On Jul 3, 2:37*pm, Mike Henry wrote:
In ,

" wrote:
"Yes yes boy," said the head, putting his cane back in the cupboard
unused. "I am fully conversant with the word 'acoustics'." To the PE
teacher standing near the door he added, "But it seems your wife
isn't, Mr Clarke."

Heh. What do you think she thought you'd meant?

I've been wondering that for 45 years. But since she had married a PE
teacher I would think she was a very stupid person.

We had a very good history teacher, very easy to talk to and get
advice from. I told him about it -- I must have showed boyish
indignation -- and he just smiled, and said something non-commital. He
seemed to be enjoying a private joke. Good bloke he was.

Bill

In article ,
Java Jive wrote:
How are you supposed to produce a sound that is good for other people
if you can't hear what they can hear?

Eh? No two people will hear exactly the same thing anyway at a 'festival'.

On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:14:49 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Java Jive wrote:
At one time, I and some friends used to frequent music, particularly
folk, festivals quite a lot, and the sound was regularly so **** poor
that we came to the conclusion that most sound-men were actually deaf,
through listening to too much loud music in their lives!

Hearing sensitivity and being able to produce a good sound balance ain't
really related.

--
*Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 at 19:37:56h +0100, David Plowman declared:

No two people will hear exactly the same thing anyway at a
'festival'.

All depends on how much recreational activities they have been engaging in,
and whether or not they are wearing ear plugs.

Should ear plugs be mandatory at these events in order to protect the
hearing of attendees?

From http://abcdigmusic.net.AU/news/mandatory-plugs

QUOTE

The recommendations include the use of warning signs at venues,
as well as mandatory distribution of ear plugs to concert go-ers.

UNQUOTE

In article , Albert Ross
scribeth thus
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:24:39 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 at 14:34:44h +0100, BugBear declared:

Highlight: "94% of DAB listeners thought DAB sound quality was at least
as good as FM;"

If one is listening on a 1 inch loudspeaker on an FM radio made in the PRC,
(with compulsory broken telescopic antenna) then it probably is difficult
to tell the difference.

Update on my DAB situation - the plumber brought round a portable DAB
set which worked, as people here suggested and proved the woman in the
local electrical shop wrong (this side of town anyway)

However it was quite unimpressive compared to a decent FM portable or
Freeview. Hard to tell if it was the signal or the tiny speaker, or of
course both. The top end sounded quite "crisp" to the extent of being
quite artifical, and the bottom end - well there wasn't one.

You .. would want too big a speaker on a DAB radio..

--
Tony Sayer

On 1 July, 19:26, "alexander.keys1"
wrote:
On 30 June, 02:41, "
wrote:

Just sent:

Hello there,

We greatly enjoyed our stay last week. We liked everything about the
place except just one thing, and that was the music system in the pub.
There’s something wrong with it. The bass just thuds relentlessly, and
it is very annoying. It’s like trying to have a quiet pint near a
large noisy machine.

I pay good money to have a pint near a

JULIAN CLARY: * "thudding machine",

when I go to diesel events on the Great Central Railway! LOL! :-)

Check this out:

http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/Events.aspx?ID=270

This is not what we expect from a grown-up
country pub. In the front room the midrange and top are more-or-less
inaudible, but the bass is there thudding away.

They should come and do a swap with some of the pubs in Leicester
then, as they all have the opposite problem of no bass and all top,
probably due to mis-connections of bi-wired cabinets. A lot of music
just doesn't work without the bass.

On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 09:01:18 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Jul 3, 2:37*pm, Mike Henry wrote:
In ,

" wrote:
"Yes yes boy," said the head, putting his cane back in the cupboard
unused. "I am fully conversant with the word 'acoustics'." To the PE
teacher standing near the door he added, "But it seems your wife
isn't, Mr Clarke."

Heh. What do you think she thought you'd meant?

I've been wondering that for 45 years. But since she had married a PE
teacher I would think she was a very stupid person.

We had one who would shout

"Hold your balls!" and could never understand why everyone always
laughed.

J G Miller wrote:
On Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 at 19:37:56h +0100, David Plowman declared:

No two people will hear exactly the same thing anyway at a
'festival'.

All depends on how much recreational activities they have been engaging in,
and whether or not they are wearing ear plugs.

Should ear plugs be mandatory at these events in order to protect the
hearing of attendees?

(chuckle) Instead of too loud music + ear plugs,
how about "right volume music?

BugBear (stating the obvious)