DSP Robotics Support

pshannon wrote:If I wanted to sell the collections, I assume they are only worth a few pennies each and not worth the time of dropping them off.

I recall taking about 10 shelf-feet of LPs to a used record store around 1990. The guy there started flipping through them, pulling out about every tenth one. I stopped him and said it was a package deal...we ended up at $15/foot.

There are a few of them I've missed that never got released on CD, but I never regretted the space they freed up in the living room.

NO!! - never had an 8-Track; most idiotic thing ever put on the market. They were adapted from broadcasting 'carts' (cartridge-tape players), which served a very useful purpose there - quick-changing of short duration recordings (commercials, jungles, sound effects, etc.); but a whole album of music - phooey!!

I dumped a huge pile of LPs off at Goodwill about ten years ago, because the used record stores were buying so little (that's changed recently), I made my best guess as to which would probably never get CD release and in most cases my guesses were pretty accurate; glad I still have the ones I kept.

k brown wrote:NO!! - never had an 8-Track; most idiotic thing ever put on the market. They were adapted from broadcasting 'carts' (cartridge-tape players), which served a very useful purpose there - quick-changing of short duration recordings (commercials, jungles, sound effects, etc.); but a whole album of music - phooey!!

Yeah, but in 1972, if I wanted my own music on road trips, it was the only game in town. (I also owned an 8-track recorder: made some pocket money copying LPs to cartridge for my friends.)

k brown wrote:Boy, you guys are making me feel like Fred Flintstone! I do all my music listening with CDs. In the living room on an SACD deck, and in the bedroom on a portable CD player plugged into a vacuum tube amplifier.

Unless you have a dog like hearing, I promise you most people will not hear a difference in the sound quality to rip them as lossy mp3 at 192 or higher. I thought most of the download tunes were lower quality, didn't fact check.
Tube amp? I only use my tube amp for playing my electric guitar for distortion. lol.
I hated switching the CD in and out. I hated 8 track even more, but I loved the cassette tapes before CD. I have a stack of tapes, floppy disks(5.25, 3.5hd/low) too. VHS and beta crap I am getting rid of because it is too much to handle and no regrets on those.

Dang, I have a museum of media that my wife nags me about getting rid of all the time.

deraudrl wrote:

k brown wrote:Boy, you guys are making me feel like Fred Flintstone!

Yeah, but did you install an 8-track tape deck into your first new car?

Oh yeah.

First 8-track tape ... the group, 'Focus - Hocus Focus'.

The only tube amp I can recall owning was the Heathkit (AA32?) I built in high school, mid-'60s. Haven't seen that since left it with my folks when I went to college.

Then I must have dog-like hearing - any flavour of MP3 sounds like like shit to me.

For sure the only way to make 8-Track listenable was to record your own, so you could choose where to put the track breaks.

This couold be the furthest off-topic any thread has gone!

I like mayonnaise.

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tulamide wrote:I like mayonnaise.

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I like Pepperoni pizza, does Germans eat that?? hahaha

@k brown - sounds like it is your gear then. Tube amp is over distorting the misses of MP3. lol Have you actually ripped your CD? Or were you at a friends house, not sure how it sounds that bad, just wow!

I experimented with making MP3s at the highest possible quality (for e-mailing) of one of my on-location live classical concert recordings, and the difference was unacceptable to me. This may be more audible with high dynamic range classical music than pop/rock I don't know, but I never went near MP3 again, especially since storage space is so much less an issue now.