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Post by Ladyfingers on Jul 11, 2022 0:44:56 GMT
That wallspace is going to be 100% 85" TV.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jul 12, 2022 5:19:39 GMT
Haha, fuck you aII. This rules.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Jul 12, 2022 8:20:40 GMT
Annnnnnd that's the last we ever heard from The Vic.
Sure, he might gurgle out the occasional film review but he's pretty much going to be lost inside the 85" vortex.
And, on the rare occasions he does surface, he'll be terrifying Jacques Cousteau and the lads at the bottom of the Marianas Trench with his tectonic-plate shifting subwooofer action
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jul 13, 2022 5:33:51 GMT
At my seating distance, it's bigger than some cinemas I've been to. Really awesome stuff.
PQ is fantastic. 4K Blu-ray is so good that I was worried that my 1080p discs would look shit by comparison, but really they're excellent. 4K's resolution is obviously impressive, but for a fair few films you're not so much resolving more image details as you are better showing the grain on the film, so the real distinction is the deeper colour gamut.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jul 21, 2022 5:04:19 GMT
TV had some backlight issues and so I'm upgrading to a Sony X85J.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 1, 2022 1:12:14 GMT
Try this on the big screen. A mindfuck from the WFT galaxy zoomquilt.org/
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Post by Ladyfingers on Aug 1, 2022 6:36:18 GMT
Well, the Samsung is off the wall and waiting to be picked up. I got a good deal on a Sony X85J and although it's not as sleek as the Samsung (or as cheap) the picture is vastly more adjustable, so at brightness 0/100 the blacks are blacker than the Samsung, the panel is less cloudy, and there's a gamma setting that lets you subtly boost the midtones meaning you get more shadow detail even with those deeper blacks.
The Samsung had much better menus, and the Sony eARC rejected my amp every time I powered it off until I found a dude on YouTube who said the problem was due to CEC conflicts. I have no need for CEC anything as I use a Logitech Harmony remote, and so digging into the settings and disabling all CEC solved that.
I initially panicked because I did an update and every couple of minutes there was a tiny skip/stutter in the motion, and I couldn't find anyone discussing it online. I switched the HDMI port to accept variable refresh rate, and that fixed it. Means the screen is permanently in "Game" mode, but that's fine by me as it kills and disables all image processing in one fell swoop.
Only drawback remaining is that eARC is sometimes a little noisy when you interrupt the signal, but I don't need to use it except for broadcast TV (which I never watch) and I reckon they'll fix it in an update eventually anyway.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Aug 1, 2022 7:19:41 GMT
I switched the HDMI port to accept variable refresh rate I would be astonished at myself if I ever made it this far into the future.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Aug 1, 2022 12:15:13 GMT
I switched the HDMI port to accept variable refresh rate I would be astonished at myself if I ever made it this far into the future. The funny part is that it's all in service of getting a digital home device to seem more like analogue film.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Aug 1, 2022 13:35:40 GMT
Try this on the big screen. A mindfuck from the WFT galaxy zoomquilt.org/Very nice! Stared into a twenty-minute Mandelbrot zoom while listening to ome news podcast and everything I looked at afterwards was rippling outward for a little while.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Sept 28, 2022 9:24:55 GMT
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Post by Ladyfingers on Sept 28, 2022 9:57:32 GMT
Yours? Very nice.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Sept 28, 2022 10:11:31 GMT
No, was just fascinated at how far the tape is protruding. Wonder how it loads and ejects
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 4, 2022 8:48:23 GMT
woah some people really go to town with this stuff. I count at least 12 tape decks here. LOL. It is Art. I would rather look at these than any sculpture or painting
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Post by Ladyfingers on Oct 4, 2022 23:52:10 GMT
What on earth does he (it's definitely a "he") do with all of those?
I like the idea of a big system full of gadgets, but I appreciate minimalism more and more. I have a Blu-ray player, a Squeezebox, a Bluetooth receiver, a PS2, a PS3, a PS4, a Raspberry Pi and a NAS, as well as a router, modem and network switch, with a universal remote to control it all, a 7-port HDMI switch, an eARC adapter and the rats' nest of wiring this all entails is horrific. I started diagramming it to see if there were any ways to make it simpler, but the diagram became like some sort of Kabbalist dimensional portal and I gave up.
