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  1. Yup, me too. I had The Who "Who's Next", Jimi Hendrix, Greatest Hits, Ten Years After - A Space In Time, Stone's- Let It Bleed, The Allman Brothers debut lp, and The Band - Music From The Big Pink, all stacked on my record player...I'd come home trashed, pick the stack up, flip all the records over together, put them all on the spindle, shift the steady arm over the records, hit the switch, and the first lp would drop on the spinning plater, and the tone arm would move over and automatically play the first record. When that record finished, the next record would automatically drop on the spinning previous record, and the process would repeat itself until all six records played through. Than I'd flip the whole stack over to play the other sides. I think I went a whole summer and never changed records. Those records all had to be replaced...Ahhh, the good old days😎❤️👍
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  2. I picked up on the same thing. What struck me most, though, was the intentional introduction of certain types of distortion to "improve" the pristine digital capture. To me, this is fascinating and points out how subjective our appreciation of reproduced sound really is. Someone could make a career researching what all goes in to our appreciation of reproduced sound. Why does the introduction of distortion make the result more "engaging"? Why do some "hear" the benefits of exotic cables while others "know" they can't be hearing anything because "wire is wire"? I like your last sentence that we need to, "look at any system holistically". I guess my big takeaway from the article is that we need to include our ears, brain, and personal preferences as part of that system. I love this hobby!
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  3. Damn Micro. Im glad breakfast was fully digested. And after seeing this, I think I’ll skip lunch and dinner is iffy -
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  4. Interesting article for vinyl record lovers: https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2020/10/17/hi-fi-why-do-records-sound-better-the-ivory-tower/
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  5. Well friends , while you all sleep or at least try to, I'm already awake again and enjoying my first latte macciato. The weather is mild , slightly cloudy , the sun warms this spring morning. As every morning, many birds come to our pitches where we put out birdseed to feed. We have been doing this for years and we are sure to help nature around us a little. Let's see what the day brings.
    4 points
  6. When I bought my LSII I originally had them hooked up to my solid state ATI amps with a CX-5000 preamp by Yamaha, they sounded real good. Then I started looking into tube gear and purchased a Rogue Audio Pharoah, long story short 4 years later I have upgraded to 3 complete but separate systems consisting of a Luxman CL-38uC preamp with Rogue audio Atlas Magnum II amp in one, a Rogue RP-7 pre and Rogue ST-100 amp in another, and my Pharoah. I’ve also moved up to La Scala AL5’s for my LCR. All three systems can utilize the La scalas via a Luxman AS-55 speaker selector switch. I found the Luxman paired with the Atlas for vinyl playback Devine and the RP-7 with the St-100 perfect for digital sources, as they say it’s a matter of finding the right synergy between components regardless of manufacturer. Just beware with the scalas it’s a deep rabbit hole, but when you get it right, man it’s so right.
    4 points
  7. Try the dime, then the penny cause a nickel was too much! Nice to see you admitting it! You're not a rocker w/o a dime on that tone arm! PLOWED right thru anything! 😂 😂 @MicroMarathat set-up is impressive to say the least. You don't have to throw a dime on yours!
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  8. good night together see you
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  9. My last record for tonight ..Genesis " DUKE " 1980 / German Phonogram Label
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  10. On the couch, listening to Dom Martin's, A Savage Life on Tidal now. His music is just my speed. My woman sitting to my left, "Luv, turn up the volume a bit" Even working the remote is getting to be too much work. 😀 She digs him. She does likes a Dom whispering in her ear though..
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  11. A little bit of Soft ProgRock with Barclay James Harvest´s Gone to earth " from 1977 / German Ploydor Label
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  12. So let´s see how a vinyl manufacturing is in proces
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  13. Actually, that's not as bad for the records as you'd think. Very few LPs are completely flat; that is, almost all records pressed in a plant that does mainstream records are pressed in a shape to allow for record changer use. The label area and the outer edge are raised, or you could say that the music area is lower, so that when records are stacked, the music areas between the outer edges and the labels don't contact the music areas of the LPs above and below them. The slight skid when the stationary record drops and then is accelerated to 33/45 rpm does no harm to the main part of the groove. If you ever do see a completely flat LP or maybe 10" record (I have one or two of them), it will look funny and cheap, and likely come from a little-known label, or a country whose record industry isn't part of the Western mainstream. Where the damage does come in is from the rough handling that records typically get from the music fan who may be a bit out of it at the time, and the often poor quality tonearm and often ceramic cartridge. If it was a "component system" (Oooh!), rather than the more common "suitcase/luggage style" record player found in the late Sixties/very early Seventies, that ceramic cart might upgraded to a low end moving magnet cartridge, requiring an inexpensive step-up transformer. The stylus would almost always be conical, the tracking force would be "whatever it takes", and the sight of a record brush would be a sign that you were in the presence of an audiophile, or stereo nut, whose records didn't sound as scratchy as everyone else's. EDIT: Of course, this will all be old news to many of you, so it’s more nostalgia than new info. Hope it’s not boring.
