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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Music

Graeme Nattress said:
I'm blasting out some Pink Floyd here (Echoes - best of, on vinyl). When I'm coding, I really need silence, so after coding, I like to crank up the volume.

Graeme
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I've got a big collection of vinyl... covers the gamut. I have an original master recording of Supertramp's Crime of the Century and of Pink Floyd's Adam Heart Mother, a near mint of Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die, Herb Albert & the TJ Brass Whipped Cream, original pressing of Blind Faith and the entire Beatles/Zeppelin/Bob Dylan catalogs on LP, to name a few. Lots of obscure stuff as well, lots of Zappa, etc...

I always knew this didn't qualify me as a luddite, but glad to know someone else out there who is into computers as much (probably more) as I am still drops the needle on some vinyl for a taste of acoustic humanity.
 
Graeme Nattress said:
I try to play DVD-As if I can - 192khz/24bit sounds rather nice to me. But they're hard to find and the choice of music on them is just not that wide.

Graeme
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True enough Graeme. I have a CD of Donald Fagen's The Nightfly that is of this ilk, and I routinely use it to assess reference monitors, and I often have the front of house engineer play a track or two before my band performs. That format is the best, but like you say, there is basically nothing pressed to it these days.

Are you a musician Graeme?
 
Christian Edwards said:
True ! Man I love thoes Crazy Canadian kids ! Their new album is Unbelievable ,produced by them as well.have you got a link to some footage ?! Shot on Red?
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Unfortunately not shot on RED :( ....but I'll get that link for ya
 
I love my Pink Floyd too. "Relics" is the only album that I have on vinyl though. But I do have a some rare live concerts (on CD) from very early on (I actually traded my Syd Barret box set for one of them). I also have a huge original poster for the single "Arnold Layne" from 1967.

Sadly, I had to sell my B&W Nautilus surround sound setup (802's, 805's and HTM1) to help pay for my RED ONE.
 
Brandon Kraemer said:
I've got a big collection of vinyl... covers the gamut. I have an original master recording of Supertramp's Crime of the Century and of Pink Floyd's Adam Heart Mother, a near mint of Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die, Herb Albert & the TJ Brass Whipped Cream, original pressing of Blind Faith and the entire Beatles/Zeppelin/Bob Dylan catalogs on LP, to name a few. Lots of obscure stuff as well, lots of Zappa, etc...

I always knew this didn't qualify me as a luddite, but glad to know someone else out there who is into computers as much (probably more) as I am still drops the needle on some vinyl for a taste of acoustic humanity.
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If you can find them, the A&M Audiophile series pressings of Supertramp are very good, and go for a fraction of what the MFSLs cost. They're pressed on the same Japanese semi-transparent super-vinyl as the older MFSLs and sound great. I've got a few of them!

I don't see liking vinyl as being a luddite - after all, we're not smashing CD players and I certainly don't hate digital. I just enjoy the sound of vinyl and tubes, and it's a nice compliment to my digital existence.

No, not a musician, but I have spent a lot of time playing with music when I was younger, back in the old amiga days. I guess I'm a frustrated musician in that I can hear what I want to play in my head, but fail miserably at actually playing it, even trying to figure a note at a time in a sequencer, never mind any attempt at live playing. I reckon that's why I now compose with light and pixels and image processing algorithms.

Graeme
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Graeme, is that a Mitchell Gyrodec?

I'm just getting into vinyl again, as I inherited a collection and a turntable (simple-but-good Rega). Don't like Pink Floyd, but right now I'm listening to Norwegian singer/songwriter John Olav Nilsen, who has gathered rave reviews up here these days. http://www.myspace.com/johnolavnilsen
 
Yes, a level bubble that I use to level the deck, suspension and platter. Yes, a Gyrodec. I used to have a Rega, but now my mum has it.

Graeme
 
Graeme Nattress said:
I'm blasting out some Pink Floyd here (Echoes - best of, on vinyl). When I'm coding, I really need silence, so after coding, I like to crank up the volume.

Graeme
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VINYL!!

Bah! Anybody with even a modicum of appreciation for Sonic Excellence knows that the only TRUE audiophile medium is the 78RPM shellac disc!

And even that has become just barely acceptable, ever since they started using those blasted electric microphones in the 1920s.

Acoustic recording and thorn needles for playback have never been bettered - sigh - what were those engineers thinking...

Actually the funniest thing I ever saw was an ad for a really cheap and crappy turntable, where they "explained" that the reason it had a vinyl platter was that "this gave the best impedance match between the LP and the drive motor".

Then there was the minimum-wage counter jumper who told me that the difference between a $15 HDMI cable and an $89 HDMI cable was that the better quality signal delivered by the more expensive one would result in less wear and tear of the video processor in my TV, and thus pay for itself over time!

(And no, I did not make that up:001_huh:)
 
As this seems to be the Pink Floyd thread...

I have a "regular" actor who's been in every movie I've made in the last 10 years, his name is Kai. His day job is bass player, and one of his projects is a Pink Floyd tribute show. It's called «Dark Side of the Wall». Kai is Roger Waters I guess.
 
David, that's shocking about video processors getting warn out like that :-) Truly shocking :-)

As for a vinyl platter - there is some sense in having a platter designed so that it's mechanical impedance is the same as the record - for when the record gets played, the vibrations caused by reading the groove from the needle need to be "got rid of" - which means sinking the vibration or dampening the vibration. A platter with a wildly different impedance to the vinyl could aid reflections of that vibration back up to the needle and muddy the sound somewhat. At least that's the theory...

Of course though, the only true audiophile medium is an Edison Cylinder, or maybe a shellac 78 played back through a mechanical horn gramophone with no electronic amplification used in either recording or playback. Only then do you hear the "true sound". Funny thing is (sarcasm off) such playback actually sounds rather good, in a "life of the music" kind of way. Nope, it doesn't sound pure and undistorted, but it does sound alive in a fun and musical kind of way.

Graeme
 
So.... My Macbook Air has died on me - trying to reformat the drive to install Snow Leopard on it again. Argh.... So again, I've got Pink Floyd on, cranked up, in an attempt to put a good end on the day. This time it's "Pulse" on vinyl - 4LP live box set. Only £50 when I bought it, but goes for silly money these days it would seem.

Graeme
 
As this is the Floyd thread, can I ask what the general consensus is on 'modern' tube based systems that still use MP3s as the source?

Pointless, if cool looking, throwbacks, or a useful way of regaining some of the lost depth and texture?
 
Karl Gustav H. said:
As this is the Floyd thread, can I ask what the general consensus is on 'modern' tube based systems that still use MP3s as the source?

Pointless, if cool looking, throwbacks, or a useful way of regaining some of the lost depth and texture?
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Not sure what audiophile experts would say on this... but depending on the quality of the compressions, it does add back in some natural warmth, and so therefore why the hell not, right? It does not add back in any "lost texture or depth", what is compressed is gone, it's no longer an acoustic medium.

I know many musicians, guitarist mostly, who use a piece or two of tube gear in their solid state/amp modeling setups to add back in some crunchy warmth. I think it sounds fantastic to run most things though a tube amp myself. With tube amps, it seems to me it's more about pairing them with the right set of speaker cabinets, and how those cabinets are manufactured really effects their sound.
 
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