blakeyboy

This one made me laugh - a good salesman! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333986955726?hash=item4dc32c81ce:g:2nwAAOSwhNtgkEGw

Nature over Nietzsche?

A clue to how he was likely to think is contained in the fact that he's called 'Shane'......:-)

Is it possible to call something a coin that hasn't been struck?

NEVER a dimpled mug. EVER. 'Traditional' ? Invented just before WW11 to show off colour of new ales to promote them. A _ghastly_ way to drink beer. Always reminds me of the hideous Davenports adverts and Watneys keg.

Just an idea, what with more time on hands etc. i've been going through my driver stock and wondering what to make next...

yep! all of the above ( I think...at the limits of my physics) Small speakers particularly sound good these days, but boy you have to pump some power in. The contrast to this is all too apparent -I'm in the Marshall factory, and I can have my main 4-way active monitors on, and the four drivers on the two lower bands can't 400w peaks into them quite often- the whole system will draw 8 amps from the mains if I push it- yet if you stick 30w into an open backed light frame cab, containing a 12" speaker with, crucially, a small coil and magnet, so it's not over damped, the sound blows your head off!!!!!! I know that my monitors have huge headroom before clipping- my treble unit amplifiers will drive them at 310W rms before clipping etc etc, and a guitar amp is deliberately made to overload, but the difference in efficiency is stark. Ask Jerry about Quad ESL speakers!! After the ballon goes up I'm want to go to Herefordshire for a listen. Last pair I heard was 43 years ago, and I still remember the experience like it was yesterday....

I saw this chart today- it explains a lot....:) It's from this article: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

...but you need more power when the speakers can handle it, but have to nowadays because people want smaller 'better' sounding speakers, which has made efficiency drop, so you need to give them more..... A good big 'un always beats a good little'un....

Oh wow- really??? Oh that's useful. I never understood why the 66 was always preferred over the 88 by the hifi boys....just better specs? Or was the 88 pushed in power at the expense of something else?

Aaargh!

Great...a Hip Hop version of Basil Brush..... What next? Una Stubbs sings Led Zeppelin?

I know I've posted this before, but look at the state of mine.....

Oh wow! Of course... I remember know- he was from your neck of the woods! Oh that maths gives me the shivers....I feel like strangling Fourier sometimes for making me feel stupid! Good valve, the KT66- especially the early tall thin ones- I sold an early Leak amp that had them in on Ebay a few years back and the bidding went mad. I've spent the week installing the console I rebuilt/modified into the new studio/building site. I sold it to the studio last week, officially, and it's very odd to not own it any more! Still got to wait for the guy who is going to clad it all in sapele.... I'll put up more pics as things evolve if anyone is interested.

Yes- I think it was JBL- they did crazy things with horns in the States back then- they were always driving larger rooms than anyone else so they went a bit mad, along with Klipsch and Voigt et al.

The Thiele - Small parameters ( Small was his collaborator) are still quoted as part of a drivers specs all these years on....a seminal work. Now, other factors are coming into play, and of course, more and more processing can be applied, but there is still no escape from the fact that good quality well designed drivers are a necessary starting point in any loudspeaker design. A colleague has a Trinov correcting system in his studio, and he raves about it. It's bloody clever - witchcraft territory a few decades ago....

.......it's like being charged with rape because you were 'in possession of the necessary equipment'......

Well yeah- no-one knows, so how could you prove they knew there was one? Or would you need to?

"going equipped for theft"....?? having a metal detector? Very strange wording- like they went somewhere knowing there was a hoard??

Absolutely- huge temperature swings. All sorts of hiding places are available if you think laterally - my father always had keys in pouches sewn into curtains, and a key to a door was in a hollow on top of a door nearby....

Here's a story: A few years ago an English friend living in LA was applying for American citizenship. He had a long process involving a mountain of paperwork, culminating in him renouncing UK citizenship, and starting to apply for US citizenship. To safeguard the paperwork, he bought a small safe. One afternoon an opportunist theif noticed he had left a window open, climbed in and ran off with the safe. My friend was completely screwed, was officially stateless, and it took a year to sort it out, while not being able to go anywhere outside the US. He naïvely assumed that because it was a safe, so was he....he didn't realise it had 'STEAL ME' written across the front.... Moral? Buy a REALLY BIG safe, or hide your valuables, maybe leaving less valuable items in a nice wooden display box as a distraction.....

Yes, and through the plastic of the slab the weak strike is less visible, and they charge people for this 'service'.....

The value of vintage pro-audio doesn't do the ups and downs of gold etc., but dealers will put up a piece of gear that is normally £5k on their site for £10k, everybody spots this and hopes to sell their example, then the unit sells, so they put up 'sold'. Everyone thinks it's sold for £10k, so by extension theirs is worth £10k, but in fact someone walked in with 5 or 6 grand in cash and did the deal. Meanwhile all the idiots start touting their units all over ebay etc at stupid prices and it's like the Wild West....

This is getting like the prices for old Fords. My dad's old Capri is now in £40k+ territory. Madness. Trouble is, money isn't worth anything at the moment, but things are..... Will it all crash down again?

Am i the only one, I wonder, who has not been happy this week after hearing of her sad demise?