On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 23:09:00 GMT, mick wrote:

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:02:11 +0000, Wally wrote:

mick wrote:

There is nothing in the ng title to suggest that we are looking for
perfect sound - the word "audio" leaves a lot of space for those who
like to listen to single-ended OC81 transistors into 75ohm
2.5" speakers!

http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.rec.audio.html

Thanks Wally - I hadn't read that!
So, about the relevence to hi-fi of 75ohm speakers & se OC81s... Naww....
might upgrade to the big stuff and invest in an OC35... ;-)

'kin elle, you must be nearly as old as me! :-)
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:42:09 +0000, Stewart Pinkerton wrote:


'kin elle, you must be nearly as old as me! :-)

Maybe!

I was brought up on valves mainly - a lot of them rescued from old TVs cos
we could get them really cheap! The bloke from the local TV shop used to
turn up with a van full of old sets now and again, and I spent hours
unsoldering and drilling pop-rivets off the chassis to get the valve
holders off for my dad. I had to sort the resistors into old OXO tins for
him cos he was red/green colour blind. It may be all those early
experiences that have produced some sort of affinity with valve gear for
me!

I remember my dad buying his first transistors (the first I had ever
seen) as part of a radio kit. They were probably Newmarket, in the flat
squarish cans, and marked with green & yellow spots on top for AF types
and red/yellow (or was it red/white?) spots for RF. They were also rather
expensive and very electrically fragile!

Currently listening to the computer playing MP3s via a 6L6 "triode mode"
SE amp at the other side of the room. Things progress! ;-)

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
Web: http://www.nascom.info

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:02:11 -0000, "Wally"
wrote:

mick wrote:

There is nothing in the ng title to suggest
that we are looking for perfect sound - the word "audio" leaves a lot
of space for those who like to listen to single-ended OC81
transistors into 75ohm
2.5" speakers!

http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.rec.audio.html

Quite so. No mention of how Duke Ellington's musicians used to
position themselves, I note.......................

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

In article ,
mick wrote:
There is nothing in the ng title to suggest that we are looking for
perfect sound - the word "audio" leaves a lot of space for those who
like to listen to single-ended OC81 transistors into 75ohm 2.5" speakers!

Well, you won't get perfect sound from that. It should be 35 ohm.

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*A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it uses up a thousand times more memory.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:09:05 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
mick wrote:
There is nothing in the ng title to suggest that we are looking for
perfect sound - the word "audio" leaves a lot of space for those who
like to listen to single-ended OC81 transistors into 75ohm 2.5"
speakers!

Well, you won't get perfect sound from that. It should be 35 ohm.

Damn! Impedence matching can be a b....r sometimes!

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
Web: http://www.nascom.info

"Mike Gilmour" wrote in message
...
Iain said that he really enjoyed the exchange of info and ideas and asked
me to pass his best regards to Keith,
Andy, Jim and Dave, etc but said he unfortunately couldn't continue in the
group under the present circumstances.


Good stuff!
I think it's a shame that he's gone from this NG :-(


So do I.

I found his posts interesting and entertaining. Not surprised he didn't stay
the course though - he put too much energy into his posts.

(The important thing to remember when you are throwing sticks for idiots to
fetch is to use as little arm movement as possible - that way you can keep
it up longer.....)

I have read the whole of this thread, and I'm very pleased to be able to say
"no comment" Andy

=== Andy Evans ===
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Mike Gilmour wrote:
Iain said that he really enjoyed the exchange of info and ideas and
asked me to pass his best regards to Keith,#
snipped
Mike

Who was Iain?


Dave xxxx
www.davewhitter.myby.co.uk

Music is Art - Audio is Engineering
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"Dave xxxxx" wrote in message
k...
Mike Gilmour wrote:
Iain said that he really enjoyed the exchange of info and ideas and
asked me to pass his best regards to Keith,#
snipped
Mike

Who was Iain?



A pleasant, polite, passing professional person who, previously positively
pulverising poor pathetic Pouncing Pink Pillock's ****-poor posturing posts,
paused, pondered and then pushed off.....

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:17:09 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Dave xxxxx" wrote in message
. uk...
Mike Gilmour wrote:
Iain said that he really enjoyed the exchange of info and ideas and
asked me to pass his best regards to Keith,#
snipped
Mike

Who was Iain?

A pleasant, polite, passing professional person who, previously positively
pulverising poor pathetic Pouncing Pink Pillock's ****-poor posturing posts,
paused, pondered and then pushed off.....

You'd like people to think that, despite the reality of the situation,
but then you're a hairy-arsed trucker, so who cares?
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering