2012 year end roundup - records, etc you got in the past year
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Heitkotter77
Ikon Class
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- Oct 3, 2011
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- the Woods of Briar
Didn't you notice how he pressed his thumb against the handle right before opening the door?
Thumbprint scanner.
Heitkotter77
Ikon Class
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- Oct 3, 2011
- Location
- the Woods of Briar
Or, go for the record (pun intended) for longest youtube video (I think it's about 56 hours) and show them all.
depravedskippy66
Ikon Class
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- Apr 21, 2011
Most impressive, and very nicely organized indeed. Do you ever have visitors to The Bunker?
Frantic
G45 Legend
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- Apr 20, 2011
What's the going ransom for a thumb these days? :confused:
Tomb of the Pharaohs, indeed. I'm sure I saw at least one 45 from the McAllen, TX label. Congregation For Anti-Flirts, Inc perhaps?
That's a pretty sweet set-up, M*rk.
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- Apr 12, 2011
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
Each cubicle is 13 inches wide, 13 inches tall and 17 inches deep. That's great for boxes of 45s, and also good for LPs, but the LPs need a wooden block or something behind them, to stop them slipping too far back into the cubicle.
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- Apr 12, 2011
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- Sydney, Australia
There is an elevator to all floors, but the vertical downstair plunge is more suspenseful as Alfred Hitchcock would have known.
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2011
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- Sydney, Australia
Yes they are. They are fantastic speakers but sound even better when you rewire them internally.
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2011
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- Sydney, Australia
I might try a short version of that idea.
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- Apr 12, 2011
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- Sydney, Australia
Not very often. The only recent visitor was Frank Cotterell who used to work at Waterfront Records (and Mojo, and Record Plant, and Peaches). We had a great time. He is known to several G45 members, I believe.
Mr.Segment
Tennalaga Class
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- Apr 21, 2011
- Location
- Oslo
Great clip. I´m going to follow this up next week with a similar short, Something happened on the way to the Mancave, filming my everyday struggle to enjoy Thee g45, while under the influence of 3 kids & a girlfriend (what is the English word for samboer? Been married, important difference
)And I might even use the gift of the garb, I hope you all will excuse my third language ramblings.
Ned
Ikon Class
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- Apr 20, 2011
- Location
- Litchfield County
Mark -
Nice to see that vintage ARC piece being used ! Is there any acoustic treatment in the listening room to cut down on reflection ?
Ned
Nice to see that vintage ARC piece being used ! Is there any acoustic treatment in the listening room to cut down on reflection ?
Ned
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- Apr 12, 2011
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
Not yet. But I have noticed a curious effect, whereby acoustic treatment "appears" to become less necessary when other quality aspects approach perfection. It has been a great surprise to me, and I'll be quite interested to hear what happens when I do finally try some treatment in the room.
soundog III
Tennalaga Class
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- Apr 24, 2011
- Location
- New York
Hi Mark,
So do you perceive your listening room as either bright or dull? Or somewhere in between, Goldilocks porridge style?
It appears your listening room is rectangular & you have the speakers set up along the long wall. I've experimented with speaker placement & have found this arrangement really opens up & in effect dials in the sweet spot, assuming one is far enough back from the speakers. As regards room treatments I have a few sound baffles set up around the speakers to dampen the highs which tend to ricochet all over owing to the brightness that a hard floor, peaked wood ceiling, irregular angles & glass doors / windows enhance. They help but do not cure the problem of excessive brightness. I do notice that they contribute to focusing the sound, so that is a plus, at least as regards my particular situation. The room is simply too big to effectively treat without going to extremes of room partitions, wall to wall carpeting (on the walls!) & drop ceiling panels.
I'd venture that your room is close to an inverse of the golden ratio (3/2) that Winston Ma espouses.
www.positive-feedback.com/Issue3/maroom.htm
A funny thing is that John Dunlavy proposed the exact opposite, the so-called "long wall" approach, to optimize the reproduction of his speakers, of which I have a pair of model IV A.
www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=69766.0
www.audioasylum.com/scripts/d.pl?audio/faq/audiophysic.html
www.stereophile.com/interviews/163/index.html
Responses from 2/24/10 onward in the below linked post address speaker placement & sound baffle considerations.
forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&1266960928&openfrom&1&4#1
My thinking is that the characteristic of the room itself, in regards to the materials used to finish it (wood, plaster, carpeting, glass, etc... ) and how that will effect the relative brightness or flatness is as important a consideration as the general spatial dimensions, though of course they work in concord in regards to coloring / effecting the sound generated from a pair of speakers.
Ned
Ikon Class
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- Apr 20, 2011
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- Litchfield County
There is little doubt that speaker location along with the dimensions of the room & baffling of some sort is just as important as the components being used.
I often wonder how many people buy top components & never get to hear them properly, simple things like speaker height & location (at least with monitors) can make a world of difference.
Nice postings, Soundog !
Ned
I often wonder how many people buy top components & never get to hear them properly, simple things like speaker height & location (at least with monitors) can make a world of difference.
Nice postings, Soundog !
Ned