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Little Dot Mk3 Headphone amplifier & preamplifier.
The best for the money as long as you put some nice tubes.
Voshkod lamps/tubes preamplify, Mullard tubes, Gold lion tubes
Simaudio MOON CD5.3 RS (Canada, 2007)
Hitachi HMA-6500 (Japan, 1979)
Sony TA-E86B (Japan, 1978)
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We sail through endless skies
Stars shine like eyes
The black night sighs
The Moon in silver dreams
Falls down in beams
Light of the night
The Earth, a purple blaze
Of sapphire haze
In orbit always
While down below
The trees
Bathed in cool breeze
Silver starlight
Breaks dawn from night
And so we pass on by
The crimson eye of great god Mars
As we travel the universe
From the Site
Geneva is shaped for the way we live today. Home stereo has not kept pace with advances in digital music and contemporary lifestyle. Space is at a premium. Simplicity and style are the alternatives to the clutter of complicated technology. The multi-component concept of home stereo has not changed in many decades while in a few short years tens of millions of people have simplified entire music collections onto tiny hard drives. In a single cabinet the Geneva Sound System offers direct playback of hard drive music while also offering built in capabilities for CDs (with a built-in slot drive), FM radio, and line-in turntables, TV audio, computers and even game consoles.
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Marantz CD17 K.I. Signature
My loyal companion since July 1997; gets a full electronic and Drive-Laser revision in February 2011
Stands on a Audio Magic ISP platform; connected with the Cardas Quadlink Five C to my Marantz PM16
Loudspeakers: B&W Nautilus 805S with Kimber 4 TC
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Press L to view it in large on black background if you like.
Simaudio MOON CD5.3 RS (Canada, 2007)
Hitachi HMA-6500 (Japan, 1979)
Onkyo P-303 (Japan, 1977)
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I see the bad MOON a-rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see bad times today
Don't go 'round tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad MOON on the rise
I hear hurricanes a-blowing
I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers over flowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin
Don't go 'round tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad MOON on the rise
The photocell—part of the complex way in which the portable CD player translated bumps and grooves on a CD into 0s and 1s, which were then changed to something analog and then to sound waves, then amplified through the headphones to come out as... MUSIC!
No clue how that all worked; I read a quick blurb on Wikipedia or How-To... But this is one of the ways we are able to carry around a full orchestra in a pocket.
Hit the 'L'!
MacroMondays theme: music
Ah yeah, aw yeah. Yeah that's me. - Feel The Bass : The X-Ecutioners
Singer, sure. Pianist, why not. Drummer, go for it. But is it wrong of me to want her to be the next DMC champion?
She did say that holding the headphones that way tickled her neck.
Music player from the 1980s.
Objective - to see how well dark tones can be reproduced from a scanned HP5+ negative.
Negative exposed following an incident light meter reading.
Developed commercially in Kodak XTOL.
Zenza Bronica ETRS camera with Zenzanon EII 75mm f2.8 lens.
Epson Perfection V750 PRO scanner, processed using SilkyPix software.
For Christmas my wife gave me a Victrola stereo system. The machine is complete with a turntable, radio and CD player.
New acquisition from eBay to complement a very old CD player, both with Burr-Brown Digital to Analog converters, see : flic.kr/p/hBrZZ4
Above is the inside of the Denon CD-655 from the late 90s, a super low distortion and high signal to noise ratio CD player which uses 2 x PCM1702 DACs from Burr-Brown. The 20-bit PCM1702 was a really interesting DAC which spawned a bunch of follow-ons using the same architecture. Early R-2R ladder DACs suffered from some noise at low levels due to the Most Significant Bit current source turning on at the lowest volume output point. Multi-bit DACs had significantly higher performance than the early 1-bit and "MASH" DACs, but had this one flaw.
The PCM1702 was effectively two 19-bit DACs in a complementary design which negated the zero cross point issue. They had all the benefits of R-2R ladder DACs and now removed the other issue.
Denon must have persuaded Burr-Brown to test a higher grade spec than the datasheet. The datasheet has -J and -K options, but not -L. I remember many years ago, when I was in Burr-Brown, Linn asking us to create a higher grade audio DAC for them at final test. However they were only going to buy a small number so we said no. Denon would have had much more clout in the late 90s.
