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Post by MartinT on Dec 3, 2022 22:46:29 GMT
You must spend the most and have the most expensive system known to man otherwise you are insignificant at most. I don't know where you're getting that from, Stu, but it's not here on this forum. It's clear to me that members are first and foremost music lovers. |
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Post by ChrisB on Dec 3, 2022 23:51:14 GMT
This place is not a pissing up the wall contest. We write about the music and systems we enjoy and the journey we are on. If your journey involves a simple system, that's great.
Some of my most memorable musical moments have been thanks to table top radios, car stereos or ancient receivers with simple speakers. If there's not much written about that kind of thing here, it's not because it doesn't happen.
One way to change it though.
Write about it.
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Post by John on Dec 4, 2022 5:20:30 GMT
What we set out to do is to encourage people to share their own thoughts and journeys in music and system building, we want a place that friendly and open where people feel safe to discuss this without being ridiculed.
A lot of us here use Bluetooth for YouTube and yes, I can enjoy watching/listening to music this way.
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Post by karatestu on Dec 4, 2022 8:34:51 GMT
I am happy to say that this forum is very welcoming and civilised. More so than most. I have respect for everybody who posts here. My problem is all in my head and it spills out occasionally, usually when I have had a few  If you hadn't noticed I have an inferiority complex. Nothing I do is good enough. Money is a swear word. I need it but hate it at the same time. Everything has to be simple otherwise I WILL obsess about it. For my own sanity I should stop thinking. That is the main reason that when I drink I do it to such an extent that my brain shuts down. I can't cope with myself. ANY talk of network switches, grounding boxes, external clocks, cables, fuses, cable lifters etc etc turns me right off. I can't afford to be dragged into any ov that otherwise my head might actually explode. No disrespect intended, this is all about me. I still want a simple system. |
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Post by karatestu on Dec 4, 2022 9:01:06 GMT
I suppose a Bluetooth speaker is simple but just imagine the amount of circuitry stuffed inside it.
My diy efforts are mostly simple in nature but none of them are finished. Even after five years of pissing about with speakers I don't have a completed project. I am a compulsive modifier- can't leave anything alone.
My ultimate simple system would look like this
Technics direct drive with built in phono stage
Volume control
Single driver speaker with class AB amps built in.
Thats it. None of this stereo bollox, everything in mono out of one speaker.
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Post by mattspl on Dec 4, 2022 10:02:12 GMT
I often wonder if Bluetooth speakers were around when I was younger, would I have got into Hifi separates etc?
Myself, my brother and an Australian friend of my brothers used to put together systems from old speakers and amplifiers we were either given because they were being thrown out, or from car boot sales. Our aim back then was Maximum Volume and bass.
With all the different monster Bluetooth speakers available these days(which have far better sound quality than I ever had back then)including PA speakers, I wonder would I have gone down the ‘Hifi’ route at all?
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 4, 2022 10:21:33 GMT
Thanks to this thread I was thinking about my first system
I realised my first music listening device was my mum and dad's crappy transistor radio I would sit in the kitchen and listen to.
The second system was the mono Philips record player radiogram
The third was their *Stereo* radiogram
Never thought about the quality of any
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Post by MartinT on Dec 4, 2022 10:24:43 GMT
Some of my most memorable musical moments have been thanks to table top radios, car stereos or ancient receivers with simple speakers. If there's not much written about that kind of thing here, it's not because it doesn't happen. Much of my music listening is done in the car on the long commutes. My car system sounds shit but I still get a lot of enjoyment listening to good music on it. |
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Post by karatestu on Dec 4, 2022 10:45:01 GMT
Thinking back to the 70's and 80's all the music reproduction equipment was absolutely awful. We never cared though. My sister used to put her records on at full blast whilst relaxing in the bath. It was my job to turn it over. Sounded terrible. Oh I wish those care free days of childhood lasted forever.
The Bluetooth speakers of today really are amazing things.