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  14. was a lot of creative work , has a special atmosphere and aura, what you can´t see is the gallery, ceiling hight is up to 220 inch , but you can´t see that from this perspective.
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  15. a little bit of JazzRock/Fusion by the drum master Billy Cobham " the best of " 1979 / A&M Records
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  16. Is this a long way of saying all the wifi and Bluetooth signals flying around my house, along with everything else from cell towers, etc. might be scrambling my brain? I say that only slightly tongue-in-cheek. I do fear all this stuff a bit, but know there is nothing I can do about it. Most technology is not created with the intention of doing harm, but the history of science is filled with cries of, "oops, I guess we were wrong about that". 😉
    3 points
  17. Is that guy digging for quarters? He appears to be wearing long pants, shoes and are those socks, yes? Not often seen in these parts. 😀
    3 points
  18. Enjoy your coffee . You can also keep moving on the couch
    3 points
  19. Haha, bending over is way overrated and does take too much energy. I'm glad you've remedied that annoyance. 👍 Though for me, getting up from the couch is an unacceptable bother, so you'll find me lazily streaming my life away on Tidal perhaps. 😀 Still enjoying my first cup of Joe here.
    3 points
  20. I read it from beginning to end What strikes me most is ? and referred to several times is that Everything has a sound or sound signature And that is what I have been saying for decades so one must look at any system holistically for best results to please your senses
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  21. Hah! I knew a guy who had a can/bottle opener (sometimes laughingly called a Church key) taped to his plastic tonearm. My LPs never got near that record player. And there was the guy who kept the LP jackets in one pile and the records in another pile. Teenagers, lol... And then there were our twenties. I had to replace many of my records from the party years.
    3 points
  22. KrautRock ! ELOY with " Colours " 1980 / EMI Electrola Label
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  23. Down to my last Spongebob car wash sponge John. Yes, that ultra machine did nice job on those collectors records you sold me. Too valuable to play so... thanks again!
    2 points
  24. You could do that although be careful with a sponge. It's like washing a car that's also your friend! (Grew up in the South!) I was taught to rinse any sediment off and wash from the top down. So knock or rinse visible sediment off first. Be careful not to drag any sediment over the lp and cause new abrasions.
    2 points
  25. btw @JohnJ love that half speed Police collection , WOW ! I´m jealous
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  26. The ultrasonic are much more expansive in europe. Tergi Kleen TM - Tergitol Concentrate seems to be a good alternative , but can I use it with my manual handwashing procedure, you´ll know what I mean with the sponge , the windowcleaner fluid and microfiber cloths or is the fluid for a Pro-Ject or Okki Nolli Vinyl Wascher ?
    2 points
  27. @MicroMara not mine anymore, things were tight, needed $ for bills and food when my co-dependency ended a year and a half ago. https://www.ultrasonicsdirect.com/ultrasonic-cleaner-sh180-6l.html $ went up of course https://thevinylstack.com/faq/ vinylstack is no more, so the spinner would have to come from somewhere else https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Archivist-TergiKleenTM-Tergitol-based-Concentrate/dp/B019YI38Z2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=TergiKleen&qid=1577886210&rnid=2941120011&s=electronics&sr=1-1 marvelous stuff right there, must be rinsed off I even pulled stuff off of brand new, right after burning the plastic with the edge on my jeans records. Only new ones I got in that period that did not have extra vinyl shavings or pieces was that Police 1/2 speed set from Abbey Road.
    2 points
  28. Got to fix what I posted about that the other day. Clicked the posters link at youtube and it gave me someone else with the name It's only been out a couple weeks @Shiva this blues-rocker is from the UK. Up for 18 lira 12 for cd at his site's store. I'll be looking out for it over here, discogs only has a placeholder page for it tonight. *
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  29. Loving that kind of rocki´n blues, not available on vinyl or cd up to now .. f y i https://www.dommart.in/?lang=de
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  30. I"m digging the Blues of Dom. Never heard him before.👍
    2 points
  31. I'm marginally more modest than that. I'd be wearing a robe or sarong Coffee, remote/s and computer w/i reach. I do need to get up to change music or volume.
    2 points
  32. Let's just say what is really going to happen here. Buy the Forte IIs. Before you even hook them up buy new crossovers and tweeters. Then three of four amps. Fast forward a year or so and he will have the Quartets and Heresys in addition to the Fortes. Then a year or so later K Horns and Cornwalls. Eventually he will need a larger house, the wife and kids will leave and he will live with his 72 pairs of speakers. But he will fit right in around here. 😁
    2 points
  33. Beautiful Room! Well done, you!!!
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  34. Google is your friend is what I used to tell everyone. Goodluck!
