I take it back, Abbey Road shop is full of this kind of "useful" tat. You can never have enough tote bags.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 3 March 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
TEAC A-3340
Pretty sure we had one of these when I worked in a university archive - we had the congressional papers from a long serving speaker of the house and some other state things and the archivist was required by law to keep them in their original format and have the hardware necessary to make reproductions as needed. So we had an 8 track player, reel-to-reel, Zip drives, ancient giant floppy drives, and multiples of a weird film projecter from the 80s that happened to have a composite video output - he bought a few on ebay to keep around as backups.
― joygoat, Thursday, 3 March 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
tbh i can totally see myself splurging £200 on the original master tape box for some album i really love as a cool collectible & now i'm kinda mad that the idea is in my head but its not a thing being offered
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 3 March 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link
Maybe they don't have the rights to the music? But wait, they're using the EMI logo???Maybe they have a deal with EMI were they can use the trademark on reproductions of old stuff (from when that was the studio name), and EMI gets a cut
― Not Dork Yet (alternate toke) (morrisp), Thursday, 3 March 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link
if this ain't the way you listen to yer vinyls than yer doin it wrong. pic.twitter.com/1Lj2oE9Yhx— QueenCityJamz (@QueenCityJamz) March 3, 2022
i'm getting some unpleasant resonances. what fillings do you recommend for soundstage accuracy and clarity?
― andrew m., Thursday, 3 March 2022 17:16 (two years ago) link
it helps to swallow a handful of shakti stones first
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 3 March 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
Hey look! Side two is now for sale.
https://shop.abbeyroad.com/*/*/Pink-Floyd-The-Dark-Side-of-the-Moon-EMI-Tape-Box-Folio-Side-Two/7BHJ0000000
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 3 March 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
Okay, it stopped being funny.
>:|
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 3 March 2022 20:37 (two years ago) link
$300+ shipped to the U.S. Imagine someone designing some ridiculous super deluxe box set and stopping at the sight of this, thinking "wait, are you saying we don't even need actual content to make this kind of money???"
― birdistheword, Thursday, 3 March 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
Here is one of the last batch that came out, it's not even a tape box, just a folder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GUeyNVmVds
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 3 March 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
omg
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 3 March 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link
New car, caviar, four-star daydream (...amirite?)
― Not Dork Yet (alternate toke) (morrisp), Thursday, 3 March 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
have to take your hat off to em, this is next level bullshit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
How many bands could get away with it*, probably just Pink Floyd and The Beatles? I don't think Stones fans would go for an Exile version of this.
* assuming that more than 5 of these actually sell which is a big assumption
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link
Surprised Robert Fripp hasn't at least tried.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 3 March 2022 22:28 (two years ago) link
Well, soon you can buy 32 discs of Fripp's music, in a box with a 50-page booklet for £160
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 3 March 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link
My coworker pulled the grill cloth off some "vintage speakers" and found this pic.twitter.com/DumrqmFXPL— stu (@rinbcage) March 19, 2022
― 龜, Saturday, 19 March 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
(chef's kiss)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 19 March 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
hold on to your shakti stones, cuz the $700 usb dummy plug https://www.thecableco.com/rut-1-usb-terminator.html
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 22:17 (two years ago) link
missed a word there
They’ve convinced meUSB port of the computer and audio equipment, always operating state, what to release noise even in the open state that does not use, has had a negative effect on the audio equipment. In particular, USB has coexist power supply line and the signal line, making it the sensitive structure the influence of noise. The type of memory shape to be attached to USB-A port vacant acoustic Riva USB isolator RUT-1 of Eve, was laminated the signal line of high quality resistance, power line Built-in noise cut circuit using a good quality of parts is doing. Noise and distortion, stimulus component is reduced, sound localization is clarified, such as texture and three-dimensional feeling, every item will dramatically improve. Should you are able to recognize the importance of noise and vibration control measures of free USB terminal that has been ignored so far
― Otto Insurance (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link
That's amazing. The description doesn't even make sense.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link
But yes, agreed: quite convincing.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
Holy shit, lol
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
Built-in noise cut circuit using a good quality of parts is doing.
It reads like Madlibs that didn't quite work out. Company is based in PA and not only do they have free consultation, but also a loyalty program. The whole site is wonderful. $9000 cables. $35000 headphone amps. $123000 turntables. Fascinating!
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
I want to be on the pricing strategy team, do they sit around the table upping the price until someone finally cracks and starts laughing?
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
Agreed. My kinda place, if so. Going into every staff meeting with that "I'm not even blinking until we get to seven figures" face.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 02:21 (two years ago) link
i wonder how vast the soundstage would be if i applied cream electret to the RUT-1
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 04:50 (two years ago) link
Some all-time classic contributions recently to this (already MFSL-quality) thread.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link
Some amazing close-out deals on The Cable Company's sister site usedcable.com. $2000 RCA cables on fire sale for the low low price of $875.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 4 April 2022 07:03 (two years ago) link
No doubt with all the aligned electrons squeezed out of them, though.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 4 April 2022 10:13 (two years ago) link
plus they're all gunked up from the hot stampers the previous owners played through em
― adam, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
This is a far cry from switchplates and crystals, but in the spirit of Absurd Audio I offer you this. https://clearaudio.de/en/products/turntables-statement.phpAltho to be honest if I was a billionaire I’d probably buy one.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
Price is somewhere around $230,000 CAD
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link
I would pay that much for a replica made out of Legos.
But not for the actual turntable.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:50 (two years ago) link
So $250K turntables are the new $250K watches?
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:55 (two years ago) link
Wow. 350 KG (770 lb.). I'd be terrified to place it anywhere other than terra firma.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 04:49 (two years ago) link
And it can't even play 16 RPM! Worthless.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 04:50 (two years ago) link
tbrr if I was a billionaire I’d buy a handful of these garbage products over breakfast and have them overnighted to discard by dinner the next day
not a lot of them, because I’m not that wasteful!
― mh, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 04:55 (two years ago) link
I'd buy one and dedicate it to listening to Misfits bootlegs that sound like they were recorded in the bottom of a well.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 06:35 (two years ago) link
To this day I am unsure whether Audiophile magazine (or whoever it was) was trolling its readership by deciding that the "unmeasurables" separating good gear from great, were "pace, rhythm and timing" - acronym PRAT.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 06:59 (two years ago) link
Lol, I have heard that turntable on more than one occasion.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 12:40 (two years ago) link
I'd buy one and dedicate it to listening to Misfits bootlegs that sound like they were recorded in the bottom of a well.― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, April 5, 2022 11:35 PM
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, April 5, 2022 11:35 PM
New bucket list item, thx.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link
Continuing on that sidebar, I saw some reddit thread recently where some poor soul was asking if the early Misfits singles had been remastered or anything like that because he keeps trying to listen to them but they sound so terrible!
― peace, man, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
Sure, the Misfits do sound terrible, but probably not what they meant . . .
I may or may not have an alt on Reddit where I offer purposely ridiculous advice in audiophile (and similar) subs.
☺
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
wtf, Static Age sounds awesome for 1978 recordings
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
https://clearaudio.de/en/products/turntables-statement.php
omg it's a LINEAR TRACKING table
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
770 pounds!!!!
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
brb installing additional structure support in the basement below my turntable
― mh, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
i thought they made linear tracking illegal in the early '90s
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link