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Γυρνώντας από σπίτια
Με πολύχρωμα απαλά ροζ, πορτοκαλί φώτα
Έχοντας περάσει θαυμάσια
Κατηφορίζεις με το απαλό αεράκι της δροσερής νύχτας
Με τισ μουριές να θυμίζουν
Απο τη γλύκα που γεύτικες
Που σου έδωσε απλόχερα κάτι που στερήθηκες μικρός
Και νέος μένεις όμορφος
Με απίστευτο ταχίνι ολικής
Κακαό 100% και χουρμάδες βασιλικούς
Δίπλα σου στο μετρό
Κάθεται μια κυρία όμορφη
Με μιά μανώλια στα δύο χέρια
Που μυρίζει αρχή καλοκαιριού
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpEisBQ5la76mpSBX1IuTnT6iD1ywZCq6
Acapulco Nights - G.J. Lunghi
Annabel - Xarhakos
Bad Boy - Den Harrow
Big in Japan - Alphaville
Cenerentola - Martinelli
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Interlude - Siouxsie, Morrisey
Maria Magdalena - Sandra
Tha s' Agapo - Galani
The Captain of Her Heart - Double
The Hook - Hatzinassios
The Fate of Ophelia - Taylor Swift
The Power of Love - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
My Army of Lovers - Army of Lovers
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For example taking 4 ply linoleum sheets of 2.5mm thickness each and glueing them together with PVA.
Then mounting a woofer and tweeter. Connecting and inductor in series with woofer in order to reduce mid heaviness and a capacitor in series with resistor in series with tweeter until A Woman in Love - Barbara Streisand sounds like listening to the Sennheiser HD-580 headphones.
Hopefully the panel used as speaker baffle acts also as membrane bass absorber.
Nothing smells like Jasmine
An outdoors photographic exhibition
Surrounded by jasmines
I forgot the photos
And concentrated on smelling jasmines
Nothing smells like Jasmine
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A person who can sing or play at least one note correctly.
It seems a musical note have to be increased in pitch after the attack of the note ie on sustain. Otherwise it sounds flat to the listener's brain.
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It helps to do away with stress, anxiety. You think you play for example music to just one person.
I think I leaned this from BBC producer Malcolm Love when he lectured at the British Council in Athens.
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It was a mystery to be when being a kid. I was building those amazing sounding simple class A amplifiers but at |I did not know.
Then at Warwick University the great lectures of Dr. Neil Storey showed us that this resistor changes the variable current to variable voltage ie the music signal itself. We learned so much about this load resistor, load lines etc.
Please see also the book Electronics, a systems Approach - Dr. Neil Storey
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For example the better the preamplifier is made the more information can be extracted and there seems to be no limit...
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I fondly remember reading papers by Matti Otala on how a transient (music) can make a feedback amplifier distort 100 per cent until negative feedback has time to arrive at the input leaving the amplifier at the very high open loop gain!
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/matti-otala-an-amplifier-milestone-dead-or-alive.125541/
On an AES conference in 1973, Dr. Matti Otala presented a paper describing the design of a TIM-free audio amplifier...
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Now that it is inside a nice aluminum box, frequency response tests are being made using an inverse RIAA network by Lipshitz.
There was +3dB at mid bass!
-20dB at 20KHz!
It looks like the high impedance 470K pot loaded by the input capacitance of the JFET creates this high cut.
So almost like cheating the 100 Ohms resistor was changed to 12K.
Now we have -3dB at 20KHz. There is about +1.5dB at 4KHz.
For correcting the mid bass heaviness 15nF was changed to 20nF.
Now mid bass is flat and we have -3dB at 20Hz.
Even before the changes the preamp sounds very good with a feeling of 2 octaves above CDs, YouTube videos etc. After the changes about 3 octaves higher treble sparkle and no bass heaviness.
What I do like about the sound of this preamplifier is the smoothness of the treble on violins. I think this is achieved by the fact that there is no negative feedback, no active negative feedback filter but a passive instead. So transients will not instantaneously clip (see Matti Otala transient intermodulation distortion papers).
I also like that each stage is at low gain so there is headroom at the input.
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Acting as if you have infinite time.
For example acting as if time available for a day is infinite.
Acting now as if you have infinite time available.
Then everything runs smoothly with no hurry, no mistakes, accidents. And at the end of the day it feels like you have done a lot.
By Lambros
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https://www.npr.org/2000/09/04/1081575/crazy
Ai replies the microphone may have been the Schoeps M201.
A similar mic schematic can be seen here, so simple:
https://repforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=36988.0;attach=2568;image
Some links on Schoeps microphones.
https://repforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php?topic=36988.0
https://repforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php?topic=36988.0
https://tapeop.com/interviews/115/bradley-studios-quonset-hut-and-nashville-sound-bonus
a photo:
https://digi.countrymusichalloffame.org/digital/collection/photo/id/58757/
Ai reply:
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I do not know if this is beer but it tastes great. Now that the temperature is higher it deteriorates quicker, in less than 48 hour preparation.
