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Post by ant on Sept 25, 2022 17:01:57 GMT
I just have the two phono stages, a cole lcr valve phono stage and a benedict audio hothead.
The cole has 2 decks plugged into it, I modified it to have a couple of inputs as the case is huge so there was plenty of space.
My jbe series 3 with airprodigy linear arm and at33sa runs through an lda ha1 into the cole, and my type 3b lenco with the arm im developing and vm750sh runs into the other input.
Both the jvc ql-y5f I have with an empire 1000gt on it, and the xerxes with tabriz and dv20x2 run into the benedict audio.
I rescued the xerxes as it was sagging badly and had a broken psu. Its now all fixed. I also rescued the jvc y5 as it was completely broken. My wife refused to let me sell it on so its hers now. The jbe I have had for a long time, and the lenco is one of my builds.
I also recently rescued and restored a broken jvc ql-y3f that had a million problems, im debating on wether to reveneer the plinth as its a rare black german market one, even though it is abit tatty.
Ive also got in various cupboards, a technics sl150 to put my 3009 on and the arm i made to sanity check myself with it, a 301 (not mine), another lenco, and another 3b lenco that i built.
Its just silly. I keep ending up with the broken waifs and strays but its really nice to bring them back to life. Oh and an oracle delphi mk2 which was also broken and now isnt. Thats not mine though.
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Post by ant on Sept 25, 2022 13:13:09 GMT
I use them all the time. I dont have a streamer, well I do have a couple of them but they aren't connected up. Ive got 4 decks set up at the moment and quite a few others hanging around in cupboards. Various stuff, a couple of direct drives, a load of lencos and a roksan xerxes belt drive. My wife has an automatic jvc ql-y5f which is used every day. I just prefer a tt to streaming. Dunno why, the things just fascinate me
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Post by ant on Sept 16, 2022 12:12:05 GMT
It is also a good time to buy if you look at it from the other side. if you look at the bay and auction listings rather than buy it now that is. the more under the radar stuff goes for less than it 'should'. the popular flavour of the month items either dont sell for the expected going rate but have millions of watchers, or sell if priced for a bit less. People still want, and lets face it, hifi gear is a want and not a need. I need to spend 150 quid on the weekly shop, i dont need to spend 150 quid on an obscure cartridge from 1979. Conversely the buy it now prices of flavour of the month stuff or old faithfuls such as 401s and lp12s is inflated because people are feeling the pinch and want the absolute maximum for what they are selling. There is more overpriced old toss for sale now than there was 12 months ago. The market is there for the shrewed who have some money to burn, i watched a ratty trio l07d sell for 1500 quid a few weeks ago that 12 months ago would have sold for twice that in the condition it was in.
I should gave a clearout, ive got turntables arms and carts coming out of my ears, but i wont get what they are worth because of the economic climate. So for now ill keep hold of them until the market stabilises some and the prices of things start to creep back towards the more normal numbers.
Ive bought a couple of bits and pieces for well under what i expected them to sell for, this is kind of betting on the market rebounding somewhat if and when inflation starts to creep down and folk have abit of cash to spend again. Long game. We will see.
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Post by ant on Sept 14, 2022 15:39:33 GMT
Nobody interested in the last race? I wasnt either really. Every race is a foregone conclusion. Havent been this bored of f1 in years
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Post by ant on Aug 29, 2022 9:24:19 GMT
Decent race at spa, i wasnt really interested in the front as after friday and saturday the winner was a foregone conclusion no matter where verstappen started anyway. I was rather pleased to see alex albon finish in the points, that williams was an absolute missile on the straights and abit of an animal in the twisties, a really well deserved point for the team and a spirited drive from albon. Seb looked good all race in the green tractor, russell looked lonely and consistent again in the silver shed. lewis.... silly boy but admitted to an error of not leaving the space so fair enough. If it had come off, it would have been hailed as a fabulous pass. Shame, but doesnt really matter in the grand scheme of things, the silver shed isnt fighting for anything anyway The alpine looked really good all race, ocons pass at the end of the kemmel straight was a fabulous bit of driving from all involved. Ferrari, did ferrari things in quali with it is i leclercs tyres, and with the odd decision to try to get fastest lap but looked at least vaguely reasonable on the pit wall for once. Mclaren looked crap, piastri looks like a right tit given the mclaren alpine pace discrepancy. I hope he does go to macca and danny ric gets the alpine drive next year. haas looked crap and nowhere, alfa looked well off although zhou looked pretty good despite the dog of a car at this race. So did gasly, did rather well from a pitlane start i thought. Tsunoda didnt hit anyone or a wall this race so thats a plus.
everything back from the top 4 was interesting throughout the whole race.
