Thick as a brick, you boy.

"Don Pearce" escribió en el mensaje
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:00:42 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"The Old Fogey" wrote in message
. com...
Can anyone define 'Slam' in the context of audio power amps?


OK, I'll bite.....

I have to say I can never understand why people get so het up about the
common usage of subjective terms in the English language (in the context
of
audio gear or anything else) - it's what our language is especially good
at.
(Although I gather there are 11 different words for different types of
fart
in the Arab world.... :-)

If anyone *doesn't* understand what's usually meant by simple phrases
like
'slam', air', 'soundstaging', warmth', 'colour', 'tone', texture' etc.
then
they must live in an isolated little world utterly devoid of poetry,
imagery
and the like. Given that all such terms are in themselves fairly
meaningless, they are surely only used to convey abstract concepts in
attempt to convey an emotional response to a set of circumstances or a
personal (audio) experience. (Other than in the context of Sales BS, of
course, where all normal meaning is usually reversed for effect!)

Thus, I would tender:

'Slam', in the context of sounds obtained from an amplifier/speaker
combination (you need both) - if you ever heard it yourself, you would
know
what it was.....






Handwaving were ne'er so lyrical. Unfortunately we are still no nearer
to a clue as to what Slam is...

d

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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:11:01 GMT, "Parker"
wrote:

Thick as a brick, you boy.

Rather rude, Parker. Care to justify?

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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:11:01 GMT, "Parker"
wrote:

Thick as a brick, you boy.

Rather rude, Parker. Care to justify?

d

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more from the 'The Old Fogey school' of uk.rec.audio-ism:

Can anyone define 'Slam' in the context of audio power amps?

Roger.


Prob not what you were asking but I came accross SLAM as "Symmetrically
Loaded Acoustic Modules", thanks to the guys marketing cheap(ish) computer
speakers - the sort with 4 little satelites and a 6 inch sub driver.

--
Jim H jh
@333
.org

more from the 'The Old Fogey school' of uk.rec.audio-ism:

Can anyone define 'Slam' in the context of audio power amps?

Roger.


Prob not what you were asking but I came accross SLAM as "Symmetrically
Loaded Acoustic Modules", thanks to the guys marketing cheap(ish) computer
speakers - the sort with 4 little satelites and a 6 inch sub driver.

--
Jim H jh
@333
.org

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:50:32 +0100, Kurt Hamster
wrote:

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:04:10 +0100, Don Pearce used
to say...

Handwaving were ne'er so lyrical. Unfortunately we are still no nearer
to a clue as to what Slam is...

Do you know what a slammed door sounds like?

Yes?

Well how would _you_ describe the type of sound it makes? Or would you
just find it easier to say the sound has some slam about it?

Or if you wanted to be pedantic how about, fast attack, no decay, no
sustain and a sharp release?

Well, if I were listening to recordings of doors being slammed, then
slam is what I would want to hear.

My listening is much more to do with music - without slamming doors.

d

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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:50:32 +0100, Kurt Hamster
wrote:

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:04:10 +0100, Don Pearce used
to say...

Handwaving were ne'er so lyrical. Unfortunately we are still no nearer
to a clue as to what Slam is...

Do you know what a slammed door sounds like?

Yes?

Well how would _you_ describe the type of sound it makes? Or would you
just find it easier to say the sound has some slam about it?

Or if you wanted to be pedantic how about, fast attack, no decay, no
sustain and a sharp release?

Well, if I were listening to recordings of doors being slammed, then
slam is what I would want to hear.

My listening is much more to do with music - without slamming doors.

d

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http://www.pearce.uk.com

In article , Don Pearce
writes
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:00:42 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"The Old Fogey" wrote in message
.com...
Can anyone define 'Slam' in the context of audio power amps?


OK, I'll bite.....

I have to say I can never understand why people get so het up about the
common usage of subjective terms in the English language (in the context of
audio gear or anything else) - it's what our language is especially good at.
(Although I gather there are 11 different words for different types of fart
in the Arab world.... :-)

If anyone *doesn't* understand what's usually meant by simple phrases like
'slam', air', 'soundstaging', warmth', 'colour', 'tone', texture' etc. then
they must live in an isolated little world utterly devoid of poetry, imagery
and the like. Given that all such terms are in themselves fairly
meaningless, they are surely only used to convey abstract concepts in
attempt to convey an emotional response to a set of circumstances or a
personal (audio) experience. (Other than in the context of Sales BS, of
course, where all normal meaning is usually reversed for effect!)

Thus, I would tender:

'Slam', in the context of sounds obtained from an amplifier/speaker
combination (you need both) - if you ever heard it yourself, you would know
what it was.....






Handwaving were ne'er so lyrical. Unfortunately we are still no nearer
to a clue as to what Slam is...

d

_____________________________

http://www.pearce.uk.com

Slam is a LOUD setting on an Orban FM radio processor!, that's wot it
is!..
--
Tony Sayer

In article , Don Pearce
writes
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:00:42 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"The Old Fogey" wrote in message
.com...
Can anyone define 'Slam' in the context of audio power amps?


OK, I'll bite.....

I have to say I can never understand why people get so het up about the
common usage of subjective terms in the English language (in the context of
audio gear or anything else) - it's what our language is especially good at.
(Although I gather there are 11 different words for different types of fart
in the Arab world.... :-)

If anyone *doesn't* understand what's usually meant by simple phrases like
'slam', air', 'soundstaging', warmth', 'colour', 'tone', texture' etc. then
they must live in an isolated little world utterly devoid of poetry, imagery
and the like. Given that all such terms are in themselves fairly
meaningless, they are surely only used to convey abstract concepts in
attempt to convey an emotional response to a set of circumstances or a
personal (audio) experience. (Other than in the context of Sales BS, of
course, where all normal meaning is usually reversed for effect!)

Thus, I would tender:

'Slam', in the context of sounds obtained from an amplifier/speaker
combination (you need both) - if you ever heard it yourself, you would know
what it was.....






Handwaving were ne'er so lyrical. Unfortunately we are still no nearer
to a clue as to what Slam is...

d

_____________________________

http://www.pearce.uk.com

Slam is a LOUD setting on an Orban FM radio processor!, that's wot it
is!..
--
Tony Sayer

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:25:21 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

Handwaving were ne'er so lyrical. Unfortunately we are still no nearer
to a clue as to what Slam is...

d

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Slam is a LOUD setting on an Orban FM radio processor!, that's wot it
is!..
--
Tony Sayer

Now THIS I am prepared to believe! (I almost said happy to believe,
but I caught myself just in time)

d

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