Trip to the Holy Land - photothread.

[bsnub]

Fucking Loadsofdata Audio Codec that's been around since the 80's too

Nope.

[taxexile]

Well you are an archaic old angry boomer, so that is not surprising. Your idea of audio is an am radio from 1959.

certainly not as fussy as i used to be. but i'm confident most people couldnt tell the difference between a £1000 headset and a £150 set if the brand name was removed.

[malmomike77]

Earphone wars - revenge of the Snub

[bsnub]

i'm confident most people couldnt tell the difference between a £1000 headset and a £150 set if the brand name was removed.

Most people being normies like yourself and the other slobbering clowns on here you align yourself with. The difference for audiophiles like myself and BB are profound. Well worth the money.

[Bettyboo]

^^ That Walkman was around before M People and the Hacienda.

Nice fillies on display there Betty, but quite disturbing the lack of alcohol on this pilgrimage.

You went to a concert only a 25 minutes drive away and endured it sober rather than pay for a taxi?

You sound like the other frugal Southerner on here

1) I've had at least two pints of IPA everyday, often 3 or 4. I'm not here to go bonkers, but alcohol is involved. On flying day, I had two small beers before the flight and 2 Greenking IPA when I got here - just wanted to stay hydrated on the flight (I was 5mg of xanax gone too; it has to be a balance... )

2) On Newmarket day, I didn't drive. I took a couple of xanax (they are .5 mg each) to get relaxed and help the beer along. I had 2 IPA pints and 3 large bottles during the races. Then I drank 4 cans of IPA when I got home.

It's not an alcohol free trip, I'm just trying to be controlled, get up early, do stuff and be nice to people.

Frugal... Northern bastard... You should have met me grandad from Sheffield - he was frugal!

[Reg Dingle]

Looks like a great little bus to the airport but was it really 3.5 hours to the airport, why not take that airport link?

If he's like the other Southerner on here and there's a few similarities when you look at the constant itemising of costs even documenting what he lost on the horses and also looking at his how this journey of sobriety started with an half hour walk, I would hazard a guess that this airport link would be priced upwards of £21.50

First, I had to be up at 4am, get ready, walk 30 minutes to Daejeon bus station for 05:10 then a 3 and a half hour ride to the airport. The ticket was about £20

[Reg Dingle]

^^ oh...
Just ignore that last post then mate

[taxexile]

Most people being normies like yourself and the other slobbering clowns on here you align yourself with. The difference for audiophiles like myself and BB are profound. Well worth the money.

snub, you are just another silly american and you like to define yourself by the expensive brands you waste your money on and show off with. like the gormless women spending fortunes on gucci bags and choo shoes. appearance is everything. same as that other compatriot of yours with his vast collection of expensive whiskeys and pruning shears. you lot know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. superficiality is your middle name. suckers for the banal marketing men that prey on your gullibility.

high end digital audio might be super clear but it doesnt sound anything like the naturally received sound that originally emanates from the instruments and larynxes of the musicians. its false. too cleaned. too sterile. all the little echoes and reverberations that subtly alter the sound waves before they reach the ears are removed. its contrived..... i.e. perfect for americans.

thats why vinyl sound is so popular. its not perfect, but its natural. but as i said, each to their own.

[Bettyboo]

Regarding audio... Some folk like it, some folk don't, and everyone has different sound ranges, ears, etc.

There's no right or wrong - if it works for you, then it's right for you.


I love music and can tell the difference. For example something like a Sony or Bose bluetooth headset is very good, but sounds lacklustre and undefined to my ears compared to the plugged in (yes, a special cable and 4mm balanced connector...) Shure SE846 in-ear headphones. I also have an iPhone and bluetooth Beats buds with noise cancelling, and going from the Sony/Shure music setup to the iphone/beats fashion item is painful; a huge difference.

Many discussions on the file formats, and it depends on the recording source, the mastering and then the final coding (the three options you see printed on a CD: AAD, ADD and DDD). So, a bad FLAC file is no better than a good MP3 file. But, a good FLAC file gives you a sound stage, instrument definition and nuances, range and frequency that is hugely superior to a good mp3 file.

