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Finally finding another set of good, vintage Pioneer Speakers, I've made an important addition to the workshop, the Bureau of Beer, Music, and Contemplation area


It's been almost 1 year!

With such an contemplation area I'd never ever get back to work
NICE

Relaxing ...hmmm...it feels as if that could hamper your hobby work output...

But it looks stylish nevertheless...

Nah, like any work, it is important to take breaks, and take them seriously

Ahhhhhhhh! I need to get back into following threads!

Not sure if I'll actually find time though....

How the heck have you been? I will go through and see what you've been up to over the next week or so, since I don't remember where I left off.

That's a nice work area! I'm jealous!

Lol...thats the first self made gif I've ever seen...

Whatcha listening to there?

I need a kick my feet up space in my work area .....nope I’d fall asleep and never get anything done.

Ice Cube

@Jake - Yeah me too! I've been horrible about reading people's threads too, no worries man! I'm good!

@Vik- that is the 25th Anniversary reissue of Ice Cube's Death Certificate, his first solo album after he left NWA........the real problem here is that it's been 25 YEARS! and WE ARE OLD!!

@Theo, I've been looking for the perfect chair for here for quite awhile, finally saw this at a weird, ecclectic used furniture store yesterday and bought it immediately. It's very, very comfortable, makes you comfy while your back is upright and supported.

There was never any hazy confusion about age...come Sunday I am 43!......

Curiously any for of hip hop/ rap music never did it for me...i am all rock...

Happy Birthday Vik! I'll be 40 in a couple weeks!

lol, whenever the old, white, and pseudo-religious in America try to villify, ban, or rally against something...anything...it has always made it that much more attractive to people. We were so isolated geographically here in the early 90s, and our News has always been selective, that the Gangsta Rap actually gave us NEWS that we didnt hear anywhere else about the militarization of the Police force in Central LA and in other cities, and how it affected people who were deliberately marginalized. Also, 3 corporations owned ALL of the radio stations, so all we ever heard was the same 13 or 14 Rock songs over, and over, and over again on the Radio.. People wanted something new. I still cant stand Lynrd Skynrd AT ALL, just because i think I've literally heard it more often than my own Mother's voice growing up.

Cube was one of the most outspoken at the time, and he made a point back then that still hasnt been answered "Our Communities have Crack Cocaine from South America and AK-47s From Russia, and none of us have Passports"


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as for GIFs, I make these little loops of the dog all the time

Well being the oldest of us three at least (43 back in July) I feel it’s my place to wish you whipper snappers a happy birthday . I will make celebratory brownies on Sunday in Viks Honor.

I’d make a GIF of the cat we inherited from grandma, but unless it ran for a few hours there would be no movement.

You all make me feel young as I recently officially and undeniably became nearer 40 than 30 (without needing to round up a 5).

Nice set up Dave.
Although I prefer my 5.1 setup, to fully surround me with music and drown out the tinnitus.

Ugh, Doc, I'm so sorry. Tinnitus would drive me nuts. I know you get used to it, but it doesn't seem easy or fun. How else do you cope?

I like my music analog, Completely flat and balanced as mixed on the master, no EQ or other nonsense
But of course, 1/3 of my music collection is old Jazz records. And Rudy VanGelder took many of his recording secrets to his grave with him. Technology will forgotten by time. Very 40K. He did things with 1950s equipment that many today still can't do.

 dsteingass wrote:
Ugh, Doc, I'm so sorry. Tinnitus would drive me nuts. I know you get used to it, but it doesn't seem easy or fun. How else do you cope?

It's not too bad. I've had it since I was about 20. Listening to portable music players (from before the time of AVLS) at full volume will do it. I like to feel my music...

If there's background noise that I can concentrate on, then I don't notice it. It's still there and I can hear it if I think about it. It's a constant, so I'm used to it being there.
The only major problem is when it's quiet, and I notice/remember it.
Doesn't keep me awake or anything. But there will never be any silence, or silent moments for me.

The main problem is the associated hearing loss. Especially in the mid-range (y'know where everyone's voice tends to be). Not to the point that I can claim to be deaf, but I often have to ask people to repeat things they say. Mild hearing loss, on top of mild tinnitus, on top of mild dyslexia... can mean I don't always catch what people say.

I like my music analog, Completely flat and balanced as mixed on the master, no EQ or other nonsense
But of course, 1/3 of my music collection is old Jazz records. And Rudy VanGelder took many of his recording secrets to his grave with him. Technology will forgotten by time. Very 40K. He did things with 1950s equipment that many today still can't do.

Nowt wrong with any of that.
I've always tweaked my music. My first portable cassette player had EQ-like sliders on the front... I think they were Treble, Bass and More Bass. I liked my bass.
And I spent more time that I care to admit tweaking the EQ on my first Hi-Fi to get it to sound the way I liked.
Since I upgraded to 5.1, I've spent hours fiddling with those settings too.
But then, the bulk of my music is more on the electronic side of things (but I have broadened to encompass most genres):
Recent CD haul included, Goldfrapp, The Orb, Sub Focus, Queens of the Stone Age, and Placebo.
For example.

