Except there was no one playing the lead ‘hiss’ or the double ‘crackle’ was there?TitanTim wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:55 pmNo good though if you're listening era is the 60s, good to listen to the music how it was recorded at the timeBeeEmm wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:38 pmI agree with this. I always want to listen to music the way the artist intended when recording. Todays available high end speakers, headphones and high quality streaming services get very close to that. If I want to feel something tactile while listening to music, I turn my champagne glass round and round in my hand.
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it was there it just gets filtered out in the digital processTrue-Blue wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:46 pmExcept there was no one playing the lead ‘hiss’ or the double ‘crackle’ was there?TitanTim wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:55 pmNo good though if you're listening era is the 60s, good to listen to the music how it was recorded at the timeBeeEmm wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:38 pm I agree with this. I always want to listen to music the way the artist intended when recording. Todays available high end speakers, headphones and high quality streaming services get very close to that. If I want to feel something tactile while listening to music, I turn my champagne glass round and round in my hand.
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I've still got some unused TDK cassettes that I don't know what to do with!
Still in the cellophane, six C60 and five C74 (you could usually get an album on each side). Let me know if they'd be any use to you.
Pretty sure I've still got a Walkman somewhere too.
Still in the cellophane, six C60 and five C74 (you could usually get an album on each side). Let me know if they'd be any use to you.
Pretty sure I've still got a Walkman somewhere too.
Coupes because stunning!
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Many thanks thats really kind of you, if I can get my CD player working again so I can record will let you know If you still have your Walkman, depending on which model it is it could be worth a bob or two. Have a look on ebay.Mr Tidy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:29 pm I've still got some unused TDK cassettes that I don't know what to do with!
Still in the cellophane, six C60 and five C74 (you could usually get an album on each side). Let me know if they'd be any use to you.
Pretty sure I've still got a Walkman somewhere too.
This seller on ebay has loads of them at pretty prices
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item= ... =farish_98
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My Walkman is nothing fancy, but it looks like it might have some value.TitanTim wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:54 pm Many thanks thats really kind of you, if I can get my CD player working again so I can record will let you know If you still have your Walkman, depending on which model it is it could be worth a bob or two. Have a look on ebay.
This seller on ebay has loads of them at pretty prices
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item= ... =farish_98
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I've got a cheap "Discman" type thing somewhere too so you could probably record from that via the headphone socket.
Coupes because stunning!
Current - Silver Grey MC, Imola Red heated Nappa & carbon trim. Aeros, H & R Coil-overs, 224s, OE Strut brace, Nav, cup-holders, DSP Hi-Fi, pdc, cruise, MFSW, no CDV! E90 330i daily
Gone - Montego Blue
Gone - Ruby Black
Current - Silver Grey MC, Imola Red heated Nappa & carbon trim. Aeros, H & R Coil-overs, 224s, OE Strut brace, Nav, cup-holders, DSP Hi-Fi, pdc, cruise, MFSW, no CDV! E90 330i daily
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Hopefully I can get my CD payer up an running again, all part of the funMr Tidy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:59 pmMy Walkman is nothing fancy, but it looks like it might have some value.TitanTim wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:54 pm Many thanks thats really kind of you, if I can get my CD player working again so I can record will let you know If you still have your Walkman, depending on which model it is it could be worth a bob or two. Have a look on ebay.
This seller on ebay has loads of them at pretty prices
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item= ... =farish_98
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I've got a cheap "Discman" type thing somewhere too so you could probably record from that via the headphone socket.
At least my radio from 1969 is still going strong
Nice and compact so I can take it on holiday
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Ah Grundig!
Our first colour TV was Grundig. As soon as I saw the name I can smell the plasticky/ transistory smell of the very basic remote control.
Happy days!
Our first colour TV was Grundig. As soon as I saw the name I can smell the plasticky/ transistory smell of the very basic remote control.
Happy days!
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.
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F31 320i. Good car.
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Sign me up for Radio Luxembourg on a dark night any time.
As for Cassette tapes. They where pish when they came out and stayed pish to this day.
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It smells like that inside The telescopic aerial extends to around 20 feet, I'm sure in 1969 it would have picked up the moon landings
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Correct ..the signal could only get to most folks in the UK by bouncing off one of the many charged layers in the earths ionosphere…usually the D layer but sometimes the F layer.
As these are not stable, affected by many factors the signals would fade in and out,.
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We choose to go to on with this endeavour at this time and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…
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Well I'm with you Tim....nostalgia is the name of this game.
I started looking at National Panasonic 'music centres' on eBay a while ago, as we had one in the living room when I was a kid. That also had a very memorable 'smell' (of burning dust, plastic and basic PCBs).
I started looking at National Panasonic 'music centres' on eBay a while ago, as we had one in the living room when I was a kid. That also had a very memorable 'smell' (of burning dust, plastic and basic PCBs).
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.
F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
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I always thought is was the F..ing C layer.
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.
F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
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Always like the old as well as the new, when I bought a new guitar amplifier a few years back in had to be a valve amp purely as the tone is better when cranked up and the valves are cooking. I also have a valve ipod player so old and new together. Thats why people still prefer vinyl to digital for a warmer sound, tapes the same although you can do alsorts with that, yes it can all be digitally synthesised now to mimic certain sound types from back in the day but its still not the same, plus I like things with lots of buttonsPondrew wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:29 pm Well I'm with you Tim....nostalgia is the name of this game.
I started looking at National Panasonic 'music centres' on eBay a while ago, as we had one in the living room when I was a kid. That also had a very memorable 'smell' (of burning dust, plastic and basic PCBs).
Tim.