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In the Thread: Josh: My visit to Romy the Cat's Macondo
Post Subject: I kept my smile to myself..Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/1/2019
 mats wrote:
I’d like to pick up on one thing the visitor noted. 
He said Macondo was able to “dissect” the most “complex and dramatic” Bruckner. 
To me, this is a stunning achievement. In my humble attempts at resolving the most 
complex passages, all successs has translated into improved sound in less demanding music. 
   
Hmmmm, I do not know how about that. I am comfortable with the way how Macondo get stressed into large drama but I would not take the comments of my visitor with any seriousness. For him, at least form what I was able to ascertain, there is no “complexity or drama”. You know like in a Symphony Hall the Morons go over super enthusiastic applauds after any loud and bombastic passage? Josh did the same and the parent when he expressed “pleasure” was not where I wanted it to be. I uselessly very carefully monitored reaction of my visitors and I stopped to do it with Josh after 3-4 recordings, it was juts all in wrong moments. He reacted to sonic sensations but those sonic sensations had no aesthetics and ethics values for him. I felt that he in his mind was “dissecting” the sound to some very known to me reference points about which he learned in audio publications and read in audio forums. I did not detected that he even interpreted those reference points in any more or less personal way. 
 
I even played some games with him. I use very aggressively ask my visitors to criticize what they heard from Macondo. What I listen in responses is not the specific criticism of sound (even though it might be interesting as well)  but rather the level of criticism that allows very accurately to stratify a person in a hierarchy of my expectations. The very first thing Josh told me that he had not enough chest pressure from bass and event begun to tell me what frequencies Macondo was locking. I did not explain him that to understand my bass requires a lot of decupling from what audio Morons consider bass is. I have good additional 16dB that I can add at 20Hz with 1dB increment and I did proposed him. I also recommend to give you himself more time and to listing, trying to answer to himself why I do not inject more bass in the room. Then I decided to have fun and played to him one old POD recording with some “amazing bass” It is some kind of systemized crap that sound like a Godzilla is walking over a rubber boardwalk. As soon Josh heard it he said that he liked it better. I kept my smile to myself..

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