tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666265466796345486.post2684626350935759405..comments2020-05-03T04:43:32.528-04:00Comments on b2 Publishing: repetitive analysisb2publishing@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08757982105807727362noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666265466796345486.post-91306588379609777102013-06-04T13:51:07.588-04:002013-06-04T13:51:07.588-04:00BTW, LOL, FYI ( wink ) when we form an ensemble at...BTW, LOL, FYI ( wink ) when we form an ensemble at St John, I have come up with a name for us : <br />"Audacious and perspecacious apotropaic interlocutors" ..or psychobabllers for short : predominantly metaphorical language for expressing one's feelings <br />You can be the Perspicacious Pontificator, and I'll be Augustly Audacious.<br />If you ever get around to reading Joseph Conrad's "Youth"..be sure to have a webster's collegiate dictionary at hand...you will be referring to it virtually every paragraph!single ended triodeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09765128857281058708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666265466796345486.post-11217614724349638522013-06-01T12:27:43.820-04:002013-06-01T12:27:43.820-04:00Wow Frank! With writing like that you make a guy w...Wow Frank! With writing like that you make a guy want to pack it in and make way for the real poets. Good stuff, thanks for sharing. - b2b2publishing@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08757982105807727362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4666265466796345486.post-60029202877543414742013-06-01T12:19:00.660-04:002013-06-01T12:19:00.660-04:00Bryan , allow me to explain I am NOT trying to sel...Bryan , allow me to explain I am NOT trying to sell amps to my friends at church. That would be<br />like a car salesman trying to sell cars to his church friends which is beyond tacky and tasteless.<br /><br /> Those of us who have been a part of the "resurrection' of this retro technology from the 50's<br />and sixties literally saved the tube manufactureres, and transformer manufacturers worldwide,<br />which was in danger of folding for good. 80% of guitarists, like myself, own a vacuum tube amp<br />for its power and pleasing harmonics. That 900 volts AC rectified tp 420Volts DC on the tubes<br />produce what is known among audiophiles as the "live concert' sound..a <br />certain nearness, physical presence of live musicians and vocalists.<br /><br /><br />This technology attracted the brightest minds, rocket<br />scientists of that era for the War Effort, from MIT, Cal Tech, and Bell Laboratories...<br /><br /> This precision with Audio has never been successfully<br />replicated by way of any other form of electronics since then. Transistor devices just sound<br />deplorable to us.<br /><br />It's just that there are some $1200 to $3,000 in parts required for each amp! Thus, very few<br />can afford one. But they are, in essence, no more costly than , say, some comfortable <br />furniture for the den or living room.... this is not me promoting my amps, but a desire<br />to introduce the younger generation to what they have never heard in their short lives... <br />to discover how marvelous and grand it really is. It's nothing less than astonishing<br /><br />The director loaned me his Mozart "Magic Flute" produced and sung in Swedish ~ thanks<br />to the gifted film maker Ingemar Bergman. One immensely beautiful song after another.<br /><br /> watched it two nights in a row, and had to resist the temptation to watch it a third time!I <br /><br />It is amazing. This is what I'd so like to introduce to my friends who seem to love music.<br /><br />I realize young people have jobs, and families...and thus, very little spare time..unlike us retirees<br />with huge amounts of free time. But do, someday, indulge yourself in hearing a good system<br />someday. And do sing along !...this is a wonderful and fun way to develop good pitch control<br />and intonation...proper formation of the mouth,lips and tongue . Try singing by <br />resonating in your nose...and then shift the resonation toward the back of the throat..<br />it will take on much greater beauty of intonation, and sound much more 'manly' too.<br />Forget falsetto. <br />Listen to Roberto Alagna singing his Scicilian folk tunes would convince you that this<br />is how singing is done. At full voice...and that is about 90 to 110 decibels. That's where one finds<br />a good sound, and a lovely, controlled vibrato. Just the organ is at 90 -100 decibels...so this is why falsetto is not heard by even those in the front rows!<br />Thank you for indulging me in this little lecture on the science of true hi fidelity. Meaning<br />"faithful exactly to what the microphones heard in the studio...no altering, no degradation".<br /><br />I remarked to my electronic engineer, with whom I consult, that the little plastic monstrosity<br />in the choir reheasal room sound like music bubbling up from the Berea Tar Pits.<br /><br />oh that is so sad. And that is what this generation has come to believe is "sounds great"...sigh.<br />We both had a good chuckle over that...there are, not kidding, about $4 in parts in one of those<br />little plastic hi fi's from Walmart. sigh again.<br /><br /> Your friend Franksingle ended triodeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09765128857281058708noreply@blogger.com