My SDAs tricked my dog!

dbaldus
dbaldus Posts: 730
edited November 2009 in The Clubhouse
I have a story to tell that I'm sure only SDA owners will truly appreciate...

Last night, I was listening to the track "Reptile" from the NIN Downward Spiral SACD on my SDA 2As. For those of you who have not heard this song, the first minute or so of the track has a bunch of industrial noises that sound like a factory machine running in the background or something like that. Well, with the SDAs, these particular sounds seem to come from a space about a foot or two to the left of the left speaker (outside of the "normal" soundstage). The funny thing is, my dog (a Siberian Husky mix) was sitting in the room with me, and as soon as those noises started she stood up, walked over and stood next to my speaker, and stared at the exact spot (in midair) that the sound seemed to be coming from.

From the look on her face, I could tell that she was definitely confused because there were sounds in front of her face with no origin. She stood there and looked at the spot in the air for the entire intro to the song and I just thought to myself, "I love my SDAs". :D

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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited November 2009
    Nice ! Dog hearing is suppose to be more sensitive than ours, no matter how loud I turn up my 1Cs my Pom will not leave the room. I think dogs like SDAs.
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  • dbaldus
    dbaldus Posts: 730
    edited November 2009
    thsmith wrote: »
    I think dogs like SDAs.

    Haha :p

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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited November 2009
    Good story


    I had my Pitbull yelping like he was trying to **** out a peach seed when i thew on some Pantera on my old SDA's and had them cranked. I guess he thought the SL2000's where on the bright side ;-) Funny stuff.



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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited November 2009
    the very SECOND you step out of my SDA sweetspot, the sounds eminate directly from the left or right speaker itself. funky that your pup kept looking into the void unless sitting in the middle. still trips my dog out too.

    what really trips him out is watching movies on the 7.1 rig. doorbell rings in the movie or someone knocking on the door which comes from a side surround speaker gets him going. especially dogs barking.

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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,202
    edited November 2009
    I was playing Pink Floyd Animals,:cool: and my dog was barking trying to find the dogs.
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  • dbaldus
    dbaldus Posts: 730
    edited November 2009
    TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »
    I was playing Pink Floyd Animals,:cool: and my dog was barking trying to find the dogs.

    Oooo... thats a good one. Definitely going to try that one out tonight!

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  • dudeinaroom
    dudeinaroom Posts: 3,609
    edited November 2009
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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,238
    edited November 2009
    thsmith wrote: »
    I think dogs like SDAs.

    Abby the Yorkie will stay up till the wee hours listening with me.

    Wes
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,140
    edited November 2009
    I love em too. I was rocking to Edger Winters "Frankenstein" on my SDA-SRS2's and I swear the helicopter synthesiser sound wraped around my head..:eek:..more than a 250 degree soundfield!!

    No mind altering drugs were used in this demonstration.

    I love to demonsrate their abilities.:cool:
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • zarrdoss
    zarrdoss Posts: 2,562
    edited November 2009
    God this album sounds freaky to me on my sda's, and good!
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