !!
So, over to the Co-op and the best I can get is a box of 4 chicken pies. 
Pie tonight. 
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Post by speedysteve on Sept 27, 2016 17:48:13 GMT
Yep, that'll do it. Squint a bit too, if you wouldn't mind! Add a Fawlty Towers neck twitch may be? |
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Post by speedysteve on Sept 27, 2016 17:49:46 GMT
2/5 for me. 6ft 5 - 18 stone but not really overweight. No big thing about pies but Mrs Chris does super home baking that I'm rather partial to as well as my own cooking. I don't consider myself an audiophile though and certainly not one of the pack. There's too much bullshit in hifi for all that. Well yes there is that too, pack and my system are not on the same planet, let alone ball park |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2016 18:14:44 GMT
Only one out of 5 for me: Over 40. I'm sure I probably have more "audiophile" foibles, just not many of the initial 5. I tend to hate the majority of recordings that get routed amongst audiophile types. Worst of all for me was all that "Blue Nile" shite. To me, that really was an Emperors New Clothes experience. Any other label than Linn and they would've sunk without trace, hopefully before I had to listen to them |
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Post by Clive on Sept 27, 2016 21:04:48 GMT
I think I know a bit of what Andre is alluding to. I play my music fairly loud but it is easy to talk whilst the music is playing. Any louder than that is often the result of trying to make up for poor dynamics so it'll be a poor system. I also have a thing about natural rather than forced (faux/over-bright) detail.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Sept 27, 2016 21:07:48 GMT
Look. I'm sorry. I'm REALLY SORRY. But anyone - ANYONE - with speakers like this:  who thinks they can fob people here off just because they can claim to be 6' 3" in height, has a seriously SERIOUS denial problem. I'm sorry. But I think it HAD to be said. |
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