Ashley & JC's assorted musings

[anthonyTD]

Lets stay on topic please, (dealers), thats Coops you're referring to, a well known dealer in LS's that look like lavatories.

Ashley always wears greasy overalls and carries tyres, like the bloke in the coke advert.

sounds like my mother-inlaw,
well, the tyres bit anyway!!!

[Marco]

Please - not as I'm tucking into my roast chicken!

Marco.

[jcbrum]

My mother in law used to work for an airline, on "those" long-haul flights, know what I mean

She used to kick-start Boeing 747's

[Marco]

I think JC's trying to tell us he's a member of the 'mile-high club'. I would have thought the noise of the propeller engines would have disturbed your concentration!



Marco.

[Marco]

So are you saying that I don't like music or that somehow you like it more than me? If so, we're liable to fall out on a major scale because that's bullshit and you couldn't be further from the truth!!!

I suggest you explain yourself, and quickly.

For many people, Ashley, including myself, hi-fi is also a hobby as well as something to enjoy our music on. Just as you like to play around with old cars, so do others and myself like to play around with old hi-fi. Some others will also enjoy playing around with new hi-fi, too. It's all part of the fun.

Not everyone is into 'fit and forget' hi-fi solutions, particularly when the one on offer isn't likely to give superior performance.

I "bother" with vinyl because I love collecting records, and despite all this wonderful technology it's still the music carrier with the highest resolution. I'd still be using reel-to-reel tape decks, too, if they were practical!

Marco.

I'm still looking for a reply, Ashley, and this one won't go away.

Marco.

[Ashley James]

Marco, for me (and our customers I suspect) Hi fi is a tool, nothing more. I have no interest in hi fi equipment and I resent its intrusion, I certainly don't consider playing it fun.

However I love my music passionately and I like to listen to it immediately the mood takes me, maybe when I'm working or surfing, or even arguing with FF's (form fanatics). I do this by entering a bit of the title in iTunes and it immediately appears, then I select the location of the system I want to use and press play. It's done and I'm happy.

Any other approach is a total anathema to me and would spoil my enjoyment of music.

I carry everything on a Macbook Pro so can play my music anywhere that has a wi fi set up. Equally, people can come here with a memory stick, a laptop or a hard drive and we can exchange music and listen to or play via any computer on the system. And I can email MP3's of anything to anyone who's interested in a particular piece.

I also care passionately about sound quality and cannot tolerate the sound of most hi fi, it hurts my ears. The Bristol Show is a case in point, I wasn't joking when I said that the ceiling speakers in the Gents toilet are better than many of the exhibits.

Ash

[Mike]

Hmm....'toilet music'!... I - MUST - RESIST !!!!.... Aaaargh!... The temptation!

[Marco]

That's all fine, Ashley, but in future please don't make ignorant assumptions about my love of music in comparison to yours. I work from home and probably listen to music on average 6-7 hours per day, and often more that that!

However I like recorded music to sound 'real', not a processed facsimile of 'real', like I hear with things like iPods and MP3 players. We'll see what your Apple TV is like when I'm down, but no matter how good it is, IMO it's still a soulless and impersonal way of accessing one's favourite tunes.

Long live records and CDs!

Marco.

[jcbrum]

Long live records and CDs!

and slide rules and gas mantles and typewriters and mangles and starched collars and stockings.

err .......... no ! not stockings ! ...... er yes, oh bugger, quick think of something else !

NO ! not them !

[Marco]

Yes, you're indeed fortunate to have experienced the 'swinging 60s' and therefore girls in micro-mini skirts and stockings. Yum yum!

I bet you were quite a lad in your day. Was Errol Flynn your hero?

Doncha just lurve this kind of thread drift!!

Marco.