Just surfing on the net, watching those nice pics. After listening a couple of cassette tapes, now I'm convinced that I really need to replace my actual speakers for a 3 way large speakers, suitable for analogue sound and perfect for my 1982 #Pioneer amplifier! #MusicLover#HiFi
Here's the deal: I have too many #cassette decks and I want to give one away, along with 20 cassettes.
Why? I love the format, I love the ritual, I love the analogue warmth, and I love introducing people to what tape sounds like on a really good #hifi deck. The fully serviced Sony 3 head Dolby S deck has a headphone socket, so you won't even need an amp or speakers.
#UK only (sorry) and all you need to do is reply with what you want to play on it and I'll pick one.
@woodpunk@mrak I recently bought the hires digital and cassette version of the new Mark Knopfler album.
(Not that I will hear a difference between mp3/cd/hires)
@thomas
Für Bassdröhnen gern Gojira "A Sight To Behold". Der Mittelteil hat bisher bei jedem Raum ein Dröhnen verursacht, der nicht behandelt war. Da hilft auch kein Sonarworks.
@thomas Da ich das immer wieder auf größeren Konzert-PAs machen muss hab ich da so ‘ne fertige Playlist. Wandert auch als WAV in verschiedenen Sampleraten auf einem USB-Stick mit mir mit, damit es auf allen Mischpulten direkt abspielbar ist. Ich kenn die Songs sehr gut, und kann damit innerhalb von 2-3 Minuten die meisten Defekte von PAs herausfinden, und idealerweise fixen bevor es zu spät ist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4FNhIk5VH7alWdBWeDM5at?si=e2851061364a4947
A friend came over yesterday and was incredulous to learn that I've swapped out my expensive #hifi gear for a late 70s all-in-one Panasonic music centre.
The truth is, I'm now listening to and enjoying more #music on #cassette and #vinyl than I have in a long time.
Alan Parsons has a theory and it feels like he may be onto something:
"Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment”
Even if you are not, please boost so more people can see this ❤️
In short, I need a couple of loudspeakers.
Context: since I have so many vinyls and CDs at home I decided to build a simple hi-fi system just for them (like if it was the 2000s 🙃)
I’ve found a second hand Denon avr1708 and a CD player, and I already had a ~10 years old record player. Now I just need a couple of loudspeakers but I literally have 0 idea how to choose one. I just read some infos about ohms and watts but that’s all. I’m also not much an audio expert so I don’t know which kind of “sound” should I be looking for in a speaker.
If you could suggest some specific speaker I would appreciate it, but since I’d prefer to find something second hand I’d rather like tips about what to look in a speaker, also some dos and donts when buying them second hand
What’s the bookshelf speaker equivalent of Sony MDR-7506s or Shure SE215s? JBL 4312s with roots back to 1968? Sony SS-SC5 from 2014? Jones’ 2016 Elac Debut or earlier 2012 Pioneer BS22? Klipsch R series?
Should be:
cheap as possible while not crap
old enough that most folks know of it
given above, it should be a common reference point when comparing other models
@thomas Most interesting. I felt really out in the woods most of the time, and was least confident with the songs I appear to have performed best at. And I'm sitting in front of OK-ish studio monitors here. 😄 It also taught me that being honed on a genre doesn't help as much as I thought.
What I was really looking for were the dead giveaways of former times where you could always tell by the cymbals. That is obviously gone, and impossible for songs that don't have a lot of them (e.g. 2nd one).
Received my 3$ #Bluetooth receiver adapter now, plugged it into the old JVC #HiFi system… holy crap it works great!
Wirelessly streaming webradios to that 240-watts analog sound system with #GNOME's Bluetooth settings & @haeckerfelix's "Shortwave" app is the practical cyberpunk future I didn't know I needed!
The app is only missing the ability to auto-switch between preferred PipeWire output devices at runtime (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave/-/issues/547) and it'll be… Chef's Kiss 👌️