Different ways of approaching things.

This 1986 Carver 900 Receiver I'm using down here has a stupid amount of power, like 160 Watts/channel max, so I don't dare use any old speakers with it. It'll bump when I want it

My BEST rig is upstairs though, with the main system

You young whippersnappers. got several years on the lot of you.

Happy Birthday just in case I manage to forget.

You see with my nice little derail last year I gained short term memory loss like an SOB, can't remember squat that happened 5 minutes ago. Oh and old age (47) has played another trick on me, noticed it over the last few months and recently had it medically confirmed, got a declining deafness in both inner ears, in particular I too struggle with speech, but for me the biggy is I can't hear bird song. I love music, of all kinds. I believe it is a mood thing, but have noticed I am missing bits now.

I personally believe that different genres have different equipment, Classical or Vangelis are best over a decent computer, the clarity is important, but there are whole decades that require a vinyl record. I am not quite so blessed as you Dave, but I am not far away. I am disgusted to admit I do not own a proper turntable any more.

Love the GIFs of Bean, awesome stuff,got to say though, did not expect to see those shoes, maybe outside, but in the den surely the purple carpet slippers!!!

Nice. I currently have Sony system that used to be one of my older brother's, that has 100W per channel and an active Sub'. It's sufficient.

Sadly, people would complain if I used it like I want to. I mean, just get your own and drown out my noise...


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...in particular I too struggle with speech, but for me the biggy is I can't hear bird song.

Bird song is typically above the frequencies I've damaged, so I can hear them. Although they still compete with the tinnitus.

... Classical or Vangelis...

I have albums of both (albeit one is a genre) of those too, to mix in with the above. Both work well in surround.

Nearly 40, 43,43 and approaching 40. You kids...
Wait 'til you hit the half century mark. Seriously, wait, as long as you can. It. Sucks.

Nice rig there, Dave, but you're missing a beer fridge. I've got my old Fischer speakers ( from the early '80's) on my main worktable. They are about 5' away on either side of me, and at ear-level, when I sit to paint. Still sound great. I rarely hook up my turntable though. I've found that making a digital recording of the LP and playing the wave file, or even an MP3*, through my laptop into a kenwood mini HiFi setup and then out to the speakers works very well. No equalizer either. I can't be bothered to fiddle with the darn things. I've often wondered if one of those external DACs would improve things... Of course, making that digital recording can be interesting...

That chair, it reminds me of a print ad for some sound system...

@red LMAO, OMG, YES!


was that subconscious? A childhood dream unconsciously realized?

@Cam- haha I had just hauled the chair and footstool down the stairs

@Doc that may be a blessing, Robins can be really loud and annoying in the mornings no, seriously, I'm sorry about that.

 dsteingass wrote:
@Doc that may be a blessing, Robins can be really loud and annoying in the mornings

Bah, just drown them out with loud music.

no, seriously, I'm sorry about that.

No worries. It's self inflicted so can't really complain. *shrugs*

Speaking of a new setup, do you have a go-to test tune to check that everything is working as expected?

I use The Chemical Brothers - Under the Influence.
It has a nice bass sweep that's good to find things that will resonate, and it has clear mids and delicate highs that are good to tell if each frequency range is without interference from each other and to test that the speakers can reproduce each clearly together and separately.
You Tube doesn't really do it justice (I play it direct from CD at room-vibrating volume), but you'll get the idea:



I'll then try a few other genres but that's always the first track I play.

I have a handful of albums I use for testing, but first is always a Mono copy of Miles Davis Kind of Blue. That's my benchmark.

Nice!

Right, time to go back to modelling... So much to do, so little time..

This is all I have to show

Dave, don't you have a circle cutter? That base looks a bit ragged. Is it foamcore?

Kind of Blue? I approve. Although my favorite LP from 1959 is actually Take Five.

I wish I had been able to see Miles in his prime in concert. A genius, he.

oh, that's just a working base I cut from some PVC foam, so I dont mess up the stock base while painting and modeling. I just traced the stock oval. Its just rough cut, no sanding or anything.

So many great albums from 58/59. I just know how every single note is supposed to sound on Kind Of Blue

Those really were the days... for good jazz anyway. Not so long ago I was watching a program on the Japanese International Channel NHK-- "Mark of Beauty" IIRC. The background music, "Flamenco Sketches". So at least one person in Japan knows

Your photo reminds me that I need to convert my sentinels into something that I can use for other games. So much hobbying, so little time for it.

Dude, most of the Original Pressings of those records are now in the hands of big-time Japanese Collectors. It's HUGE there. I met a Japanese record Tourist at Jazz Record Mart in Chicago when it was still open. He was digging in the old gold, and he said he only collects records after the artist was dead. He never bought them when the artist was alive. nice guy.

You got legs, do you know how to use them?

heh. The paintjob I'm planning for this may be the most involved single miniature I've ever painted.

Sounds good. Always nice to push yourself every now and then.