#audio technica

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[mikufigureoftheday]

🎙Today's Miku "figure" is:🎙

Audio-Technica AT2020USB-X USB Microphone ver. (2023)

[useyourimagination2020]

audio-technica ad in POPEYE magazine, No.98(1981) 

(via POPEYE No.98(1981) - 「年齢別アイテム読本」特集 | Tokyo Dragon Road)

[mlm7]

Life of a woman

[stetsil]

My little baby vinyl corner. Not Tumblr worthy, but one day, it will be 🫶

[audio-luddite]

Talk about Vinyl

I often mention my system is built around vinyl. But have I really got into my experience with it? What it is like?

Well first lets get technical:

I would like to address the skipping, clicks, pops and noise issue. 95% of the time I do not get any of that. On some of my really old discs yes there is a bit of noise, but I do not mind it. On the rest I keep my LPs clean. By clean I mean I wipe them with special fluid and a discwasher pad usually before every play. Noise is dirt. No dirt no noise. There may be some residual tape noise down 60 dB, but it is overwhelmed by the music.

Actually on my really old records what bugs me is a poor mix or excessive compression.

Lower frequencies are sometimes but not always summed between the stereo tracks. Pick a number and mix the two sides together. At 100 Hz the wavelength is 11 feet (3.35 m). If your speakers are 11 feet apart or less you cannot tell where that sound is coming from. A drum has the higher harmonics and sounds that give you the location information. A single low frequency is unlocatable. So mixing the bass has no serious effect.

The treble of an LP depends on the LP and the way it was recorded and mastered. The equipment can respond to far over normal human hearing ranges. I have at least two Phono cartridges that respond to over 43 kHz. The old quadraphonic systems used that for 4 channel LPs.

Dynamic Range is a real limit, but a high quality LP can have 50, even 60 dB of DR. 60 dB is a factor of a million. That is a lot. CDs have more in 96 dB, streams can have more as well. It is a very rare CD or stream that uses very much of it. Current music is usually very compressed. What that means is most of the DR is not used and the signal is kept loud. Classical and Jazz LPs often have excellent DR. I have a direct to disc album that has DR at the LP limit and it is amazing. I have that nutty KODO CD that uses all the the available CD dynamic range but it actually demonstrates you don't need that much.

Audiophile LPs are usually chosen for good DR as well as the other qualities.

OK so that is out of the way.

When I want to play an Album it is usually because I want to have a quiet listen to music. I mean I want to be quiet, the music may get turned up. It takes an hour for my ARC tube amp to warm up and get happy. I may warm it up with a CD or a stream, but then I pull out an LP.

I may have an old tune in my head. I may want to just have another listen to a symphony or Jazz number. I may want to immerse myself in the full width and depth of audiophile nirvana. What to play? I flip through the musical milk crate and see oh here is something.

I pull out the album. I may be Sting's Soul Cages, or Boz Scaggs "Memphis", or Steely Dan's Aja. I choose. I pull it from the jacket and the slip cover and look at the label for what side is up. Do I want a particular song, or the whole thing front to back? Often I have a particular song in mind, but I will usually play the whole thing. The artist had an intention. Would you read a novel from the middle and skip around?

I put it on the player and cue it to start spinning. Always place the record on and pick it off a not moving platter. I mean, do you want to scratch it? Give the brush a spritz of fluid and wipe the record down. Cue the lead in track, set the volume and go sit in the good spot.

Listen. Somebody is sharing a dream or nightmare, or just a bit of their life. Often there are tiny little details hidden in the music to tease you. Sometimes it is just a whole world around you.

In about 20 minutes you have to get up and flip it. I do not mind. Moving is good for you. Maybe fix a drink, or freshen the one you got. There is a whole other side to go.

More often than not I think of another album while the first plays. I get in the mood for more. This usually goes on for hours. That is what it is for.

Audio Research SP 14 preamp, Russian 6N23Pi tube in the phono section.

ARC Classic 60 amplifier with a full complement of Electro-harmonix tubes.

Phase Linear 8000a II linear tracking turntable with AT 7V cartridge

Whatever album I feel like.

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[earlofcricklewood]

Good timezone everyone!

what’s everyone turning today?

Listening to Faintly Blowing at the moment!

[elfgirlreverie]

IM SO EXCITED

[simple-andd-sweet]

Now my life is sweet like cinnamon

Like a fuckin dream I’m livin in’

Baby love me cuz I’m playin on the radio

~~ classics on vinyl ~~

[highnsleepdeprived]

Everybody is going to heaven-Citizen

[rooting4villains]

vibes and drawings. doing what I can with the time zones.

[useyourimagination2020]

audio-techcica ad in POPEYE magazine, No.104(1981) 

(via POPEYE No.104(1981) - 「ボクたちのスリックな都市生活術」 | Tokyo Dragon Road)

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[nashscribblings]

I've been streaming with my old Audio Technica AT3035 for at least twenty years now. It's been a respectable warhorse but I was thinking about maybe upgrading this year when I can afford it.

Any suggestions for a step or two up from the AT3035 for a reasonable price?