wait where is that blur thread
my favorite hoffman threads now are the album by album/song by song threads, there is good discussion in them, minimal griping about mastering versions, minimal threadcraps, and I always wind up appreciating something new.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 8 December 2023 17:00 (five months ago) link
the KLF discography thread is outstanding, it should be a damn book
― brimstead, Friday, 8 December 2023 17:03 (five months ago) link
no but seriously on the song by song threads! like lets discuss songs sometimes rather than pressings
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Saturday, 9 December 2023 09:53 (five months ago) link
Hoffman boards also got a lot more tolerable when I decided to liberally mute posters. There are a fair number of outright completely insane people on there, particularly in the beatles threads (that run up to Now and Then was torture, some utterly obsessed morons posting like a hundred times a day with outsized entitlement enraged when the announcement didn't drop the day they hoped...it was nuts)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:31 (five months ago) link
A certain banned ilxor has spent about 38 pages of the current Blur thread demanding no one enjoys The Magic Whip
You can't leave it at that tbh.
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:43 (five months ago) link
i must be looking at the wrong blur threads
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 December 2023 17:02 (five months ago) link
funny because even the Veikko's Blur forums had someone a bit like that at one stage.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 9 December 2023 17:07 (five months ago) link
I like the idea of the song-by-song threads but as they're so huge my lamentable tuning-out point is usually when I can predict for miles when the majority of them dislike something that I like. 'Oh, of course there's few kind words for "Fireplace" and "Lightnin' Hopkins"' etc.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 9 December 2023 17:09 (five months ago) link
Hoffman boards also got a lot more tolerable when I decided to liberally mute posters.― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm)
so much for the tolerant left
(it's a pun, i'm making a bad pun)
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 9 December 2023 17:50 (five months ago) link
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:43 bookmarkflaglink
I'm assuming a 90s video game
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 9 December 2023 22:51 (five months ago) link
Me too.
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 December 2023 23:03 (five months ago) link
Oh wow, I didn't realize that's where the name came from...did a Google search and oh yeah ads for that were all over my early '90s comics.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 December 2023 23:24 (five months ago) link
This isn’t Metal Geir Solid, is it?
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 9 December 2023 23:27 (five months ago) link
i'm assuming it's Universal Soldier for the Sega Megadrive
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 December 2023 00:28 (five months ago) link
sorry I hate when people do this so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrican
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 00:29 (five months ago) link
(by do this I meant posting cryptic stuff like I just did before)
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 00:31 (five months ago) link
Lol, that was actually my first guess, just based on the description of the argument style, without any knowledge of the video game.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 10 December 2023 00:36 (five months ago) link
had no idea that user was banned here and can't even recall what he did that might have been an issue. but I will say that the Magic Whip was better than I thought it would be when I finally listened to it
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 10 December 2023 00:43 (five months ago) link
I think they just got FPd and never came back, don't think it was a permaban?
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 00:44 (five months ago) link
shhhhhh
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 10 December 2023 01:05 (five months ago) link
Nah, I think he was permabanned, he'd moved through being merely annoying to being downright obnoxious and eventually on to some unpleasant personal attacks. Plus I have some memory of him branching out from ILM towards the end of his tenure and holding some pretty dodgy opinions on various subjects.
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:10 (five months ago) link
He was banned because he became unhinged at the end.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:14 (five months ago) link
Or what Tom said
― Bee OK, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:15 (five months ago) link
ah fair enough - that all sounds right, I just thought it was a 51 and he realised he wasn't welcome here
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:15 (five months ago) link
sorry I hate when people do this so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrican― Colonel Poo
― Colonel Poo
awww that takes all the fun out of it
https://segaretro.org/Universal_Soldier
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:43 (five months ago) link
ahh, good ol turricunt. i fp`d him every time he posted, whether or not it was objectionable... mostly because he was posting the shit that tom alluded to and because he was just kind of a rude person without any self-awareness. i was actively campaigning to be unreasonably rude because what comes around goes around, bitchass. good riddance.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Sunday, 10 December 2023 04:20 (five months ago) link
i haven't read this but it's about a guy who spends $1M on his stereo and pissed his family off. wasn't sure where to drop it but here seems like a good fit!
https://i.imgur.com/9PpfeuQ.png
here is a free/gift link:https://wapo.st/47ErwZI
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 January 2024 16:23 (four months ago) link
damn, what a sad story :(
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 January 2024 16:31 (four months ago) link
i posted it this morning on the continuing with CDs thread with the youtube doc. the doc gives even more insight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 January 2024 16:34 (four months ago) link
someone actually bought those gigantic custom speakers!
The 10-foot-tall speakers? After 18 bids, an Indiana man named Carlton Bale snagged all three for $10,100. Less than you’d pay for a pair of Yamaha NS-5000 bookshelf speakers.A fan of Fritz’s YouTube documentary, Bale had set out a couple of years ago to build what he imagined would be “the second-best loudspeaker in the world” — until he heard about the Fritz auction.“I thought, ‘Do I really have the time to build the speakers I want that probably aren’t going to sound as good as the ones Ken built?’” Bale recently recalled, after driving to Virginia with a U-Haul to fetch them last month. The price, he conceded, was “a steal. The bargain of a lifetime.”
A fan of Fritz’s YouTube documentary, Bale had set out a couple of years ago to build what he imagined would be “the second-best loudspeaker in the world” — until he heard about the Fritz auction.