The only thing i was abit disappointed with was that nobody bothered to put up at least a little fight when verstappen was in the mirrors. Everyone just let him past. Even fred couldnt be arsed. But then what was the point, in that car on that track on that day nobody else has a cat in hells chance of even coming close
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Post by ant on Aug 14, 2022 13:54:27 GMT
Not strictly f1 22, ive just read a book by james allen on michael schumacher called the edge of greatness published in 2009 after hed retired. I was never a schumacher fan per se, although i always saw him as an exceptional driver. The book tried hard to be objective, goes into the perception of him by other drivers and the 'incidents' that made him notorious (punting hill off in 1994, villeneuve in jerez 1997, the benetton traction control, illegal plank, blocking the track at monaco 2006 ect ect). I never realised that the perception of him by other drivers was as negative as it was, and the absolute dichotomy that the man was so different behing the wheel of his f1 car to what he really was in private. A really good read. I still see him as the most unsporting driver ever to do it, but also as the one who took everything to the absolute limit of what was acceptable. He defined the limits that f1 now races to. There was more to schumacher than the public perception of schummel schumi Ive got a reubens barrichello book to read and ive bought adrian neweys book how to build a car. Also going to buy damon hills book
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Post by ant on Jul 13, 2022 17:58:39 GMT
I always use level 42 persuit of accidents as a first stop, if the thing you are listening to cant separate all the interwoven bits out into coherence and let you pick and follow any bit you want then it fails the test
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Post by ant on Jul 5, 2022 12:56:21 GMT
Seb driving red 5 round silverstone That is a proper f1 car, that v10 wail is the sound of f1 for me. On sustainable carbon neutral fuel too
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Post by ant on Jun 16, 2022 18:36:15 GMT
Fia has decided to do something sensible about the bouncing BBC News - Canadian Grand Prix: FIA outlines plans to tackle 'porpoising' after drivers express concerns www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/61833829Good. Tough luck to whichever teams fall foul of these new regs, looks like red bull and the teams with little porpoising and not so appalling ride will just piss off into the distance
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Post by ant on Jun 15, 2022 20:22:45 GMT
The fia did know about it, and debated having a mandated ride height limit with the teams when they were deciding the technical regulations. The teams said no.
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Post by ant on Jun 15, 2022 14:57:05 GMT
Russell says theres likely to be a bad accident at some point, being head of the gpda he will have a talked with all the drivers and got their take. Given lewis said he was struggling to keep the car on track at 170mph and russell couldnt see his pit board while being jolted around, it inevitable that someone will eventually lose it at high speed because of the mechanical or aero induced bouncing Possible long term effects will be debated until the cows come home. Merc especially needs to sort the bouncing out, the argument of develop your way out of it is a cop out because the budget cap means it is not going to be possible, the wind tunnel restrictions mean that they cant simulate it in real time and cfd isnt advanced enough to model it which shows how complex the issue is. All the aero testing restrictions based on last years championship position mean that merc simply cant develop the car. Haas would not be in the same boat in terms of development because they have the most cfd and wind tunnel time. What they dont have is the budget and manpower to do it. Swings and roundabouts. Red bull don't really have it, their floor works. Mclaren, alpha tauri and williams dont have it but they are slow. They jacked the cars up to alleviate it but this is no solution to an f1 team. Williams dont have the downforce in the first place so its a bit of a moot point. Ferrari have it but have a chassis that seems to have much better control over the mechanical bouncing. Alpha tauri are either slow or are bouncing, abit like the merc but not nearly as violent. Sauber has it, not as bad as the merc but slower, alpine dont have it badly but are slow. Haas are slow, racing point are slow.
The 'slow group' has 7 teams in it which have either not much or too much bouncing, then there is merc, faster but utterly vicious or slow if they jack it up to stop it being vicious, then the ferrari and red bull in the fast group.
The only team that have the aero under control are red bull, and nobody has the capacity to do anything about their aero either for budgetary and cost cap reasons, or aero testing and cfd restrictions
Yet another f1 shitshow
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Post by ant on Jun 15, 2022 9:19:13 GMT
Up to mercedes to sort it on their car, come up with a solution and jack the car up in the interim and be even slower. Its not sustainable.
Same for all teams. The merc is just utterly silly in this regard
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Post by ant on Jun 5, 2022 17:47:53 GMT
As a counterpoint to the above, i use vinyl and cd and dont stream at all. I do have the gear to stream if i want to but i find it a pain in the arse, and i find myself strangely removed from the whole experience. I have a couple of thousand records and cds, and when i want to listen to something i like to peruse the shelves so to speak. I find myself going down rabbit holes within my own collection, and practically every time i pick out a cd or record i remember where i got it from or some little thing about why i have it. There is something to be said for me at least for a physical object. Actually, i suppose i do stream every so often because i do come across music on youtube then buy it as a physical copy of things i like. i found myself not listening to albums when i had the streaming stuff set up, getting bored half way through an album and jumping to something else which i think was affecting my perception of artists in some ways. So for me personally, even though technically i can, i just cant let go of the cds and lps. The physical objects mean something to me that some data on a hard drive just doesnt But each to their own, so long as a person enjoys their music its irrelevant what it comes out of For me, I actually found it hugely liberating moving on from vinyl. The collecting and hunting down of rare albums became more important than listening to them. With streaming I have listened to masses more music both new and old and am happy to pay for Spotify Premium and forego the crazy prices I would have to pay for the kind of vinyl that would interest me. My record collection is pretty much intact but I have dismantled all my analogue gear. I buy any old crap when it comes to lps, so long as its vaguely playable, i have no interest in collecting lps because the way i see it if they are worth alot of money you dont play them. My wife bought me an original mofi dark side of the moon for christmas one year, must have cost a fortune and i didnt ask. But ive played it once. I darent play the bloody thing. So i wont buy 'rare' lps.
