Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/13/25 1:31 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-03-13, Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> wrote:
 

Oh, the third speaker was center, L+R, and relative gain carefully
adjusted for optimum imaging.  The center speaker was the one I
used for the yearly candle-puffing ceremony.  The kick drum on
Chicago's "Saturday in the Park" would puff out a small candle
placed just in front of the woofer cone.

 Inspired by an article in a hi-fi magazine, a friend bought a
third speaker and we hooked it across the hot terminals of the
other two, so it got a L-R signal.  We put it behind us, and got
all sorts of interesting effects.  The Poco album "Crazy Eyes"
had a note on the cover: "Some banjo and dobro tracks may cancel
if played in mono."  On our three-speaker setup, the banjo walked
right around behind us.

   Ha Ha ... all sorts of sensory-deception tricks
   are possible.
   But, remember the huge "quadraphonic" sales BS in
   the 70s/80s ? I think "Quadraphrenia" was named
   for it.
   It NEVER lived up to the hype - just More Expensive.
   Have a good CD of an R.E.M. album that, one song,
   features the sound of a manual typewriter at the
   start. On good, magneplanar, speakers the
   realism was just CONVINCING to the extreme,
   almost shocking.
   Alas those speakers used a cheap glue to stick
   the wires to the plastic membranes - and the
   glue eventually FAILS. NOT good. Did find a
   "how to fix" tutorial, but it's EXTENSIVE work.
   Moved to Vandersteens for awhile, then kinda
   lost interest in ultra-hi-fi. Besides, my
   penchants for magnum pistols and motorcycles
   kinda degraded the old eardrums. Was 20->24000
   in my youth (flyback transformer noise was
   nasty) but no more.