Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Since Tulsa has come up here, I spent some time there. First in school at Okie State we'd go over there sometimes on weekends etc. Then I lived there a couple years. So I got to thinking, what would be a funny Tulsa story?
Well so me and my friends used to go to high-end stereo shops and demo the serious shit. Like the big Klipsch systems etc. And they were always happy to close the doors and crank the shit to show it off*. So one time this guy went with me who had never been to one (hence had no idea what a really good/big stereo can do) and I told him to bring a CD to test stuff with. He brought a jungle (what eventually came to be known as "drum and bass") one.
So we had a sales guy and were in the big-system room with Klipschorns. We did a couple rock CDs or whatever then my friend got his out. I fucking told the sales guy, be careful with this, it is serious. He kind of poo-poo'd me, because Klipschorns. Well the bass kicked in and I've never seen someone move so fast to turn shit down in my life.
*=contrariwise, at a shop in SF when I was actually in the market for an integrated amp for my system, they had the one I wanted to check out but attached to pretty lame (but expensive) modern "hi fi" mini-towers. Like 4" woofers etc. Well I still needed to hear the amp, so when I turned it up, I got a fucking lecture from the tattooed and pierced sales dipshit about how music should be listened to with your head, not your "dinosaur brain" (in your ass).
I told him off and we got the fuck out of there. Hi-fi requires dynamics...any system that the main thing you notice is "smooth" probably sucks*.
This is the kind of thing everyone into music listening should aspire to:
http://noaudiophile.com/FieldTrip-William/
*Example: I auditioned a pair of B&W Nautilus in Phoenix one time. I forget something like $20k for the pair or something like that. Widely considered one of the best speakers ever made, the fags at Stereo Review all-in on it of course. It sounded like the same limp wet tea bags as the rest of their shit, just bigger, limper, and wetter.