Gregoryballs

Roy Gregory, HiFi Delta-minus.

Any offers on what this means?

 

Ah, you see, amplifiers work by taking music and slicing it up into very tiny cubes (they have to be small enough to squeeze down the speaker cable). The speakers then glue the cubes back together. The best amps produce the tiniest cubes, with the most even surfaces. Each cube has a little tail on the end, which it uses to swim down the speaker cable (they're a bit like modernist sperm).

I think that what he's getting at, anyway.

-- Ian

 

James,

I feel its a Jurno's way of saying 'Its got trailing edge entirity'

 

Aha! Notes are like little tadpoles, and the wayward sonic frogspawn must be carefully corralled, lest the musical message....(cont. page 94)

 

Obviously thicker speaker cables help here as they can swim through more quickly to the speaker hence achieving a faster, louder sound.

 

I must pay greater attention to the harmonic tails of my building blocks the next time I play a solo.

Thanks for the reminder!

 

Ok, getting spaced is not necessarily a problem, but I'm sitting here with a bass and some scales to hand and I'm finding it quite hard to weigh a bottom E. How will it ever develop a harmonic tail? Oh, the humanity...

Tony.

 

If Bub read Hifi News this thread would be Allcockballs.

Listening to a guitar on this speaker ... the initial transient of plectrum on string was a clearly defined event which hung in the space between the speakers, with the texture of the note developing behind this event followed by the resonance of the instrument's body.

Paul

 

Hackwatch

Lovely. Any balls welcome, Paul. Allcock ones particularly so. Sounds 'hanging in space between/behind/above/below the speakers' only happen in magazines or the postings of S. Toy.

Any references to 'sheer musicality', 'sheer impact', or 'sheer anything' are always welcome. Other goodies would include any reference to the 'musical message', 'musical impact', or the 'musical abilities' of a piece of gear. 'Snapping into sharp focus' is nice.

Keyword = 'sonic'.

Inappropriate punctuation and extremes of tortuous phrasing, in an attempt to appear very clever, go without saying.

 

I think this thread has sticky potential guys

 

Don't forget "splashy" treble and "grain" - I've never heard them, so have no idea what (if anything) they mean. I also like "flabby" bass (not in the sense of actually listening to it, of course).

 

Found this over at HFC. Nearly all the garbage words you ever wanted to know:

http://www.integracoustics.com/MUG/MUG/bbs/stereophile_audio-glossary.html

 

OK, but that's not in the same ballspark as RG.

Since I don't have a Hi-Fi sytem at the mo', I am reduced to reading Hi-Fi+.

I find little phrases such as "..the sheer fact.." outstandingly annoying. It's either a fact, or it isn't. When does a fact become a sheer one?

The guy has no idea how to write coherently.

 

In Belfast, people used to talk about "the true facts". For a long time, I wondered as to the identity of false facts, but that was before I came to know anything about hi-fi or politicians, the art of the false fact being brought to perfection by the current US Administration. The Australian expression, "What do you think this is, bush week?" (meaning, "You're trying to con me and I'm not buying it") has taken on a whole new meaning.