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HiWire

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Everything posted by HiWire

  1. Happy Birthday!
  2. Upgrading a Silicon Graphics Indigo2: Going farther back - the new Commodore 64 Ultra:
  3. He'll be missed. Dancing With Strangers has a song called Joys of Christmas (with a B-side: Driving Home for Christmas). Listening to them now.
  4. RIP, Chris Rea.
  5. The Prisoner (1967) Brilliant show...
  6. It's probably a sort of pilot project - if they don't lose their shirts on Type I, maybe they'll fire up Chromium and Metal cassette production later. And what is this stuff for, anyway? Hobbyists, or real music production work? Will most of these tapes go into cheap Tanashin-knockoff Chinese cassette players? Are we playing with analog for analog's sake - should a new cassette transport include noise reduction like Dolby S or is it a solved problem already (Digital Compact Cassette)? Wouldn't it make sense for a new cassette transport to use direct drive instead of belts and fewer parts for reliability? I'm putting this Nakamichi Dragon vs. LX-5 comparo and a boombox review below just for reference - there is a small niche market emerging...
  7. I thought this was worth mentioning - Revox announced they are selling new audio compact cassettes, Type I C60 and C90 - what a crazy time we live in: https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/new-blank-cassettes-now-available-from-revox/
  8. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas
  9. The Mavericks - What a Crying Shame RIP, Raul Malo
  10. Happy Birthday!
  11. Gordon Murray (designer of the McLaren F1) modifies cars - his Alfa Romeo Junior Z from Alfaholics:
  12. HiWire replied to blessingx's topic in Music
    I found another article covering the tape degradation: https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/11/worlds-important-master-tapes-lost-experts-warn/
  13. Violin repair: Winter Wallace & Gromit: BBC Planet Earth II:
  14. Happy Birthday!
  15. Non-tiny prices. They might be good for a gag gift, e.g., The Notorious B.I.G. - Big Poppa.
  16. Why did Cloudflare go down? Nerdy Rust programming explanation:
  17. Being Human (2008) The BBC version, not the American one
  18. Yes, I was just listening to Hats (1989) and I wanted to see if the band members had done anything else since then. I've been listening to A Walk Across the Rooftops a few times in the last few weeks, since I first got it in the summer. I think the Blue Nile is basically broken up. Their 3rd and 4th albums, Peace at Last and High, didn't garner the same level of critical and popular recognition, so maybe it's best to leave it at that (from the sound of Moore's last interviews about the band, it seems to be a bitter ending, at least on his part).
  19. Paul Buchanan - Mid Air (2012) Singer of The Blue Nile, his first solo album
  20. The Bleak Shop of Old Stuff (2011): Featuring some strangely familiar old faces...
  21. Happy Birthday!
  22. I used a Printronic cartridge from OCProducts - I might try the cartridges at 123ink.ca, Moustache brand next.
  23. I started using 3rd-party ink for my HP DeskJet - it's been working out fine for the last year or so (HP discontinued the cartridges).
  24. Chris Rea - Dancing with Strangers

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