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After nearly six years with my trusty Sony Ericsson 310, I finally bought something I've craved for years - a flip type phone. I don't know why I felt compelled to get one, but now I've got a Motorola Pebl, I'm like an eight year old at Christmas again.I'm keeping the Sony as backup cuz it's literally been through fire and rain with me without quitting, and amazingly the battery has held up without diminishing in capacity over the years, so if anything goes wrong with the Moto I'll not panic (except for the $150 I paid for it of course ;-)
And just as a test, here's a photo of my office just taken with the camera built in:
Follow Ups:
So... that's what it is I thought the receiver was made by Radio Shack. The next thing you're going to tell me that the tt was not made by BSR.
I had an RS-2300 (I think that was the model number). It was actually a very fine, high-end piece of gear, with 60 watts of FET output. Very smooth, powerful sound. Never should have got rid of it, but I'm an idiot by trade so there you go.As for the TT - consider yourself smacked with a thousand wet noodles for even considering that this VPI HW19Jr would slum with the BSRs! Although it could use a bit of a refurb, it's served me extremely well over the years and I won't be in need of upgrading for many a year hence.
An interesting picture in contrasts, both mental as well as physical. The "old" TT which has served for years with solid, reliable service parked right next to an LCD monitor and keyboard which (and be honest here) will most likely not be in-use by 2015 (if not sooner).I'll stop right here before I am forced to climb aboard my Luddite-brand soapbox....
Ergo grex, ergo sum.
However I did hang on to my previous PC for quite some time before upgrading just recently, and not to the very latest by any means. However, I'm not about to fill my office with a Vax system anytime soon ;-)
I have you know Pioneer, Sansui and Technics did manufacture the Radio Shack receivers back then and they re-badge them as their own that’s why most of them especially the expensive ones sounded so sweet.BTW, the best receiver that I’ve owned back in the 70’s was made by Pioneer SX 1280 model which put out about 180 w/c at 8 ohms and 300 at 4 ohms. I traded it for another classic the Sansui AU-999 integrated amp.
Cuz that is one seriously sexy bit of kit. And the RS receiver I was referring to was apparently manufactured by... HH Scott I believe? Or Sherwood - one of those S named companies. Apparently one of the last pieces they manufactured before going completely off the scene. It also had the distinction of being one of the very first pure digital tuners, although on my example it was non functional.
There you go….BTW, the Radio Shack linaeum tweeters was a collector back then…I bet they’re hard to find now the original ones anyway.
They would have incredible stuff mixed in with utter rubbish. Kind of like a Goodwill today - you had to really know what you were looking for. Some people seem to wax poetic about the Mach series of big speakers for instance.That tweeter looks gorgeous, BTW. What was the technology in them?
In a conventional tweeter, a coil of wire suspended between the circular poles of a ring-shaped magnet moves backward and forward according to the dictates of the electrical signal, driving a dome or cone diaphragm to excite the air. In the Linaeum tweeter, there's still a voice-coil, but this time it's flattened into a vertical shape and suspended between opposed rectangular magnet poles. It still moves backward and forward, but instead of driving a diaphragm, it pushes and pulls the vertical joining point of two semi-cylindrical 3"-long sheets of stiff plastic film, each of which is fixed at its other end. Imagine two (empty) beer cans side by side: the point where they touch is where the voice-coil is attached. Under the influence of the electrical signal, the two semi-cylinders rotate back and forth, the resultant traveling waves producing sound.
The advantages over a conventional tweeter are a uniformly wide horizontal dispersion pattern and good linearity, both of which lend the tweeter some of the attributes of a good planar drive-unit. If, as in the LX5, two sets of diaphragms are placed back to back with a common magnet structure, sharing a common voice-coil, those at the rear pull when the front ones push: the radiation pattern is that of a dipole. The radiation to the rear should produce an enhanced feeling of "airiness" to the speakers's sound in all but the very deadest rooms.