A few months back I decided to create a hi-fi system in a much bigger room in my house. I bought a new turntable (Pro-Ject Debut III SE) and a set a Tannoy floorstander speakers. Rather than spend another large bunch of money I decided to go for used equipment. I bought a Philips FA930 amplifier which came out in the 90s. It had superb specs, better than some top end amplifiers in Hi-Fi mags today, and kind of like new Marantz 6006 UK Edition, but with a bunch of extra features for the time, and more power. Philips and Marantz were always one and the same anyway. I paid <1/10 of what a new price would be.
Same with the Denon CD player, although DAC technology has moved on further than amplifier technology (Class-D amplifiers extant). The output buffer amps on the PCM1702-Ls are ultra wideband low noise operational amplifiers from NEC, so you could argue that the noise performance on buffer amps has not yet been beaten. In effect I paid less than 1/10 again of what I would pay for new today with only negligible (if any) benefits. I also looked at the 900 series CD players from Philps from the same era as my FA930 amp, but the performance was terrible, due primarily to the fact Philips had used their own 1-bit sigma delta DAC, which gave really poor performance.
ODC - Ring
I went down the shape route, lots of circles here. Great album, Stevie McCrorie's Big World - he won BBC's Voice competition last year, so talented, fantastic voice, not a cover version to be found on his album, just his own songs that tell of his life and his loves, brilliant.
27/366
December 1, 2017
(Catching up on uploading old photos)
Always the first Christmas album out and the last to put away... actually, I don't put it away!
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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State of the art stereo equipment circa 1985. I'm pretty sure there hasn't been a tape in it for 15+ years! I couldn't even get it to open for this shot. The CD player above it is still in use, but the tuner below hasn't been used in ages, either. Below that are vinyl albums which are making a comeback, although not so much at my house!
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #13 - Antiquated.
From the Site
Geneva is shaped for the way we live today. Home stereo has not kept pace with advances in digital music and contemporary lifestyle. Space is at a premium. Simplicity and style are the alternatives to the clutter of complicated technology. The multi-component concept of home stereo has not changed in many decades while in a few short years tens of millions of people have simplified entire music collections onto tiny hard drives. In a single cabinet the Geneva Sound System offers direct playback of hard drive music while also offering built in capabilities for CDs (with a built-in slot drive), FM radio, and line-in turntables, TV audio, computers and even game consoles.
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From the Site
Geneva is shaped for the way we live today. Home stereo has not kept pace with advances in digital music and contemporary lifestyle. Space is at a premium. Simplicity and style are the alternatives to the clutter of complicated technology. The multi-component concept of home stereo has not changed in many decades while in a few short years tens of millions of people have simplified entire music collections onto tiny hard drives. In a single cabinet the Geneva Sound System offers direct playback of hard drive music while also offering built in capabilities for CDs (with a built-in slot drive), FM radio, and line-in turntables, TV audio, computers and even game consoles.
Join iPod Speaker Reviews: Post your pics of your Speaker Systems and/or Setups.
This is the non-B variant of the Marantz 2235, a mid range receiver from 1976-7. A true vintage Japanese receiver (Marantz was originally an american company, but by the 70s the production had moved to Japan). Connected to its excellent headphones output are Grado SR80 phones.
On the upper shelf is a british made Arcam CD72 player.
Me and the variety of stuff I was lugging to this afternoon's Girl
Scout meeting.
I'm a Daisy Girl Scout leader - those are the kindergarten aged girls
who love pretty much everything but are still often being properly
socialized for group activities, so they're fun, but super tiring!
Junior Girl Scouts get Badges, Brownies get Try Its, and Daisies?
They earn Daisy Petals, of course! They get one petal for each
section of the Girl Scout Law ("Honest and Fair," "Friendly and
Helpful," etc.), so we spend a meeting going over one of those
concepts and some other fun stuff thrown in to boot. The poster
shows each of the petals with the corresponding part of the Law
on it.
