[Vintage-Audio] RE: Does anyone really care...

[Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF]

Now what is so difficult about describing your equipment, telling how you make
tapes or DAT or CDS or?	
	
What is so complex about describing the best ways you have found to record by
mike? The best mike for a specific task; outside in the world, inside in a
studio, in your basement work shop etc. The type of mixer used and why. How you
stole it from your old high school DJ booth on Prom night!	
	
The reason you use a Fisher amp (not my last name spelling) and why you like it
better than Pioneer or EICO or Whoflungdug. What about it out performs modern
gear, besides being better at holding the solid Maple end table down during a
parade of Elephants trotting by or an earthquake in LA. 	
	
There are countless things we could be discussing. They do not have to be
technical all of the time. It is not every day somebody needs to know how to
calculate the stylus pressure on an eliptical diamond cartridge at a given
angle! But where to buy a good stylus would be helpful! What weight you track at
and why? Using an anti-static brush or cloth? How? What brand? Where do I get
one? How do I get more music out of the 78 rpm record I got at the yard sale and
less static from the wife?	
	
A good place to purchase vinyl 45's or 33 1/3 albums? And I mean information,
not just a blasted link! I am so tired of the "point, click and shoot" concept
that I smash every one of those mouse's that do not eat cheese as part of my
revolt against computer's telling me how much water I may use to flush my toilet
and when i can flush it! If they ever get that scent thing working right so your
computer can add the proper smell to the image on the CRT, I am going to write
the code for the old outhouse out back on a 90F Summer day! Send it to all the
CEO's of those software vender's and tell them to take a whiff of this
incredible sensory plug in that allows users to enjoy the actual scents of being
in a real woods void of all prior invasion by mankind. Just nature at its best!
I am taking bets how many of them clear up their troublesome sinus conditions
caused by fumes from those monitors running 24/7! 

The point is, to enjoy our gear and tell each other how we enjoy it! If we need
help fixing it, yell for help! If we need a record by Floyd Cramer like the
"Class Of 1971", as I do!, who has one, how much and how do I contact them. Not
another link that when I click on it tells me to upgrade my software, my taste
in music sucks like a Hoover on 220 VAC or has some kind of font fancy script
that it makes normaly sighted people crosseyed to read! Just give me the
telephone number, please!	
	
Let's talk some audio, people! Not sit here with the stylus in our ear
protecting the tip with human ear wax that somebody read in an audio magazine
fifty years ago while getting their haircut in a small town barber shop in Viva,
Nevada! It is fine if it is mono, stereo, quad or whatever. If you use that
vintage audio stuff, then tell us about it! Share! Care! Or just ship it to me
and I will e-mail you a hug and never ever forget the day that Ed gave me his
old Sony amp from 1969 and put a plaque on my wall right above it bearing his
name! Hey, I am single, and enough of those plaques and I don't have to pay
somebody to paint the wall every ten years!	
	
We all have a lot to contribute here, but we have to get our butts in the groove
and type some words on the screen! Who gives a rodent's rump hairs if we brag up
our systems, so what? We are proud, and that is cool! So toot your tweeter! Woof
that woofer! Flaunt that middle age spread with monsterous mid-range that makes
that love handle quiver with joy! If the neighbors gripe, tell them you are
practicing good health by vibrating those fat cells out the pores of your skin
and if they were smart, they would get a system like yours and some real
speakers, not those things hanging from a plant stand on a tri-colored piece of
designer oxygen free wire that look like a misshapen grapefruit and have about
the same fidelity as those old Victrola's with that trumpet horn speaker!	
	
So dust off your life, get it off the bookshelf, and use that vintage gear
people! Let's rock and roll here, or poka or waltz or square wave dance, and do
a little rump rumba as you spin some platters, cue up a single, thread a1/4 inch
tape across those Grundig heads or play with the pink noise generator and EQ
those speakers and show those still wet behind the ears kids with those cars
that thump down the street like a drum machine at a heavy metal rock concert
when the sound effects tape, or digital circuit, gets stuck in an endless loop!
Yea, come on! Let's party! Silence may be golden, but who wants to live in a
cemetary?	
	
Go find some audio nuts and get them signed up on this list. Get out your gear,
set it up and use it. It is not getting any younger and you aren't either! So
get the dust off it, before you turn into it. Turn into dust, that is!	
	
Duane	
  

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From: Robert J. McKee <mckee137 at mindspring.com>
To: vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Vintage-Audio] RE: Does anyone really care...
Date: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:18 PM

...certainly I do.

But I'm not smart enough to have much to contribute in the way of info
and advice.  It really makes me smile to see someone write of a real
problem they are having with a piece of equipment... and then read the
replies that pour in.  Duane, if that is not people caring then I do not
know what is.

Some of us have very narrow areas of interest.  Like myself I do live
on-location recordings using only Crown reel-to-reel analog recorders
and condenser microphones that cost as much as a set of premium grade
tires for a Corvette for each mic.  Not many people are into live recording
of audiophile quality.

My tube amplifiers are not original or even restored.  They are modernized
to perform with the best of today's tube technology so the only thing that is
truly Dynaco Mark III are the chassis, cage, transformers and KT 88's.  It
again makes me a rare bird who did not do much on his own.  Really just
bought proven upgrade mods and installed them.

So I just lurk in the sidelines reading whatever posts come along.  But I
do care as do lots of the lurkers.  And Duane, THANK YOU for all you do
for this list and the people who search for answers.  We appreciate it more
than you know.

Bob McKee

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