Please see net post on the updated Pleiades meal.
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Soaked in filtered water for 48 hours selected (checked for small hard for teeth objects) barley seeds. Funnily enough the water after 48 hours tastes like a great beer. But now in summertime with higher room temperature at 48 hours it has deteriorated.
Then adding 2 teaspoons of whole grain tahini. Great taste.
Then 100 per cent cocoa powder. Great taste.
Then 1 royal date for sweetening and even greater taste.
Can this be made to a chocolate bar? Will it also work with oat flakes?
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My new vocal teacher.
I went to Modern Music Arts after searching for Speech Level Singing in Athens (the technique pioneered by Seth Riggs which I learned from Quincy Jones interviews when he wanted to prepare singers he was producing such as Michael Jackson).
Anyway the school happens to have a branch in my hometown New Smyrna.
I feel privileged to have as teacher Justine:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0giJiLcsjxk&list=RD0giJiLcsjxk&start_radio=1
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I had the pleasure seeing again Harris from the very nice electronics repair and construction shop Effectum Electron in Athens:
https://www.effectum-electron.com/
I was telling him about the Pleiades electron tube pre preamplifiers with one electron tube operating with a 3.6V (3 1.2V batteries in series). The schematic should come if one Google searches with keywords Pleiades Amplifier Schematic. I was also telling him about the Pleiades DLxx or EL84, or EF183 triode connected single electron tube power amplifiers with a step up input transformer instead of a driving electron tube. Also the Pleiades power amplifier with no capacitors or resistors just one battery for heaters, one for Anode supply, one for bias, one input and output transformer and how nice they sound.
I was very pleased to see how tidy his lab is. He is making a single ended electron tube power amplifier on a very nice green painted chassis. It is so refreshing walking in your hometown, New Smyrna and an intelligent person is up to building a nice single ended electron tube amplifier.
Al is his name.
On the mixing desk Alan Parsons.
This song was refreshed in my memory by Tassos in the Dual turntables service department in Athens. It is a pleasure meeting Tassos who is a fan of the AES journal and great music such as the Year of the Cat.
I bought this on 2 CDs. the remastered one sounds bass heavy. But it has information on how the songs were conceived. I listen to the original CD I bought the same day. it sounds softer and great.
Signal path: Sony CD Walkman - Sennheiser HD-580
It is interesting I keep confirming how good singers increase the pitch of each note after the note begins. In effect they correct it. For the first song of this compilation. It is AI.
So it seems AI is doing it too.
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This came up near the top of renewablemusic YouTube channel when I logged in.
Thank you very much.
As almost everything it seems to grow exponentially.
Views per day is about 5 thousand.
I find it hard to believe.
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www.recordplayer.com
I heard yesterday about Simon Yorke turntable designs while having the pleasure to meet Lucas.
Here is the URL for musicalike:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpEisBQ5la76mpSBX1IuTnT6iD1ywZCq6
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For example a playlist of great quality music from any genre called
Music I Like (musicalike).
Example songs:
Acapulco Nights - Lunghi
My Army of Lovers - Army of Lovers
One Day in Your Life - Michael Jackson
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Eleni and Vasilis were doing alive PA rehearsal outdoors. It was suggested that Eleni increases the vocal mic distance from 1in to more than 3in. The sound opened up, there was treble detail and Eleni sung much closer to in tune, (her pitch increased much closer to in tune).
Here is the reply to the them:
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When connecting the Pleiades K117 to the Apple 3.5mm to USB C adaptor, headphones must be connected to the latter otherwise the mobile phone may not recognize it.
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Please reduce volume before playing.
Signal path:
Outdoors at SNFCC park -
Shure SM58 at 24in, 45o above head towards nose of singer -
German Transformer 500 Ohm to 50 KOhm, primary inductance 230mH -
Pleiades K117 JFET microphone preamplifier (schematic on a previous post) -
Apple 3.5mm to USB C adaptor (with Philips in ear headphones connected to)
Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro + 5G
Notes:
To my mind when I listen to it with the Sennheiser HD-580 headphones, it sounds bass or mid bass heavy. The Shure Unidyne B may do the trick as in my experience it can sound with flat frequency response from my mind as producer to my mind as listener without the need to add a frequency response EQ or filter after the microphone.
We need to use a much quieter outdoors place.
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Least change has great impact on mind perception.
For example:
You Do Something to Me - Paul Weller
The song is written in E minor.
So the first bass is E.
Paul sings E #F G B while bass is E.