I'd use the iPhone/beats at the gym; that's fine as I'm not focusing on the music, it's just background beat...

Active noise cancelling has developed a lot, some people love it - I don't have an opinion on it. Passive well fitting in-ear buds work perfectly for me; I cannot hear the engine with them in whether the music is turned on or not. The trick is a proper fit and comfort over hours. I don't have to worry about the battery running out on my in-ear passive buds which I see as a big positive.

The Sony player is f'kin good. No doubt you can find better.

The Shure headphones are f'kin good. No doubt you can find better.

Again, if a phone with bluetooth headphones works for you - that's great; I'm not saying my setup is superior for you or anyone, but it works for me.


BTW, I used to have an expensive home system: Nakamichi casette deck, Arcam CD player, Naim amp and EPOS ES11 speakers. Set up well with a perfect seating/listening chair, this blows my Sony/Shure setup (and every other possible headphone setup) out of the water, so it's all a matter of perspective.

[Bettyboo]

If he's like the other Southerner on here and there's a few similarities when you look at the constant itemising of costs even documenting what he lost on the horses and also looking at his how this journey of sobriety started with an half hour walk, I would hazard a guess that this airport link would be priced upwards of £21.50

Right... BC and RD:

You CANNOT get a train from Daejeon to Incheon, same day, to get a flight before midday. There used to be one, very convenient, but it stopped about 4 years ago. You can get a train to Seoul then change to the airport link. 1) You wouldn't save any time over the bus. 2) The trains don't start early enough to get you to Incheon for a 10am checkin. It means an overnight stay in Incheon, but it's piss boring. Sometimes, you can have a night in Seoul then just do the airport link for an early flight (depending on checkin time...), but after 10 years I find Seoul pretty f'kin boring - been there, done that.

The bus, on this occasion, was the best option. I prefer the train, and usually take it, but for later checkins.

Any more grumbling from you fukers?

[Bettyboo]

Who out of you and your brother is the budding Jane Torvill?

Haha... His daughter.

[Stumpy]

same as that other compatriot of yours with his vast collection of expensive whiskeys

Funny Tax. That wreaks of jealously. Usually people who whinge about what others have wish they could. But as you say...to each his own.

[Bettyboo]

BB,

Dropping a load on an airplane has to be awful. All my years flying both domestic and global I have never taken a shit on an airplane. Honestly though, sitting for hours on end and eating loads of food seems like a bad idea, especially crap food.

On long flights walk around and then go stand around and chat with the stewardesses enjoying a drink.

However, we all travel different. Never taken Xanax on a flight.

An interesting topic...

The 777 toilets at the back of the plane are so narrow and weirdly shaped that it's bloody hard to wipe your arse! But, the Koreans all rush to the loo after each meal to brush their teeth and redo their hair (they actually walk around the airplane brushing their teeth - I've never seen this on a plane before), so I like to beat them all to it (I got the back seat which gets food first...) and do a huge smelly dump. The Koreans can then enjoy that while brushing their teeth - little pleasures...

[Bettyboo]

bb


it's an excellent travel thread, although i would question your need, obsession actually, for £2000 worth of audio equipment merely to mollify you for the flight. each to their own i suppose.

bb


which was pretty much the point i made in my post.

enjoy your trip to the holy land, are you red sea pedestrian by any chance?

....

Thanks, tax - I always enjoy other posters' travel threads, so like to put some up from time to time.

The audio thing is longstanding since I earned and travelled a lot doing international business in broadcasting back in the 90s. I had money to burn and got into the high end portable Sony machines and Shure headsets; probably been through half a dozen of each, always the price increases... I agree it's not required, but I've enjoyed it. It has also been functional because I fear flying, especially the engine noise (and screams of other passengers when we crash... ) thus well-fitting in-ears take away the engine noise, noisy children, etc, and make my flights a lot better; taking away stress.

England has good and bad. To be honest, there are some lovely places with nice people. I also quite like the North, and if I moved back might look to get a Uni job up North in a place where accom is affordable. Essex always freaks me out, maybe a bit unfair to those folks, but being from North London, I've always had a thing about East Londoner's...

[helge]

Good Grief. Seriously BB, How can one possibly eat that shit food on an airplane? I really do not know how people do it.