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 4, 2022 11:09:12 GMT
Stepson has a Bluetooth speaker, Bose I think
Incredibly good quality for the size
Out of interest we tried it on an RDC platform
Nice jump up in sound quality on a platform that cost more new than the speaker of course
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Post by palace on Dec 4, 2022 11:32:44 GMT
Some of my most memorable musical moments have been thanks to table top radios, car stereos or ancient receivers with simple speakers. If there's not much written about that kind of thing here, it's not because it doesn't happen. Much of my music listening is done in the car on the long commutes. My car system sounds shit but I still get a lot of enjoyment listening to good music on it. Just a few of my inspirational music moments. 1964 hearing Eric Burdon & The Animals "House of the Rising Sun" on a little transistor Radio, 1964 again hearing a radio through an open window of Fulham postman's office Nat King Cole singing his 1957 hit "When I Fall in Love" 3 weeks before he died I still love Nat King Cole. 1974 Reliant Scimitar GTE 1/2 decent head unit hearing Supertramp "Dreamer" for the first time, stunned I parked up to hear it. Like Martin T said it 's clear to me that members are first and foremost music lovers. |
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Post by karatestu on Dec 4, 2022 11:33:38 GMT
Oops wrong thread
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Post by MartinT on Dec 4, 2022 11:36:32 GMT
Thanks to this thread I was thinking about my first system My first system wasn't mine, it was my parents' but they never used it. It was a Dansette and it sounded dire, even to my untrained ears then. So I rebuilt it with a small Class AB amplifier based on a circuit in Elektor and my own calculations. It sounded somewhat less dire. |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 4, 2022 11:39:44 GMT
hearing Supertramp "Dreamer" for the first time, stunned I parked up to hear it. Still an absolute cracker to this day, and sounds stunning on Qobuz hi-res. |
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Post by ChrisB on Dec 4, 2022 11:43:06 GMT
Walking through Copenhagen to the railway station at about 8:30 one Sunday morning. A delivery driver's van was parked outside a shop and being unloaded. Windows were open and 'Pictures of Home' was blasted out, seemingly from nowhere, and filled the street. The music and the moment were perfect.
'Pictures of Home' has been my favourite Deep Purple track ever since.
Whenever I think of Copenhagen, I think of Deep Purple.
Whenever I hear 'Pictures of Home', I think of my favourite city.
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Post by MartinT on Dec 4, 2022 12:47:58 GMT
It's Child in Time for me, but I know exactly what you mean.
I remember hearing Sultans of Swing for the first time in a bar while on holiday in Corfu. I had to have it when I got home.
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 4, 2022 16:07:39 GMT
In the days before cars regularly had cassette players and certainly before the prices became sensible I had a portable cassette in the car.
Spent a lot of time driving and I was in heaven with the music
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Post by julesd68 on Dec 4, 2022 21:30:51 GMT
I think my best memory of lo-fi is listening to The Friday Rock Show on my mono Sanyo Radio Cassette player. Always a buzz of expectation getting all the latest tracks, it was perfect late night bedroom listening.
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Post by palace on Dec 4, 2022 22:13:53 GMT
I think my best memory of lo-fi is listening to The Friday Rock Show on my mono Sanyo Radio Cassette player. Always a buzz of expectation getting all the latest tracks, it was perfect late night bedroom listening. Real low-fi was listening to Pete Murray & David Jacobs on Radio Luxemburg drifting in & out with spurious noises on a valve radio in the 50's & early 60's sort of a forerunner of pirate radio. |
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Post by mikeyb on Dec 4, 2022 23:11:21 GMT
Walking through Copenhagen to the railway station at about 8:30 one Sunday morning. A delivery driver's van was parked outside a shop and being unloaded. Windows were open and 'Pictures of Home' was blasted out, seemingly from nowhere, and filled the street. The music and the moment were perfect. 'Pictures of Home' has been my favourite Deep Purple track ever since. Whenever I think of Copenhagen, I think of Deep Purple. Whenever I hear 'Pictures of Home', I think of my favourite city. When I did my English higher in 5th year I hadn’t studied at all, so when it came to the poetry questions I used Pictures Of Home as my poem of choice, the other one I used was Hawkwind Spirit of the Age 😂 Needless to say I failed but did enough for them to give me a O Grade equivalent, so I now have O Level English twice 😉 |
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If you hadn't noticed I have an inferiority complex. Nothing I do is good enough. Money is a swear word. I need it but hate it at the same time.
