Are the big amps history?

[chadds]

OH NO!! Not Choad Hammer again!!

I couldn't figure out how to get the little dots over the o.

Umlauts? Chöad.

 

[chadds]

Du bist sprechen Deutsch mit bass klein.
Ich habe Glockenklang.

 

[BadExample]

Du bist sprechen Deutsch mit bass klein.
Ich habe Glockenklang.

Rule 537: You are not allowed to speak British in TB. Now Knock it off!

 

[BassmanPaul]

Ich bin ein starker Kopf.

I lived in Germany for two years starting in mid 1946. I didn't absorb much of the language as I was only born in January of that year.

 

[BassmanPaul]

Here are a few for you to dissect and mull over:

ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö ö

Let me know if you run out of them and need some more.

Luckily I can copy and paste! I use a Mac but I have not needed to use an ö before.

Thanks Jeff. LOL

 

[Jeff Scott]

It came in handy the first time I had to type Höfner.

 

[David A. Davis]

At the higher level (and obviously larger) shows, this is not often true... the PA will dominate and the bass amp serves as a reference, as a tool to generate the basic tone that is then translated to what you are trying to achieve with your on-stage sound out in the audience. Your rig sounds completely different a couple hundred feet from the stage, it's the sound guy's job to make the transition from near field to far field as uniform and close to the original (as listened to in near field) as possible. This is how it's done in the pro, large venue world by mature adults.

One of the best quotes I've seen on this forum in 10 years.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

One of the best quotes I've seen on this forum in 10 years.

Yeah, that's kinda how @agedhorse talks. Cool huh?

 

[chadds]

One of the best quotes I've seen on this forum in 10 years.

He said "mature adults."

 

[agedhorse]

He said "mature adults."

Huh, who's mature in this room? Huh?

 

[Son of Wobble]

Huh, who's mature in this room? Huh?

 

[Altitude]

High end home audio is fading too.

Macintosh tube amps and 6' tall electrostatic speakers are still better, but there's a bigger market for every song in the world fitting in your pocket.

 

[BadExample]

He said "mature adults."

Huh, who's mature in this room? Huh?

For the record, I took offense to that "mature adult" jab as well. Damn, no chance of me becoming a sound guy.

 

[BadExample]

High end home audio is fading too.

Macintosh tube amps and 6' tall electrostatic speakers are still better, but there's a bigger market for every song in the world fitting in your pocket.

I don't care about the high end stuff. What honks me off is the gear normal people can afford is all junk now. It took me years to find a decent integrated amp. I bought it from someone who didn't like all the high tech garbage and sat on it for ten or 15 years. Surround amp, but it is what it claims to be, rather than 5 x 20 watt channels and called a 1000 watt amp. It took me about 15 minutes to determine that I didn't care for all the high tech garbage either, but after RTFMing for hours on end, I got everything disabled to the point where it acts like a basic stereo receiver Oh, and adding a decent TT amp

 

[chadds]

High end home audio is fading too.

Macintosh tube amps and 6' tall electrostatic speakers are still better, but there's a bigger market for every song in the world fitting in your pocket.

It is until the pocket people hear it. But hey their relationships are in their pockets too.

 

[Altitude]

They can make your finely crafted bass tone sound like a wet fart..lol

That is a quote from a late 80s Mesa Bass400 magazine ad with Michael Anthony in it.

 

[Omega Monkey]

Oh man, all through middle school and high school I grew up in a house with a McIntosh preamp and amp from the early/mid 70s (C-28 and MC-2105) and a pair of Martin Logan Sequel electrostatics. That system sounded amazing, and most people these days have simply never heard anything that good.

People don't realize that the high end stuff lasts for decades and decades and always sounds great, whereas the cheap stuff maybe lasts 5 or 10 years and sounds like crap. In the end you probably spend close to the same amount of money over a lifetime, but the level of enjoyment is just way down with the cheap stuff. Right now I have nice speakers (vintage JBL 3 ways) but a cheap receiver (10+ year old Yamaha), but in the not too distant future I want to get Mc stuff again because it slays basically anything else unless you spend 5 figures.

 

[Altitude]

Obviously I'm into high end home audio too, or I wouldn't have thought of the comparison. I have a Bryston amp and some Magnepan speakers, both for over 20 years now.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Oh man, all through middle school and high school I grew up in a house with a McIntosh preamp and amp from the early/mid 70s (C-28 and MC-2105) and a pair of Martin Logan Sequel electrostatics. That system sounded amazing, and most people these days have simply never heard anything that good.

People don't realize that the high end stuff lasts for decades and decades and always sounds great, whereas the cheap stuff maybe lasts 5 or 10 years and sounds like crap. In the end you probably spend close to the same amount of money over a lifetime, but the level of enjoyment is just way down with the cheap stuff. Right now I have nice speakers (vintage JBL 3 ways) but a cheap receiver (10+ year old Yamaha), but in the not too distant future I want to get Mc stuff again because it slays basically anything else unless you spend 5 figures.

The stereo system I acquired over a short span of time in the late '80s sounds just as fabulous now as it did when I first put it all together. Saved a ton of money too, in the long run.

 

[zachoff]

I'll get rid of my big speakers before I get rid of my big amps.