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Consumer audio: Is accurate sound overrated?
Rich Pell
The author of CNET's The Audiophiliac blog recently asked, "Who wants perfectly accurate sound?" His answer? Most headphone and speaker buyers prefer less accurate sound reproduction.
This may be the case (although he doesn't supply any real evidence to support this assertion). If so, so be it. However he doesn't stop there. He goes on to suggest that "accuracy" - in this case apparently represented by frequency response - is somehow not an important design criterion for a consumer audio product, and that, in fact, "truly accurate products don't sell."
This all ties in with the typical audiophile view that designing audio equipment is more of an art than a science. In fact, many audiophiles dismiss the idea of measurements altogether, and shudder at the thought of audio equipment being designed by mere engineers relying on measurements.
Instead, according to audiophile orthodoxy, the "best" audio equipment is designed only by audio designers with "great ears," because they "know what good sound sounds like." These are quotes by the same author in a previous post ("Can sound quality be measured?"). After all, he says, "audio is too complex to be analyzed with just numbers alone."Needless to say, most people making this claim - including "The Audiophiliac" - have little or no technical background. So it's not surprising to see similar such comments in his latest article, including "measurements have little to do with the sound of music" and "the real goal of a hi-fi is to play music and not test tones."
Of course such "audiofool" notions are easily refuted. And the author is certainly entitled to his opinion that the best path to achieving "good sound" is through subjective evaluation and the use of less-than-accurate audio reproduction equipment. But wait, there's more.
One of the underlying points the author uses to support his "accuracy isn't all that important" argument is that if all high-end headphones and speakers were designed primarily for "accuracy" they would all sound very similar. But, he says, they're "not even close." From this he appears to conclude that such products can somehow be divided up between those that are designed for accuracy and those that are designed for "good sound."
There is certainly no doubt that there are audible differences among headphones and speakers designed by different manufacturers - and even among models from the same manufacturer. These are, after all, electromechanical products that cannot hope to achieve the same level of precision and technical specs routinely found in solid-state electronics. And they are being designed using a variety of different technologies, design philosophies and materials.
So when it comes to audio transducers, the goal of "perfect accuracy" - where different properly designed products are audibly indistinguishable from one another - has yet to be achieved. So even if "accuracy" was the prime design goal in all cases - and admittedly it may not be - it's not reasonable to assume these differences would not exist. For example, which is the more accurate transducer - one with a 3-dB dip at 3 kHz or one with a 3-dB peak at the same frequency, everything else being equal?
And this brings up an even larger problem with the view that somehow such products can be divided into categories of "designed for accuracy" and "designed for good sound." Apart from the impossibility of trying to define the subjective term "good sound," there is no such thing as a "perfectly accurate" audio transducer. So the distinction becomes meaningless.
And finally there is the notion that somehow audio "accuracy" implies a certain sound quality. In fact it implies the opposite - a lack of coloration. A more accurate product will be more "transparent" in reproducing the original source. If a product designed for accuracy doesn't "sound good," then where does the "blame" lie - with the product itself, the source material, or the listener's biases?
I don't expect a comprehensible answer to that from the "Audiophiliac." But I can certainly provide an answer to his question "Who wants perfectly accurate sound?" - I do.
George Storm
I listen mainly to music that was originally generated using non-electro-acoustic sources.
So I too would like perfectly accurate sound (unless it be from the echo-affected seats in the Royal Albert Hall, in which case I would happily accept a measure of echo cancellation.
The situation could be different for "audiophiles" who do not listen to live, acoustically-generated music. I would prefer to call these people audiorasts (aka pederasts).
Unfortunately, no part of the reproduction chain is perfect, and this can easily lead to specification difficulty. For example, some of the best systems I have heard use speakers have total output acoustic power that correlates very well over the frequency range with on-axis density - but the intrinsic frequency response is not that flat; accordingly the amplifier frequency response has to be modified (with quite a fine resolution) to correct the overall response*. We are indeed degrading the amplifier to correct for the defects in the speaker - measurements of either would not look good on paper.
But the hardware is not the only problem - some "sound engineers" modify the microphone balance and even frequency response during the course of a piece of music. Even where they only do this where the featured instrumentalist is silent (i.e. in order to reduce background noise) you get a distracting change in the reproduced acoustic; but it also seems that some sound engineers think they know better than the conductors. BBC proms producers please note.
*In case anyone thinks otherwise, I am not referring here to any widely advertised system.
Cookie Jar
Being involved in instrumentation design, I was always a bit skeptical that a certain amplifier or speaker could sound better or worse than than measured results.
One day on a whim, I hooked up my distortion meters to the actual speaker terminals of my living room stereo, and I was in for a rude awakening. The distortion readings were a couple of orders higher than for a pure resistor load! Not only that, but the frequency response drooped quite significantly above about 6Khz using lamp cord.
When I tested various other power amplifiers, I found that their performance under a speaker load bore no resemblance to their performance under a resistor load.
Performance also varied wildly with the particular speaker systems used. A full range electrostatic by Quad made many amplifiers go unstable and most perform very badly. Not surprisingly, the Quad amplifier seemed unaffected by actual speaker loads.
Speaker cables did have a significant effect on frequency response and distortion.
So if ear tests don't correspond with instrument tests, you're not testing properly.
