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It's comin....
I rarely sit in one spot either as life rarely affords me enough time to sit and listen for any length of time. I have my system loud enough so I can hear it wherever I am, but not so loud that It is annoying in the main room. If I miss something good I backup and replay it. Sometimes I will play the same song three times in a row, but I rarely listen to a whole album or even half an album from the same artist in one listening session.
Ron, not really true as it's more of a frequency response thing of the ears as you say, but depending on efficiecy and spl's an amp should give you a good idea what is different about it from another at the same SPL. The one thing a WOPL will do is hilite shortcomings in other parts of your system...
A fat one takes atleast a full lp to get through so I have plenty of listening time lol...
I googled fat one and only Oliver Hardy came up. The only thing that goes into my lungs is atmospheric air, and the strongest thing my kidneys need to filter out is iced tea, so I am not locked into any specific listening area, so that means I almost never listen to a full album. My belief is that each song should stand on it's own and not depend on the rest of the album as albums are like tv shit sandwiches where they put one good show inbetween to garbage ones hoping you will watch all three.![]()
I googled fat one and only Oliver Hardy came up
This is the way I understood it... please explain if this is wrong
If the SPL is really low, humans can't hear the sonic difference between low power/high power amps with SAME ratings (S/N ratio, frequency response etc...) except power output. It would be akin to getting a hearing test and using two different manufactured test tone generators and trying to tell which is which by listening for perceived differences in how the test tone signals differ even though they are the same frequency (coloring???)
The human ear is far from flat in frequency response. We have a greater sensitivity to frequencies between 2KHz–5KHz and this is due to a resonance phenomenon in part of the ear called the auditory canal. This evolutionary boosted presence response gives us a better resolution to hearing speech, not bass
Two Bell lab engineers, Fletcher and Munson, came up with a graph in 1933 that was based upon people’s perception of loudness at that time. These were made by asking people to judge when pure tones of two different frequencies were the same loudness. Although it is not strictly accurate by today’s standards, it has become a cornerstone in the foundation of understanding human hearing, this was later refined in 1956 by Robinson & Dadson
We are basically deaf to bass. We would need to produce huge amounts of energy to actually go deaf from low frequencies. The reason is that our ears are tiny compared to the size of bass sound waves. This is an acoustical mismatch, just like a single small loudspeaker cannot produce any significant levels of bass
To be honest Lee, I could not tell the difference between the POS Sony in the garage and the WOPL at very low listening levels. When you raise SPL, then you will definitely hear the difference
I think it would be an interesting to hear (pardon the pun) others sentiments on the subject
ok goodie 2 shoes lmfao![]()
i can way tell the diff from jessica and my jvc av junk.at any level. not even a comparison imo..
Ok I;ll give it a try. You know what they say about remembering the 60's. Well there is some fog.
So when i started thinking back, it was 1967. The summer of Love.
Ok from the back story. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. A few miles from Hollywood. My best buddies dad lived in the Hollywood hills in Laurel Canyon which was a walk to Hollywood. We would go there and stay at his dads on weekends.
One night we walked to Hollywood Blvd to check out the action. There it was this big school bus all painted up in wild colors
and cool graphics. People hanging out playing street music and all over the top of the bus. We thought man this is far out .
They had this card table set up with little white pill cups with sugar cubes in them, Kinsey was giving his speech about the
times, the war and it was time to experience a new way of being and shit. We thought what is this stuff? We hadn't
heard much about acid and didn't even relate it to LSD. We had both smoked grass a couple of times so hell, how could
this little sugar cube do much. So down they went. That night we ended up in the little beatnik club called
"the pandoras Box." You went in and sat on the floor about 10 feet from the bands area. Love, the byrds, and The Seeds
played that night. Man I was peaking. Yeah it was good. The best.
I can remember we went back to the canyon and hung out at the old abandoned Houdini mansion triping out until we came
down the next morning. Its wasn't my last trip but one of the best.
P.S.
The song "For what its Worth" by Buffalo Springfield............it was really about the closing of the Pandoras Box.
Not necessarily by choice. Smoking and alchohol give me very bad headaches.
LSD...............best cure for chronicView attachment 15744View attachment 15744 headaches............no really!
It really is a good thing IMO . If used for the right reasons..
Now whats going on with the amp Laz? Sounding better??
This is the way I understood it... please explain if this is wrong
If the SPL is really low, humans can't hear the sonic difference between low power/high power amps with SAME ratings (S/N ratio, frequency response etc...) except power output. It would be akin to getting a hearing test and using two different manufactured test tone generators and trying to tell which is which by listening for perceived differences in how the test tone signals differ even though they are the same frequency (coloring???)
The human ear is far from flat in frequency response. We have a greater sensitivity to frequencies between 2KHz–5KHz and this is due to a resonance phenomenon in part of the ear called the auditory canal. This evolutionary boosted presence response gives us a better resolution to hearing speech, not bass
Two Bell lab engineers, Fletcher and Munson, came up with a graph in 1933 that was based upon people’s perception of loudness at that time. These were made by asking people to judge when pure tones of two different frequencies were the same loudness. Although it is not strictly accurate by today’s standards, it has become a cornerstone in the foundation of understanding human hearing, this was later refined in 1956 by Robinson & Dadson
We are basically deaf to bass. We would need to produce huge amounts of energy to actually go deaf from low frequencies. The reason is that our ears are tiny compared to the size of bass sound waves. This is an acoustical mismatch, just like a single small loudspeaker cannot produce any significant levels of bass
To be honest Lee, I could not tell the difference between the POS Sony in the garage and the WOPL at very low listening levels. When you raise SPL, then you will definitely hear the difference
I think it would be an interesting to hear (pardon the pun) others sentiments on the subject
I'm having difficulty putting pen to paper
When you drive stuff, that's when something either shines or is just meh. If you only listen to stuff at low levels, there really is no need to own a firebreathing monster unless it's just for the visual wow factor. For those that don't get into the live concert sound, I can understand why a WOPL does not impress someone. The amp never gets a chance to show it's shit![]()