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

Mon Jan 10 11:28:48 EST 2005

I think what Duane just posted would be a great thing to post
periodically, every couple of months maybe, just to remind people what
this list is all about and where the moderator is coming from. Unless
this spark gets things going to the point that new list members would
have no trouble figuring it out from the current threads. Although the
format ought to be a bit more formal perhaps. It'd be not so much a FAQ
as inspirational testimony. 

Charlie, how many bands are using to correct your early LPs? Parametric
or graphic? Just curious.  Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of 
> Charlie Dumar
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:32 AM
> To: Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back
> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] RE: Does anyone really care...
> 
> Duane,
> 
> SLOW DOWN!
> 
> 3 people have made themselves known and been here all along.
> 
> I happen to restore recordings from the acoustic era right up 
> the LP's and have alot to share.
> I have posted for info more than once and got dead air.
> 
> Since you have alot of energy and want to type words here is 
> something to keep you busy rather than producing diatribes.
> 
> What are some of things you can do to transfer early LP's 
> (before the RIAA curve) to CD when all you have is an amp 
> with RIAA input and the LP has a different curve?  Well you 
> need an equalizer and some basic arithmatic to get thiings to 
> sound right on the CD.
> 
> Now you have a seed for discussion now discuss it.  If you 
> are insulted by my reply kick me out of the group if I stay 
> in the group then dont bore me..
> 
> Charlie, W2KNL
> 
>  
> Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
> 
> >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	
> >  
> >
> > ----------
> >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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