David Ashton
Well said, especially your last sentence. If guys like you investigated the "Audiofool" claims, we'd probably get the two sides closer together.
"... but the frequency response drooped quite significantly above about 6Khz using lamp cord. "
Long ago I heard a theory that the lower the resistance of the speaker cable, the better the low amplifier output impedance would dampen speaker cone resonances. Have you done any experimentation to compare 18 gauge lampcord with 12 gauge (household electrical) wire?
BTW, I cannot comment much on hearing vs measurement, I have "iron ears" caused by too loud a volume with headphones in my mis-guided youth. Those of you with kids, caution them to keep their music at a low volume.
A slogan for my above comment that might help the kids to remember:
"Preserve your golden ears for your golden years. Keep it low."
How can you be certain that you are measurung the correct things, and you know what "Accurate" really means wrt sound quality? Here are a few historic examples where listeners uncovered gaps in the measurement methodologies available at the time:
Early SS amplifiers measured better than their tube conterparts, but many audio buffs found the sound to be clearly inferior. The culprit? Very high levels of crossover distortion having high peak/average ratios. Clearly audible. THD analyzers in the day notched out the fundamental and measured the average or RMS level of the residual. Thus a favorable objective measurement of a subjectively bad amplifier. We now know to look at distortion harmonic spectra at all amplifier power output levels and can easily uncover these flaws.
Jitter is another example of an audible defect uncovered by careful listeners and widely panned by many engineers as unmeasureable and so irrelevant. It wasn't until John Meyer developed and published a measurement methodology and started to correleate jitter with defects in reproduced sound that people started to take notice.
Historically these issues have been solved by savvy engineers and trained listeners who work together to achieve a beneficial result. Sometimes the engineer/listener is the same person, sometimes not.
The use of "audiofool" terminology is deragatory and prejuducial wrt to a group of individuals that historically have been able to uncover issues with audio reproduction that the then current engineering measurement methodologies were unable to uncover.
I'm not defending green pens, mpingo discs, quantum sinks, and the like. Far from it.
I'm suggesting there is a middle ground and broad brushed dismissal of the audibility of unmeasurable differences has been an historically false position to hold.
George Storm
I pretty much agree with everything that has been written here so far...
So anything I add is intended as clarification rather than contradiction.
I think I can be certain that the things I measure are correct. On the other hand, I cannot be certain that I am measuring everything that is important. Similarly, I cannot be certain that the way I am measuring is appropriate, albeit physiological work means the situation should gradually be improving.
That was the case when crossover distortion was routinely ignored; however, the period during which accepted measurements ignored this is long gone - and audiorasts still claim that transistor amplifiers are never the equal of valve.
Known measurements that appear to be little-understood (or underused) at the present are mostly on speakers and on listeners.
Speaker issues include:
hangover, frequency-uniformity of angular distribution, and distortion (most speaker tests only measure high-level distortion - a potential mistake, particularly when organic and other so-called intelligent materials are used).
To return to "accuracy", I agree that listener tests are critical. But they need to be blind tests. The environment and performance method are also critical. For my money all tests should sporadically reference live music. The background is that the human nervous system is quite plastic, and for short-term tests people tend to prefer what they have become accustomed to. (The best counter-example was when a researcher brought a noisy change-over switch that was not connected in any way. In the absence of a difference in the sound, the difference between the "clunks" switching one way and another appeared to colour listeners' preferences.
Cookie Jar
Most published speaker measurements lie like a rug.
A speaker enclosure has 3 fundamental dimensions which will result in resonances in multiples of the half wavelength and multiples right up the audio spectrum. The Q of these resonances will typically range from 10 to 20. If one dimension is the same or a multiple of the other, the resonances are boosted. To evenly spread the peaks up the audio spectrum the fundamental dimensions of the enclosure should relate as the cube root of two.
To avoid revealing these nasty resonant peaks, speakers are typically tested with pink noise so the high Q resonances have no chance to build. Unfortunately music consists of frequencies held for significant time and the resonances will obviously color the music to the ear.
Every manufacturer wants his specs to look good. Testing realistically would significantly worsen the numbers. So most speaker and amplifier specifications are meaningless to real world performance.
So if ear tests don't correspond to instrument tests, you're not testing honestly.
Cookie Jar
Speaker and especially headphone transducers deteriorate rapidly with age due to temperature and humidity effects as well as fatigue. This deterioration doesn't have a direct relationship to original specifications or cost.
This is why a transducer that ages gracefully can sound much better to the ears than one that doesn't.
Hanging a curtain, rolling up a rug, or turning the speakers at an angle will noticably change the perceived sound in the room. A person's listening experience is subjective - measurements are not. So? The best advice I've been given is - "listen to the system, buy what you liked". Take into account that whay you heard in the padded listening room in the shop will sound different in your tiled floor living room.
Another audible flaw where the measurements had to catch up to trained ears was from the 1970's with transient intermodulation distortion (TIM or TIMD). It wasn't unil Prof. Marshall Leach (1940-2010) mathmatically defined it in 1977, tracing it to (lack of) amplifier slew rate. As he explained it to us in his EE4026 Audio Enginering class at Geogia Tech, amplifiers that have a high slew rate can still have TIMD, those that have slow slew rates *will* have it.
