On 02/07/14 22:58, Billie Walsh wrote:
On 07/02/2014 01:57 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 02/07/14 08:08, Robin Klitscher wrote:
On 07/02/2014 03:06 AM, lynn wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 17:50 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 30/06/14 21:47, James Knott wrote:
On 06/30/2014 03:44 AM, Basil Chupin wrote: > Isn't 4.3 only a beta? VHS ;-) I like it. Another one with a sense of humour :-)
Now we really _are_ showing our advanced years lol!
My wife is a primary/elementary schoolteacher, now retired. Not too long ago she took some props along to class as part of a "looking back" module. Among them were several black vinyl 33 1/3 rpm long-playing records. The 5- and 6-year-olds had trouble understanding what they were, and finally decided they must be "big, black CDs".
Hope your wife did not discard those LPs because vinyls are now back in fashion and there is a company here in Sydney (Australia) which cannot keep up with the demand and is "pressing the plastic" at a furious rate!
(BTW, there is a very simple but effective way of cleaning old vinyls. You coat them with wood working water soluble glue, spread it with a spatula, let it dry and then peel the glue off. All the dirt comes off with the glue.
If you want a clearer understanding of this, there is a YouTube video on this.)
BC
I've got about a hundred old LP's. CD's are good. The sound is pure(er), but for us that are old as dirt, the sound from a good record player ............... there's just something special about it.
This is a well known problem. What is recorded on the CDs is not the full range of frequencies which are on a vinyl. When this was realised, some "fiddling" was done to try and cover up this discrepancy but I am afraid I don't recall what this was, sorry :-( .
I've got a Sony turntable that plugs into my computer so I can record old records and burn to CD. Great because I can listen to the music and not put more wear and tear on the records.
Yeah :-) , even though I have a full stereo system with all the knobs and whistles sitting in the lounge room I bought a $50 turntable which hooks up to my computer for the same thing :-) . But what I haven't yet done is to clean - as per my "instructions" - many of the LPs and record them to CDs. In other words, I have yet to try out Audacity to its fullest abiliities. (Time is the killer....time.....:-( .) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.2-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org