Secondly, I apologize Mr. Skalinder for dragging my ass and my gear across the country to tape the Vegoose festival (in your absense) so people such as yourself might have an opportunity to hear what they were not present for or did not want to drag their gear out for.
Apparently, I've struck, a nerve - but I'm not sure exactly how. At no point did I suggest I was ungrateful for your schlepping gear across the country to record and distribute your recordings. On the contrary - I'm thankful for all tapers willing to do so.
I feel really bad that I returned with such an awful representation of the artists I recorded.
I never suggested your recordings provide an awful representation of the musicians you recorded.
Secretly I am sure that my tapes will be frequently played on your system. Funny that so many other folks who have heard my tapes from the fest like them.
Whether or not I'll frequently play your recordings, I don't know - to be honest, I haven't even really followed who played at Vegoose - but if I do play your recordings, I feel no need to do so secretly. I have not suggested I ddo like your recordings, I simply stated the sonic characteristics I hear in the NBox - including those you made at Vegoose. Nothing more. The NBox is a good piece of gear, and makes excellent recordings. But I happen to prefer different gear for my own recording. That is all, nothing more.
I believe that you have some superhuman 'doglike' hearing which enables you to hear frequencies the rest of the human population cannot. Maybe this is something you can turn into a comic superhero or something.
Now that's funny! I don't have superhuman 'doglike' hearing. My hearing is better than some, and not as good as others - nothing unusual, IMO.
SUPERAUDIOPHILE "able to hear spitty nbox recordings in a single playback." You could talk like an English butler, ya know the snobby type. Try it, say this with an english accent....'Sir that recording is quite spitty' or 'turn that spitty tape down' or 'I need to sit from the fatigue of those spitty recordings'
I agree that describing the nuances of sound is difficult but 'spitty' is how my YZ80 performed with the wrong gas/oil mix, it is not a term used in audio description.
Forgive me for not using an audio descriptor of which you approve.
I tried my best to communicate the sonic characteristics I hear in the NBox. If you don't agree with my opinion, or care for the words I use in my attempt at translation, suit yourself. But I see no reason why you should take it so personally. I've considered attempting to re-phrase my thoughts on the NBox, but given your latest response I have zero confidence you'll accept, understand, or even acknowledge my further attempts, so I won't waste my time.
The truth really is that no rig is perfect for every recording situation. Some are more adaptable than others however. The other point to make is that everything is colored. From what we record with to what we playback on.
Agreed - no piece or combination of gear is perfect for every recording situation, and every piece of gear - both recording and playback - is colored. As hobbyist audio recordists, we all make compromises in the gear we choose. Shoot, even professionals with vast arrays of gear have to make compromises. Not only is no piece or combination of gear perfect for every recording situation, no piece of or combination of gear is perfect for every playback system and set of ears and brain.
Perhaps the 'integration b/t the HF and mids on your VR-1s isnt so hot. I doubt it knowing the Von Schweikerts reputation (I run the VR3s myself) however I have never heard VR1s.
I don't believe the NBox's sonic characteristics for which I don't care are a function of the VR-1s - I hear the same HF sonic characteristics in NBox recordings whether played on my current system, all my previous speaker-based playback systems with various preamps, amps, and ADCs, several different headphone-based listening setups, and friends' playback gear, too. Some of the playback systems emphasized certain sonic characteristics of the NBox, others minimized them, but I've heard similar NBox HF characterics with all my playback gear.
It is good to know that there are people out there who are better than me like yourself. I need role models too.
It seems you've taken my simple statement - my opinion - about the sonic characteristics I hear in the NBox rather personally. I don't know why, but that seems to be the case given your response. I did not intend to present my opinion as a personal attack on your or your gear, and don't believe I did so. But if it came across that way, I apologize. It's not personal.
I believe that I will travel to your city so that we can make some tapes together on the same stand and get the tapes out and let the masses decide. Whattayasay? Lets have some fun, isnt that why we do this anyways?
Feel free to travel to Chicago and we'll run comps. I'll even buy you a beverage of your choice!
As most here know, I'm always game for gear comparisons. I just ran a comp last night, actually, that I'll seed shortly: 24-bit V3 v. T+ UA5. Though we won't be able to compare my Lemosax with the NBox - I've sold it since I just don't stealth often enough to warrant keeping it. I've done comps with both pieces of gear, and heard plenty of recordings from both, and I stand by my opinion of the NBox's sonic characteristics. Others may disagree. Thank goodness we have a variety of gear from which to choose! Isn't choice grand? Honestly, I couldn't care less what the masses think of comparisons, your recordings, or my recordings. I record concerts and perform gear comparisons first and foremost to please myself. If others like my recordings or find the comparisons useful, that's a bonus, but I don't especially care one way or the other.
FWIW, I've not -T'd you. I reserve that function only for the most egregious trolls. Your getting huffed up about my opinion doesn't qualify as irritating enough to break out the dreaded -T.