According to Linaeum's Ben Stutz, Linaeum assembles the tweeter subassemblies for RadioShack, shipping them to the Far East to be incorporated into the speakers. (The LX5, for example, is made in Malaysia.) The tweeter used in the LX5 differs from that used in Linaeum's own models in using a thicker diaphragm, the result being reduced sensitivity.(Stereophile excerpt)
...that's not a Pioneer SX-650 receiver, is it? My dad had one in the '70s. My first introduction to Hi-Fi (well, at least Mid-Fi). I used to love spinning the tuning knob on that thing; solid piece of gear. Still love that champagne finish.And ...OMG... is that a Compaq keyboard?
Jeff TOJ
You leopard, you. Yes, it is indeed built like unto the proverbial brick privvy. And the sound is extremely good as well as providing adequate amounts of juice for the B&Ws on the shelf above. And yes, there is *nothing* like the feel of the tuning knob; this is the *only* way to change stations, watching the meters to see if you're on the station's hot spot. This was in the mid-lower range of receivers, yet the quality would cost several thousands to build today, even coming from China.It gets daily use in my studio and it's great to show the kiddywinks I teach that just cuz it's older than their dads doesn't mean that it's useless (most of my kids are really cool actually and like the thing ;-)
As for the keyboard - Compaq??!!?? May the Lord smite thee! Seriously, up until the great flood of, oh, a week or so ago I was using an old IBM 102-key, which had that typewriter feel to it - gorgeous. But some water got in somewhere and now it's not behaving :-( The thing is built like the SX - bomb proof, with a fantastic ergonomic feel. But the current one is an older Dell which is not an awful replacement. The newer ones suck toad poopie though.
Geez, sorry for the driveling rant. Now back to your regularly scheduled Central Asylum...
...my first encounter with an IBM keyboard was playing and FINISHING Infocom's Adventure. GF wanted to go to sleep; guys wanted to finish the dang game!!!
Jeff TOJ
They were built to feel and sound like a real typewriter. Their earlier monster terminals for the mainframes were even louder with a speaker inside which produced the sound!
Not in my Dad's possession any longer (he GAVE it away), I hear it's still up and running in a garage somewhere in LA.The meters, oh yeah, two of them; one for signal strength and the other to center the frequency. Before quartz locking. Nowadays you just push a button?!!!
Dad's system also had a Kenwood TT (which I still have), Kenwood cassette deck, Kenwood speakers (oh so crappy!!!) and a Quadraflex EQ. I see your EQ back there hiding!!!
Thanks for jogging up a pleasant memory from the past for me! Cheers!
Oh, and between you and I, I *always* had the Loudness switch on!
Jeff TOJ
I much prefer as little in the signal path as possible. As this is a studio particularly, I only want to hear the EQ which I apply to the source. What you're probably looking at is my MOTU 896 Firewire audio I/O. Eight channels of recording input ;-)But I do love the switches and I'll occasionally tweak them just for the hell of it cuz they feel so sturdy and positive when you handle them. Unlike this crappy Apple keyboard I'm using right now lol. (The Apple iMac G5 is just out of the shot on the right in the picture).
We Own Your Arse All The Time Machine.Texting? WHY?????
What FOR!!!!????
Public dangling conversations!!!!!
I often join in on them, and defend that by pointing out that they were sharing it with me!!!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
If it was nailed to my head by a corporate entity I'd hate that, and I do think it's down right intrusive. Frankly I think they should pay extra for that "always on" state that you are in with a company 'Berry.
does 1 thing! Call out, answer calls. No buttons, unflip, punch in numbers and hit "OK". I don't want 287000 different ring tones, no pic capabilities, nothing!I pick up my wife's phone and hit 17 buttons on the *&^^** side of the damned thing and suddenly the entire world hears, "HEY MIKE, HOW THE FUCK'S IT HANGIN'?" I don't really get a call like that, but you understand.
I hate them, I hate them, I hate them, I hate them...
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
I'll switch from my current one to whichever company advertises improvements in signal strength, reception, coverage and reliability. But who wants that? The camera, MP3, walkie talkie, GPS-loving brigade win out every time...
So now I'm in grave danger of getting lost on this 26 square mile island. Help!!
(Can you hear me now?) I'm an odd one in that some things I'll be very much Luddite about yet other things I gotta have all the bells and whistles. I don't know why I gotta have a cool phone yet don't give a rat's arse that I drive a rather clunky old Yamaha RXS 100 motorcycle.
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