I have met the enemy

[Maggot]

Optical pickups on the turntables or physical contact?

Transfiguration Proteus cartridge. Optical just leaves something out.

 

[TripleBull]

I think you'd enjoy my system. No CD player, all vinyl and vacuum tube.

Pretty system, Maggot! I grew up working in my Dad's shop, building speaker systems he designed. His thing was crossover design. Audio Research, Conrad Johnson, etc. amps and preamps, SOTA turntable, Revox reel-to-reel. We built conventional sealed and ported enclosures, cornerhorns, etc. His masterpiece was a massive transmission line system that weighed 380 pounds per channel. He ended up selling them because my mom couldn't tolerate their hugeness. If you have a wife, she must be audio system tolerant.

Damn, Maggot, you and DannC are old fuckers.

Waitaminute - so am I...

I downsized after moving to a smaller home and now just have my portable recording rig as a base for my turntable - Rega P25 with Grado Sonata. Event Opal monitors, Grace 904b preamp.

Sorry OP for the total derail...

 

[Maser]

LOL Maggot! Those speakers look like those foam "walking" targets that you shoot on the ground.

 

[Maggot]

LOL Maggot! Those speakers look like those foam "walking" targets that you shoot on the ground.

Nice looking system yourself. Vinyl rules.

Getting the crossover right was one of the hard parts of the system. The old ones are worn out and Altec poured them in tar to damp vibrations so yu couldnt replace the caps or resistors. I finally sent a schematic to a lab and had them build a new one.

Ive never been able to really appreciate headphones.

If youre ever in the mid Atlantic area give a shout, friends are always welcome.

 

[Va_Gentleman]

Not with a broad brush.

Im not talking Grand Theft Auto. I dont think many kids are exposed to that if they come from any sort of a functioning family.

There are some games that could be beneficial.

I have no doubt they could be an effective indoctrination tool. Im sure its been tried but most kids are savvy enough to be bored by the message "Suzy saves the polar bear from global warming".

Gaming/electronics/social media certainly has an addictive element to it - my post count as a disgusting example.

My son certainly exhibits "withdrawal" when we make him get off the XBox. Whatever, we enforce limits. The power cord has come to work with me a few times and Ill usually get a call at the end of the day from a contrite little person asking when will I be home.

I had less issues when my kid was playing the basketball or football video games.

Fortnite has been different.

Im looking at an 11 year old standing there agitated by being "into" the game.

Listening to the conversation they have over the phones is disturbing "Shoot him", "Kill him".

I guess we did same as kids playing guns outdoors. Kind of what I remember though is every time I play shot a friend with my toy guns running outside the reply was always "No you only got me in the shoulder" and the game went on.

With the first person shooter games it is more so the "training" it gives with no repercussions for violating societal norms and no instruction on safe firearms handling.

Fortnite not so much an issue as its kind of like electronic paintball where its a free fire zone and kids just blast away.

Id like to see some repercussions for failures - lock the kid out of the game for 2 hours if he shoots an inelligible target or something.

The antis have declared that speaking of guns is taboo and now all most kids get for exposure is what they get from gaming.

Why is it a mystery that when a kid does get access to a gun they mishandle and abuse it?

Their only training has been what they did in gaming.

I think Col David Grossman has some good theories on how gaming "trains" and what can result because gaming does not incorporate any education on "law of war" or "general law".

https://www.killology.com/

Couple of his books

Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing by Grossman, D. and Kristine Paulsen, with Katie Miserany

Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill, Revised and Updated Edition: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence by Grossman, D. and Gloria Degaetano

Worst game for kids in the history of Video Games: Decathlon by Activision on the Atari 2600. Between joggling that Atari joystick and my joystick 1,000,000 times a day my right arm has arthritis.

 

[Maggot]

Worst game for kids in the history of Video Games: Decathlon by Activision on the Atari 2600. Between joggling that Atari joystick and my joystick 1,000,000 times a day my right arm has arthritis.

thats why we have two arms.

If you switch quickly you can gain a stroke.

 

[Sniperwannabee]

This is her at 7.... First buck at 178 Yards with a 308. Had to buy that Axiom just so her L.O.P. would fit.

she shooting a 308 w/o a brake!!!! i cant even do that, shame on you ahah

 

[QuickNDirty]

Damn right I did! The world is too big for only one of me!

How long has this been the case? I knew you had some kinda female interest, but figured that shit was complicated.

 

[wilson1911]

I have a ST-70 that I built. I do not have the time to build my own speakers, so I just bought some JBL 590's. It brings a whole new level of how your music presents itself. The sad part is songs that sound amazing at home.....don't sound as good in the car etc. I also use a hardware DAC to remove all the compression. I have about 65k songs on my pc.
I purposely built this setup for something to listen to while reloading. There is nothing like a tube amp for quality.

Maggot, that's slick bro. Diana Krall must sound like she is sitting in your lap.


So back to the thread......can someone plz tell the guy to take back his balls from his wife's/teachers/friends purse ?? Not sure where they are, but he is missing them.

 

[Maggot]

I have a ST-70 that I built. I do not have the time to build my own speakers, so I just bought some JBL 590's. It brings a whole new level of how your music presents itself. The sad part is songs that sound amazing at home.....don't sound as good in the car etc. I also use a hardware DAC to remove all the compression. I have about 65k songs on my pc.
I purposely built this setup for something to listen to while reloading. There is nothing like a tube amp for quality.

