what are you listening to?

[George S.]

Herb Albert.....Whipped Cream and Other Delights.....a really superb album.

 

[Elite-ist]

Tears For Fears on Cassette

Nando.

 

[vince666]

an 80's boy like myself just cannot avoid to appreciate your choice, Nando.

PS: love those anti-vibration loudspeakers feet there.

 

[Elite-ist]

Vince: The bed makes a great sound-dampening platform for the speakers!

I didn't even know Tears For Fears came out with a new album this year - The Tipping Point. Apparently, Steven Wilson remixed the album to 5.1 audio in blu-ray format. Might look for it.

I had purchased a bunch of cassettes from a seller. The tapes had been recorded once, played a few times, then set aside. I had the intention of recording over the tapes, but most of the music recorded to them is what I like. This is one of the tapes ( Maxell XLII-S 90) from that batch which had Tears For Fears on it.

Seller's photo:



Nando.

 

[J!m]

Those XL-IIs tapes are quite nice. In between an SA and an SA-X, at about SA price (when new). And they have survived every bit as well as the TDK stuff has.

But the speaker cable is not even the size of my pinky finger! What up with that?

 

[Elite-ist]

The Toshiba speakers have hard-wired leads (18ga @ 5' length) - no binding posts. I am selling the whole set to a workmate, who wants a mini-system as a Christmas gift for his daughter.

I bought more cassettes from the same seller. My first batch was a dozen Maxell UD-XLII C90 in their own bulk Maxell case. And I just bought from him, 14 Fuji FR-II and FR-IISuper in C90 length. All his tapes appear to be premium tapes from the 80's.

Seller's photos:




Nando.

 

[62vauxhall]

The Toshiba speakers have hard-wired leads (18ga @ 5' length) - no binding posts. I am selling the whole set to a workmate, who wants a mini-system as a Christmas gift for his daughter.

I bought more cassettes from the same seller. My first batch was a dozen Maxell UD-XLII C90 in their own bulk Maxell case. And I just bought from him, 14 Fuji FR-II and FR-IISuper in C90 length. All his tapes appear to be premium tapes from the 80's.

Seller's photos:

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Nando.

I used all of the cassette tape brands at one time or another. Being in audio retail for years had some perks when it came to employee purchases. Fuji FR-II became my tape of choice. On several occasions I sold large quantities of my blank tape stash on CAM but I hung on to all the Fuji FR-II's just in case I got into recording cassettes again.

 

[Elite-ist]

Fuji made excellent cassette tapes. The Fuji FR-I Super is one of the best ferric tapes and rivals many Type II tapes.



Nando.

 

[J!m]

Those TDK AD-S tapes are phenomenal. I never used them back in the day, and I don't think they were much less than an SA tape but using them in recent years showed me they are serious tapes for a type-I. Easily giving the SA a run for the money.

Of course, now they are far harder to get, and generally cost MORE than the SA does...

 

[MarkWComer]

The ballerinas I have met were very beautiful and very limber………

The Doors - Alive She Cried
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Outrageous Rondine! But it makes me ask about offset and alignment- no curve?

 

[mr_rye89]

Outrageous Rondine! But it makes me ask about offset and alignment- no curve?

Oh yeah I got a Pickering 190 tonearm over the summer, it has an offset but I don’t know about the curve. I have a Stanton 680 cart with a Pickering D2000q stylus (shibata) tracking at 2.5 grams with little to no distortion on most records. I need to make a Pickering 190(D) thread to show fixes I’ve found…..

 

[mr_rye89]

the whole arm only swings side to side, the cart carrier is spring loaded and goes up and down. Makes it good at tracking warps.

 

[gene french]

candy dulfer

 

[MarkWComer]

the whole arm only swings side to side, the cart carrier is spring loaded and goes up and down. Makes it good at tracking warps.

I have an old Califone phono/PA of the type that you’d see at a square dance- same thing with the arm moving laterally and the pivot at the shell. Will track the most obscenely warped records. No springs, but a tiny counterweight at the back of the head.

(HA HA! “Planet Claire!)

 

[George S.]

the whole arm only swings side to side, the cart carrier is spring loaded and goes up and down. Makes it good at tracking warps.

Whoa! That is awesome!

 

[MarkWComer]

the whole arm only swings side to side, the cart carrier is spring loaded and goes up and down. Makes it good at tracking warps.

The Califone. Scrub video to 14:19 for detail.

 

[MarkWComer]

Nice! You may know them as The Darlings from the Andy Griffith show.
150g vinyl, yet- thick and flat from 1969. Original recording from 1963.

 

[62vauxhall]

Nice! You may know them as The Darlings from the Andy Griffith show.
150g vinyl, yet- thick and flat from 1969. Original recording from 1963.View attachment 69691

I have that album as well but I think mine is a 1963 copy. Difference of catalogue number and no mention of it being stereo. But the label does say "Outstanding High Fidelity Recordings".

It was them appearing on the Andy Griffith Show that made me interested.

 

[MarkWComer]

I have that album as well but I think mine is a 1963 copy. Difference of catalogue number and no mention of it being stereo. But the label does say "Outstanding High Fidelity Recordings".

It was them appearing on the Andy Griffith Show that made me interested.

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Yours is the original first release. They were mono and a buck less expensive.

Andy Griffith Show: same here.

 

[Gepetto]

the whole arm only swings side to side, the cart carrier is spring loaded and goes up and down. Makes it good at tracking warps.

The original low mass tonearm