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In Reply to: Ping Mosin, Tubesforever et al re: idler noise reduction posted by texanater on April 28, 2007 at 14:52:12:
Hi Nate,I was just looking at your Money Pit and I noticed that you have an SL-1210. I'm wondering how that one sounds through your headphones.
I used to be stationed at the Air Force Weapons Lab at Kirtland back in 1980 - 1983. I was a mechanical engineer involved in aircraft nuclear weapon integration engineering.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to help you with your rumble problem. I've always found that belt-drives had the lowest noise signatures. ;-)
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The 1210 is very quiet. I'm Glad you mentioned it because I used to have my AT440 on the 1210 and was bothered by the amount of surface noise it picked when listening through the headphones. I have my Grado on the 1210 now and its silent. The 440 is on the Rek O Kut. I haven't listened to vinyl vial the headphones in a while. Last time I did, I had the Grado on the Rek O Kut and I remember thinking it was the quieter table. I wonder if the increased background noise via the cans is a function of the cart rather than the table. Thats a little confusing because the 440 is very quiet when played through the speakers. I don't recall any posts suggesting it picked up more surface noise. This requires more tinkering.Its interesting that you were stationed here. Things have changed a lot. Things were restructured about a billion times since the early 80's. You know the military - change as the illusion of progress. Now we do primarily space applications and "Lasers." Its an exciting place to work and I really like Albuquerque. I'm ready to move on. We're heading to Los Angeles in a couple months. I'm sure that will be a love/hate kinda thing. Did you enjoy it here? I imagine it was pretty podunk here back then? I get the strong since this place has grown significantly in the past decade. Were you an Air Force officer? How'd you enjoy that? I was a prior enlisted Army guy. Let me tell you, a commission in the Army is a totally different animal that enlisted Army. I had a blast when I was 18 and a junior enlisted soldier. However, give me the Air Force commission any day.
I imagine things have changed a lot at Kirtland. My last contact was in 1990 when I was in the B-2 SPO at Wright-Patt.Like you, I also came up through the ranks--the Air Force ranks. I was a PMEL technician before going through the AECP program in mechanical engineering. In fact, Kirtand was my first assignment as a 2nd Lieutenant where I worked closely with Sandia. I had a good audio buddy at Sandia. ;-)
Yes, I enjoyed the work I did at Kirtland and all the follow-on work in the nuclear community. Those were exciting times. I remember the airborn laser, which was in its infancy in the early 1980s. Anyway, I retired as a captain in 1993 and I rarely think about military stuff anymore. My focus is predominantly on audio these days. ;-)
Yeah the air borne laser is kinda funny. They often give us briefings about that program and eventual goals etc... They never show us any results of tests that occurred later than the early/late 80s. I guess that means they are either doing very well or very poorly hehehe.I really enjoy being prior enlisted. It kinda takes the pressure off. Everyone around me is worried about getting their career just right. I don't think I want to spend more than 30 years active duty so I don't really need to worry about making general or colonel. I just don't have the time to do it. Thats freed me up to take some risks that I may not have otherwise made and they really paid off. I'm having a blast.
B2 spo huh? That must have been a very interesting time to be in that spo. Was it still "black world" at the time or had its existence been declassified? I don't recall when they admitted to the B2.
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