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I know it’s been said before, but regardless, bring back comically oversized hi fi stereo system towers.
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Gonz posted:I know it’s been said before, but regardless, bring back comically oversized hi fi stereo system towers. Believe it or not there are still 2 other components from that Sony ES line that are not there. There is a Minidisk player, and Phono Pre-amp.
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Aug 12, 2023 02:11
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 I guess I am going to learn Solaris. Got this for free from a good friend, both the Blade 100 and LCD screen work, but missing the keyboard and mouse. Thankfully it uses USB so won't be hard to get around that issue, as the official SUN keyboard and mouse seems ridiculously expensive
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Aug 12, 2023 07:16
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inetnum: 203.30.81.0 - 203.30.81.255 netname: CHINANET-FJ descr: CHINANET FUJIAN PROVINCE NETWORK Huh.
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Aug 12, 2023 13:15
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You Am I posted:
Blade 100s use IDE drives and ATX power supplies, so they're pretty easy to get replacement parts for those. And I think also standard PC133 RAM?
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Aug 12, 2023 13:54
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Gonz posted:I know it’s been said before, but regardless, bring back comically oversized hi fi stereo system towers. Love matching stacks. I had a fairly tall Optimus stack from Radioshack clearance sales at one point.
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Aug 12, 2023 14:21
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Gonz posted:I know it’s been said before, but regardless, bring back comically oversized hi fi stereo system towers. Some day  So many configurations!      
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Aug 12, 2023 17:18
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Antigravitas posted:inetnum: 203.30.81.0 - 203.30.81.255 Well, *now*. I don't have access to ARIN's "whowas" data but subnets change hands pretty frequently. That system dates from the early 2000s, when a workstation might actually still have a human-friendly name and a routable IP address...
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Aug 12, 2023 17:50
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We are beset by communist infiltraitors!
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Aug 12, 2023 18:10
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Gonz posted:I know it’s been said before, but regardless, bring back comically oversized hi fi stereo system towers. I can identify most of those - CD player, cassette deck, DAT deck (?), receiver, & amplifier. Can you name them all?
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Aug 12, 2023 18:22
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There’s a tuner and the amplifier is split into pre and power stages.
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Aug 12, 2023 18:44
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My workstation has a routable address.  We've owned our /16 for a very long time now… No human-friendly name though.
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Aug 12, 2023 18:48
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Gonz posted:I know it’s been said before, but regardless, bring back comically oversized hi fi stereo system towers. I'm doing my best!    
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Aug 12, 2023 21:47
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evobatman posted:I'm doing my best! 
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Aug 12, 2023 22:11
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Presented like an audiocop laying out what they confiscated
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Aug 12, 2023 22:48
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half of that is ready to transform into battle-ready robots
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Aug 12, 2023 23:44
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Was DAT ever used for anything besides recording bootlegs? I'm pretty sure this is the only context I've ever heard it mentioned in.
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Aug 13, 2023 01:23
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TOOT BOOT posted:Was DAT ever used for anything besides recording bootlegs? I'm pretty sure this is the only context I've ever heard it mentioned in. That and so people like you could ask "What is dat used for?"
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Aug 13, 2023 01:26
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DAT was more of a studio format alongside AMPEX reels, no?
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It was supposed to succeed regular audio cassettes the same way cd killed vinyl but it was expensive, and publishers lobbied against it hard to try and head it off because it could make higher quality pirate copies so it never really caught on. I think there were a literal handful of commercial album releases on it but otherwise oops all bootlegs.
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Aug 13, 2023 01:32
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Trabant posted:Some day amazing post thank you they look incredible
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Aug 13, 2023 01:34
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gently caress I wish I had space for a giant component stack
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Aug 13, 2023 01:37
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TOOT BOOT posted:Was DAT ever used for anything besides recording bootlegs? I'm pretty sure this is the only context I've ever heard it mentioned in.
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Didn't consumer-level DAT machines have some kind of weird copy protection anyway, like it could make copies, but not 2nd generation copies?
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Now I'm imagining someone with a jeweler's loupe and a magnetized needle trying to flip that copy protection bit on a tape
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Aug 13, 2023 08:27
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I remember it being a thing on minidiscs too. It would let you copy a cd to minidisc but not make further copies of that minidisc. But nothing is stopping you from making infinite copies to minidisc of the original cd… Apparently it got introduced thanks to DAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System
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It was kind of amusing to see Sony holding on to music DRM as if it was going to reverse market trends.
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Aug 13, 2023 08:39
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Tape based formats also had the 'gotta rewind' and non random access issues that couldn't be solved. Philips also tried out DCC - digital compact cassette. Essentially the whole minidisc system with something similar to 1st gen ATRAC compression, but on a cassette with almost the same specs as traditional analog cassettes. It had a little slide to protect the tape, and so you couldn't put the digital tape in an analog player. DCC decks had the benefit of being able to also play your analog cassettes, but still it never took off. Tape was already starting to die by that time. It also didn't sound any better than an analog cassette deck of the same price. The first generation of ATRAC compression was not bad to listen to, but also not completely inconspicuous like the compression codecs of today. DAT is uncompressed and better than DCC of course. Analog cassette in the 'price comparable to a digital cassette deck' category had matured by then and turned into something as good as the full size 4 track 19cm/s reel to reels from the 1970s, which is good enough for even audiophiles (though of course no audiofile wants to be seen with a cassette deck if it's not a Nakamichi Dragon.) I have no idea if DCC had any copy protection LimaBiker has a new favorite as of 09:55 on Aug 13, 2023 |
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It's kind of remarkable how long it took the industry to figure out good quality yet inexpensive wireless headphones since we had radio tech for forever. But I know the real hurdle was hardware frequency switching since there are only so many available frequencies. I still remember my wireless house phone accidentally picking up a neighbour's call.
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Speaking of DAT – I have a giant pile of DAT72 data backup tapes (and the SCSI drive that takes them), anyone know if those tapes would work in a DAT audio recorder? Also have a Sony HDV recorder in house now (on loan), but it seems the loading mechanism has a tendency to jam (no obviously broken parts though). Dismantled the mechanism and re-greased everything according to the manual and it worked for a while but currently it's completely stuck and refuses to pop the tape up.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Was DAT ever used for anything besides recording bootlegs? I'm pretty sure this is the only context I've ever heard it mentioned in. Let our favorite Brit YouTuber tell you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4K1QKKPX_g
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longview posted:Speaking of DAT – I have a giant pile of DAT72 data backup tapes (and the SCSI drive that takes them), anyone know if those tapes would work in a DAT audio recorder? DAT data tapes work in an audio recorder, but the composition of the magnetic coating is different (rougher) which is not compatible with audio DAT heads from a wear point of view. In other words - it will work, but wear out your heads.
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LimaBiker posted:DAT data tapes work in an audio recorder, but the composition of the magnetic coating is different (rougher) which is not compatible with audio DAT heads from a wear point of view. In other words - it will work, but wear out your heads. Thanks! I doubt I'd have figured that out on my own. So if I ever get my hands on a DAT audio recorder I could check if it works with those tapes at least.
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Stack'em up!  Would love to get a Denon DAT and MD player as well, but they're rare and expensive.
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Props for the E-rotic tape, that sure was an era!
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 All these racks of hifi stuff holy crap
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always appreciate a nice rack
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ExcessBLarg! posted:It was somewhat popular (among many competing formats) for computer data backups. DDS tapes were based on DAT, and I think the early versions were interchangeable with DAT cassettes but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to use either in a production environment.
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afen posted:Stack'em up! Oh yeah, I had some Denon too.  The MD player was pretty nice, but it had a mechanism made by Sharp, and those have a close to 100% failure rate. Man I hate having sold off all my good tape decks. I don't hate the apartment and eventually house I got with the money I made repairing and flipping hifi though. evobatman has a new favorite as of 08:01 on Aug 14, 2023 |
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meanwhile I'm trying to get rid of my Denon receiver... it spent like 6 years holding up my monitor and powering speakers for work music, but I finally got a pair of monitor arms and replaced the receiver with a $50 amplifier off Amazon that's about the size of pack of cigarettes. The Denon sounded good and all but it dissipated like 100W and goddamn electricity is expensive in California, not gonna run that thing 8 hours a day.
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