Maggot, that's slick bro. Diana Krall must sound like she is sitting in your lap.


So back to the thread......can someone plz tell the guy to take back his balls from his wife's/teachers/friends purse ?? Not sure where they are, but he is missing them.

Those Dyna's are true classics. Great output tranny's....Oh, that begs a slick answer but the red wine has me dulled.

 

[Maser]

How long has this been the case? I knew you had some kinda female interest, but figured that shit was complicated.

Well, I'll let you do the math because it's entertaining for me to watch people flip their shit over how young I was when I became a dad. I'm 28 years old and my two boys are 8 and 12.

 

[W54/XM-388]

How old is your wife?

 

[QuickNDirty]

How old is your wife?

Impolite to ask a woman's age.

 

[Maser]

How old is your wife?

9 months younger than me.

 

[TripleBull]

Those Dyna's are true classics. Great output tranny's....Oh, that begs a slick answer but the red wine has me dulled.

Building Dyna amp and preamp kits early on in the stereo era is how my Dad afforded getting into the high end. We'd make cabinets for speakers, Garard turntables, and for the Dynas and sell a complete stereo. Damn, I hadn't thought about those days in a long time. I'll have to give Dad a call tomorrow and talk about it. He's 92 and still going strong.

 

[wilson1911]

I wish more people knew about the Dyna/vt70 kits. If you like music, it makes having a tube amp quite affordable. The little 35 watts mine puts out makes my walls shake with the 590's, and their not even super high end, but since I listen to a wide range of music, I like them.

 

[W54/XM-388]

9 months younger than me.

It's a matter of the times I guess, by average standards today you were getting a bit of an early start, About a hundred years or so ago, you would have been just about average.

Good to hear you made a family of it and it worked out well for you.

 

[Maggot]

Building Dyna amp and preamp kits early on in the stereo era is how my Dad afforded getting into the high end. We'd make cabinets for speakers, Garard turntables, and for the Dynas and sell a complete stereo. Damn, I hadn't thought about those days in a long time. I'll have to give Dad a call tomorrow and talk about it. He's 92 and still going strong.

Give the old boy my regards as one audio nut to another. Send him the photo of my system, he'll get a kick out of it. The bass cabinets were referred to as 'Ubangis."

 

[Maser]

It's a matter of the times I guess, by average standards today you were getting a bit of an early start, About a hundred years or so ago, you would have been just about average.

Good to hear you made a family of it and it worked out well for you.

Or we can go even farther back in time. Take Christianity for instance. Joseph was a middle aged man and Mary was only 12 when Jesus was conceived. In Islam, Muhammad married a 9 year old girl.

 

[Maggot]

I wish more people knew about the Dyna/vt70 kits. If you like music, it makes having a tube amp quite affordable. The little 35 watts mine puts out makes my walls shake with the 590's, and their not even super high end, but since I listen to a wide range of music, I like them.

Diana is great. So is Patricia Barber...if not quite as nice on the eyes

 

[W54/XM-388]

Or we can go even farther back in time. Take Christianity for instance. Joseph was a middle aged man and Mary was only 12 when Jesus was conceived. In Islam, Muhammad married a 9 year old girl.

There is not actually a specific age for the human parents of Jesus in the accepted cannon of sacred texts, so more than likely based on how it was written and the customs of the times, Mary was probably more in the 14 to 16 range, Joseph sounds like he was established and had a reputation as a good man, so probably older, but exactly how old is not specifically mentioned in the ratified and accepted cannon. One possibly clue is that in the writings of the later ministry of Jesus, there is mentions of his mother and at least one of his brothers, but none of Joseph, so that may be a clue that he passed on from age or such.

According to the accepted agreed cannon, you are correct, The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), had wives mostly of older to average age except for his last wife who he married at 6 or 7 and then waited till she was 9 before taking her to his bed. He was however kind to her and did let her keep her dolls.............
That does however appear to be a bit younger than normal for the times as borne out by the suggestions for him to possibly marry others instead of her that are listed in the story.

 

[TripleBull]

Send him the photo of my system, he'll get a kick out of it.

Hey, no fair reading my mind - I already did!

He has a little trouble hearing clearly through a telephone, so we do much of our talk time by email these days.

 

[TripleBull]

If anyone really needs to understand why people bother with analog these days, all you have to do is play the original Sheffield vinyl of this recording.

Sheffield Labs grew from the passion of a few talented and driven individuals and the musicians they brought into the fold:

http://sheffieldlab.com/content.php?content_id=1002



I've still got a couple of sealed copies, but like my guns, you'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.

It's worth reading the "How the Rose came to be" in the Youtube post.

 

[Maggot]

I have the Sheffield copy, with Lincoln Mayorca. Just listened above...take your breath away...Bette Midler doesnt even come close.

And I have to remind myself of the message daily.

 

[W54/XM-388]

If anyone really needs to understand why people bother with analog these days, all you have to do is play the original Sheffield vinyl of this recording.
Sheffield Labs grew from the passion of a few talented and driven individuals and the musicians they brought into the fold:
http://sheffieldlab.com/content.php?content_id=1002

I've still got a couple of sealed copies, but like my guns, you'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.
It's worth reading the "How the Rose came to be" in the Youtube post.

Thanks, I never new about that recording, very nice.
I'm a big fan of the mid to high range vocals & despise overdriven bass like every stupid "beats" headphones puts out these days.
That recording you linked to has a really nice crisp vocal track.