I'm Adam...(Why does sound like the beginning of an AA meeting?)... I'm an ex-pat brit living just outside New York. I'm a programmer by trade and it's fair to say my life pretty much revolves around technology of one sort or another. I actually recently worked out I've been programming for 24 years, 16 of those professionally - which is pretty good going since I just turned 31. Luckily I have a very tolerant fiance who puts up with all the gadgets provided every so often one of them is pink and has her name on :)
> 1. You post about your music experience, your audio experience, what > drives you in this hobby, what brings you to Slim Devices, etc. > Tech-lust also permeates into my musical tastes which are squarely centered around dance & electronica, my 1000+ CD collection is easily 70% in those genres. As a part-time DJ in London a couple of years ago I also acquired a decent pile of vinyl (which is a real bugger to ship trans-atlantic!). Just to be different I also know my way around a clarinet and have dabbled in writing & production (but with no results really worth listening to). I found SD while looking for something to replace my old Audiotron. The combination of the original Squeezebox and the philosophy of the company won me over, I've bought every product they've made ever since. > > 2. You post about your current, past, and future (hopefully!) rigs. > Discuss your room, speaker placement, cables, whatever. > I know right away I don't fit into the audiophile bracket, but that's fine with me. My main system is for 2-channel and 5.1 and consists of: Transporter Marantz SR-6200 Polk RTi 10 Floorstanders Polk CSi 5 Center Polk PSW 10 Sub Mission Surrounds All hooked up with a mixture of Cambridge Audio and Audio Research cables. Speaker placement is a definite problem, but as it's the lounge practicalities (and WAF) come into play. I also have an SB2 hooked up to Swan M200's in the bedroom and an SB3 in my office/studio hooked into my DJ rig (1210's, mixer, Mission bookshelf speakers, Korg midi controllers & PC running Ableton Live & Serato Scratch). > > 3. Say something about your audio philosophy. For example, do you > believe in blind testing or not? Why? > Human ears, like our other senses, simply aren't very good. Pick any one of them and there's going to be some tiny animal or insect which has us beat hands down. What makes us unique is our brain and the way it's able to interpret the data it gets and make sense of it. Thus, whatever we perceive is as much imagination as it is reality - particularly when it comes down to the fine detail at the limit of our range. To me it's a matter of scientific fact that we have meters and sensors which are orders of magnitude more capable than those we have attached to our heads, and to suggest that we can hear (or see, or touch, or smell) something we can't measure is absurd. The key is whether we know -what- to measure and how to interpret those measurements, and of course in many cases we do not. In general I'm a very "live and let live" kind of guy, what someone else spends their money on is their business. But, one thing which really gets me going is people intentionally using non-science and mumbo jumbo to trick people. When I was recently buying a HD video switcher I went for one from a company who demonstrated, via scope traces, that their product introduced less noise and artifacts than the competition. It's the same for audio, if you think you've done something special prove it - don't just ask me to close my eyes and believe. > > 4. Say something about what brings you to the forum and what you hope > to get out of it. A bookmark brought me here, and one day I hope to get out of it :) -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30141 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