    2 points
  35. Starting the late afternoon with Johnny Guitar Watson´s " GiANT " 1978 / DJM Label UK
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  36. So do you think that I shall buy a Schumann Resonance Generator. Already mentioned in writing by Nikola Tesla around 1900, first discovered in 1952 by the German physicists Winfried Otto Schumann and Herbert L. König, experimentally generated in the 1960s... At any given time, circa 2,000 thunderstorms roll across the earth, producing about 50 lightning bolts per second. Each lightning bolt generates extremely low-frequency electromagnetic waves that begin to orbit the earth, trapped between the earth's surface and an electrically conductive boundary (ionosphere) about 100 km above the earth. These so-called "Schumann resonances" (e rnamed after their discoverer) are Earth-spanning and very weak, but always present. Our body has therefore been conditioned to them for thousands of years and is familiar with them. However, due to the "total mechanization" of households nowadays, these waves are more and more overlaid by the dirt of the mains frequency, WLAN as well as other radio signals. Although the mains frequency of 50 Hz, which is common in Europe, should be far enough away from the 7.83 Hz of the Schumann resonance, an FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation) shows that not only harmonics of the worst quality are present in the mains (that's why there are mains filters) - no, there are also unbalances and subharmonic distortions caused by the time of day, subharmonic distortions. These do not only cause toroidal transformers of amplifiers to hum or even metal housings to buzz sporadically. It does not require any great computational skills that the 12 ½ Hz and 6 ¼ Hz mains subharmonics virtually "squeeze" the 7.83 Hz Schumann resonance between them and cause this frequency to be strongly suppressed. The origin and distribution of these Schumann resonances - and what it actually has to do with it - can be nicely ergooglen on the Internet. Here, however, please from a reliable source and not from some esoteric- store and its "mystical" description of the waves with stunning effects on the humanon the human psyche or even the overwhelming miracle effect of a device. There are enough scientific papers that prove the existence
    2 points
  37. Why does the introduction of distortion make the result more "engaging? The earth is vibrating at multiple wavelengths and many things we currently can’t decipher ride those wavelengths Sound happens to be pretty good at riding and combining with earths natural vibration So I have theorised that human senses are tuned in to a degree, and just like turning a dial on the radio you hear hums and crackle until you tune into a station and enjoyment begins Other animals have either greater or lower capacity with differing affects on the sensitivity and range they can hear
    2 points
  38. macros are prolly my favorite. Taking a close look at things. ...
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  39. I remember seeing a guy help his buddy out one night. Someone had used speaker wire with electrical plugs on the end. Guess that plug was for his board or something. I have no idea. He was busy setting things up for the nights show. A buddy of his asked if he wanted help and the dude said to just plug that plug in for him over there. I saw this coming down but hat to watch. Yup, he plugged the plug into a wall outlet. Took a nano second to just somke everything. The dude was actually crying tearing it all down. Never saw fireworks before a show before. hahaha
    2 points
  40. Wall of sound currently in the shop. Note the 301-II's and 301-1's. Oh, and those yummy KPT-456's.
    2 points
  41. finish this small vinyl session with Ike & Tina Turner ´s " Greatest Hits " 1976 , UA Label found face 2 on youtube only ..
    2 points
  42. Two great tunes - A little 80´s synth flashback.
    2 points
  43. I never understood the desire to run multiple speakers playing the same channel signals. Yes, you can achieve higher SPL, but you are introducing other issues. Correct stereo imaging depends on the amplitude, phase/timing, and directional information coming from each channel arriving at your ear without losing that information or adding anything to it. This will allow your ear/brain system to properly process it and turn it into a stereo image in your head. In turn, this allows you to locate sounds between the speakers that are a reasonable reproduction of what was captured by the microphone or created at the mixing console. Ideally, this means there should only be one early arrival of the sound of each channel at each ear. This is one reason why people treat their rooms to eliminate the early reflections. However, when you add more speakers reproducing the same channel you are now intentionally adding multiple early arrivals at each ear. This causes confusion for the ear/brain system and can muddy or destroy the imaging. Another downside to having multiple speakers per channel is that there will be interference between them depending on the distance between them and the frequencies being reproduced (a.k.a. comb filtering). Peaks and dips can be present at different locations. If you want higher SPL, just get a more capable pair of speakers. In case you haven't guessed by now, I'd recommend just one pair of Forte II.
    2 points
  44. L is the second album by Godley & Creme. It was released in 1978. At 34 minutes, it is less than a third as long as the group's previous effort, the ill-received triple concept album Consequences (1977). Despite this, L was also not received well commercially. The songs contain much variation and artistry, dissonances, complex time signatures and melodies, poetic lyrics, and some echoes from Frank Zappa's Over-Nite Sensation (1973). Zappa is even name-checked on the song "Art School Canteen." The album was played almost completely by Godley and Creme, except for saxophones, and a brief vocal cameo by Paul Gambaccini. The lyrics retained the satirical stance of some 10cc material, with songs such as "The Sporting Life" and "Art School Canteen", which deal with suicide and art school angst.
    2 points
  45. Minwax True Black stain done. It was motivational to listen to Back in Black. Minwax Warm Satin sealer next.
    2 points
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