Three other factors come into play in the human auditory system for normal hearing people:
1) Ear canal resonance will vary greatly in both center frequency and Q: For my "guesstimating" for hearing aid and in-ear monitors (when I'm not using a probe tube mic (real ear measurement)), I use a figure of 2kHz for men & 2700 Hz for women, with a Q of 15; but varying that figure based on otoscopic examination for external auditory meatus texture. For more on this, google "Marshall Chasin"
2) You'll experience about 5% THD from the non-linear motion of the ossicular chain as it transforms tympanic membrane vibration into launching acoustic waves into the perilymph via the oval window;
3) Non-linear neural firing based on intensity, including direct stimulation of cochlear inner hair cells by the basilar membrane above 60dB HL (hearing level).
Dan Schwartz,
Editor, The Hearing Blog
George Storm
As I recollect, the Acoustical Company (among others) was using both instantaneous and continuous signal slew testing at least as far back as the design phase of the Quad 405 (early 1970s). They also tested with realistic speaker loads (in addition to the electrostatics, which might be regarded as unreasonable).
Leach was formalising what he and the more meticulous of his colleagues had been doing for some years.
Other than maybe telling you what can and can't be ignored, I'm not clear about the relevance of the auditory system to this discussion - as it's a fixed part of the chain (albeit variable from person to person). The parts I think significant are the impact of sound level (to get subjective test conditions right), and (for design purposes only) of masking (to give an indication of criticality)
George, the undamaged human auditory system is indeed quite relevant, especially when it relates to harmonic distortion, as even a well-trained ear cannot detect below 1%.
George Storm
Thank you for elaborating on my point (the relevance is what can be ignored). Shame it reads as if it is intended to be a contradiction (especially as many authors treat inability to hear harmonic distortion as an aspect of masking).
As a side-issue: the physical ear is a multi-resonant system. Nevertheless, we perceive difference tones similar to those produced by second-order intermodulation. So we can live with moderate levels of 2nd-order intermods. But 3rd order can be excruciating. Have you seen a decent explanation?
George Storm
P.S. For what it is worth...Langford Smith's team were able to detect 0.75%. My recollection is that other workers were able to demonstrate about 0.3% under the most "favourable" conditions; however, this could be a mis-remembering as I don't have easy access to check chapter and verse.
Cookie Jar
I once attended a course on studio recording at a well known recording studio.
I was appalled as to what was taught about "equalizing" the sound. The teacher tweaked every knob on each parametric equalizer for each sound channel for maximum "punch" to what I would call piercing. Monitoring was done at deafening sound levels. We were informed that this was standard studio recording practice.
This "equalizing" process was then repeated when it came time to make the master CD by another expert in this field.
It would appear that to earn his keep, a recording engineer is expected to adjust every single knob on his mixing board.
It's small wonder that so many recordings sound terrible when played on good audio equipment. How can one possibly judge the sound of an audio system when the the frequency and phase response of most sound sources has been so messed up?
Thank you. That is my biggest issue with the whole music industry. As they get more 'toys' to play with, they simply cannot leave well enough alone. People regularly condemn the 'sound' of Compact Disc, but if you have ever listened to a well produced CD, they are simply amazing. Unfortunately, well produced CDs always have been rare, and the situation has only gotten worse.
This post made me chuckle. A few years back I was in the studio recording music for a product. The "Engineer" on the board was constantly messing about with every knob on the "board". After a day of this I asked him to stop messing with things and leave everything "flat" while recording. He patently refused saying "This is what I get paid for". I just couldn't get him to understand that this was not the way to do things. I read once that Barbra Streisand would do "final mixing" WHILE THE GROOVES WERE BEING CUT in the master record. So much for RIAA, huh?
And don't forget that loud sounds are perceived differently due to direct stimulation of the stiff, less-frequency-selective inner hair cells by the basilar membrane, as opposed to softer sounds which are only detected by the softer, more selective outer hair cells~
Walter Schoombie
The audio world is full of snake oil salesman. The worst I ever saw was cover plates for electrical outlets in the wall - this wa said to improve the quality of the sound in the room.
At least some people in the audio world has their heads screwed on correctly -
Check Peter Aczel's website www.theaudiocritic.com and read his older magazine articles on double blind audio testing and the influence of level differences of more than 3dB.
George Storm
What about stickers to improve CD sound? But these "obvious" ones don't generally catch too many people.
Contrast this with "oxygen-free", "single-crystal" and "linear-dielectric" speaker cables, that continue to be highly-rated by some "hi-fi" magazines. Unless the cable has some serious flaw (break-down, mechanical weakness), adequately low resistance, inductance, and (for marginally-designed amplifiers) capacitance are all that matter.
Refresher: Inductance increases as the conductor spacing is increased, while capacitance increases as the spacing is decreased (and/or, of course as the dielectric constant ε is increased)
(Conductor spacing is a common trade-off in overhead high voltage transmission lines)
I enjoy these conversations regarding "proper sound", "accurate", etc. I live a life of "dichotomy" with these things. I design and build my own line of guitar effects and amps. You can go though all the calculations, do everything "right" and then when all is said and done listen to it. Not always is the "correct" thing the "best sounding thing" (argued forever). I have both SS and tube amps. The SS amps are wonderfully convenient and portable. However, I prefer the sound of a tube amp (for guitar mind you). Given a "clean" SS vs. a tube I prefer tubes.
