music in the shed

Yes it is getting on a bit Jon ......... still works ok , but casing is starting to crack in places ........ my old standby gaffa tape helps hold it together ........:) ...........

Came with Windows 8 installed , but I uprated it to Windows 10 four or five years ago ........ There was something I wanted to do , maybe to do with a speed camera detector , didn`t seem to work with 8 , so I tried it with 10 ....... still didn`t work , but doesn`t matter now ........

I think support for Windows 10 has just ended , but as long as it keeps working ok , I won`t worry too much for the moment .........
 
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Wondering how the many/few out there listen to these postings, usual "audio" on computers can be highly variable. Bit of a ramble, though interested in what is used for music playback amongst the near deaf Laverda riders, grin, j
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A Creative Audio Labs I-Trigue 3600 driven through a Realtek High Definition Audio, Jon.
 
Audio reproduction is a bit of a nightmare, seems like a mix of truths, rumours and fallacies to me. Who can really tell the difference between a quality class AB amplifier from the 1970s, a class A SET amplifier, and a modern class D amplifier. Probably not me with ageing hearing and tinnitus, should have started wearing earplugs when I was 20.

I have a pair of KEF reference 104 speakers, inherited from my parents. They sound pretty good to me, but speaker technology has moved on a great deal since then. Modern magnets are far stronger and smaller, cone materials are polymer instead of paper, it can all be computer modelled to perfection.

Frothing at the mouth,
bazzee
 
bazzee said:
Audio reproduction is a bit of a nightmare, seems like a mix of truths, rumours and fallacies to me. Who can really tell the difference between a quality class AB amplifier from the 1970s, a class A SET amplifier, and a modern class D amplifier. Probably not me with ageing hearing and tinnitus, should have started wearing earplugs when I was 20.

I have a pair of KEF reference 104 speakers, inherited from my parents. They sound pretty good to me, but speaker technology has moved on a great deal since then. Modern magnets are far stronger and smaller, cone materials are polymer instead of paper, it can all be computer modelled to perfection.

Frothing at the mouth,
bazzee
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And capacitors in speaker crossovers and amplifiers age and change value. I could actually hear the improvement in my speakers when I changed the capacitors. Before we settle down, I’m going to have my vintage Yamaha receiver overhauled by a technician to make it ready for another 50 years of use!
 
Some real deal speakers mentioned here, lucky owners. Have done ( repaired/modified ) many all valve ( Tube ) amps in my time, 60's Vox, Mesa to Fender et al to Australian made amps in the day, built my own 2 by 200W all valve bass amps, with no tone stack and one switch on the front panel labelled "After Burner" as it dropped the 12db of negative feedback ( tapped at the output transformer ), loved throwing that switch last songs of the gig... most of us here have lived through the ever changing soundscape, we know what we like.... as Bazzee points out, Tinnitus is predominant here. For the most part it is at speech level all day every day. The brain is very good at notch filtering it out, save for bedtime.

Ear of the beholder, a dictate supreme... since this part of the forum needs external devices to participate, wondered what was in play, yes pathetic pun... very fortunate to be motorcycle riders and making it to old age, numbers game all in all, others the number came up, mores the pity. Enjoy the music of the day, while we are able, inherited speakers and all. j
 
rocketonarail said:
Yes it is getting on a bit Jon ......... still works ok , but casing is starting to crack in places ........ my old standby gaffa tape helps hold it together ........:) ...........

Came with Windows 8 installed , but I uprated it to Windows 10 four or five years ago ........ There was something I wanted to do , maybe to do with a speed camera detector , didn`t seem to work with 8 , so I tried it with 10 ....... still didn`t work , but doesn`t matter now ........

I think support for Windows 10 has just ended , but as long as it keeps working ok , I won`t worry too much for the moment .........
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Indeed, used Win XP until the very end days, still have one machine here running it for old ( legacy in industry silly parlance ). The updated from FATxx to NT was one of the few times MS got it correct. EXT3,4 are staples here, with added flexibility to cope with FAT/NT.

Gaffa tape ( Nashua in the day ) mentioned, one use i did not experience ( thought had seen it all ) until recently.. managed to drop a dance gal partner at local festival. She could not get up, had to dead lift her... took all i had to pick her up.. took the blame for dropping her on the dance floor. Though i was suspicious as have never dropped any dance partner in last 5 years, caught a few, never dropped. Looked at her dance shoes, the very silly and dangerous technique of putting tape on the soles of their favourite non dance shoes, in this case thin gaffa ( read cheap copy ). So it had come loose and folded over on itself, glue side to dance floor and foot secured to the floor mid dance move. No substitute for proper items in bike riding or dance... no shortcuts either. j.
 
Funny Bazzee mentions KEF 104, I might be using exactly the same. 'Might' because mine are the 104/2 with the linked vertical bass drivers, wired out of phase. In my office/den I run them via a WiiM Pro Plus streamer (a really useful swiss army knife thing... Bluetooth, Spotify, Tidal, WiFi/LAN. RCA-in, Chromecast-et-al, Optical-in), out into a QUAD 405-2 power amp. When the good lady is away, the KEFs go back in the lounge (they are big and not to her taste) being swapped out with the smaller Castle Durham stand-mounts that she finds acceptable.
 
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Funny Bazzee mentions KEF 104, I might be using exactly the same. 'Might' because mine are the 104/2 with the linked vertical bass drivers, wired out of phase. In my office/den I run them via a WiiM Pro Plus streamer (a really useful swiss army knife thing... Bluetooth, Spotify, Tidal, WiFi/LAN. RCA-in, Chromecast-et-al, Optical-in), out into a QUAD 405-2 power amp. When the good lady is away, the KEFs go back in the lounge (they are big and not to her taste) being swapped out with the smaller Castle Durham stand-mounts that she finds acceptable.
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The Reference 104 is quite different to the 104/2.

bazzee
 
Several years ago I picked up a set of Bose 901s that had just been re-coned for not alot of money. Very dated but sound fantastic all the same.
Albarry amp and ProAc speakers is what I usually listen through. System let down by either a cheap CD player or laptop playing MP3s
 
Rob, know where there is the matching Bose rack amp, weighs as much as your Motodd. Not so much of a joke i can assure you.... 801 the usual PA in the day. 2ohm drivers as i recall. j
 
Orchestral strings a touch of worth, Nice 12 string, playing mine lately. Taken with Dandy Warhols acoustic live songs, "Used to be friends and "Sometimes you have to get over things, have a prospect gal to do those live open mic. Seems pretty much it into the future, open mics, not so big on them though if not attended, its the 4 walls at home, less appealing to be certain. j
 
Must admit this is a bit desperate... My wife wont allow me to take home the Audio Pro B4-200 subwoofer from my bands store. We lost our rehearsal cave. Anyone interested?
 

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