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    Default 'Av Showrooms' videos on youtube

    https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...y=av+showrooms

    I sort of watch these with grim fascination, don't know if I'm alone in this?

    They always start with a tour of the equipment, which is almost always stuff you have never heard of that costs a fortune. The commentary is reverential in that way that only Americans seem to be able to do; where you might initially be forgiven for thinking it is meant ironically but then realise, with a frission of fascination, that it isn't.

    Having talked it all up, sometimes for ten minutes or more, they finally play some music so we can hear what the system does. The needle is lowered in solemn silence and we hear the glorious tones of ... plinky plonk. Some ridiculous 'audiophile' recording that has only two instruments at most playing one note at a time.

    'Plink, plink, plink, plonk, plink'.

    And it goes on almost forever.

    When it finally finishes there is then some mutual backslapping and comments on how great the sound is.

    WTF?

    I mean seriously folks,

    WTF?

    Then the next video cues up, different room, different system, same plinky plonk. Well probably not exactly the same but it might as well be. What is this all about? You can't tell me that these blokes, some of them clearly into their seventies, really think that this sort of programme is in any way a test or even a demonstration of anything except one's will to live?

    If anyone of them is reading this here's some news for you. Playing this sort of thing is no test of a system whatsoever. I wouldn't mind if you played a minute of that and then put on 'In Rock' or maybe 'Exile On Mainstreet'. What about a bit of Journey? Maybe even some Bach or Beethoven. You know, the sort of thing that the people old enough to afford a fifty grand amplifier actually listen to?

    Or maybe I am wrong and am just in some tiny subset of enthusiasts who has a hi-fi that flatters the music they like to listen to, not to play music that flatters the hi-fi. Maybe most enthusiasts do spend their listening hours playing the sort of music that comprises of one string of an acoustic guitar being plucked while someone knocks on a block of wood with stick. And that was what they were into back when they were twenty years old as well. But I suspect not.

    Sort yourselves out, AV Showrooms!
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    OK if you are into AV , im not
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    Quote Originally Posted by Audio Al View Post
    OK if you are into AV , im not
    It is called AV Showrooms but most of the videos are 2 channel and vinyl.
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    Some of their videos I find both interesting and fun to watch. Their recent upload of the AN factory was a fascinating watch.

    Couldn't give a flying shit about their audiophile music. Doesn't appeal to me anyway. Perhaps, blame my old man ears!

    S.

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    being a saddo , i love these av showroom videos . watched a whole load on larsen speakers recently . they do make me chuckle a bit but its good fun

    this was one

    https://youtu.be/oD38LiYmuNg
    ou might slip, you might slide, you might
    Stumble and fall by the road side
    But don't you ever let nobody drag your spirit down
    Remember you're walking up to heaven

    Don't let nobody turn you around
    … Walk with the rich, walk with the poor
    Learn from everyone, that's what life is for
    And don't you let nobody drag your spirit down

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    Enough of this knocking of Plinky Plonk music, nowt wrong with a bit of Plinky Plonk..............................

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    Plonky Pink is far more my cup of tea... Have you tried that? It's a little more tuneful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Plonky Pink is far more my cup of tea... Have you tried that? It's a little more tuneful.

    Marco.
    Nothing like a cheap rosé!
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    A couple of bottles of Mateus, darling, and I'm anybody's!

    Marco.
    Main System

    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


    Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!

    Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!


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