[Vintage-Audio] Wake Up Little Snoozie!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hello To Those Awake, As Well As Sawing Firewood

Now the topics of this list are certainly capable of generating some 
excitement, so how come the posts are so few and far between? We are talking 
about vintage audio gentlemen, not vintage tire rims for the antique midwest 
farm manure spreader! Surely some of you must have repair tips or recording 
techniques or mysteries about vinyl to share with your brethern.

I know that many of you who are subscribed to this list have forgotten more 
about the topic of audio then most of us will ever know! So how about 
spilling a few secrets?

Tell us what "really" went on in MoTown during the late fifties and early 
sixties. Tell us about your days as a DJ who actually could cue and spin 
platters. Tell us about your current sound system, even if it is a mix and 
match collection of vintage + garage sale rescue/restoration + more modern 
gear with transistors and integrated circuits. Tell us about the best way to 
...

This is a truly fascinating topic! So sound off! Blow the dust out of your 
woofers and cremate the cobwebs in your high frequency horns! Disperse some 
wisdom and dispense some little known truths only those who were there when 
it happened know. Get out that 1963 - 1965 Hurst Nationals vinyl album and 
make the family room shake, rattle and the dust bunnies roll! Smell that 
Methanol! Cough as the scent of melting rubber tires clogs up your nasal 
passages!

Hey! If you have one of those old Hurst Nationals albums and do not want it, 
I do! I stupidly loaned mine to a guy I later found out did not even own a 
turntable to play it on! He became a Hippi, got flower and power mixed up 
and probably used his hair dryer to warm my Hurst Nationals album just 
enough so that he could scallop the edges! I am serious! I want one of those 
albums gentlemen! I am too old to rock and roll anymore without dislocating 
bones I can't afford to get replaced, but I can still smile when the woofers 
rumble as Big Daddy Don Gartlits roars through the room driving the Swamp 
Rat IV and my house does the Lumber Rock!

Anybody got one of those albums for-sale, trade or bribe?

Now let's get some discussions going on this list about 'real' audio and the 
days when nobody talked about how many bits made a byte and how many spaces 
existed between digital bits of data!




Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
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