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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 14:34:23 GMT -6
Sounds: great !
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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 14:30:11 GMT -6
Nah, that’s Johnkenn !
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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 10:08:23 GMT -6
I think what gets confused is the question of what is getting measured and what do you hear? Do we hear how us being somewhere in front of the speakers affects what we hear? How, what is the amplitude of some frequencies that bounce off us, interact with the room and then somehow get back to our ears and what about the delay ? It seems to me this would be negligible and likely not very audible. Whereas the modified sound coming out of the monitors if correcting for the room and monitors is most linear and we hear that first, most audibly. Let’s not even raise the issue of exactly how symmetrical our respective body masses are and would we then need to do separate l/r passes to be accurate ? I remove the chair and get out of the measurement’s way !
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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 8:59:48 GMT -6
You are trying for truest measurements so minimizing needless reflections: anomalies, I lose the chair.
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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 8:57:30 GMT -6
Not so bad, a few extra pieces of paperwork, shippers don’t care, just do the paperwork!
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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 8:55:51 GMT -6
Vivre, l’achte internationale libre !
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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 8:53:29 GMT -6
I haven’t heard Core, but they idea that they are a big step up from lyd48s, is impressive and intriguing: lucky you guys !
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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 8:00:01 GMT -6
myusaddress.ca/This let’s peeps have a legal us address so you can ship stuff to it. I live close to border so I go pick it up and import it myself to save fees, but they do customs and mail it north, meaning to canada but there are extra fees
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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 5:14:17 GMT -6
Btw I have a Myusaddress and it ships to canada, so I asked if they would ship to France: I’ll let you know.
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Post by kcatthedog on May 4, 2024 5:09:21 GMT -6
Happy to but am not in states. They do have to fill out customs doc, did you offer to pay a little more for their time?
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Post by kcatthedog on May 3, 2024 6:51:34 GMT -6
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Post by kcatthedog on May 3, 2024 6:12:04 GMT -6
Enjoy your investment!
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Post by kcatthedog on May 3, 2024 5:40:28 GMT -6
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Post by kcatthedog on May 3, 2024 4:42:24 GMT -6
In this world three things are certain: death, taxes, and all UAD threads being devolving into people bitching about this and that. Complaints about support, or lack of support, are legit. I guess I’ve been really lucky because I’ve only ever had to submit one ticket over several years, and the experience was fine. I really don’t get the complaining about plugins getting cheaper over time. But I also don’t understand why anyone would have ever paid full price for a plugin or even have bought it at the intro price when you know it’s going to be on sale for a lot less if you just wait. I’m surprised nobody has complained about the “underpowered” SHARC chips that work great and manage to power sessions full of UAD plugins for me on a regular basis. My experience with UA has been great. I love the hardware, I love the plugins, I love the workflow, and I’ve felt like the prices have been fair as long as you wait for sales. Lots of people feel differently, and luckily there are a gazillion other options available. So, what part of Quint’s example, UA charging one client $1-1,000’s more for fewer plug ins do you agree with ?
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Post by kcatthedog on May 3, 2024 4:40:07 GMT -6
If I could also add some nuance to this discussion... Forgetting for a moment about who paid what for what plugins back in the day or whom is loyal to whom, I think a distinction can be made purely on what existing customers were being asked to pay NOW for future purchases versus that which new customers were being asked to pay NOW for future purchases. As an example, here somewhat recently (last year sometime), brand new customers were being offered to purchase U10 (or U11 or whatever it was at the time) for like $999. I on the other hand owned roughly 90% (~100 plugins) of the plugins in U10 (or U11 or whatever it was at the time), and you know what UA was offering me as an upgrade price to "complete the U10" bundle and purchase the remaining 15 or so plugins I didn't already own? $999. So I paid what I paid back in the day and I honestly don't care if people are getting cheaper prices now, compared to what I paid in the past. I think you and I more or less agree there. However, for FUTURE purchases, I don't think it's unreasonable for an old customer to expect to be able to pay at least the SAME per-plugin price as everyone else, whether they be new, old, or otherwise. If a new customer is paying roughly $10 per plugin on a purchase today, why am I being asked to pay $60 per plugin for a purchase I'm also making today? How does that make sense? And you know what, UA ultimately caved because they knew it was bullshit. UA handled this whole situation poorly, and created a lot of ill will among some older customers. UA is not going to get much credit for doing something that they only did because enough people complained about it. Maybe next time UA should lead with such offers to older customers instead of pissing them off with a "let them eat cake" attitude. ^^This^^ Quint, I stopped participating at UA forum so wasn’t aware that UA ‘caved’, what was its final offer ?
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Post by kcatthedog on May 2, 2024 14:24:25 GMT -6
I don’t get you either: at all. Think you are trying to deflect my car point, which is an obvious example of deliberate purchase price inequality.
When UA decided to let people who had paid maybe $100, buy Ultimate 11 for under 2 grand, it could easily have offered the rest of its much more heavily invested clients, some kind of equivalent savings but didn’t and only offers them , a couple of year’s later, the opportunity to pay even more money.
We will not reconcile our differences of opinion about this.
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Post by kcatthedog on May 2, 2024 13:52:28 GMT -6
-(Grumpy old men wave fists at sky) “UA plugins are too damn expensive!” -UA blows out their entire catalog for pennies- -(Grumpy old men piss into the wind) “UA plugins are too damn cheap now!” 😂 you can’t make this stuff up. You can’t be bitter that 10-15 year old software is cheaper than when it came out. They’re probably about to come out with something new as well more than likely. 😂 Not bitter about that at all, what struck me as grossly unfair was ua letting the least invested clients get the very best price. So, next time you buy a car from the regular dealership you have been supporting for years, and the young guy beside you tells you he just bought an even better car than yours at about 70-80% less than you paid, ah you’ll be fine with that: right ?
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Post by kcatthedog on May 2, 2024 11:43:20 GMT -6
Yes, I’ve seen them on sale and also on private sale from time to time.
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Post by kcatthedog on May 1, 2024 17:01:17 GMT -6
You might want to post at ua forum too, as it runs ua plugs as well.
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Post by kcatthedog on May 1, 2024 17:00:28 GMT -6
That’s a great deal! Good luck.
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Post by kcatthedog on May 1, 2024 9:24:23 GMT -6
I had a pair of the ribbons and upgraded the transformers.
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Post by kcatthedog on May 1, 2024 5:26:19 GMT -6
Interesting: enjoy the ride!
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Post by kcatthedog on Apr 30, 2024 17:45:45 GMT -6
Great stuff !
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Post by kcatthedog on Apr 30, 2024 17:33:52 GMT -6
Nice!
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Post by kcatthedog on Apr 30, 2024 17:33:05 GMT -6
I do a lot of training on my road bike: follow an annual training plan: blah blah. Luv to listen to tunes! Recently been listening to Soundgarden, Audioslave, while everything is great, I’m really blown away by quality of drum recordings : how did I miss this before ? Also, Steely Dan: horns: omg so tight, tight, tight, melodic and so musical !!! Where have I been ?
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