Whoooooooooo, are the thread police?
(With apologies to Frank Zappa)
Fine…I loose…but I spelled faggot right! Ha ha.
Yup. Now look up the word “loose”.
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deal seal
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is that the kind of seal that seals the deal?
I kid, I kid...
Carry on
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No just this kind...............
This thread is so wrong, I can’t help but laugh.
Or this kind
Now I can't remember?
Jay it wasn’t the seal, it was the AM radio. We all know AM sounded tinny, especially coming out of a tiny speaker.
AWESOM! Somewhere in there was a moment when I felt clever.(it was short) I’ll shut up now.
I can’t believe my eyes… this thread could go on forever.
Keep in mind…
When it comes to ding repair, one man’s sealing is another man’s flaw
(With apologies to Paul Simon)
Hey, I hope this isn’t off-topic, but I just got a copy of the re-issue of “Exile on Main Street”, and it sounds really great on the Tinny speakers from Fill-in-the___Mart. Makes it sound just like the original vinyl version!
Hope this helps.
“Exile” was never considered a great sounding album.
I was always surprised at how bad the drums sound on most Stones recordings. Like cardboard boxes.
So many variables to old analog equipment. Turntable, cartridge, needle, amp, speakers, and wires.
My little “record player” didn’t sound anything like my Dad’s beautiful mid 60’s Grundig tube amp stereo. Then he went and got a quadrophonic system in the mid 70’s with direct/reflecting speakers, just so I could lay in the middle of the room and listen to music on acid. He always had the stereo and the TV in different rooms.
My brother and used to go to audiophile rooms to listen to $100,000 systems. Never understood why, since we both couldn’t afford any of it. Well at least he had those funky pointed metal cones to keep the smallest amount of vibration from coloring the sound.
I bet Mr. Meyerhoffer listens to that kind of audio equipment. while he designs his “art”.
Cripes -
Next thing you know somebody's gonna chime in that vinyl albums played through tube amplifiers create a "warmer" sound.
Ya know what? I didn't buy it when Neil Young said it and I don't buy it now. WTF - the tubes glow and everything but "warmer?" Give me a break!
Most vinyl albums played through any kind of system have all kinds of snap, crackle, pop and worse. And I don't mean just mine.
As long as music via a CD or hard drive that isn't F'd up, it's hard to beat the sound quality. Many of the new releases of old material have been remixed and to my ears sound better in every way.
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While this a very subjective topic, it is a known fact that most digital formats suffer from what’s known as “lossy” compression. Essentially, the original sound recording is processed to only include the most important parts. Nuances and colorings get left by the wayside. Most apparent in MP3s. They sound like crap. I was never a big fan of the sound of CDs. Even less so with what’s played off Ipods and laptops.
I always opt for vinyl when available.
I make my living using my ears.
Oh John, you must not have gotten the secret message saying that you were supposed to only play the vinyl once to record it to a 2 track reel to reel tape deck. Then and only then could you play it over and over, but usually you’d only play it once to record it to a cassette deck that you could actually carry around with you. And the speed of the tape was always set to the max for the highest quality.
But before you play any vinyl, you were supposed to clean it with a special lubricating and static eliminating fluid that came with a special cleaning pad, and then your turntable arm had that little brush that kept the last bit of crap away from the needle.
Believe it or not, most if this is true. That’s how my nerdy brother and I listened to a lot of the records we still have. Off the cassette or reel to reel. Yes my father always had a reel to reel deck, even a quad version when he switched over. He also had perfect pitch and was an award winning song leader for his class in the Kamehameha Schools Song Contest. He passed the love of music on to us, just like he passed on his love of the ocean.
Unfortunately, years of listening to music via my Sony walkman have damaged my poor ears. I think being pushed down underwater too fast or using power tools without the proper ear protection have also left me with damaged hearing.
Sadly, I think one of the things that contributed to my father’s passing was seeing his dear Grundig damaged by the 40 day flood we had in 2006. The roof in my brother’s room leaked and water got all over the stereo. He was heartbroken from so many things including the loss of our cousin, but I think the whole month just wore him down. We gave what was left in good condition to my brother’s mail man and I have the 4 huge speakers from the quad system, and the old Grundig reel to reel circa 1964 stored at my house.
I bet Dad is laughing his ass off while I write this because he knows most of this absurd story is true. My brother is probably crying since I’ve let a family secret out. Yes my brother and I are audiophile wannabees, and it’s true that there is a very fine line between genius and idiot.
Hey Sammy with 192kbs/24bit, digital is starting get there.
One day they’ll figure out that the best way to sound like analog is to go back to analog. Can’t beat a basic sine wave, no stinking sawtooth, square waves, or ugly harmonics. Been seeing it in electricity too, the further we get from a clean sine wave, the more problems we have.
Hi Sharkcountry -
I did have a reel to reel tape recorder that I left behind when I went in the military in 1975. It did have great sound. I spent many nights recording from my favorite radio station... KABC 95.5 FM in Los Angeles which at the time played nothing but Beatles and Rolling Stones - commercial free until the end of the night when they requested donations. After each song the announcer would simply say, "That was the Beatles. Now the Stones."
The tapes were likely recorded over by my younger brother who somehow thought it was a good idea to tie a knot at the end of the tapes so they wouldn't unwind from the reel when the tapes reached the end. Not a bad idea really but he thought it was great fun to hit 'rewind' and let it run full speed until the knot caught in the reel and the whole thing came to an abrupt halt. A couple of years of that and the recorder was toast.
I came home on leave once and discovered not only that my 'priceless' recordings were erased but that my recorder was trashed.
How was I to know that all of that music and more would eventually be available to anyone with a computer... for free no less?
Metallica sucks. Napster (and the rest of the file sharing sites) rules! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS6udST6lbE
Hah… He discovered 8-track!
I used to call in on the request line then wait until the song was played to record it. That’s before I could afford to buy records. Once I started working full time I’d buy a record a week.
I took an 8-track car deck and hooked up a variable power supply then added some speakers to create my home version. I was in high school then and had been taking Electronics courses. I wanted to be an Electronics Engineer and build cool music equipment, but I ended staying in Hawaii and they didn’t have that at UH, just Electrical Engineering. I started working at the NBC affiliate that October and the engineering degree fell by the wayside. I think I had maybe 3 tapes for that thing, but they’d play all day without stopping.
Back in 1976 there were no electronic photo cameras, and the cameras in the studio were huge. I never saw far enough into the future to realize that everything would be electronically controlled and that analog equipment would be phased out (or is it fazed?). We used the same tape cartridges with a full track tape machine for commercials and for voice overs. They came in specific lengths and you could record a stop beep or it would just keep playing.
I spent all my free time chasing waves instead of getting “more smart” but I had a good time, and I don’t know if I’d be wise enough to make better choices if given a second chance.
It’s funny how the best ideas get trashed and don’t become the commercial success they deserve, but I don’t think the Meyerhoffer surfboard fits into that group.