Re: Degrees of Freedom vs. Hollywood Control Freaks
At 12:25 PM 6/6/02 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
There are also a lot of motion artefacts which give a certain "feel" do DVD image - but then, that may become fashionable, as valve amplifiers are again
^^^^ Jeezum, how old *are* you? We haven't called vacuum tubes 'valves' for some time.. Must get tiresome carting around the Leyden jar condensers for your differential analyzer..
now or listening to dolby-recorded tapes without dolby players - some just like that boost in the high end.
Yeah, old farts who've toasted the thin end of their cochleas... :-)
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Jeezum, how old *are* you? We haven't called vacuum tubes 'valves' for some time.. Must get tiresome carting around the Leyden jar condensers for your differential analyzer..
the Brits have been calling "tubes" "valves" forever. Just like a "hood" is a "bonnet". Has nothing to do with age. But you do lose the high end first usually :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 01:27 PM, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
the Brits have been calling "tubes" "valves" forever. Just like a "hood" is a "bonnet". Has nothing to do with age.
Interesting the way terms like give hints about etymology and cognates. Hood is to bonnet, in terms of clothing as well as cars, as trunk is to boot, as in booty. (Booty being a black slang term for ass; no doubt related to "trunk" as body part, as in "swim trunks.") The morphism between British English and American English gives rise to many interesting structures. Someone said something earlier about tube/valve amps giving a boost to the high end, for older, hearing-damaged rockers. I don't think the frequency response has evern been an issue...tube amps are said to have a "warmer" sound, and to have more odd harmonic distortion than transistor amps, but the frequency response of _any_ transistor or tube amp is vastly beyond what even high-end speakers and headphones can typically deliver. A modern solid state amp is essentially "flat" from 20 Hz to 20 KHz. (I haven't tested my hearing in a while, with my Test CDs, but when I do I use my Stax electrostatics or my Etymotics instead of my Mirage speakers. Last I checked, my hearing was rolling off at around 16-17 KHz.) --Tim May --Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Tim May wrote:
(Booty being a black slang term for ass; no doubt related to "trunk" as body part, as in "swim trunks.")
I always thought it came from pimp slang - booty being what you take as a pirate. My kids love to shake their booty, and have no idea of the history either :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
Someone said something earlier about tube/valve amps giving a boost to the high end, for older, hearing-damaged rockers. I don't think the frequency response has evern been an issue...tube amps are said to have
What's happening with you, Tim ? Your short term memory malfunction gives a probable reason for search of the compound for THC carriers. The boosted high-end was mentioned in the context of dolby-recorded tapes played without dolby circuit on or not present at all. [and to another troller - music industry became well aware in 90-ties that their major consumers - teens - do playback dolby tapes without dolby, and got used to it, which made producers often boost high end in general, even when dolby became immaterial. It's funny that average spectral characteristics of music can give away it's age ]
a "warmer" sound, and to have more odd harmonic distortion than transistor amps, but the frequency response of _any_ transistor or tube amp is vastly beyond what even high-end speakers and headphones can typically deliver.
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On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 01:19 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
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"Warmer" sound is particularly enhanced if the source is 1/4" Revox.
all tape machines have kinder, fluffier, even order distortion. A well maintained revox should have less than most. Cheers
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