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Elite-ist said:
This is playback of his tape before I sent it off to Daren:
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And recorded perfectly in the "safe" zone.....

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Nando introduced this album as well to me, and it sounds smooth.
I always love to hear mr. Snowy White on the guitars.
 
Me too: I have seen the SCD-1 up close and in action at Innovative Audio. The headphones, I would gladly love to own and the portable AM/FM receiver. When I was in my early teens, I had three portable Sony radios. I had a paper route and with each new customer I earned coupons. Then, I could redeem the coupons to buy anything from the catalog. My first purchases were portable radios.

Nando.
 
Odd

MDR-R10. Occasionally cited as one of the best pairs of headphones ever made, the oddly-shaped R10 retailed for four figures in 1988 and has only appreciated in value since then.

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Current prices at ebay between $6000 and $10.000.... :cyclopsani:

I had the opportunity to gave these "coconuts" a good listen and was not impressed comparing to their "value" nowadays.
 
D-88

As we are talking odd/weird Sony...

Here is my D-88. :)


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The only thing what could be weird about it is it's battery consumption.....
 
Excellent pictures of your Sony D-88, Daren.

Nando.
 
Elite-ist said:
Excellent pictures of your Sony D-88, Daren.

Nando.
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Thank you Nando.

I really ought to check it is still working at some point. In 1989 it was priced at £300 in the UK.

I managed to pick one up in the same year for half that amount. Extremely well made bit of kit and pretty decent sound. Perfect for your collection of 3" CDs!


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Miracle Mile said:
Indeed!

This is interesting:

"The magic of this format is that you buy a £60 player, you put the disc in, you play it through a basic stereo sound system - the sound is incredible".....

I wished it was that simple.
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I couldn't have put it better myself!
 
Sightings: Head On

Sightings: Head On...

You don't normally see a DC-3 from this angle. Good thing, too.

AirSpaceMag.com, May 01, 2010


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When photographers ask for a vertical shot, they don’t mean this.

The 70–200mm telephoto lens that Mike Shore of Austin, Texas, used to grab this Douglas DC-3D created a compression effect, “in which the subject appears a little more extreme in comparison to the background,†he says. “This is all in the glass, and it’s a great technique to capture the eye.†The airplane landed in Bend, Oregon, around sunset on January 14, 2007. Shore asked to make an air-to-air shot, and owner Jonathan Phelps agreed. Helicopter pilot Sharon Vickers took Shore to 1,500 feet in a Robinson R44, where he set his Canon 20D at 1/125th of a second, f/3.2, and ISO 800.

“It was really dark out,†he says. Pilots Steve Dunn and Paul Bazeley flew the airplane about 15 to 20 feet off the runway at almost full speed, about 140 knots, then performed a two-G, 40-degree pullup. Shore made the photo as the Pratt & Whitney R-1830-94 Twin Wasp radial engines, each with 1,350 horsepower, clawed their way to a thousand feet, at which point the pilots banked right at about 100 knots. “At low altitude and low speed, safety is power,†says Dunn, who was in the left seat. “Always leave yourself a way out.†The finely restored DC-3—“You could eat off her, anywhere on the airplane,†says Dunn—will join a flyover of 25 to 30 DC-3s at the AirVenture gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this summer.
 
15!

Dazen1 said:
Miles,

Remind me again how many headphones you have...
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Can't help it, but I'm lucky in my hunt for nice AKG classics the last few weeks......

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#15.....

A K280 model, but the original drivers had it best days, so a LOT modifications were needed to get this piece into the "quality standard" I prefer....

(maybe not an original one to factory standards in the end, but this piece is sounding P-H-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C ! !)
 
#15 eh?

At this rate you will hit #20 by the end of the year.

Are there any particular headphones you would love to get your hands on Miles?
 
Dazen1 said:
#15 eh?

At this rate you will hit #20 by the end of the year.

Are there any particular headphones you would love to get your hands on Miles?
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Yes, the only one from that famous AKG 240 series I don´t have is the Studio one like Nando owns.....
 
I began the classic AKG cans to appreciate more and more over the last year, after using some professional cans by Sony (mdr-v 900 & 7509) for years.
Those expensive Sony's will break down easily, their earpads are crap and service or getting decent spare parts are reduced to zero.
For example: The Samson SR850 (the AKG clone I mentioned earlier in this thread) costs just a fraction of the Sony's and will wipe the floor with them speaking about audio quality... NO competition at all!
The AKG's are easy to maintain or to modify, their build quality is almost everlasting, wearing comfort is superb and their design is timeless.
My collection contains only the classic "made in Austria" ones, because AKG decided to move most of their production over to China some years ago.....

Some people are piling up sealed blanks, but I have a different bad habbit. :toothy10:
 
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