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Believe it or not, this system is in my home office. I didn't plan to have a large cabinet and floor-standing speakers in my office but when we sold our home in SoCal these things needed a new place, and I wanted to hear some some tunes while working.
It actually fits the space nicely for both sight and sound, and the cabinet space at left provides much-needed storage.
System components are an interesting mix of old and new:
Sony STR-GX90ES receiver, circa 1990
Sony CDP-C701ES five disc CD player, circa 1990
Carver C-4000 control console, 1982
Allison Two speakers, 1977
Pioneer PLX1000 turntable, current production
Ortofon 2M Bronze phono cartridge, current production
Wiim Mini streamer, current production (not shown)
Scandinavian walnut cabinet, 1984
Over the years, the cabinet has been re-finished and the woofer surrounds have been replaced.
Although these speakers are (rather obviously) intended for larger spaces, they work surprisingly well in this near-field setup. In fact, they sound better in this space than in any other I have used them.
The Carver C-4000 control console provides some useful sound-shaping capabilities. "Sonic Holography" does some phase trickery to isolate voices and instruments more precisely in the sound stage. "Auto Correlation" removes surface noise from LPs (or tape hiss) with little or no effect on high frequency music content. And the "Peak Unlimiter" adds up to 6dB of gain to dynamics. All of these functions can be adjusted to the listener's taste. Bob Carver did it all using 1970s analog op-amps and discrete components.
Visitors who listen to the four systems in this house (yes, there are two more) consistently choose this one as their favorite.
(cell phone snapshot)
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I can't believe I finally have a Goldie in my life! She's just as sweet as I imagined.
I named her Audio because listening is fun :)
I noticed 21 year old Audio from outside the café window; her animation drew me inside to talk to her and her dad for a few minutes. Today is his birthday and they were celebrating with a coffee date.
Me: What do you love?
Audio: I love spiders. They terrify me but it's important to face my fears, so I make a point of observing them. We let part of our yard go wild and they moved in right away.
Me: What is your guilty pleasure?
{She looked baffled by the question, so I elaborated: chocolate? binging a particular show or following a website?}
Audio: I don't feel guilty about pleasure. Be into whatever you're into, just don't hurt anyone by it.
Me: That is wise. I like it.
I chose a candid image (she's looking at her dad) because this was how I first saw her.
Project 100x: The 2024 Edition
012-100 Strangers
an integrated circuit wafer containing audio amp chips, made circa 1981, viewed through an antique Bausch and Lomb folding magnifier
Audio cassettes
Trois cassettes des Beatles que je conserve précieusement mais que je n'ose pas écouter de peur de les abimer.
Three Beatles cassettes that I keep preciously but that I don't dare listen to for fear of damaging them.
EF100mm f/2.8 L IS USM
Stack de 12 images capturées avec Helicon Remote et assemblées avec Helicon Focus
Lighting of the Sails: Audio Creatures
(Artistic Inspiration and Direction by Ash Bolland, Music by Amon Tobin, Visual Content & Animation by Spinifex P/L Sydney.)
Tableaux that evoke the pulsing sea creatures, eye-searing bird-plumage and iridescent plant life of an organo-mechanistic future are projected onto the Sails of the Sydney Opera House.
I'm back to listening on the Alien Shozy paired with the Fiio A1 amp, a really pleasing combination.
The Velvet 56 lens also likes rendering sharp edged objects as well as curvy stuff.
This is Campfire Audio's entry-level inner ear monitor. It goes for 349$ USD and carries a single balanced armature speaker.
Camera:
Fujifilm GX680III
Lens:
Fujinon EBC 100/4
Back:
Hasselblad CFV-50
Strobist:
Two lights, one shot object rear through aluminium grill 1/2 power. 2nd light in softbox behind styrene object right 1/4 power.
Lights:
Profoto Pro-B head
After our very succesful first collab we were hired
by Cavata Clothing/USA to create a shirtdesign with the same vibe.
I started with the SM 58 microphone character and SAT came up with
his great looking tape on the top of the design. Once again it was hell of fun,
thanks SAT! This will be soon available in their online shop.
Better view large here.
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My white 13" Apple Macbook laptop computer.
pictured: Mac OS X install disc 2
- - -
specs:
13.3" TFT glossy widescreen display (1280 x 800 resolution)
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
2 GB of RAM (DDR2)
160 GB hard drive (5,400 rpm)
Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor (144 MB shared RAM)
built-in iSight video camera
slot-loading 8x SuperDrive (DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, CD-R, CD-RW)
FireWire 400 (1 port)
USB 2.0 (2 ports)
Mini-DVI port
10/100/1000BASE-T ethernet port
built-in AirPort Extreme wi-fi wireless networking (802.11g/n)
Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
optical digital audio input/analog audio line in
optical digital audio output/analog headphone out
built-in stereo speakers
meets Energy Star requirements
size: 12.78" x 8.92" x 1.08"
weight: 5.0 pounds
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A look at different types of recording media before the MP3 format changed the way most people listen to music on the move.
The large "wheel" is tape from a Reel-To-Reel recorder, then there are three Compact Cassettes, one Minidisc, and one DAT (Digital Audo Tape).
Two of the tapes are of the Chrome setting, and the one with the solid metal frame is the "Metal" type, but could be used in Chrome setting. The metal frame had a use and a gimmick at the same time, but each tape was VERY expensive, it did give wonderful recordings.
The Minidisc recorded audio like the MP3 format does, by throwing away data the recorder thinks you can't hear.
The DAT tape recorded in PCM format with better than CD error correction, no loss of sound quality, so could make perfect copies of CD's (Compact Disc), which scared the music industry (illegal) cartel, where they thought up SCMS to stop such infiinite copying, but was easily defeated with a cheap box of electronics, professional DAT machines had no SCMS.
The image is resized from the original 14 bit RAW image, so unaffected by JPEG conversion in editing.
Nikon D700, 50mm prime lens set at F3.2 and ISO 800, 1/30s.