I've been listening to a lot of "live" band recordings lately and have noticed something. I will say I am "guilty" of this as well. When I record if there is a "silent period" it is not uncommon to edit it for "silence"; that is select the silent part and "clean it up" setting it to "zero". In modern recording this is done all the time. But having re-listened to some "old analog stuff" there is something to be said for the "silent parts" where there is some "ambiance" during the "silence". It gives the passage "continuity". With modern stuff it almost "starts and stops", especially if the Engineer gets over zealous and trims to much into the "sound portion".
George Storm
Of course you want the vibration of the strings to be modified. That's just the electronic equivalent of the body of an acoustic guitar, or the horn of a saxophone; both of these filter and non-linearly distort the waveform.
Hopefully, however, you know how you want the performance to sound. The legitimate job of the recording engineer is to produce a faithful representation of the sound the artist wishes his audience to hear; if anyone is to modify the sound as heard in the venue it should be fully under the control of the artists (composer, conductor, performer.
Which reminds me of a recording sequence ca. 1963. The recording venue did not provide the acoustic desired by the composer. So the music was double-recorder using loudspeakers placed in different environments, and the composer and the engineers worked together until the composer was satisfied with the dynamics, resonance, and balance. The CD reissue (which closely recreates the original LP) remains a classic.
(I still have reservations about nearly all stereo sound produced via multi-miking, but that's yet another can of worms)
Cookie Jar
There's a renascence in vinyl recordings these days because many people say they sound so much better than CDs. What is it that is better - more noise, clicks, rumble, more distortion and poorer frequency response from this technically decrepit mechanical system?
Most studio recordings, because of their wild and piercing "equalization" settings have to tame things back down when cutting a disk so the stylus doesn't get launched out of the overlapping grooves. So yes, vinyl does sound more mellow, not because of the vinyl but because of the half deaf sound engineers "equalization".
A good demonstration of how bad the studios are is the sound of a "boom car". It goes BOOM tch tch BOOM tch tch. The tch tch is the energy in the 2Kz to 6Khz to give the recording punch and presence. I find in my home system I often have to turn off my sub-woofer because I don't appreciate chest compressions when listening to some sound sources.
So yes, the observant customer is always right even if she doesn't know the first thing about technology. It also goes to prove that most technologies can be turned into assault weapons.
Vinyl is a deeply flawed medium indeed, and I am enjoying a large collection I inherited nonetheless. Some of it (including things I've had for years) is still remarkably good and well-worth the fuss and bother. If you keep the records clean from the outset, the actual amount of wear from playing is quite small.
Some insist that the appeal of vinyl is one of antiquarian nostalgia, that somehow the clicks and pops key in the listener to bygone days. That may apply to someone, but for the most part I think it is deeply misguided. It is IN SPITE of the artifacts, not because of them, that it is still an enjoyable medium. And of course, much current pop music, as is noted, has vagaries of equalization and compression that are at best fashionable, at worst disgraceful. And the kids listen too loud!
The idea that people prefer inaccurate systems got a new lease on life not long ago when some professor insisted that his students liked lossy formats above lossless. This prompted Sean Olive to do controlled listening tests with trained listeners in the same age group. The results were contradictory as far as the notion advanced by Guttenberg and others: kids like accuracy too! see http://seanolive.blogspot.com/.
For information on loudspeakers and rooms, Floyd Toole's book Sound Reproduction is rapidly becoming the standard in the field. I recommend it highly.
Brad Wood
Cookie Jar
All the literature I've read recently about room acoustics simply ignores the overriding effect of the fundamental room dimensions: length, width and height. The usual thing that's mentioned about dimensions is that the longest dimension determines the lowest frequency that can be effectively reproduced.
We know that each dimension will resonate frequencies and their multiples related to the half wavelength of that dimension. How can we make sure that the resonant frequencies of all three dimensions are evenly distributed up the octaves? The magic ratio is the cube root of two 1.25992! KISS
In our house we built two rooms that follow the formula. One is our living room, full of the usual sound absorbing furniture, curtains etc. The other is a sun room with hard glass on three sides and a hardwood floor. Recordings I've made in both rooms sound great. In fact the live sun room with it's long reverb sounds fantastic - like some large concert hall.
Some of the best sounding concert halls in the world are rectangular boxes with varying reverb times. I'm willing to bet that their fundamental dimensions follow the ratio of the cube root of two.
In my opinion the main purpose of the complex and expensive sound absorbers and reflectors is to damp down resonances caused by off the cuff room dimensions.
Remember KISS.
George Storm
I'm not certain about there being a true optimum. In any event, the ratio you suggest would be rather surprising, as it results in a pair of closely-spaced (0.7%)resonances at only 5x the lowest room resonance. The traditional Fibonacci (= Golden Cuboid) ratios give resonance that are separated by at least 3% up to the 7th harmonic - and (for the same room volume) the maximum dimension can be increased by a factor of 1.57.
