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

Thu Jan 13 17:10:32 EST 2005

Charlie, 	

Insulted? Get a grip! I am just glad you woke up and spoke up.	

I manage a dozen lists, do three international radio Nets weekly, own and help
run the HCI web site and much more. I am already donating sixty hours per week
of my life free gratis to my compatriots. So I do keep busy.	

Not every post to this list receives a reply that we all see, as some go
privately.	

Sometimes nobody knows the answer, rare, but it does happen now and then. You
can always post your question a second time OM. 	

I do not use the method that you do to copy vinyl to CD, my method is more
involved, complex and tedious. However, the results, as those who have some of
the work I have done know, is not far from studio quality. Being totally blind
does give me an edge in this area -	

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From: Charlie Dumar <cdumar at twcny.rr.com>
To: Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] RE: Does anyone really care...
Date: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:31 AM

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	
>  
>
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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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