“I thought, ‘Do I really have the time to build the speakers I want that probably aren’t going to sound as good as the ones Ken built?’” Bale recently recalled, after driving to Virginia with a U-Haul to fetch them last month. The price, he conceded, was “a steal. The bargain of a lifetime.”
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 January 2024 16:37 (four months ago) link
That story is some genuinely tragic shit, just a man truly brought down by an obsession. Every so often I'll read one of these types of stories and while they vary in the extremes, usually at the end I wind up thinking, wouldn't I rather just have a well curated CD collection that would cost a fraction of that and maybe bring me equivalent joy, or perhaps more joy albeit considerably less cool points? Just the sheer expense and unpredictability of vinyl is wearying. Probably part of it is how so many record stores don't do anything for me at all, it's rare that I walk into one and it's an amazing experience. I know that's probably just me and my own particular tastes and preferences though.
― omar little, Saturday, 13 January 2024 16:59 (four months ago) link
Has relates to the thread subject, once I read a thread titled something like, "does your spouse share your music taste?" and one answer was something like, "she never wants to listen to the same music as I do. Sometimes I wish I just lived all alone." :/
― omar little, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:01 (four months ago) link
ouch.
perfect sound forever, though!
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:02 (four months ago) link
Thx for the gift link. A good reminder of “the important things in life,” I guess…
― Wooly Bully (2005 Remaster) (morrisp), Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:59 (four months ago) link
usually at the end I wind up thinking, wouldn't I rather just have a well curated CD collection that would cost a fraction of that and maybe bring me equivalent joy, or perhaps more joy albeit considerably less cool points?
This is me, basically. To look at how many records and CDs I own, a person might assume I'd have a top-of-the-line system to play it on, but nope. I always went for "decent," and when I couldn't afford decent, I just acquired hand-me-downs and bought Goodwill stuff, and I've never felt any particular urge to upgrade my system. It isn't that I don't think I'd enjoy having a nice setup, but, to your point, there are about a hundred things I would rather spend my limited disposable income on than audiophile equipment - like CDs and records, for example.
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:01 (four months ago) link
It’s almost as if you like music rather than equipment. Crazy!
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:13 (four months ago) link
My entire audio setup has been cobbled together from various sources. My wife's Teac amp, my Project Debut III, a pair of Bowers and Wilkins matrix speakers I won in a weird work raffle a dozen years ago, plus my Onkyo single CD player. I definitely have a few friends who have gone for really really pricey equipment, like thousands of dollars, and I just can't do it. I mean it would be a financial stretch and psychologically I'd feel like I was getting conned somehow. I think the audiophile snake oil thread has me paranoid!
I mean I do love vinyl records obv. right now I'm listening to the led Zeppelin self-titled, the triple vinyl reissue from a few years back, and it sounds pretty great. Just don't tell me that actually there's this 1985 pressing exclusive to Japan that's really the best one haha.
― omar little, Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:32 (four months ago) link
But there's something about the simple pleasure of driving around with my kid listening to the first cracker CD, which I found for two bucks and bought because he's really into them and CVB now. That also sounds great!
― omar little, Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:33 (four months ago) link
. My wife's Teac amp, my Project Debut III, a pair of Bowers and Wilkins matrix speakers I won in a weird work raffle a dozen years ago, plus my Onkyo single CD player. I definitely have a few friends who have gone^this is all really good stuff I bet it sounds great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:20 (four months ago) link
I also have a pretty mid-fi setup. I live in a studio apartment on a road with plentiful traffic, and with the clanking trucks and car subwoofers rattling my windows, the best way to improve my setup would be to move. But I have cheap rent and am within walking distance of my job and most necessities, so it's hard to give those things up in pursuit of optimal listening conditions.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:25 (four months ago) link
a pair of Bowers and Wilkins matrix speakers I won in a weird work raffle a dozen years ago
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:32 (four months ago) link
I got a pair of B&W headphones for Christmas, they're outstanding.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:36 (four months ago) link
Haha I don't work there anymore but basically the guy who ran the company was emptying out his house of all this gear he had, it was a whole mess of laser disc players and DirecTV boxes, plus those speakers. We each got a ticket and then the numbers were called, I was called third. I took the speakers not having looked at them closely but needing better ones than the thrift store fodder ones I owned. They're the matrix 804. Couldn't believe it when I saw what they were and when I looked them up.
― omar little, Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:36 (four months ago) link
Holy moley
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:40 (four months ago) link
“I need you to die slow, m-----f-----,” he told his father. “Die slow.”
If you ever wade through the Hoffman forum, the pathological toxicity on display in that article becomes no surprise. I mean, I care about good sound, but I care about it as much as I care about good-tasting food and act accordingly. Imagine if you treated your meals the way a hot-stamp, one-step lunatic treats their music listening.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:10 (four months ago) link
As he got older, Fritz sometimes wondered if he could have made space within his own vast ambitions to consider other people’s goals and wishes.
Huh, yeah.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:19 (four months ago) link
man if I was Kurt I'd have peaced on Fritz so many more years earlier, idk how he lasted that long.
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:39 (four months ago) link
I think that people predisposed to this kind of obsessiveness will find and object of obsession not sure it's much to do with stero equipment at the end of the day
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:42 (four months ago) link
oh yeah, I mean you could pretty much substitute "restoring a classic car" and it would it fine
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:47 (four months ago) link
*fit