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an analog computer?
If it's analog, it has to sound better, right?
Think of the fun you could have replacing all those patch cords with audiophile grade cords?
You'll have bragging rights over your friends (and your forum enemies) for a long time.
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What do you mean the RIAA curve is not within .1 db? Wow and flutter of .08 Oh, that will never do. Don't you realize what a quality operation this is? My Phase-Lock took a loop I think.
Jim Tavegia
So they can't possibly sound good!
After all, feedback can only correct errors after they happen.
In the mid 1970's when microprocessors weren't powerful enough and mini computers were too costly in some applications, we used op-amps for computational building blocks.
Analog signals from various transducers, after being conditioned by instrumentation amplifiers, were input into specialized custom designed 'analog computers' to return results in realtime. The biggest problems were trimming input offset to zero and strategically placed temperature compensation components to counter drift. And yes, we used multi-turn pots and gear reduction dials along with large analog meters to display values. ;-)
(nt)
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I got started very young. Built my first regenerative shortwave receiver in 5th grade, advanced class ham radio license in jr. H.S., worked part time as an Engineering Lab Tech while in H.S. And my latest pic in white t-shirt is a good dozen years old.... if that's the one you're referring to. ;-)
You did start young. I wonder how many kids are following the radio route to being techies or audiophiles these days. What are the routes that tech inclined kids follow now?
I was referring the the guy in your signature line with the Beats phones. :-}
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What are the routes that tech inclined kids follow now?
Maybe they dabble in programming and creating apps for smartphones, or blockbuster video games ?? The video game industry is bigger than the movies and music industry.
Quite a few clever posts by various people. Thanks to all for the good laughs.
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"It's ALIVE....HAH,HAH,HAH,HAH....It's alive !"
I won't be surprised to find tubes in those power-supplies, or even on those circuit boards themselves :-) tubed, analog computer, what a concept!!
Spike
Surely, this tubed computer MUST be better for processing digital audio, right?
How wonderful! Think of the tube rolling possibilities.
tweaker fantasy. Wonder how many processes would have to be eliminated to make it sound decent? I would think a bunch, if not more :)
Edits: 09/18/14
Damn impressive Bill!
I just contacted the manufacturer to set up a review of this baby. I asked if they had a fanless model.
When I started teaching at the State University of New York in Albany, the music department had a state of the art electronic music studio, under the direction of Joel Chadabe (whose book on the history of electronic music I would highly recommend). It looked something like these setups. If I remember it was designed by Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog synth. There had been a great studio at Princeton, but I think this was cutting edge about 1972.
John Cage and other major figures in the electronic music of that period came to Albany to work in the studio.
Years later, all of the gear was in an underground passage way between the Performing Arts Center and the Chemistry building waiting to be trashed. I took a patch cord as a sourvenir.
nt
my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/
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