The globe was to help us choose our World Thinking Day country to
learn about, but I actually ended up leaving it home until they'd
picked - I figured they'd go by the color of the country on the globe
above anything else. ;-) The CD player was because the girls were
playing "statues" (dance until the music stops, then freeze) as an
opening activity. The purse is because, well, because it holds
everything I need when I leave the house. The big blue container
holds all the files and paperwork for the troop, including newsletters
and the like. And the two towels - one is our "quiet spot" - if a
girl needs some time alone (or Mrs. W tells her she's being
disruptive), she goes to sit on it where she can still see what's
going on until she's ready to return. The other was to play hedgehog
which is a cool little game I learned this week.
And the tired looking redhead in back? She keeps them from running
totally amok and every now and then thinks she gets her point across.
(Oh, and I'm bent over, even I'm not quite *this* short.)
(Oh, also, guess where the camera was for this photo? On the tripod, baby!)
From the Site
Geneva is shaped for the way we live today. Home stereo has not kept pace with advances in digital music and contemporary lifestyle. Space is at a premium. Simplicity and style are the alternatives to the clutter of complicated technology. The multi-component concept of home stereo has not changed in many decades while in a few short years tens of millions of people have simplified entire music collections onto tiny hard drives. In a single cabinet the Geneva Sound System offers direct playback of hard drive music while also offering built in capabilities for CDs (with a built-in slot drive), FM radio, and line-in turntables, TV audio, computers and even game consoles.
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Hmmm... how to portray a decade twenty years ago?? The first thing that came to mind was the fashion; but I don't remember or don't possess anything that screams 90s. So, then music. Aha! As the mom of two girls who were tweenagers then, I was able to scrounge up at least one 'boy band' CD. And how did we play it? The personal portable CD player!
Wow. Times are really different now... 8-)
We spent $10 on the scanner, after verifying that it would work with Windows 7. Carolyn & the girl selling it both raced each other to see who could find verification of this fact on their cell phone first. (Carolyn lost.)
$3.00 for another blacklight, which promptly went up on our wall, controlled by remote X10 controller.
Clint paid $2.00 for the cd player for his car. This hilarious guy was trying to buy his other one for $1 instead of $2. He didn't speak English, and kept just saying "One". The guy selling it was like, "No, two!". The first guy repeated "One" at least 10 times in response. Finally he gave up and parted with it for $1. In the middle of this, he threw up his hands to ignore the "One" guy, and sold Clint his for $2, then went back to dealing with the "One" guy, who started back up again. It was pretty hilarious, especially how he finally did get it for $1. That was the hardest haggle I've seen in 30+ years of yardsaleing.
$2.00 for the Heineken mirror as a gift.
$1.00 total for the extension cords. Apparently, we still need more.
$0.25 was more than Carolyn wanted to spend on the ice tray, but it seemed like it'd be an easy one to use. We're getting to the point where we may have to throw some ice trays out. But we are breeding them into a new race of easy-to-use ice trays. Some are WAY easier than others. Let the war begin!
A book about science for Future Sagan.
Look at those jars! Why is that one so tall?!?!? Couldn't resist. I put my various glues in it, to keep them from drying out.
Also got some free cushions ... Bursitis sucks.
Fluttershy My Little Pony, Heineken mirror, MODOK action figure, blacklight, book, cd player, cushions, extension cords, ice tray, jars, scanner.
cartoon: My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. comics: Iron Man.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 14, 2012.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
... Read my yard sale-related blogposts at clintjcl.wordpress.com/category/yard-sales/
BACKSTORY: Full report of this yard sale expedition can be found at: clintjcl.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/journal-yard-sales-2012...
But in summary: 3hr47min, 47.8mi trip, spent $44.25 + ~$11.31 gas on 20 purchases worth $218.49. $43.07/hr saved.
I am very glad with our new cat, she is really thriving with us. Here she is listening to very special string music, you can hear it here, and discover that comparing violin music with cat miowing is not a depreciation, but a big compliment for both violin and cat:
www.adriaanvalk.nl/index2.php?language=EN
Click on : "discography" and then on "watch and listen" of the Mineralencyclus.