For large concert halls, naturally, the combination of low fundamental resonance frequency and diffraction due to hall features such as balconies makes numerical ratios pretty=much irrelevant. In this situation the harmonics in the critical frequency regions are closely spaced, and (paradoxically?) early arrival time time of first reflections becomes important. This can be achieved in many different ways, as you will see if you compare the dimensions of the "great" antique concert halls (from Grosser Musikvereinssall through Gewandhaus and Concertgebouw to Boston Symphony) with modern (or adapted) halls such as Royce the Bridgewater.
My favorite "snake oil" is the harmonic distortion in vacuum tube amplifiers: Whenever you have a tube amp you also have an impedance matching **iron core** transformer, which is also needed to keep plate voltage away from the output terminals. Because of hysteresis, the transformer I/O curve is NOT linear: Instead, the output is the convolution of the input current and the hysteresis curve (envelope).
Knowledge of EM in general and hysteresis in particlar is also how I separate out the men from the boys (& other pretenders) in the EE profession…
Dan Schwartz,
Editor, The Hearing Blog
Very interesting and informative discussion. As some have pointed out, and I believe most agree, is that much of the problem is with the source material.
I'm a retired engineer that's seen a lot of change over time and expect to see much more.
With sufficient processing power, and as much historical information we can dig up at our disposal, we should be able to recreate a model of the original performance. We could identify instruments, including the human voice, their locations and also some dynamics of recording environment.
With a rich descriptive language we should be able to transcribe the performances with any and all perceptible nuances. From there we could regenerate the performance.
While all of you possible sound engineers hark away at ear canal resonance, amp slew rate, mathematical dimensions of listening room and such esoteric funda, for the average listener who is a million mile away from such facts, what he likes when he hears is what matters. How in the world would one know how a royal philharmonic would sound when buying a CD. All that matters for one is how he likes when it plays on the device. So I would rather side with Audiofools saying accuracy matters but not at the expense of good sound which is the subjective part. Ironically people are willing to trade the latter for the former, go figure.
I don't know- you can have music played over $100,000 speakers with gold cables Vs a $1000 speaker with plain copper cables but one would be a fool to argue that the former is guaranteed to sound better.
George Storm
As a live acoustic music and accuracy git myself, I would not argue with your priorities.
However, in my opinion you've confused the behaviour of some of the groups. There are in my opinion several major groups of purchasers - e.g.:
i) Those who are deaf to the blandishment of snake-oil salesmen, who trust only their own ears, and are wise enough to use a wide range of listening material when selecting systems.
ii) Those who belong to the first group, but also believe accuracy helps make things sound better, and that measurements are a means to this end.
iii) Those who think only the ears count, but happily use highly-distorted starting material to make their judgements.
iv) Those who think they only accept the evidence of their ears but are influenced by snake-oil salesmen; and
v) Those who will accept any received "wisdom" without making personal checks.
I have no argument with members of the first two groups - albeit the effects of sound level, and human suggestibility (or overcompensation for the latter) mean that it is extremely difficult to be a member of the second (unless you have loads of friends with appropriate systems who will loan them for a week at a time).
The "distorted material" group is likely to be disappointed when they get the system home; and the other groups will generally overspend on snake oil.
Accuracy measurements do not support high-cost cabling. Both measurements and blind listening tests suggest that only resistance and inductance are important. I probably go further than most, as I use standard "twin and earth" mains cable for speaker connections. Conductor area and number of paralleled cables depend on distance.
George Storm
"to be a member of the second" should have read "unless you are a member of the second"
Re: Optimum room dimensions.
My research shows that the optimum ratio of room dimensions depends on the size (volume) and shape of a given room. So there is simply NOT one ratio that is always optimum.
My conclusions come from studying Oscar Bonello's work from 3 decades ago. Briefly, he showed how the frequency and strength, distribution and statistics of room frequency modes form a basis for catagorizing room dimension ratios.
My article on this subject appeared around 1999 in Speaker Builder magazine (I'm not at home to specify exact date).
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Traveling Rarity Wallpapers
I woke up this morning to find a bunch of Rarity in my inbox.
I dunno if you really understand what that's like to wake up to. Maybe you had a bad day beforehoof. Maybe you didn't sleep very well because your pillow was too hot or the fan was too loud or the cat kept trying kill moths through the window. You wake up the next morning, dazed and bleary-eyed, and decide to take a shower first instead of checking your email. You get back to your terminal, not feeling very awake at all, gather your things for class, and remember that you should probably check to see if anything important happened overnight.
And then Rarity. Dozens of Rarity. Everywhere. Ponyville's (certifiably) best, most dependable pony just filling your inbox like the delicious, magical cream filling of the flakiest and softest chocolate-covered doughnut you've ever tasted. Makes your mouth water, doesn't it?
So. Um. This pony, you see, he took a bunch of wallpapers and added Rarity's rock traveling pose from Cute Mark Chronicles to them. Made me giggle. I just typed that as 'google'. Anyway, have a look.
119 comments:
- Canvas Wolf Doll said...
egad i love these. all that's need to complete the set is a wallpaper of rarity finally at the rock.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:02 PM
- Gadvac said...
/rarity mode/ These wallpapers are absolutely divine! /end rarity mode/
Pfft, love 'em. - August 26, 2011 at 10:02 PM
- ninto55 said...
Hmm, these are funny, but I'm more of a Fluttershy guy myself :P Thanks for keeping me up another hour, goodnight guys.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:03 PM
- Mew said...
