<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 11/01/2001 1:26:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, paia2720@yahoo.com writes:
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<BR>But most inexperienced listeners (especially those who
<BR>are really there for breeding purposes...) think that
<BR>lots of bass and blaring highs ARE high-fidelity.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Very true...or they're too busy trying to find something to breed with to pay attention to the music.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">And the music they listen to doesn't HAVE the missing
<BR>midrange anyway...</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Correct again...I was thinking about the "thump and sizzle" comment in the car today while listening to Ec8or's "We need a change" (no idea if anybody's famliar with this track, it's a relatively well-known digital hardcore track) There really IS no midrange to it at all, just gabber style bass, and thrash riffs and an air raid siren w/some cymbals on the high end.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">and their midrange hearing is BLOWN to boot (too much
<BR>thumpathumpa in the cars...)</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">My hearing just sucks period, I've got the thumpa thumpa in the car pretty much at all times, played metal for years, 6 hours a week in clubs, and 6 sets of ear tubes later, I'm sure my midrange hearing is long since shot. and that's only at age 20...I probably won't be able to hear much of anything by 40.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> Yes, the moron DJ may have had the Bass and the
<BR>> Treble cranked up. Thump and
<BR>> sizzle. He also had the speakers mounted too close
<BR>> to the floor and only the
<BR>> bass reached the back of the dance floor.
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