Roedelheim
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Still do not understand the need for that. For the living room the streaming services offer me more than enough. In my hobby room I grab a CD or LP and all is fine.
What's your setup/configuration look like?
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slartibartfast
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It certainly isn't compulsory but that is a reason others do it. Even ripping LPs.
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Not my way
EddNog
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Okay but one rips LPs because they literally wear every time you play it
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I am 46 now. When I listen to one LP per day I would be enough material for round about 7 years. No fear that they will suffer too much damage.
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Also you can remove annoying clicks and pops. I even managed to "nudge" my stylus carefully past a sticking point on one LP and repair the resulting click. I had bought a replacement years ago which didn't sound as good as the original so now I can play the better version any time I like
Hmm,.. the Japanese pronounced it like Americans.... Aye Kee Ah.. I think, I dunno I guess, Or maybe Ee Kee Ah.. I dunno, it was next to a Donki.
Not really, if you keep your records and stylus clean, and the turntable adjusted properly those records will last for decades. I have hundreds of LPs I bought in the 70s... and more hundreds that I bought used from the 60s and even late 50s. They all play superb.
Now about ripping those LP. Yes, been there, done that, since the late 90s. I've spent literally thousands of dollars in the equipment, but then you upgrade the turntable... new tonearm, sub base, bearing, power supply, cartridge, preamp.... do you think I want to listen to my LPs they way they sounded played 30 years ago in my turntable?
So, I gave up. I just clean the LPs clean and they barely wear out if I play them every so often... I mean, it's up to 4000 by now. And Tidal HiFI gives me a good approximation with master quality streams...
So after spending years removing pops with Cubase, etc... I decided to keep the latest RME in the closet and spent an ungodly amount of money upgrading the Linn. It sounds fantastic, btw.
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Good job moving the streamers off the floor. Are those step stools? They look like they'd make good amp stands.
EddNog
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Most of your collection is probably older than I am (born in 1982).
Yup, step stools!
This TV stand actually has middle and lower shelves, but I uninstalled them in order to put the subwoofer in the dead center. In doing so, I needed something to make up for the lost shelf space, and picked these step stools out for the job. They'd probably be perfect if they were about two inches narrower, but this is fine.
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1982!
I was a big shot by then... with a college degree, a job and a credit card. ;-)
CD was starting to show its face then... that was the year my stereo and stuff was in storage most of the year while I got shipped temporary duty for almost the entire year. It was tought... living with 100 cassettes that I had recorded before I got shipped... it was a large suitcase.
I remember working a lot and drinking a lot... that was the year MTV came out and new wave and punk clubs were fun.
Thanks for the link...
We got one of these for the TV stand. I only have a center channel in its own stand and two Entec woofers under it. But you could easily do the step stool trick...
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1982.... hmm... these were some of the big hits.. the Vapors were playing fine in my Panasonic stereo when we found ourselves upside down by the outside of the curve in the '82 Scirocco.... ;-D
I was a big shot by then... with a college degree, a job and a credit card. ;-)
CD was starting to show its face then... that was the year my stereo and stuff was in storage most of the year while I got shipped temporary duty for almost the entire year. It was tought... living with 100 cassettes that I had recorded before I got shipped... it was a large suitcase.
I remember working a lot and drinking a lot... that was the year MTV came out and new wave and punk clubs were fun.
Thanks for the link...
We got one of these for the TV stand. I only have a center channel in its own stand and two Entec woofers under it. But you could easily do the step stool trick...
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1982.... hmm... these were some of the big hits.. the Vapors were playing fine in my Panasonic stereo when we found ourselves upside down by the outside of the curve in the '82 Scirocco.... ;-D
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Did you get that Marantz rebuilt? That's from 1975 ( or 74 ) so it needs a lot of work... the boards need to be cleaned, the output devices reseated, there's a lot calibration to be done, most of the caps need to be replaced... and you gotta watch out for traces lifting.
Also, don't put LEDs in it... instead stick to incandescent lamps but of a slightly lower level to protect the vellum.
I've had three of these babies redone, fully rebuilt... 2325, 2240B, and 4415. I gifted the 2240B and kept the other two.