I'd be pretty happy having all my PlayStations and the Raspberry PI replaced with a monster PC that could emulate them, and maybe even the Blu-ray player could be integrated.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 5, 2022 0:25:43 GMT
What on earth does he (it's definitely a "he") do with all of those? Ha, guess he dicks around seeing which ones sound different etc. Plus flashing lights. Plus tower of awesome looks awesome ps he lurrrrrves Akai
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Post by Ladyfingers on Oct 5, 2022 5:12:09 GMT
I love all the trappings of analogue audio, but I Just Say No or it'd be another massive sinkhole for my disposable income. I find the engineering aspects of turntables very appealing, that Mag-Lev deck out of Slovenia is quite the conversation starter, even if it doesn't sound very good.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 5, 2022 8:07:31 GMT
that Mag-Lev deck out of Slovenia is quite the conversation starter, even if it doesn't sound very good. what the actual hell
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 5, 2022 9:51:57 GMT
I love all the trappings of analogue audio, but I Just Say No or it'd be another massive sinkhole for my disposable income. Vinyl and all the knobhead accroutements has become so much boutique wank. CD's are so often dirt cheap thats pretty much the strata I'm relegated to these days. Unless I really know I HAVE to have the $25 LP copy, then the $3 cd copy must suffice.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Oct 5, 2022 13:43:37 GMT
I love all the trappings of analogue audio, but I Just Say No or it'd be another massive sinkhole for my disposable income. Vinyl and all the knobhead accroutements has become so much boutique wank. CD's are so often dirt cheap thats pretty much the strata I'm relegated to these days. Unless I really know I HAVE to have the $25 LP copy, then the $3 cd copy must suffice. Weirdly, I find there's usually cheaper vinyl of the rarer things I want. I think it's because a lot of the rarities I'm after are from the '80s when CD editions weren't a given.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Oct 5, 2022 13:46:32 GMT
that Mag-Lev deck out of Slovenia is quite the conversation starter, even if it doesn't sound very good. what the actual hell I think there have been magnetic suspension bearings before, but they're usually hidden within the bowels of the turntable. It's a neat idea to get rid of all mechanical noise, but I believe it suffers in terms of stability/wow/flutter etc. I'm sure that will improve as the tech moves on.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 25, 2022 11:36:48 GMT
Stumbed across a pair of these in a recycled store today. Technics SB 7000 from 1977. Problem is they were completely caked in dirt. Looked like they'd been rolled in the shit. They had the cloth grills on the front and top for a bit of protection but still.... they probably don't even work...........right, guys? Guys?
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Post by Ladyfingers on Oct 26, 2022 6:19:32 GMT
Stumbed across a pair of these in a recycled store today. Technics SB 7000 from 1977. Problem is they were completely caked in dirt. Looked like they'd been rolled in the shit. They had the cloth grills on the front and top for a bit of protection but still.... they probably don't even work...........right, guys? Guys?
Surrounds are probably perished at least. Are those 12" drivers?
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 26, 2022 8:55:37 GMT
Surrounds are probably perished at least. Are those 12" drivers?
35 cms. So yeah about that. FFS way too much bass for the poor fucks living downstairs. Will probably relent and go back to the store to have a snoop around the cuntz at some stage. God knows how hi-end mofos like that get neglected so badly. Very un-japanese behaviour
while I'm here, I saw all these enormous Denon mofos at Miwanosawa Hard Off last year. Went back last month and it doesnt look like theyve sold a single one of them. WFT is going on with these things? They take up a hell of a lot of space. Wife might be steamed if I brought one of these home... "sorry, no, you can't cook on it..."Guess you'd need the right kind of room. Some poxy wee bedroom or Japanese size living room would be daft. Some swank studio/warehouse space and they'd be pretty dashed racey
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Oct 27, 2022 9:53:47 GMT
Stumbed across a pair of these in a recycled store today. Technics SB 7000 from 1977. Problem is they were completely caked in dirt. Looked like they'd been rolled in the shit. They had the cloth grills on the front and top for a bit of protection but still.... they probably don't even work...........right, guys? Guys? Surrounds are probably perished at least. Are those 12" drivers?
Went back for another look. The tweeters looked fine and probably sound insanely sweet BUT yes, the woofer has some perishing and, the deal breaker, a BIG FUCKING HOLE in it. Would be a doable resto job for someone with a wee bit of knowhow though. (obvs not bloody me ffs)
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Dec 20, 2022 8:29:10 GMT
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Post by Ladyfingers on Dec 29, 2022 6:11:52 GMT
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Jan 24, 2023 7:33:16 GMT
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jan 25, 2023 13:24:26 GMT
Digital is better than analogue if you master it correctly, which nobody has since 1994 or so.
Hilariously, all vinyl cutters have had a low-res digital delay in the signal path since the '70s, so "analogue" is just the audio equivalent of a photocopy of a ropey JPEG.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Jan 31, 2023 22:19:06 GMT
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