Aghh.. Where did the Magic go?

What, eghh, speak up......

Okay it could be that the Primate’s new wires are taking a few hours to run-in but that’ll soon sort itself out.   But there are many variables in all of this not least the no doubt wide range of music that he indulges in, but even more what goes on in his head.   And this isn’t a dig at Mango it applies to all of us. 

It’s all good mate - don’t worry. 

And guys please don’t get him to arse about with cables - please!

The Strat (Fender) posted:

Okay it could be that the Primate’s new wires are taking a few hours to run-in but that’ll soon sort itself out.   But there are many variables in all of this not least the no doubt wide range of music that he indulges in, but even more what goes on in his head.   And this isn’t a dig at Mango it applies to all of us. 

It’s all good mate - don’t worry. 

And guys please don’t get him to arse about with cables - please!

He's already done that so now there's no knowing if it's the cables or the stack order/Burndy dressing that is the cause of his woes.

I know from experience that the new SL speaker cables take some time to run in.  When I first got mine and turned on the system at first I was rather disappointed that I'd just spent so much $$.  That absolutely changed over time.

Put in the Harbeth's MM and the magic will be back 

Stover

Ardbeg10y posted:

I was not really happy. I had to deliver a piece of software which I've been pushing forward for weeks and is more boring than doing an harmonic analysis of a Mozart piano piece, listening to a class full of female traverso students, or see Marlyn Monroe talk in a movie. Your post was a good reflection of my motivation. Decided to write the opposite to drag myself out of misery.

I wish I had the time to take a walk.

Hope you are feeling better, I do by now.

Sorry to Mango for being off topic, but we all know that your issue is a matter of time (what not by the way).

I'm sorry for your bad moment. Anyway, I never have female traverso students...

I wish you more relaxed moments. I have had my head hissing like a steam valve for two weeks, it stopped only today, while working (not with traverso beauties). Everyone has cripple days and there's no reason to justify or apologize. As for hijacking a thread to MM, with all due respect for such a hectic member, it's no easy task, one doesn't know where to put hands to begin with...

Best

Max

Richieroo posted:

Max .. is your middle name 'Marvin'????

No middle name, sorry... But please explain, I don't know or understand everything all the time, unfortunately.

Ciao

Max 

Wugged Woy posted:

And Max, do you have a lot of Joy Division CD's ?

Never had or heard one. But I have the complete Firehouse Five Plus Two discography on original American GTJ LPs (13), some mono, some stereo, some battered like an old whore some just 40 years old. I challenge you to find more indestructibly happy music.

Max

Max_B posted:

Richieroo posted:

Max .. is your middle name 'Marvin'????

No middle name, sorry... But please explain, I don't know or understand everything all the time, unfortunately.

Ciao

Max 

Max, no reason you should understand this unless to have read the very funny book 'Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy' as I assume Richieroo was teasing you by referring to one of the characters (a robot actually) called Marvin The Paranoid Android. Marvin was actually more depressed than paranoid.

MM, apologies for perpetuating the diversion.

I too have a full SL loom and the bu**ers take ages to burn in. Let's hope that is all it is.

nigelb posted:

Max_B posted:

Richieroo posted:

Max .. is your middle name 'Marvin'????

No middle name, sorry... But please explain, I don't know or understand everything all the time, unfortunately.

Ciao

Max 

Max, no reason you should understand this unless to have read the very funny book 'Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy' as I assume Richieroo was teasing you by referring to one of the characters (a robot actually) called Marvin The Paranoid Android. Marvin was actually more depressed than paranoid.

MM, apologies for perpetuating the diversion.

I too have a full SL loom and the bu**ers take ages to burn in. Let's hope that is all it is.

But least, Max, takes this as an insult, Marvin also had 'a brain the size of a planet', if I remember correctly.

NigelB, MDS,

Thanks for the explanation. I actually have read books by Douglas Adams, but not this very famous one from him: only The salmon of doubt. My favorite robot is then the one who accompanies the nameless hero of Robert Sheckley's Options, even though Robbie was a myth of my childhood. I have never had, and never will, the least interest in the two ones of the Star War's saga, a vacuum cleaner going about with an unsteadily walking queer. Ops, I wrote queer.

BTW, I find these diversions definitely more interesting than the original post. MM's jolly looniness and DB's deadpan seriousness in discussing changes in sound by changing the stacking order of boxes in a rack are a fantastic piece of contemporary theatre. I try to imagine such a conversation in a Marthaler or a Bernhard piece...

Max

I think it was in the Eighties that I read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It was the funniest book I ever read. I was working away from home for a few months and would while away the evenings by sitting in a local pub having a quiet pint and reading.  I can recall being utterly unable to suppress my laughter while reading that book, even though I was very self-conscious and somewhat embarrassed by my outbursts. 

A very clever writer. 

Yes, I agree. I very much admire Douglas Adams, and was sorry when he died. I will start the HH'sGTTG. I definitely need reading something which has not to do with music or the brain. Or, rather, which has, but in Douglas Adams' way...

P.S. I am not disrespecting MM's or DB's convictions or dedication to their systems. I respect them as persons, not knowing them personally. But sometimes the degree of surrealism of the topics becomes such as to substitute for normality, and that is the moment to regain perspective. So, Mango and Bear, apologies if I sounded disrespectful.

Hi Max glad you enjoyed 'Marvin' - it was not meant as an insult........ now if I called you Rimmer that would have been different...... Anyway glad you are in better spirits now...

The funniest books i remember reading have to be 

- three men in a boat and

- leave it to psmith

I also heartily recommend the discworld series by Terry Pratchett.

I've read the Douglas Adams books but never really connected with them...

The original Radio series was the best but parked itself in something of a corner by episode 12. Not sure I'm impressed by the recent one so far. Hexagonal phase? have I missed triangle square and pentagon? maybe that's why it doesn't seem to fit.

I listened to the first of the hexagonal phase - really unimpressed.  Neither clever nor funny.

Max, please be prepared for some rather English humour when you read HGTTG.

For example, a Ford Prefect is a quintessentially British car from the 60s and early 70s. Of course you may already be aware of this. Anyway, your open mind and sense of humour will lend themselves well to enjoying the book, me thinks.

Remember to keep posting and don't get too lost in English humour novels as some of us enjoy your musings on here very much.

BTW, Dark Bear's experience with all things related to Fraim stacking order and the like might be dry but vital to some of us who want to get the best from our very expensive systems. DB, I for one very much appreciate your experience and help so keep on rocking on please! It saves us endless swapping of heavy black boxes and my back is only getting weaker as the years pile on.

Again, apologies MM for the diversion.

Mango - a long shot, but just possible.  Check you haven’t forgotten to cross the speaker cables (left/right connected correctly).  I did that in my excitement to fit full SL and it sounds pretty flat.  You can still hear lots of detail, but of course, no depth to the sound.

I'll get back to this thread in another week or so, once I've had a chance to sort the mess out. 

Mango - do you read Bill Bryson?

I've read some of his books - more than 15 years ago at this point though. Walk in the woods, I think and a couple of other ones - something about the origins of the English language.