richardbrand
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| Is the microwave the perfect model for audio marketting? Recently I was one of three adults, combined age over 200, looking after grandkids under 4 in a new house with new appliances. None of us could change the TV volume. The remote looked pretty normal, with volume and channel buttons. With random po... | |
| Room is way too bright. @8th-note I really like your approach! As noted by others, reflections come from the walls and also the ceiling and floor. If you want to minimise the accoustic mess created by different length reflection paths, use speakers with a minimal numb... | |
| Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse Geez, in the Top End of Oz, people drive further that that to go to a footie match. The current slogan is "if you never ever go, you'll never ever know" | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @elliottbnewcombjr Thanks for the info on where to buy the mirror. I have two slightly different ones on order from Temu, and Amazon will be my backup plan. i have had varying experiences with Amazon. Say no more! | |
| The end of physical media is neigh @mahgister Your post about the key areas of mathematics needed to create and use Large Language Models (LLM) is a model of clarity. I intuitively found it intelligible and logically organised. But I see that you used a LLM to create it! Could ... | |
| If a tree falls in the forest… @sgordon1 "Since we are dependent on language to communicate our perceptions, how can your “meeting of the minds” possibly be accomplished, either today, or in the future?" Not sure why you hang around this language-based forum? | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? @larryi "there is no difference in the musical detail presented in playback. Can anyone point out a specific bit of information in a particular place in a recording that cannot at all be heard with one piece of gear versus another?" Yes, I can.... | |
| The end of physical media is neigh @ararem "The history of hominids making music goes back well more than 100K years; physical media has only existed for the last 147 of them" That’s a hell of a gap from, say, Beethoven’s death in 1827. So how do we know what Beethoven wrote? Si... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? Provisional answer to my own follow-up question - I think the P sticker might come from Cecil E Watts manual record cleaning system, the Manual Parastat. It would have been all I could afford at the time. There's a manual on vinylengine but I am... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? All my old records have a small round sticker with a red letter "P" stuck on the side 1 label. I can remember that it was an anti-static treatment - maybe "Parastat" or similar - but I can't remember how I applied it or anything else about it! A... | |
| Replacement power cabling for old Garrard 301 turntable @noromance Thanks. Yes, the wiring is currently hard wired to an IEC socket on the plinth. From there a conventional cable goes to the mains. I guess that is equivalent to a makeoff block? To make it easier to separate the motor board and pl... | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! The ugliest thing about the McIntosh is that it lacks MDMI. Something that is reportedly fixed with their forthcoming pre-amp! Who cares what the form factor is if there's no function | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? @grislybutter Ha, so how do you power the chip on your shoulder? Blood-static pressure? | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? @grislybutter "... new records all have GPS and a chip in them that would track my listening habits" Powered by what exactly? | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Another update from me. I discovered that Hyperion has just released Shostakovich’s Piano Concertos on vinyl, and I already use the SACD version when auditioning speakers. So I ordered the vinyl from Presto Classical, and naturally checked out th... |