Subj : CD->MP3 project To : Kevin Nunn From : August Abolins Date : Tue Jan 12 2021 05:18:00 Hello Kevin! ** On Sunday 10.01.21 - 19:46, Kevin Nunn wrote to August Abolins: KN> My current apartment is a testing ground for me.. ..It is KN> quiet and gated, so I try to help keep it that way (quiet). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds like a good plan. KN> These days I do enjoy seeing other peoples systems. I found KN> a guy on youtube that shows high end systems, and I mean KN> high end. Systems over 50k upwards to 200-300k It's fun to KN> see how other people spend all their gobs of cash LOL. I found "the Audiophiliac". On one of the first ones I tried, he walked through a series of speakers that cost $1000/pr. He made very good summaries based on my exposure to the different types. Years ago, I heard some eletrostatics (huge!) ...but only great for simple vocals and quiet passages. Not so great for rock - no "dynamics" he called it. Spot on. I heard Klipsch horn speakers and they sounded great for everything. I would luv to have a pair of those. My highschool gym was equipped with 4 tower PA speakers in the corners. There was nothing but distortion and echos everytime it was used. But using just two at the front (on each side of the stage) didn't seem to be any imporovement or powerful enough when the place was packed with 1100 students. I had a little musical project at that time. I would create musical parodies in the style of "Mr.Jaws": https://youtu.be/kDNlSpKLEEo A 2009 remake of that is pretty good too: https://youtu.be/lfwOqGSNWM8 My versions were based on interviews with the adults, staff, and teachers. My character would roam the halls of the school and ask questions as I encountered the teachers, principal and v.principal. It was fun to get away with poking fun at them. I made sure that my oversexed mind had an opportunity to make jokes about their inter-relations and any other rumours that might have been known at that time. Anyway.. the existing 4-speaker setup sounded terrible. There was no "low end", no bass. The echoing destroyed the tight timing the recordings needed between the spoken word and the music clip. One day, I happend to "notice" a pair of giant round (they were 4 feet in diameter) horn speakers in one electrical class. They were originally used for outdoor events and nothing else. I asked about those for the gym. The teacher suggested the perfect amp for them. He made the installation a class project. The parody sounded GREAT. No echoing. Great dynamics. Lots of punch. To entertain students at the end of the day, I'd have a reel-to- reel tape playing rock hits. When it came time to play the parody, I had to stop the tape during each segment while everyone was laughing so hard. I couldn't play it through in real-time like the Mr. Jaws recording because of the laughing going on - they'd miss the next joke if I let it run. I was a huge hit. I made a total of three parodies during my last two years in highschool. They were aired on the local radio station in town later on. The originals were copied from the reel-to-reel to cassette. The cassette was converted to MP3. The MP3 copies reside on either an old hdd that I used with WinME or Ubuntu - but I can't remember. Everyone (ie students) thought it was a bad idea to remove the horns from the gym. Going back to the original 4-corner 4- speakers sounded pathetic and simply encouraged people not to attend. They continued to use the 4-corner system for other music events - they all sounded terrible. Anyway.. the horn speakers had me hooked from then on. -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.48 * Origin: my little micronet point (618:510/1.1) .