External speakers for the iMac?
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Bose I think has a set of speakers that can be set up to give you 'surround' sound, and the effect is awesome. If you have an Airport Extreme base station or the Airport Express (booster), you can plug in speaker systems to that as well and generally 'beam' music to all levels of your house so that you can hear it all over...truly 'surround'!
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Arun/Vijay,
If you play around with the settings in the equalizer if iTunes, even 'old' recordings can come to 'life' - and a good sound system makes it better. I connect my laptop/iPod to my TV (which actually has a very decent sound system with simulated surround) and it makes it worthwhile...esp, during the tanis - the spatial separation of the mridangam and ghaTham becomes very clear!
If you play around with the settings in the equalizer if iTunes, even 'old' recordings can come to 'life' - and a good sound system makes it better. I connect my laptop/iPod to my TV (which actually has a very decent sound system with simulated surround) and it makes it worthwhile...esp, during the tanis - the spatial separation of the mridangam and ghaTham becomes very clear!
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yes equalizer comes in very handy - use it a lot with the mp3 player in my car, but it can only go far - some of the old recordings are really not great.
But what I also find is that my "tolerance" to bad recordings is marvelously adaptive. For example while I am listening if I say finish listening to a decent concert recording, and move to one with a considerable hiss/hum (even after adjusting equalizer settings). The hum/hiss is bothersome for a few minutes only - once I get into the music, my ear simply ignores perhaps clubbing it with all the other background noise . Good thing I am not an audiophile!
Arun
But what I also find is that my "tolerance" to bad recordings is marvelously adaptive. For example while I am listening if I say finish listening to a decent concert recording, and move to one with a considerable hiss/hum (even after adjusting equalizer settings). The hum/hiss is bothersome for a few minutes only - once I get into the music, my ear simply ignores perhaps clubbing it with all the other background noise . Good thing I am not an audiophile!
Arun
Arunonce I get into the music, my ear simply ignores perhaps clubbing it with all the other background noise
I started in settings that were more humble.
We used to get top class HM relays from AIR Sangli and would tune in , after climbing on to our terrace.
Somewhere down the line, we would lose the relay , in a gradual manner- as though dissolving into the beautiful dark night- and then it would re appear slowly and softly.
But our minds would keep the raga intact - with a continuity of its own.
Monsoons would be greater fun , with the sound of Heavens crackling and thundering.
I miss them all in these hygenic studio recordings.