Well that was different but awesome at the same time. Great WallPapers gonna stick with my Luna one though.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- Bennimarru said...
@Bajar Just use a Auto Changing Wallpaper program like me, then you can use all of your wallpapers!
- August 26, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- a12f0f98-ccfb-11e0-b0d6-000bcdcb471e said...
I can't stop laughing!
I wanted a pony wall paper that wasn't too obvious it was MLP (let's just put it as undercover brony) and I think I may have just found 'em! - August 26, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- David said...
This is probably the best EQD post to date, if not the best thing ever.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Trollestia said...
Oh lord i laughed. It fits perfectly. Also Dashes annoyed face in the first picture is hillarious.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Gypsy said...
ahhaha ive been expecting this for quite awhile now, i was wondering when someone was gunna do this
- August 26, 2011 at 10:08 PM
- GreatSnapper said...
That made me giggle in a not-at-all-manly fashion. I mean like a little girl would giggle.
Also,how have I never read a Raridash fic? Do they not exist or something? Someone recommend one quick, that picture demands context. It's adorable. - August 26, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Andrew said...
The last two, the foggy one, and the one with a village on a lake or whatever with Rarity on a dock/bridge were the best ones in my opinion.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Vanner said...
For those of you that don't follow Ponibooru, this meme has hit the image board like a tidal wave.
She's gone everywhere from Green Hill Zone to Lon-Lon ranch. Look for the tag Rariquest if you're interested. - August 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM
- joetraincool said...
This is too funny. Kudos to the creator of this album.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM
- solobutterfly said...
I say add about 5 more images and then they will will be ready to go into a looped slideshow with catchy music. - August 26, 2011 at 10:15 PM
- Laurence Brown said...
My initial thought was, oh great, more Rarity love from Cereal. And then I clicked on 'read more'...
Excellent stuff! Each one was just a little bit funnier than the one before it, especially if you think of them as being taken sequentially. Thanks for sharing Cereal, and I shall doubt you no more! (Even though I still prefer Twilight Sparkle. Love and tolerate and all that other jazz, neh?) - August 26, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Stormcloud said...
One the bright side, she gets to visit a lot of cool places. The bad thing is, she'll have to find her own way back to Ponyville.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Cody said...
Oh wow.
My feet are hurting just thinking how her hooves are dragging on the ground like that. - August 26, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Laurence Brown said...
Also, the seventh one down....
The horn dragged her to a different WORLD!! - August 26, 2011 at 10:19 PM
- ImperialAlicorn said...
Awesome job creator. Made me lol for several minutes.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:21 PM
- D. Shadows said...
I don't know about anyone but her hooves have got to be killing her and ridiculously hot by now considering they've been dragging on the asphalt.
Also Rainbow doesn't look very happy with having her hair and tail braided, not to mention having lipstick on her face. - August 26, 2011 at 10:25 PM
- Autumn Wind said...
Okay, that just made my day. Seriously. I haven't laughed this hard in a few weeks.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- Brian Johnson said...
I've been all around this great world, even to another, but I ne'er saw a lick of it, being attracted to a boulder. (slant rhymes, "~Yay.")
- August 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM
- Cátsy said...
What? no STONE HENGE or Obelisk or ANYTHING?! This is incomplete! fabulous nonetheless, but still incomplete!
The one with her being dragged through the field of flowers gave me the giggles XD - August 26, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- RobotButterfly said...
(excuse me)
(Applejack is the most dependable of ponies) - August 26, 2011 at 10:49 PM
- Corkiepie said...
no. 14 is at Stourhead. Funnily enough, the backdrop for the "Amaving horse" video is also Stourhead. If that was intentional, kudos.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:54 PM
- Whistle-tall said...
It all seems too unreal... *Flashback to my frontyard, age 11* Magical creatureth must exist, but everyone sayth there's no proof- *Filly Rarity had fallen asleep at that point, and didn't notice me see her get dragged down the street* ...holy cow... *Flash forward to present day* ...Did you all get to see that too? Did you notice my lisp? That's embarrassing, still, that's one less memory repressed!
- August 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM
- MedicShy said...
Lisps are a thing to be taken seriously. Don't treat them and you'll end up like Twist, alone and abandoned by her only friend. - August 26, 2011 at 11:20 PM
- Octavia said...
Oh, Lmao. These are priceless. I concur with what someone said above: Rarityquest! These are simply awesome.
- August 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM
- Shadow Dragon said...
This should become a meme. In fact, someone needs to do this with Rarity going through famous video game or movie/tv environments. I would love to see a pic of Rarity gliding across the Capital Wasteland or Rapture.
- August 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM
- Spiral said...
I would really like to see a video like this... Kind of like the Space Ghost: CTC episode where he follows an ant for 10+ minutes.
- August 26, 2011 at 11:28 PM
- TGPFluttershy said...
What a beautiful post. Even if some of those backgrounds look like a collection of shopped Windows wallpaper, I still love the diversity, the colors and the mood of each background.
I find Rarity to be a..."glamorous" enhancement to these photos.
(Why is she becoming a favorite of mine now...?) - August 26, 2011 at 11:31 PM
- Destroyka777 said...
Daaaawwww! Rainbow Dash looks so cuuuttte! all purtied up and pissed of lookin', lol
- August 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM
- James Corck said...
