Cutting back ?

bob338 said:
sounds like you learned about punk rock from an episode of Quincy, MD.

bob
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Dear Bob,

No. British punk musicians, face to face (not many). I'm not familiar with the television programme to which I think you refer (as I say, I'm not familiar with it). But I have to say that the public face and the private face of punk did not always correspond 1:1. Then again, sometimes they did...

Cheers,

R.
 
When I was a teenager, I believed that punk was about the message, not the style of music. Now I believe exactly the opposite. 😀
 
"If the kids were united, they would never be divided...."

"We´re going down the pub" more like

It was always about the message..
 
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Roger Hicks said:
Dear Bob,

No. British punk musicians, face to face (not many). I'm not familiar with the television programme to which I think you refer (as I say, I'm not familiar with it). But I have to say that the public face and the private face of punk did not always correspond 1:1. Then again, sometimes they did...

Cheers,

R.
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hi roger. just rattling your cage!
where i grew up the only punks that acted like that(f**k everything) were the short timer quincy punks who learned how to 'go punk' from moronic tv shows.
for what it's worth, i always thought the message was we're f**ked, not f**k everything.

bob
 
bob338 said:
hi roger. just rattling your cage!
where i grew up the only punks that acted like that(f**k everything) were the short timer quincy punks who learned how to 'go punk' from moronic tv shows.
for what it's worth, i always thought the message was we're f**ked, not f**k everything.

bob
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Dear Bob,

A far more perceptive analysis.

But we're all f***ed, what is the appropriate response?

Cheers,

R.
 
I think tubes for HiFi are largely overrated. When it comes to reproducing sound, solid state is more accurate, for creating sound in the first place, tubes are the way to go.

All my guitar amps are vintage tube amps, all of my hifi equipment (for the most part) was solid state until the hurricane. I've yet to replace the speakers/equipment I lost in the storm and play everything through my computer through some cheap speakers or through my grado headphones.

Edit: it's worth pointing out that the majority of studios these days are digital, so the idea that an analog system being superior is kind of moot, considering the original signal is converted from digital to analog when put on vinyl, so there would be more signal loss on a vinyl these days than on a cd.
 
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just a humble opinion here:

tubes accurate? of course not. especially not flea-powered 300B's running single-ended. for me, it's not about accuracy but about pleasantness of the sound and joy to my ears. an AM radio in a beat up old chevy playing through a little dash-mounted tinny speaker can be pleasing if you love the music it's playing. if I want accurate, I go to a concert. similar to my philosophy of photography. it's all artifice. when I shoot something, it a representation of reality, not reality itself. of course once some seems an image any of us make, the image becomes it's own reality. same as my thousand of vinyl discs. they're a version of reality, but reality itself. that said, solid state is so much more hassle-free than my #$%! tubes needing to be replaced and re-biased, etc. anyway, in the end, with hi-fi, it should be all about the music. but, most of us on this site being guys, probably it's also, too often, about gear lust.
Mephiloco said:
I think tubes for HiFi are largely overrated. When it comes to reproducing sound, solid state is more accurate, for creating sound in the first place, tubes are the way to go.

All my guitar amps are vintage tube amps, all of my hifi equipment (for the most part) was solid state until the hurricane. I've yet to replace the speakers/equipment I lost in the storm and play everything through my computer through some cheap speakers or through my grado headphones.
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I, too, was once an analogue only type of person. Then I got married...then I started to have children. Now I only really listen to music when I'm in the car or when my daughter requests it. I still have my records, but no turntable, not even a proper stereo system. It is iTunes only for me. This is one of the reasons why I got into photography in the last couple of years, so I could hang on to something from the past.

For me shooting film isn't about the picture quality...no format will help me with that🙂 It's about the inconvenience of it. I think technology has handicapped humans, we're meant to work, but we spend most of our energy trying to get out of that work. I spend my workday in a cushy chair staring at a RADAR scope talking to people. Cool, yes. Mentally challenging, yes. Hardly work, though. Loading, shooting and developing film is my work.
 
robklurfield said:
Is that one yours??? Wow!
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I wish.

This one is much more like my disc spinner - 'Nipper' and all that . .














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😀 😀 😀
 
kansas_parker said:
For me shooting film isn't about the picture quality...no format will help me with that🙂 It's about the inconvenience of it. I think technology has handicapped humans, we're meant to work, but we spend most of our energy trying to get out of that work. I spend my workday in a cushy chair staring at a RADAR scope talking to people. Cool, yes. Mentally challenging, yes. Hardly work, though. Loading, shooting and developing film is my work.
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Spot on.

Now I must get up and change the CD 😀
 
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