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« on: 23:02:13, 18-09-2007 » |
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John I've only just noticed the new pics on the homepage. Very nice! Thanks for that. We need a bit of a spring (autumn) clean after 7 months!  |
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John W
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« Reply #1 on: 23:40:18, 18-09-2007 » |
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Thanks martle. I often wonder how many members actually SEE the homepage very often. I'm a habitual Show unread posts since last visit-type visitor to this place, but recently saw the homepage on my laptop and thought it needed refreshing. The old images looked small on the laptop so I've made the new ones bigger, but on this crusty old square monitor they appear big.  The previous set came from CBSO and I credited the photographer but this time they are just random internet images (and I've not saved the sources) that I've clipped to show instruments being played. In the case of dear Dame Joan she wore a very bloodstained costume and I've forgotten which opera.....  Birmingham Symphony Hall looks impressive inside eh? Apart from music, the hall is dear to my heart as my daughter's graduation ceremony was there, aaawwww <proud dad> Anyway I'm looking for a new image for The Coffee Bar and the News board. Any suggestions most welcome. John W |
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Notoriously Bombastic
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« Reply #2 on: 00:10:30, 19-09-2007 » |
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Anyway I'm looking for a new image for The Coffee Bar and the News board. Any suggestions most welcome.
Hmm. Not all musicians are coffee drinkers you know... NB |
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John W
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« Reply #4 on: 00:56:32, 19-09-2007 » |
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NB wrote, Hmm. Not all musicians are coffee drinkers you know...
Yes I do know, therefore I'd expect suggestions from the Coffee Bar visitors  Nuclear bomb? That's old news init? Init?? (he scurries off to check SkyNews 501......) Did you see the prog last week about the fella who said he foresaw 9/11 and 7/7. Pity he told us after the events. Not surprisingly he went through tests for the programme and failed miserably. |
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« Reply #5 on: 07:00:11, 19-09-2007 » |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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John W
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« Reply #6 on: 23:58:35, 19-09-2007 » |
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Well, I've put more images up now, and I fear those with small monitors will be disadvantaged by having to scroll down even more to the bottom boards See how it goes, complain if you wish and a rethink will be... rethought... But remember these images are LINKS to the boards/sections so they are labour-saving as you don't need to roll the mouse/pointer to the left hand side of the screen  John W |
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« Reply #7 on: 00:06:59, 20-09-2007 » |
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I think the new pics are fab |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #8 on: 15:07:00, 20-09-2007 » |
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I don't think I've ever actually been to the home-page. What's the url?
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« Reply #9 on: 19:00:53, 20-09-2007 » |
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http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php but you can also click on the 'Home' tab at the top (underneath your avatar). Nice new pics, John! What on earth is that machine in the Audio/Hi-Fi equipment section? Never seen one of them!
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« Reply #10 on: 19:02:35, 20-09-2007 » |
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http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php but you can also click on the 'Home' tab at the top (underneath your avatar). Nice new pics, John! What on earth is that machine in the Audio/Hi-Fi equipment section? Never seen one of them! Hmmm; I think I might have adblocked (the firefox extension that allows one to stop images and flashboxes from certain sites appearing at all) that image space to keep things clean and tidy |
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« Reply #11 on: 19:04:37, 20-09-2007 » |
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AAAAH; you mean the pictures that go along with the forum names? I had registered in my head that these weren't the same as before.
Is this it?
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John W
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« Reply #12 on: 20:30:38, 20-09-2007 » |
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Yes increpatio, those pictures on the homepage take you to Welcome, Coffee Bar, Proms 2007, The Opera House etc etc I'm trying to encourage people to visit the separate boards more often and resurrect some interesting threads. It's so easy to forget what you posted on a couple of weeks ago, and for everyone else to forget too and leave a subject just barely touched upon. The piece of kit on the Audio forum link is a laser turntable, a device that can play LPs without a stylus, might be worth starting a thread and pasting the image, see if any of out techno-philes know anything |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #13 on: 00:10:06, 21-09-2007 » |
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Unless I'm much mistaken, that's the Finial, John, the Holy Grail of vinyl junkies for the last five or so years before the arrival of CD. From its first announcement, it had about the same effect on the hi-fi fraternity as did cold fusion upon the world in general: incredulity, then intense interest. Unlike cold fusion, however, the Finial was demonstrated successfully in public (though only ever at the most prestigious of hi-fi shows): but the journey from prototype to production was fraught, and in those early days of digital technology its projected market price rocketed.
Early on it was assumed that the laser would avoid damage done to discs already tracked by styli, but it was soon discovered that unlike a stylus, which physically clears most of the groove debris out of the way as it plays, the laser read anything that was in its path as signal, meaning that any disc inserted had to be clinically clean. By the time most of the problems had been sorted, it was already too late: compact disc had arrived on the one hand, and on the other, the audiophile turntables which could give it a sonic trouncing were considerably cheaper (we're talking thousands of dollars here, as the guide price). The decision was made to pull the product completely. I believe that there are a few of the prototypes still around, but they'll be in the hands of extremely wealthy collectors.
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« Reply #14 on: 08:52:02, 21-09-2007 » |
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but it was soon discovered that unlike a stylus, which physically clears most of the groove debris out of the way as it plays,... And for a good clear out of the grooves you could put a florin on top of the arm to weigh it down a bit and follow it up with a 'Dust Bug' to shovel up all the bits. I'd never heard of the Finial before. What a wonderful idea. You could presumably put the same sort of coating as on CDs on top of the vinyl to keep the groove itself clinically clean and read it that way (?) and have all the advantages of a direct analogue signal with no clicks and bumps. Thanks for the new pics John. Excellent stuff. |
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