Yawn

We are not as posh as you

BB like myself is an audiophile, we would not expect a normie like you to understand.

Most here knows that you aren't a "normie". And several diagnosises could be in play.

Nice bit of audio kit and way above the heads of almost everyone on TD aside from you and me.

Severe inferiority complex would be my guess.

And no need to drag Betty into your problems

[Bonecollector]

Good to know about the airport link in Seoul

[Bonecollector]

We are not as posh as you

[malmomike77]

Bets - they have re-run the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown series atm - check out his Israel, Gaza and West Bank episode.

[malmomike77]

Most here knows that you aren't a "normie". And several diagnosises could be in play.

I like that he thinks most on here don't know their arse from elbow on Hi-Fi, my Thorens record deck is older than Snub

[helge]

Most people being normies like yourself and the other slobbering clowns on here you align yourself with. The difference for audiophiles like myself and BB are profound.

Keeps giving

thats why vinyl sound is so popular. its not perfect, but its natural.

Absolutely

That wreaks of jealously. Usually people who whinge about what others have wish they could.

Another yawn

It's more like you need to have TD posters praise your exellent taste and 100 dollars internet reviewed spirits.

I guess most heard you the first, second and third time.

"I can't eat this and that, cause it's too pleb".

Another inferiourity complex called

[taxexile]

Funny Tax. That wreaks of jealously. Usually people who whinge about what others have wish they could. But as you say...to each his own.

its just bemusement stumpy, neither a whinge nor jealousy. i have just about everything i need in my life, some of it cheap some of it less so, but at the end of the day i am not a big consumer but go for value over image, there are no pockets in a shroud and i jettisoned the need to impress others in my early 20's. i am not interested in what others think of me, and if they want to make judgements based on my car, my phone, my shirt or my lawn mower then so be it, but its noticeable that when you post about food, drinks, items you own, etc. you nearly always mention the brand name, and the price, often a 3 digit price.

is this some kind of insecurity issue? or perhaps you are convinced people will think less of you if you wear tesco flip flops rather than birkenstocks and that on your wall sits not a 60" tv, but a 45" tv, or fly economy rather than business or first and so on.

my advice, for what its worth, would be to work on getting some semblance of individuality, a personality perhaps rather than filling your display cabinet with geometrically arranged bottles of obscure (but probably oh so cool) bottles of turps with which to impress those who probably couldnt give a fuck.

[hallelujah]

Keeps giving


Absolutely


Another yawn

It's more like you need to have TD posters praise your exellent taste and 100 dollars internet reviewed spirits.

I guess most heard you the first, second and third time.

"I can't eat this and that, cause it's too pleb".

Another inferiourity complex called

Absolutely nobody does self-appreciation like Americans do.

[helge]

Absolutely nobody does self-appreciation like Americans do.

See what you mean, but apart from 2 or 3, the rest of our yanks seem normal in that department.

And only in that one

[Mendip]

If he's like the other Southerner on here

If you're talking about me, I've explained many times that I'm not a tightwad but there's no point in chucking it away.

I'm also not a southerner, I'm from Somerset, the South West. As a rule we dislike southerners just as much as northerners, midlanders and the Welsh.

An interesting topic...

... so I like to beat them all to it (I got the back seat which gets food first...) and do a huge smelly dump.

With an aisle seat it is easy to finish fast and then sneak back to the toilet while everyone else is still eating.

I used to have a phobia about taking a dump on a plane, but after a few hairy moments when finding nothing but engaged toilet cubicles during brief airport stopovers between longish flights, I realised that I had to do something about it.

My answer was to force myself to take a dump on every single flight I went on. Even the hour's hop between AMS and BRS would see me visit the toilet to try and push one out, whether needed or not. After a couple of years of taking, or attempting to take a dump on every single flight I went on, I was cured of the phobia and now have no problem in taking a dump on a plane when required.

[malmomike77]

After a couple of years of taking, or attempting to take a dump on every single flight I went on, I was cured of the phobia and now have no problem in taking a dump on a plane when required.

I always take great pleasure in liberating the annoying little fuk in the row in fronts toy and feeding it into the suction hole, i'd like to try that with some of the adults on board.