Rebuilding them makes a huge difference, but it'll cost you about 1000 bucks to do it correctly, to bring it back to the original OEM specs. I mean, they still have that classic early 70s Marantz sound, which is bass heavy and warm with a somewhat dark treble. Sort of like Led Zeppelin's Rain Song during a gloomy rainy October weekend afternoon.
If you have a chance, try to listen to a Sansui G7500 ( or anything from that series ) with the "fast" slew rate. Those sound completely different.. much lighter bass and more extended treble... sort of like Steely Dan's My Old School on a sunny Saturday early afternoon.
( Yes, I have one of them too... fully rebuilt of course ).
Vintage is good, great, the stuff from the 70s is the pinnacle of Japanese/American design IMHO... sound wise, well they're vintage and each company has their own sound... but they have to be rebuilt... they're not cheap to bring them up to form. And when you get there, you realize you could be getting an Audio Research D70-II, Hmm... I think I need an SP14 and an MV55.
( BTW- NEVER BUY VINTAGE OVER EBAY... NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.... ).
Those mid 70s receivers also get hot, so make sure there's good ventilation. In that time, they used to put very big power supplies for the rated power and there's no opamps, everything is discrete, so it throws off quite a bit of heat.
Also, don't put LEDs in it... instead stick to incandescent lamps but of a slightly lower level to protect the vellum.
I've had three of these babies redone, fully rebuilt... 2325, 2240B, and 4415. I gifted the 2240B and kept the other two.
Rebuilding them makes a huge difference, but it'll cost you about 1000 bucks to do it correctly, to bring it back to the original OEM specs. I mean, they still have that classic early 70s Marantz sound, which is bass heavy and warm with a somewhat dark treble. Sort of like Led Zeppelin's Rain Song during a gloomy rainy October weekend afternoon.
If you have a chance, try to listen to a Sansui G7500 ( or anything from that series ) with the "fast" slew rate. Those sound completely different.. much lighter bass and more extended treble... sort of like Steely Dan's My Old School on a sunny Saturday early afternoon.
( Yes, I have one of them too... fully rebuilt of course ).
Vintage is good, great, the stuff from the 70s is the pinnacle of Japanese/American design IMHO... sound wise, well they're vintage and each company has their own sound... but they have to be rebuilt... they're not cheap to bring them up to form. And when you get there, you realize you could be getting an Audio Research D70-II, Hmm... I think I need an SP14 and an MV55.
( BTW- NEVER BUY VINTAGE OVER EBAY... NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.... ).
Those mid 70s receivers also get hot, so make sure there's good ventilation. In that time, they used to put very big power supplies for the rated power and there's no opamps, everything is discrete, so it throws off quite a bit of heat.
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Yes
So, that's what your NAS Offline Backup looks like!!
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My favorites as well.My favorite speakers. Also the cats favorite.
BTW, you can find replacement foam for those speaker grills on eBay.Speaking of backups... I remember the days we had Sony tapes.... heck, at home I bought one of them too to back up my extensive collection of... gulp!, 200 and 400 MB drives.
Looking for pictures, I came up with this gem..
Sony DAT: A Complete History of the Format
The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Digital Audio Tape
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EddNog
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“Back in my day…”Speaking of backups... I remember the days we had Sony tapes.... heck, at home I bought one of them too to back up my extensive collection of... gulp!, 200 and 400 MB drives.
Looking for pictures, I came up with this gem..
Sony DAT: A Complete History of the Format
The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Digital Audio Tape
castalla
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I had that zip drive
EddNog
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Who didn’t?I had that zip drive
Who didn’t?
You figured this answer... huh? I never got one of those. I ended up using hard drives to back up hard drives. I found it much more useful to do automated back ups to large online drives.... I had my home LAN set up by the early 90s.
Still, it didn't help the day that I had to rebuild the Windows NT box and when I went to restore the pictures from the back up... the one that contained four years of digital pictures, my children and our house being rebuilt... pictures of every wall, every stud... the f%%%ng Hitachi drive had a head crash.
Ever since, every machine I have has two drives... one for the OS and executables and another one for the data... plus on line duplicate RAID5s. Efficient it is not, but it's a safe as I can imagine. I even have a back up in the home safe, which is fire and flood proof.
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