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Post by ant on Jun 5, 2022 16:42:54 GMT
As a counterpoint to the above, i use vinyl and cd and dont stream at all. I do have the gear to stream if i want to but i find it a pain in the arse, and i find myself strangely removed from the whole experience.
I have a couple of thousand records and cds, and when i want to listen to something i like to peruse the shelves so to speak. I find myself going down rabbit holes within my own collection, and practically every time i pick out a cd or record i remember where i got it from or some little thing about why i have it. There is something to be said for me at least for a physical object.
Actually, i suppose i do stream every so often because i do come across music on youtube then buy it as a physical copy of things i like.
i found myself not listening to albums when i had the streaming stuff set up, getting bored half way through an album and jumping to something else which i think was affecting my perception of artists in some ways.
So for me personally, even though technically i can, i just cant let go of the cds and lps. The physical objects mean something to me that some data on a hard drive just doesnt
But each to their own, so long as a person enjoys their music its irrelevant what it comes out of
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Post by ant on May 29, 2022 19:42:55 GMT
Monaco! the thills! the spills! the rich people! The overtakes!
Err where were they....... Gasly overtook two cars on much much grippier tyres
That was it.
Yay perez won by going in the pits and changing tyres. Whoopie doo
Waste of my time
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Post by ant on May 9, 2022 7:05:01 GMT
I dont think they screwed up his strategy to be honest, he was on the same one as those around him George just got lucky with the safety car again, allowing him to change onto the mediums under the safety car Sat behind lewis on new mediums it was inevitable he would go past. Lewis could pit or not pit and either way lost track position to george, although he could have gone after george on the same tyres. The team chose not to bother after he said you tell me when asked, given that there was a risk that a slow stop would have dropped him down the field, so consolidated 5th and 6th. I dont think lewis was about to have a proper scrap with george anyway, no point when the car is a dog and they need every point the team can get. Merc can do without its drivers banging wheels for the sake of abit of pride. Both of them did bottas just after the restart following a small mistake Lewis or george werent about to catch perez so it was the best possible score for them Lewis has had no luck whatsoever this season, george has had plenty. But another processional race that had to be spiced up by a safety car. Did nothing for me. God help merc trying to get that car through eau rouge when spa comes around, that will be a brown trouser corner in that thing
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Post by ant on Apr 24, 2022 19:50:59 GMT
Boring again. No drs, prcatically impossible to pass without a big performance advantage. Drs active, just end up with a drs train. Again. Only but of interest came from a leclerc balls up.
Hamilton seemingly cant be arsed any more, looked a right charlie in p13 when russell put the same car in p4. No excuse for that performace, utterly mediocre which i never thought id say about hamilton. so did ricciardo sat right at the back when norris is on the podium
Im getting rapidly more bored with this season
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Post by ant on Apr 23, 2022 18:44:51 GMT
Relatively interesting sprint race for once Ferrari and red bull fairly evenly matched, the merc continues to be a dog. They have somehow made it even worse. Haas and alfa looking sharp, alpine (if it doesnt blow up again) and mclaren looking good too.
Lewis looked all at sea, george looked barely able to get that awful car to do anything. An absolute rolling travesty of a car, they havent a clue what to do with it
Nice to see seb get something at least reasonable out of the racing point after the catastophuk that was Australia.
Hopefully leclerc can get as good a start tomorrow and do verstappen again, id like to see that ferrari on the top step at the end of the season so every point counts
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Post by ant on Apr 10, 2022 19:51:34 GMT
Wasnt a bad albert park race, abit of action here and there It is i leclerc just buggered off, neither rb had any answer
Interesting that hamiltons car had 1.5kg of extra sensors on it so they got some more data, presumably the telemetry from that box of tricks was monitoring the floor in some way. Maybe some pitot tubes or something in the tunnels to try and get a handle on what the car floor is actually doing
The daft wind tunnel speed rule limiting the max speed they can test at to 180kph (about 112mph) is probably the reason people have been caught out, that probably just over half of what the cars do flat out. God knows what the air mass in there is when flat out compared to that speed, and how much flow the tunnels can take before they cant compress the air any more and stall the airflow
how russell has ended up second in the standings and merc are second in the constructors standings with that rubbish car should be a rather large red flag to rb
Albon pulling off the almost impossible was the highlight for me. Deserves his seat, stroll not so much today, getting argy bargy wasnt really on. Racing point need to tie stroll senior up and lock him in a cupboard so they can get on with the job of making that very pretty shitbox into a decent car without him sticking his oar in
Verstappen dnf again was yet another warning to rbpt to give their heads a rattle, sainz dropped a right clanger too, just had to wait for the tyre warm up and he could have blasted past everyone. A silly error
But overall a relatively decent race for albert park
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Post by ant on Apr 5, 2022 19:13:21 GMT
Removed from sale
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