2. misc-audio
  3. 189747-166623

little big win

I know it’s all about bass nodes and vibration control but on the side, it can also be about giving back and spreading the love (like @tomic601 does)

My neighbor has a mug-sized JBL bluetooth speaker. She listens to it everywhere and several times it occurred to me to throw it over the fence down the canyon outside the bluetooth range. It is so bad even "noise" would be offended to be associated with it. She does love music, especially jazz and live music like the Symphony and has been married to a musician for decades.

I can’t stand that speaker. So I have been looking for a pair of decent active speakers for months. I finally found one for a little over a $100, used but in decent condition. They arrived yesterday. I also bought a bluetooth speaker adapter and went over to surprise her. Of course half the connections didn’t work on the speaker so I spent an hour trying to fix it until finally I was able to squeeze some sound out. She immediately objected to where I placed them, on a cabinet, 4 feet high 5 feet apart. (She used to having those spots for books and flowers and what not) She insisted to put it on a lower shelf 2 feet high, 2 feet apart. I told her it was not an option, only after my funeral.

I told her to listen to it for a bit and accept them where they are and see if she likes the sound. It seemed fine to me, I could even sense a soundstage.

Two hours later she texted me that she meant to text me sooner but had been lost in pure joy of listening. She loves them and never heard anything like it, so captivating, in a home. (I told her that she would "notice" that she doesn’t know where the speakers are, they should disappear.)

I couldn’t be happier. I texted her back that just to be safe: "take the JBL to Goodwill tomorrow!"
The End

grislybutter
mahgister's avatar
mahgister
13,011 posts
 

I became an  audiophile a potential unconscious one at 20  because i was under the supervision  of my two friends for buying my gear ( Tannoy +Sugden), one married  15 years older than me who designed his own speakers box and his own friend and " mentor" who became mine too , "a 60 years old virgin" really, who lived in an apartment alone where no woman will ever dare to enter because his speakers were suspended over the floor from the ceilings , all floor in all pieces covered with audio gear parts and he kept his vinyl in a fridge wrapped which flabbergasted  me  and appeared to me as completely "nuts" ...😋

 

i could not know at the times i would became like these two after my retirement ...And with my 100 resonators as "nuts" as this "mentor" ... But i  am not "virgin" ...😎

mahgister's avatar
mahgister
13,011 posts
 

I became an  audiophile a potential unconscious one at 20  because i was under the supervision  of my two friends for buying my gear ( Tannoy +Sugden), one married  15 years older than me who designed his own speakers box and his own friend and " mentor" who became mine too , "a 60 years old virgin" really, who lived in an apartment alone where no woman will ever dare to enter because his speakers were suspended over the floor from the ceilings , all floor in all pieces covered with audio gear parts and he kept his vinyl in a fridge wrapped which flabbergasted  me  and appeared to me as completely "nuts" ...😋

 

i could not know at the times i would became like these two after my retirement ...And with my 100 resonators as "nuts" as this "mentor" ... But i  am not "virgin" ...😎

 

By the way my two children received something audiophile from me , but even if it is better compared to what they had it never ignite an audiophile fever  in them ...

 

You cannot make a bear from a mice nor make a mice from a bear....

grislybutter OP
2,989 posts
 

@asvjerry how practical! Imagine if you had to use a PassLab monoblock as a floating device!

asvjerry's avatar
asvjerry
4,608 posts
 

....and nothing like a ground short in the pool to ’liven up’ a party.....😬

But using it ’on shore’ to drive the wp subs....

"Create your own waveforms! Soon to be released: Sono-Tsunami....!👍😈"

 

Wanted: Audiophile Angel with a developed sense of humour....

Between a toe-grabbing music playing lightshow 'Sub-Ber' chasing you about in a pool of ripple patterns from the Sub-Rayz Array that made you feel like you were getting a 'whole-body' vibe slowly turning it to a gel....

Things like this 'n that....and those....

Must Happen

immatthewj
1,898 posts
 

Bring Other Sound Equipment?

More to discover