If only I had that dynamic wallpaper changing thing I've seen lately ;.; I guess it's the price to pay for a OS that doesn't glitch Freehand, eh?
- August 26, 2011 at 11:57 PM
- Magmarrax said...
You shoulda called the article "Rarity's Grand Day Out". It's good to see Rarity getting some <3 though :3
- August 27, 2011 at 12:06 AM
- Fallin' Winter said...
I want to see them remake the chef boyardee commercial with filly Rarity. I know they did it with a rolling Pinky, but this would still bring a smile to my face.
- August 27, 2011 at 12:08 AM
- Luna said...
The dramatic tale of Rarity as she travels around the world, searching for a purpose. Lead only by her horn, what events await her? What adventures will she find?
What does the future hold for her? - August 27, 2011 at 12:11 AM
- Shannon said...
You know, once I get my computer back, Rarity is going on a tour of Atlanta. And it will be glorious.
- August 27, 2011 at 12:15 AM
- Whistle-tall said...
@Medicshy I had a lisp when I was younger, I've gone threw all the treatment, and no longer have it. However, because I had a lisp during the time the flashback was displaying, it makes sense that I lisped in the flashback.
Also, thanks for caring. =D - August 27, 2011 at 12:17 AM
- Cyber.Kuriboh said...
This is amazing on slideshow. I wouldnt have just one static for my background but this....this is just too great for words.
- August 27, 2011 at 12:24 AM
- T'laren said...
Okay, I have to admit, this is dang clever. I'm impressed!
- August 27, 2011 at 1:00 AM
- Lupuleasa Ionut said...
Hey all, I'm the brony who edited the wallpapers.
I wanted to know if you guys like it 'cuz I might make some more. The original Reddit thread is here
It wasn't that hard to make. All of these walls are from wallbase.cc and I think you will see more.
Glad you liked it. - August 27, 2011 at 1:54 AM
- showmetheblueprints said...
That is exactly what I thought when I realized how exploitable this is. :D - August 27, 2011 at 1:58 AM
- B-Man said...
Hehe. This is funny/cute.
Also, all of those landscapes are freaking gorgeous! I think #2 most reminded me of the original scene. - August 27, 2011 at 2:50 AM
- K•man said...
Switched to this tab only to gag on my coffee laughing... -_- - August 27, 2011 at 3:56 AM
- Anonymous said...
After ten years with just a black screen as my wallpaper, I think it's finally time to change that to a slideshow of awesomeness.
- August 27, 2011 at 4:51 AM
- John said...
Now I want to see an animation of this with "Surrender" by Cheap Trick playing, a la Conan O'Brien.
- August 27, 2011 at 5:04 AM
- Solar Flair said...
@Tekaramity Just... total agreement Tek. *brohoof*
It strongly reminds me of this one thing I saw of Mario once. Ah, found it! http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/339397 (The view was weird and tiny, expanding it fixed it.) - August 27, 2011 at 5:06 AM
- Ekevoo said...
For the first time in weeks my wallpaper isn't by Moe. Incredible.
- August 27, 2011 at 5:12 AM
- Firleycat said...
Wow, Unicorn magic can be a dick when it wants to be. Either that or it takes "You need to get out more" way too seriously.
- August 27, 2011 at 5:38 AM
- Ewyndall said...
Traveling Rarity wallapers? Thewhatnow?
*scrolls down*
ROFL XDDDD I laughed so hard xD
I'm so gonna use these, love 'em :D - August 27, 2011 at 6:01 AM
- Icehawk said...
Saw these on ponibooru the other day, very awesome meme and so simple an idea that I am surprised it wasn't done before this.
- August 27, 2011 at 6:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
Have a ZIP with all these wallpapers plus the ones posted by m8myself in the reddit thread:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tf2yhgq22dvv519 - August 27, 2011 at 6:17 AM
- Wierdplatformer said...
I'm sorry, the wallpapers are cool, but that Rainbow Dash picture is one of the best I've ever seen. XD
- August 27, 2011 at 6:29 AM
- Mike said...
Does this mean that we can submit art to poonibooru with out it getting pushed back pages and pages because of this forced meme?
- August 27, 2011 at 9:14 AM
- Namefag Anon said...
>Cute Mark Chronicles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmFN9C9PVpg - August 27, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- The Dread Pirate Roberts said...
I sense another version of "Brodyquest" incoming...
- August 27, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- ElectricZoNe said...
These are awesome. I have them in a cycling loop in my background.
- August 27, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- Sotha said...
Wow. Green really isn't her colour.
That being said, these are great pictures, with a hilarious concept. - August 28, 2011 at 1:22 AM
- Artrageous said...
@Lupuleasa Ionut They're awesome, it's a fantastic idea and you did it well. Rarity beats out the Travelling Gnome for me, and I look forward to seeing "her DESTINY" dragging her across more landsapes.
- August 28, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- Faaiz said...
This is genius. How did anyone not come up with this sooner?
- September 2, 2011 at 2:31 AM
- 0d3eb8aa-dbf2-11e0-b870-000f20980440 said...
Great idea, I think the pictures are halarious
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Last Friday, alleged members of an Oakland gang got a very unpleasant wake-up call. In a series of early-morning raids, 200 local, state and federal police arrested at least 18 suspected members and associates of the Case Boys.
