Pics ‘From the Listening Position’

[Edmund-of-Essex]

The evidence before the court is incontrovertible. There’s no need for the jury to retire.
In all my years of judging, I have never heard before Of someone more deserving of the full penalty of law. The way you made them suffer, your exquisite wife and mother. Fills me with the urge to defecate (go on, Judge, sh_t on him!) Since my friend you have revealed your deepest fear - I sentence you to be exposed before your peers.

Tear down the wall
Tear down the wall!

Tear down the wall!
Tear down the wall!

Tear down the wall!
Tear down the wall!

Tear down the wall!
Tear down the wall!

Artistic Concept Credit: Pink Floyd

[Edmund-of-Essex]

All alone …

or in twos,…

the ones who really love you…

Artistic Concept Credit: Pink Floyd

[Winniethefoo]

Tourette or misfunctioning send button?

[QuickSticks]

So Edmund, is that a pair of NAP 350’s replacing the Solo 800’s?
My 350’s, driven by the DSM Classik Hub into the Linn 150’s is the best sound I’ve ever owned.

[HungryHalibut]

I’m intrigued by what on earth the artistic concept credit may mean.

[Dan360]

Wall of cardboard boxes being torn down… channelling The Wall…

[HungryHalibut]

Ah, I see. Nobody had ever knocked down a wall until Pink Floyd wrote a song about it.

[drago]

You are crazy … I love it

[daren_p]

@QuickSticks

So Edmund, is that a pair of NAP 350’s replacing the Solo 800’s?

Sure looks like it, a quick google & looks like the 350’s are a 1/5th the price, rather curious on his thoughts…

[Chalshus]

Playing Handel Messiah.

[AndyJ]

Bowie show @ the Lightroom - “You’re not alone”

Well worth going if you’re a Bowie fan.

[learningtofly]

Jethro Tull. Outstanding!

[steviebee]

Going in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to it immensely ( timed the booking to coincide with our wedding anniversary with a nice meal & cocktails after Lightroom ). For us two old Bowie fans, it’s gonna be a fab day.

[kitfit1]

Although difficult to stand on one leg playing the flute

[learningtofly]

At age 78. Decent attempt though

[nitrous]

Slightly different angle from my listening position last week at the Philharmonic Liverpool

[AndyJ]

When you go it’s worth sitting in a couple of different positions to feel different perspectives. I sat below roughly in the middle and then moved to the side, up some stairs where I faced the corner of 2 screens.

The performance is 1 hour but we stayed for 2.

I really wanted to start clapping when Rebel Rebel started but held back as audience were very well behaved. Enjoy!

[Canaryfan]

Encouraging to hear.

Seeing them in Truro next Tuesday. Lived here 40 years & don’t recall a genuine ‘big name’ coming here before.

We have lots of ‘Tribute’ bands who are, almost always, good to excellent. However, original major artists seem to mainly stop at Plymouth & are reluctant to come the additional 50 odd miles to Truro. Don’t know if this is mainly because venue can only accommodate 1200 people.

[learningtofly]

Hope you have a great night. To be fair, IA’s voice is nowhere near what it was, and the second half of the set was much stronger than the first (IMO, at least). However, as a lifelong fan I loved every minute.

[Edmund-of-Essex]

Hi @HungryHalibut

Thanks for your question and subsequent observation re Pink Floyd ‘The Wall’. I realise that PF music and lyrics can be a bit like marmite and does not always land well in a social context. Furthermore, I thought I might be taking a bit of a risk using ‘Pics ‘From the Listening Position’’ thread to post.

However, if you are OK with this, I would like to provide a lot more context for everyone in the ‘art’ I was trying to create:-

@Dan360 nailed it straight away as …

@Dan360

Wall of cardboard boxes being torn down… channelling The Wall…

However there is a deeper set of meanings that could be drawn from these postings…

Level 1: For those interested an AI or ‘Lyrics meaning’ search should provide the simple analysis.

Level 2a: The reference to the (Scottish) ‘Schoolmaster’ might be reinterpreted as me misbehaving with my Linn Amplifiers (by fitting short LS cables <2m).

Level 2b: As some on the forum refer to NAIM as the ‘Mothership’, the reference of ‘Mother’ and the sentiments she expresses in the lyrics seemed appropriate at that level too:- ‘Why’d he ever have to leave me? Worm, your honour, let me take him home’, i.e. I should have bought NAIM in the first place.

Level 2c: The first ‘chorus’ (not included in my postings, but surely familiar to PF fans) has the line ‘Crazy, toys in the attic, I am crazy’, which neatly links the comment by @drago who perhaps realised that I needed to get the ‘Toys (HiFi boxes) in The Attic’ to construct The Wall.

Level 3: Regarding your observation…

@HungryHalibut

Nobody had ever knocked down a wall until Pink Floyd wrote a song about it.

I personally had become very frustrated with Linn Products Ltd as I have been fixing things that they should have known about (this is the third time now). So although there are many ‘walls’ that have been knocked down, this wall only contained the ‘trusted’ brands of UK ‘HiFi’.

Furthermore, as The Wall is torn down if one looks carefully - ONLY Linn boxes are in the debris. All the other brands are back in the attic.

Level 4: This one is much more tenuous. The ‘I didn’t catch your NAIM’ advert has a visual metaphor of a NAIM amplifier crashing through the floor. My thought was to take that and apply it to Linn Products Ltd such that that the empty Linn boxes, about to be used to return my amplifiers to Linn Products Ltd, could be the metaphor for expensive Linn amplifiers being rejected and replaced by more affordable NAIM as noted by @daren_p .

The ultimate hidden message could be that Linn should stick to sources, and … NAIM should stick to … Amplifiers.
Other interpretations are of course entirely reasonable.

ATB

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