Audiophiles, I Summon Thee

[sweetcell]

first criteria for selecting what to play is familiarity: do you know what the music is supposed to sound like?  have you heard it a million times on other good sound systems?

forgot to add: personally, the first Shpongle album and RATM are my go-to's. 

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

  here are a few "reference albums" that i've read are common among audio engineers when tuning a system:

That's a lot of time to spend in your car just to test your sound system...

A couple of quick hits just to make sure it's dialed in, then take your massive cross country roadtrip with Sweets list.

To test placement, balance, connectivity, I start with Oasis' "D'You know what I Mean" - there's a one minute intro with sounds all over the place before the mix of guitars drums and bass come in.

To test the bass/subwoofer levels I use Daft Punks "Doing it Right" (the long intro allows for a lot of adjusting), XX "Angels", and Taylor Swift's "I knew you Were Trouble" (A Max Martin/Shellback dubstep bass drop refrain is perfect for tuning).  RTJ's "Legend Has it" is also good. 

For vocals I used to almost always use Mazzy Star's "Fade into you" but have recently added Cigarettes after Sex a lot - usually "Sunsetz" and the MTV unplugged's version of "Take on Me," probably in reverse order of how I listed them there.

And then lastly, an addition to Sweetcell's pretty good list would be Sturgill Simpson's "Sound and Fury" album because of the breadth of sounds.

EDIT: Shit, somehow I left off Pet Sounds.  I usually use God Only Knows, but Sloop John B works too.

You forgot to log in to the Hutch account.

[vansmack]

forgot to add: personally, the first Shpongle album and RATM are my go-to's. 

That reminded me a story a former student (who now has a job at the university) recently told me about how the students were always confused about how when I was assigned to monitor the protests, which were inevitably about me as a member of the administration, I would always sing along to the songs they were playing in the quad.  "It was weird that we would play RATM and none of us knew the songs as well as you did.  Who is this guy in a suit singing along to Rage?"

My friends call me smack.  Vansmack.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

when I was assigned to monitor the protests, which were inevitably about me

ok...now I want to know more about this story line...pics would be nice

[vansmack]

You forgot to log in to the Hutch account.

Steely Dan - Aja

[Yada]

My Peachtree iNova amp of nearly 11 years blew out over the weekend...due to a home improvement project.  Fuck me.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

My Peachtree iNova amp of nearly 11 years blew out over the weekend...due to a home improvement project.  Fuck me.

wha happend...were you getting the led out or did you drop something on it?

[Yada]

My Peachtree iNova amp of nearly 11 years blew out over the weekend...due to a home improvement project.  Fuck me.

wha happend...were you getting the led out or did you drop something on it?

So we had a small project taking place in our home that was creating a TON of dust... we left town for a week and I took apart/unplugged everything and packaged it away.

Hooked up everything Sunday and BOOM... right when I turned on the record player the speakers kind of crackled and and electrical burn smell came from the amp. Not sure if it's coincidental, bad timing, caused by dust, or I didn't thoroughly ensure everything was good to go before turning it back on.

I bought a cheap Sony amp for $150 last night at Best Buy and everything is working... so now I just need to decide if i want to

1. Trade in the old amp for a $200 credit for a new one
2. Attempt to get it fixed
3. Say fuck it and keep the cheap sony

[BrettnotBritt]

My Peachtree iNova amp of nearly 11 years blew out over the weekend...due to a home improvement project.  Fuck me.

wha happend...were you getting the led out or did you drop something on it?

So we had a small project taking place in our home that was creating a TON of dust... we left town for a week and I took apart/unplugged everything and packaged it away.

Hooked up everything Sunday and BOOM... right when I turned on the record player the speakers kind of crackled and and electrical burn smell came from the amp. Not sure if it's coincidental, bad timing, caused by dust, or I didn't thoroughly ensure everything was good to go before turning it back on.

I bought a cheap Sony amp for $150 last night at Best Buy and everything is working... so now I just need to decide if i want to

1. Trade in the old amp for a $200 credit for a new one
2. Attempt to get it fixed
3. Say fuck it and keep the cheap sony

I would try to get a repair quote. Might just be a bad capacitor.

[vansmack]

Might just be a bad capacitor.

Are you saying his capacitor is in flux?

[BrettnotBritt]

Might just be a bad capacitor.

Are you saying his capacitor is in flux?

Great Scott, you might be right.

[Yada]

My Peachtree iNova amp of nearly 11 years blew out over the weekend...due to a home improvement project.  Fuck me.

wha happend...were you getting the led out or did you drop something on it?

So we had a small project taking place in our home that was creating a TON of dust... we left town for a week and I took apart/unplugged everything and packaged it away.

Hooked up everything Sunday and BOOM... right when I turned on the record player the speakers kind of crackled and and electrical burn smell came from the amp. Not sure if it's coincidental, bad timing, caused by dust, or I didn't thoroughly ensure everything was good to go before turning it back on.

I bought a cheap Sony amp for $150 last night at Best Buy and everything is working... so now I just need to decide if i want to

1. Trade in the old amp for a $200 credit for a new one
2. Attempt to get it fixed
3. Say fuck it and keep the cheap sony

I would try to get a repair quote. Might just be a bad capacitor.

Peachtree direct doesn't repair this product any longer and Gramophone is charging $150 just to look at it but will put that fee towards repair IF it can be fixed.

Any other DMV suggestions?

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

not at all my field of expertise, but I will say in IT/Pluming...typically it's going to be $150 to even have them take a peek

[Yada]

not at all my field of expertise, but I will say in IT/Pluming...typically it's going to be $150 to even have them take a peek

Hence my reluctance based on age of product and original cost.

[grateful]

Any other DMV suggestions?

Try turning it off and turning it on again. That usually works.

If not, give it a good, swift kick in the side.