The well-coordinated strike to serve 24 search and arrest warrants targeted various sites in Oakland, Antioch, Brentwood and Pacifica.
Oakland police officials had said publicly in January that they were planning a major operation against two groups they blamed for much of the shooting and killing in Oakland -- the Case Boys and their rivals, Money Team. Members of those groups had been summoned to a Ceasefire meeting -- known as a "call-in" -- in October with law enforcement
They pretty much blew off the warning.
The shooting subsided for a couple of weeks. But then, the insanity erupted again. One Friday in January, there were four street killings within six hours that police attributed to a war between the two East Oakland groups -- one of which had merged with another group in West Oakland.
Authorities have been turning up the heat on both groups for several months. But Friday was the biggest law enforcement action so far under Ceasefire, the crime-fighting strategy that Oakland officially launched in October.
Police delivered a letter from Oakland police Chief Howard Jordan to each raid location. It said, in part, "We are all focused on individuals and groups who shoot and kill in the streets of Oakland; this is how we will be working from now on," the letter said. "You may have friends, associates, and family members who need to know that engaging in gun violence will bring this kind of special attention. If you care about them, you will share this message."
So will the targeted groups heed the warning now?
We will find out soon. If Ceasefire is effective, there will be a reduction in shootings. It can take a few cycles of call-ins to produce results, but we're talking about months, not years. Oakland has had one call-in meeting so far involving 20 alleged gang suspects.
It's not enough to just arrest people. Prosecutors have to make the cases. At least 18 people were booked on charges including suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, assault on a police officer and robbery. Authorities have not released their identities. The Alameda County district attorney is reviewing the cases and will make charging decisions Tuesday.
The hope is that the Ceasefire arrests will send a strong message to the targeted groups and help deter future shootings.
Ceasefire works on a carrot-and-stick principle. There is the warning and promise of punishment for committing future violence. But there is also an offer of help in the form of employment, drug rehabilitation, housing and other services for those who want to try to make a new start.
The strategy has led to dramatic crime reductions in cities where it was done right.
However, it is not in and of itself a long-term sustainable crime-fighting strategy. In a number of cities where Ceasefire has had success, street shootings are once again on the rise. Stockton, for instance, which tried Ceasefire in the 1990s, is embarking on its second round.
The program requires a major commitment on the part of numerous local, state and federal partners, which is impossible to sustain over the long haul.
Will Oakland gangs pay Ceasefire any mind? Only time will tell, but you can bet the raids got their attention.
Tammerlin Drummond is columnist for the Bay Area News Group. Her column runs Tuesday and Sunday. Reach her at tdrummond@bayareanewsgroup or follow her at Twitter.com/Tammerlin.


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Great Hikes: Medicine Bow Peak
We are always looking for fun mountain hikes during the hot summer months that allow for escaping the heat of the Front Range while exploring the high peaks in the Rockies and getting a great view of the surrounding countryside. Colorado has a no shortage of great mountain hikes, as one would expect. But most of them are, frankly, a lot of work.
Many of the hikes to the tops of peaks in Colorado involve walking for five to eight miles through monocultural and monotonous limber pine forests before reaching the celebrated tree line where the real fun actually begins. If you have hiked up Longs Peak (even just to Chasm Lake) you know how long you have to hike through the forest to get to the pretty areas.
We found one hike that skips past the boring parts of a lot of these ascents and gets right to the good stuff. Medicine Bow Peak in the Snowy Range near Laramie, Wyoming, offers such easy access.
Medicine Bow Peak is a 12,013 foot mountain that is the highest point in the Snowy (Medicine Bow) Range. It's a rugged mountain that stands above a stunning landscape of frozen alpine lakes and lush meadows scattered across the summit of this lovely mountain range.
The hike to the top of the peak begins not far off of Wyoming Hwy 130, an easy cruise for a non-4wd enhanced sedan. Look for the Libby Lake sign about 40 miles west of Laramie. Continue down this dirt road to the Lewis Lake area – this is where the actual trailhead is. The summit of the peak is only 2 miles from the trailhead!
The entirely-above-tree-line trail to the peak winds around several ponds before climbing up to a saddle between the two lakes below the peak. It then switchbacks its way up the summit ridge on a well-designed trail that climbs through a large talus field reaching right up to the summit.
Even this late into the year (August 1) snowfields still blocked the trail in areas. We had to hike across the snow, looking for the continuation of the trail on the far side.
Once on the summit ridge, it's an easy hike to the highest point of the peak. The summit is marked by an arrangement of rock slabs creating a large cairn of sorts. From this spot, long views are available. We were able to see into Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado as well as far up the Laramie Range to close to Casper, Wyoming.
Due to all the late-melting snowfields, we found an abundance of mosquitoes. They weren't a problem as long as we kept moving, but they would swarm whenever we stopped. Oddly, they were present even on the summit. I guess that's what we get for having a beautiful, sunny, and calm day to enjoy.
Check out the Snowy Range sometime whenever you get tired of the crowds on Mt Audubon and Grays & Torreys Peaks. I'm sure you'll gain a newfound respect for Wyoming and it's lack of 14er checklist fanatics.
Check out the SummitPost page on Medicine Bow Peak for more detailed information.


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