Lone Stranger
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I appreciate my sound system. I don't have a lady so I make up for it and have a second sound system which I also appreciate.
Do you appreciate your sound system what about your lady?
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Hey man, it's all good, sound systems are a whole lot less complicated them them lady thingies.
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Snake Doctor
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To answer your question. I appreciate my sound system AND I appreciate my lady!!
That wasn't exactly my questions, but I do appreciate and respect the reply.
mcad64
Well-Known Member
To answer your question. My wife has a tin ear and would be happy with the sound coming out of TV speakers. That being said, she has indulged my habit and allowed me to have two 5.1 systems and a 7.1 system so I can't complain.
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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I had to win her over, but my wife enjoys the system as much as I do. Anything I want to get, she doesn’t mind a bit. But, It probably helps that I’m not a perpetual upgrader – our current receiver is 13 years old and predates HDMI and we’re watching a vintage Pioneer plasma TV.
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Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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Wayne A. Pflughaupt
Snake Doctor
Active Member
Plasma qualifies as vintage now?!? Jeez
Then I am vintage in most all of my equipment. Question, do speakers ever vintage out? I don't think I could get much better sound out of any other speakers. (with the equipment I have)
MakeMineVinyl
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I bought my current speakers in 1968, and have since then made a few modifications to them, but they are essentially the same speaker. Nobody here who's heard them have complained that they sounded "obsolete".
MakeMineVinyl
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Sorry 'bout that. The point being, speakers are probably the last thing which has undergone fundamental improvement over the decades. What evolution there has been has involved manufacturing methods which allow better quality at lower cost. Some extremely high end speakers which cost up to $100,000 still use pulp-paper for woofer cones, just like the ones invented during the "roaring twenties" when Al Capone was still a thing. Some extremely high end speakers still use horns and compression drivers, just like you'd expect in a movie theater which was playing the new "talkies" movies. Sometimes, literally the very compression drivers from the 1920s....
For your consideration, I offer exhibit A: https://www.stereophile.com/content/auditorium-23-hommage-cinema-loudspeaker
Or this; I have a picture from the late 1920s which shows an almost identical horn setup, but I can't find it on the internet.
Some of the details and materials may have changed such as the change from electromagnet field coils to permanent magnets before World War II, but the fundamentals haven't, and probably won't for quite a while (i.e. we will all probably be too dead to see such progress).
And given that HiFi development is not really a priority as a hobby and is getting less so as time goes on, there is not a lot of urgency to develop a fundamentally new technology at all costs. The urgent development now goes into trying to find the Next Big Thing in social media apps.
For your consideration, I offer exhibit A: https://www.stereophile.com/content/auditorium-23-hommage-cinema-loudspeaker
Or this; I have a picture from the late 1920s which shows an almost identical horn setup, but I can't find it on the internet.
Some of the details and materials may have changed such as the change from electromagnet field coils to permanent magnets before World War II, but the fundamentals haven't, and probably won't for quite a while (i.e. we will all probably be too dead to see such progress).
And given that HiFi development is not really a priority as a hobby and is getting less so as time goes on, there is not a lot of urgency to develop a fundamentally new technology at all costs. The urgent development now goes into trying to find the Next Big Thing in social media apps.
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