what are you listening to?

Elite-ist said:
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.

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Nando.
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Absolutely as you say, Nando! :)
The bed dampens just without any efforts.

if you like the music and the tapes are recorded nicely, maybe they deserve to be simply listened.
anytime i happen to get used tapes, I also use to check the contents and happen to find well recorded music I do like on a few of them, which can be even better than to simply get a tape to re-record on. :)
 
MarkWComer said:
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I'm not the biggest Queen fan, but I do like this one. Impressive pedigree- Bob Ludwig master, Miles Showell half-speed lacquer. Such impressive names on a WarMalt exclusive! And blue plastic, too!
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Hi Mark, since those are half-speed mastered, I wonder if there might be anything to share with a Queen collection partwork on vinyl which was sold here at the newspapers shops very few years ago and which were also half-speed mastered LPs.
Not being a big fan of Queen myself too, I had happened to buy only the first number of that partwork (album "A kind of Magic") mostly because, being the first one, they were selling it at a very special price of only 10 euros (or was it 9,99 ? )... that said, I maybe never listened to it yet! :D

Hey... I suspect you just need to set the antiskating properly, there at your TT! ;)
 
vince666 said:
Hi Mark, since those are half-speed mastered, I wonder if there might be anything to share with a Queen collection partwork on vinyl which was sold here at the newspapers shops very few years ago and which were also half-speed mastered LPs.
Not being a big fan of Queen myself too, I had happened to buy only the first number of that partwork (album "A kind of Magic") mostly because, being the first one, they were selling it at a very special price of only 10 euros (or was it 9,99 ? )... that said, I maybe never listened to it yet! :D

Hey... I suspect you just need to set the antiskating properly, there at your TT! ;)
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Antiskating… HA HA HA HA HA‼️
(What’s that?)
 
vince666 said:
Absolutely as you say, Nando! :)
The bed dampens just without any efforts.

if you like the music and the tapes are recorded nicely, maybe they deserve to be simply listened.
anytime i happen to get used tapes, I also use to check the contents and happen to find well recorded music I do like on a few of them, which can be even better than to simply get a tape to re-record on. :)
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I've been playing a number of the seller's tapes and he did a nice job in recording. I may shoot him an email regarding which cassette deck he used and his source components. With my SugarCube, I can tell which recordings were sourced from vinyl. All the ones, I've played so far have, been recorded from vinyl.

I told him not to erase any recordings on the last batch of cassettes I bought from him. He offered to bulk-erase all the tapes I bought.

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Elite-ist said:
I've been playing a number of the seller's tapes and he did a nice job in recording. I may shoot him an email regarding which cassette deck he used and his source components. With my SugarCube, I can tell which recordings were sourced from vinyl. All the ones, I've played so far have, been recorded from vinyl.

I told him not to erase any recordings on the last batch of cassettes I bought from him. He offered to bulk-erase all the tapes I bought.

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That version of FUJI FR-II are some really good tapes, I own a few... and those exact black Fuji shells from that era are really well done, they stink of high quality from miles away... I've realized that when I happened to open one and see how nicely it's made inside! :)
 
I think the lateral weight at the back of my Pickering is the anti skate……and the Technics SL-1200mk1.5 has the anti skate set around the same as the tracking
 
mr_rye89 said:
I think the lateral weight at the back of my Pickering is the anti skate……and the Technics SL-1200mk1.5 has the anti skate set around the same as the tracking
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yes, sir... it's just that, as far as i know.
after all, the pivoted arms need some kind of antiskating crap. :D

and on my old humble Pioneer PL-720 (same model as the PL-7, but with black buttons/controls) antiskating is made with a spring attached somewhere to the tonearm into the base and tuneable by a small knob from the top side of the arm base.
 
anyways... returning to the topic...

just put on the turntable a "best of" LP by Jefferson Airplane... white rabbit is starting while i am writing... and, hey, while listening to this song, i just cannot avoid to think about the infamous Dr Gonzo from that crazy "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" movie from late 90s. :cool:

the same LP as here: https://www.discogs.com/it/release/2095431-Jefferson-Airplane-The-Best-Of
 
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