That is totally contrary to the raison d'etre of SH Forums. We all like music here and 99% can appreciate the difference between a good system and a bad one. A really good system can approach live sound, and the better it sounds, the better your LPs and CDs sound, which is how most people can experience sound. Your whole premise is false and disheartening to read IMHO, but keep listening to that Crosley and buying tickets for live shows. Maybe save up for the hearing aids that will be needed after listening to many years of loud, badly amplified sound.
I calls it like I sees it. I have worked around musicians all my life and the great majority of them are completely indifferent to the things that make us hifi enthusiasts tick. To be fair, a few are like me and appreciate the differences. But among musicians we are the exception, definitely not the rule.
so Rollins has multiple rigs (6!) throughout his house including another set of wilson's hooked up to some McIntosh gear... impressive. in the article he says he uses the set-up with the sophia's more than any other systems he has.
i'm reading Hank's new book, Stay Fanatic, and it's very enjoyable to get schooled on a lot of the punk and new/no wave stuff I've overlooked. Henry Rollins | Official Website
Henry Rollins used to have a show called "10 Things you Don't Know About _______" on the History Channel. It was quite interesting and he was surprisingly a cool host.
Yeah, I remember! It was great. Henry has a great podcast he hosts with his long time manager/business partner/whatever, Heidi May - talks about his comings and goings in the music biz, it's really a good listen, strongly recommended. And he tours on his talking gigs, writes books, does voiceover work, acting work, the KCRW radio show, on and on. If that's what it takes to get multiple rigs like his, I'll stick to my day job and little KEFs, thank you anyway.
people also forget he had a show on IFC... 2 seasons. the format was 1. guest interview... 2. henry rant... 3. band. other than night music with david sandborn, i think the IFC show had some of the best performances i've seen on tv. no lip synching. live to tape.
I gotta say thanks to so many who actually took the 4 seconds to type the names of the people in the pics, most did in this thread! It's a Corona Miracle! So many of these threads with pics and videos only get posted by those who assume we all know everyone from every era... This was way cool!
You can tell how bored we were last night . We watched the Arnie movie 'Raw Deal' , several shots where hi fi equipment was in plain view including shots where the same equipment was on view despite the script having him die so he could go undercover without his family knowing . The equipment looked like typical separates rack stuff from the mid eighties , cassette deck, amp, record player and speakers high up on a bookshelf. The cheapness of the movie is summed for me when [co star] Darren Mcgavin and Arnie share beers at a safe house , I might have expected Heineken , at least , but the two drink Miller High Life. I am betting that someone out there knows the equipment that is in shot several times in this movie !
Listening to the Paragons for the first was one of those moments of revelation. All the cliches could be used "hearing it (the music) for the first time", "it seemed so real" etc. It was my first time hearing a tube based system so attributes regarding the "tube" experience apply. Music through the JBLs sounded effortless with incredible dynamics. I can recall was that the tube amp was only using about 10 watts but with the high efficiency the sound was LOUD and clean without distortion or strain. The owner had offered to sell them to me but as I had a smaller apartment I did not have the space to place these huge speakers never mind having enough space that they needed. With the wide spacing of the horns there was no chance these could be used for near field listening. If I recall correctly these speakers were still made in the late '70s or early '80s.
