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[hqiku] I took some photos Red hook Crit was last weekend It rained quite a lot [/haiku] It was a great time, ignoring the rain. The races got moved forwards a few hours - last year it was almost too dark to shoot. It was also too crowded last year.... This year was good for the crowd level. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_nikon_12/sets/72157643384442023/ ^^ Should take you to the set.

Is now the right time to voice my strong opinion against the vast majority of tube phono stages? The effect of various tube parameters (Rp) on the RIAA accuracy totally trumps any advantage. A few stoopid-expensive phono stages take it into account and have neat solutions, but most do not

Those people are too mainstream to be hipsters.

1: The beyerdynamic T1 comes with a shielded cable. This seems like a good reason to sidegrade. 2: You could try putting Ferite beads on the headphone cable. I suspect that the noise is getting in to the system through allllll sorts of methods though. Do you have shielded interconnects? 3: Briliant pebbles. Those fuckers work good! Try em. (April fools!) Almost no "audiophile approved" gear or mods do anything to protect the system from RF - in fact many "audiophile approved solutions" seek to remove what little was there! 4: Occams Razor? Costs nothing. Quite effective. More effective would be to just turn the phone off and enjoy the music. 5: I'd rather just listen to the GSM noise, but to each his own. 6: Why does high output impedance matter? Do you mean you want higher? I could get behind that. The HD650 respond nicely to an amp with highish to freakishly high (60ohms or up) output impedance. The OTL tube amps so many people lalalove with the HD650 start at 60ohms output impedance and go up from there quickly. Balanced cables do not block *high frequency* RF! In a balanced system, the balanced cable rejects low-frequency EMF (60hz hum) but the individual strands of the cable are physically too far apart to reject high frequency noise. For high frequency you need a shield. The shield works great at high frequency, but does nothing at 60hz - so we combine them to kill allllll sorts of noise. You have not mentioned what sort of interconnects you have - you may find some improvement by switching to shielded interconnects, if you don't already have them. In the case of a headphone or speaker power-amplifier output, where the pickup of 60hz is not a problem (there is no amplification stage after this...) balanced "works" for completely different reasons which have basically nothing to do with noise rejection/pickup.

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I like the idea. It is very interesting to see the methods for selling art in one medium applied to another. My question is really one for the buyer. Does (s)he buy it and give it away, or does (s)he buy it for exclusivity. I fear it will be the later, but who knows! Watching people interact with art can sometimes be more interesting than the art its self. I guess its going to suck to be under the magnifying glass like that.

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Could you post a schematic of the "filter" function?

Flickr preserves exif.

Although it requires a LOT more searching, and luck, other technics tables from the 70's-80s do pop up on Craigslist from time to time... Since nobody knows what they are the deals can be AMAZING.

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Technics 1200mk2 or 3. The price went up a bit (lot) since Technics stopped making them, but they are still quite reasonable. After that, they are insanely reliable and well documented. There is a 78rpm upgrade available (well, there was when they were more readily available - I have not looked in a while) and they come with a very nice arm as long as you don't drop the TT upside-down on it DJ style. So, yea, 1200. I would avoid knock offs because they suck. After that, cheap cartridges are pick your poison. I am partial to the DL103 as the next step up. Very linear and generally well documented. For the phono stage, I don't know of anything off the shelf that would work with the budget, but if your friend is DIY handy (like at all) the Hagerman bugle is well regarded for very little money. Look into the "bugle pro" for ideas on how to make the bugle work for 78's http://www.hagtech.com/bugpro.html Or just do the de-emphasis digitally. 16RPM is really hard. How many 16RPM discs does he have? Would they be interesting enough to someone else (with a dedicated 16rpm rig) to get them to rip them?

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Over the weekend I took a bunch of photos at the Grants Tomb Criterium bike race. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_nikon_12/sets/72157642181054923/ ^^Click HERE^^ to go directly to the big set Grants Tomb Crit 2014 by Lord Nikon 12, on Flickr Grants Tomb Crit 2014 by Lord Nikon 12, on Flickr

The outside of an XLR plug is called the shell. I'm terrible with wire colors. This thread: http://www.head-fi.org/t/477461/hd-650-stock-cable-to-4-pin-xlr-howto bases it off of the thicker and thinner pins on the headphone connector. MUCH more reliable than wire colors.

I ordered smooooooth and hopefully fast Schwalbe Kojak Brompton tires in preparation for the spring.

Facepalm at me for not seeing it. Nice. Try bouncing the light off of something. Or use a stupid-small F-stop (F16-22) and low ISO so that it takes a goooood long time to expose with the flashlight. The way the vignette on the back wall forces the viewer back to the center(ish) of the image is pretty neat.

You should experiment with mixing ambient light with the light off of the tubes to get the thing to look SICK in the dark. The worlds cheapest flash (preferably with adjustable power levels, although the worlds cheapest flash is probably pretty low power anyways) bounced off the opposite wall of the room should do nicely. Set the camera to take a good long multi-second exposure. Fire the camera. While the shutter is open fire the flash. Depending on your mood and equipment you can fire the flash several times, pointed in different directions for some really crazy light. I probably should have used less flash Ooh well. That's enough audio-gear related chatter. This is a photography forum