Dusty Chalk
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I went into full out, voice breaking road rage...and didn't kill anyone or run them off the road.
Yeah, that's my best right now.
(pats self on back)
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9 hours ago, luvdunhill said:
The avgRPM assignment does a bit of smoothing.
There are not a lot of mechanical losses, the belt has reasonable friction on the pulley and platter, so it can alter the platter speed with reasonable accuracy without it acting like a flywheel.
I don’t know how much is audible but I can say that +/- 0.03 rpm isn’t audible and it makes adjustments less than this.
Gor reference, the added friction of lowering the needle into the groove slows rotation about this amount.
Yes! Context is very important, thank you for that.
I will never forget that scene in ... alright, I don't remember which show, if it was Space: 1999 or UFO, where they show a crater, then zoom out, then zoom out, then ... wait, what is that?
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6 hours ago, mikeymad said:
Rendez-Vous
Jean-Michel Jarre
1986https://album.link/i/1027735025
Example:
Everything's fine?
Everything is fine.
It doesn't sound like it is fine Jean-Michel.
It's fine.
Okay... {doesn't sound fine}
It has been a long time since I have listened to this (decades). Spending most of my time listening to Zoolook over the years with it's audiophile goodness. Rendez-Vous has a much more ominous soundtrack feel to it.
Well...let's look at "Souvenir" (from his The Concerts in China album) -- his ground-breaking trip to China from all accounts was full of joy and positive memories...so why does "Souvenir" sound so sad?
Answer: because he's French. It doesn't sound sad, it sounds French. I have this from my History Of Music professor.
Back to Rendez-Vous -- this album was also the one with the ill-fated saxophonist Ron McNair who was supposed to record his part from space...on the space shuttle, Challenger. I think that might've flavoured the overall tone of the album.
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Not Oasis...
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1 hour ago, Grahame said:
Do you think that camera takes VHS or Betamax?
No. It's probably to smuggle in a machine gun.
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16 hours ago, luvdunhill said:
Do you mean does the motor alter its speed at each rotation?
Yes, but more importantly, is it audible? The software doesn't appear to smooth the data.
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On 4/19/2023 at 10:04 AM, luvdunhill said:
So, a bit of a stretch for this thread and I am doubting anyone will see the humor in this. But as y’all know o have been working in a tachometer feedback loop for my platter. With the lid off it looks like this:
Previously I had an acrylic platter with a white dot that triggered the IR sensor each time it went around and used that to calculate the platter speed.
Now I have an aluminum platter. To make it all work I had to add a black dot and update the code as follows.
.. anyways I found this humorous.
Does that jump in speed every time the platter rotates? Or does it quickly reach a steady state and stop altering the speed?
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Delta Sleep, Spring Island
mathrock joyous (in a jamband way) syncopated groovy proggy
e.g.
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They always end up fractional, in the end. That's the way the ____ ____s.
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Happy belated birthday, Jeffy! Hope it was great!
(party favour noise)
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30 minutes ago, Voltron said:
Cheese Buldak. The rice cakes were sticks and looked like marshmallows poking out under the charred cheese. Divine, if I do say so myself.
Dusty want. (Being lactose intolerant, I need to find a nice replacement for the cheese, while still retaining a bed for the green onions and the complimentary mellowing effect of the cheese...because that looks divine, and I ain't even hungry...)
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10 hours ago, kevin gilmore said:
first grilling of the new year. prime tomahawk
Dusty want.
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I've got nuthin'.
I like pussy.
CATS! I mean cats!
NO! I don't mean sex, I mean I get my companionship from my kitties.
Egad, just forget I said anything.
I find no decision about romance or sex isn't more intelligently made after a good wank.
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She's so great.
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It's the other one.
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Please ask to provide us a recording -- I actually got that, because Discord.
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New Covet -- that first song is the most atypical Covet song I've ever heard (in a good, noise-rock way), but the rest of it is more like this, but with just as much variety:
At first I kinda wished it was full of more surprises like that first song, but then I "got comfortable" -- this is truly my comfort music, so I'm (quite possibly for the first time) actually happy about not being as surprised as I started out wishing I was.
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I lollered.
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On 4/4/2023 at 3:14 PM, Augsburger said:
I note no wine was found...
It was never lost.
On 4/4/2023 at 5:35 PM, skullguise said:So I have been trying out cables, and spending more than I normally would for some wonderful silver ones that seem to make a VERY noticeable improvement....as a result, Audiogon "recommends" for me the following....
I think one of these things is not like the other 😄
I also found several interconnects, including my pair of Pure Silver Sound interconnects that were all the rage oh so long ago.
I do remember them sounding better than the others, but not sure why -- capacitance?
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Things I have found while moving:
An unopened case of Life & Limb
An unopened case of Sam Adams Winter Classics from a decade ago
Several various bottles of Bourbon County when they were way less than $25/bottle...including a 3 bottle vertical
A JL Audio W7 in its ProWedge enclosure that I think I got from someone here (sorry, I forget from whom -- Jeff? Chris?)
Several Pioneer SX-era receivers
Several guitar amp stands (you really only need one or two if you're a shoegazer or serious cork-sniffer)
Actual marbles (the lead/crystal/glass/whatever ones from the 70's)
Too many watches (Invicta, Android, one Ocean7)
A pair of Focal speakers
A SVSound subwoofer
An ancient pair of Mackie HR824 when Mackie was good
An HD-DVD player (does it matter what brand?)
Three Oppos
The purple turntable from Turntable Lab and a record cleaning machine (I never forgot the turntable, but I did indeed forget that I got a record cleaning machine as well)
Things I have not found:
my proverbial marbles
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13 hours ago, jose said:
Portico Quartet "Monument"
That's so great, isn't it? I think I will revisit it. Thansk for the "bump".
On 4/2/2023 at 5:09 PM, mikeymad said:
Bloom
Areni Agbabian, Nicolas Stocker
2019https://album.link/i/1449152210
Example:
Delicate and thoughtful.
Egad, is it all so melodic and lyrical? I am <3ing very much.
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What are you listening to Part the Third
in Music
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Jean-Michel Jarre, Les Chants Magnétiques
Because reasons