Then repeats B while bass goes down to D creating an interval of major 6th.
Then bass goes down to A but as there is nothing at that moment sung the mind of the listener has the perception of prepared major 9th since the distance between bass A and melody B is 9 steps of the scale.
For more please read the book: "A Letter to Clive Davis" - euroelectron
Further reading:
The Bach Manual for his students in composition which can be found at the appendix of Bach's biography by Spitta. I do not know if it is included in newer editions, please check.
For example.
Bass C (Do) and a higher part playing B (Si).
Accord to the Bach-Niedt manual we also add the 3rd with respect to bass, that is E (Mi).
The beauty can be heard whenever the singer sings "I can't" in every chorus of the song We Are the People - Empire of the Sun.
For more please read the book under construction: "A Letter to Clive Davis" on euroelectron.
I heard this yesterday form Kosmos FM radio of Hellenic Radio in the Adam's broadcast show.
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The kid goes at the sea bank to buy fresh fish for the cat.
All fish are dead except 1 which jumps with agony inside an open white EPS box.
The fish cries please save me, buy me and set me free in the nearby sea.
He decides to buy 2 fish for the cat and him for 5e and then he asks the price for the alive fish.
OK 5e but please do not peel it and let me take it buy the time I leave.
The assistant of the seller puts the living fish just inside a supermarket strong plastic bag.
The boy rushes to the nearby beach at the back of the market place when he is alone with the fish in hand.
He throws the fish into the sea!
The fish is kind of dizzy. Almost does not not move.
A seagull immediately comes to get the fish.
The kid is ready to jump to save the fish or to get something form the beach to throw to the seagull.
The seagull gets frightened and leaves higher in the air.
The fish starts moving but there are a few dozens small fish gathered ready to eat it.
But as the fish starts turning towards them they get scared and kind of withdraw.
The fish find itself at very shallow water, almost eating mud..
But gets stringer and stronger and ...
Suddenly starts moving towards deeper water, leaving.
Salutes the kid...
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In Piraeus port near Athens there is a store with a huge warehouse selling great quality stainless steel products for marine etc.
This is what is used when building Pleiades amplifier prototypes.
A few days ago i had the pleasure meeting the sales manager Apostolos Tsochatzis.
They now sell worldwide through their www.inoxstores,com
Website is www.theodosiadis.gr
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They give you direct access to the ribbon or moving coil or stationary coil, that is the source of the music signal.
Then you can connect an external preamplifier and the better this preamp is made the more information or low noise you can extract.
And inherently their output is electronically balanced.
Tape recorder magnetic heads are the same but usually the preamps are built inside the equipment.
Whereas in a phono record player the output is direct access to the cartridge.
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It looks a very promising candidate for being battery powered. All that seem to be needed is about 25V DC to power the electronics which control the DC motor which direct drives the turntable.
Power consumption with quartz unlock is just 3W, with quartz lock about 4.5W.
It comes with fabulous Ortofon low mass cantilever variable magnetic shunt cartridge.
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Current consumption is about 1.2mA per channel.
The pioneer of the amplifier.
For example his patent US1349252, just an input transformer an electron tube, an output transformer and no resistors or capacitors, just 3 batteries for filament, bias, plate supply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_D._Arnold
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I had yesterday one of the best meals i ever had.
At your risk. Please take all safety precautions. A suitable fuse should always be in series with a battery for burn injury or fire prevention hazard.
This is the current schematic without RIAA tests or tuning done yet. So the network used may be wrong, it is just used for initial listening test purpose. Tests will be done using a Lipshitz inverse RIAA networks including the ultrasonic time constant, (please see Wikipedia article on RIAA).
At this prototype stage an input transformer is not used. The Stanton 681EEE calibration standard moving (ultra low mass) iron cantilever cartridge is directly connected to the 47K resistor input.
Two 9 V batteries in series with a fuse are used to power this great sounding very low power consumption and low noise preamplifier.
The sound is warm like a good electron tube design with (no source) cathode bypass capacitors capacitors. Warm may well mean with less distortion, no high frequency overtone artifacts added to the music program.
The output transformer is used with the 2 secondaries in series, so the ratio is typically 5:1. 2 Channels can drive the Sennheiser HD-580 2x 300 Ohms headphones to a comfortable level with big deep bass, liquid mid and treble. But all these adjectives may be unreal.
The sound is real, close to reality.
I wrongly thought some cartridges like the Stanton 680 series, Ortofon OM series, some Shure were MM. There are variable magnetic reluctance and give MM a very hard time and possibly MC too. For example the cantilever has neither a magnet or a coil attached to it. The mass is so low that the 681 can track at less than 1g. One day i heard by chance n Stanton 680 and that was it. I could not believe how good, warm (natural) and detailed it sounds. The treble...
From AI overview:
The Stanton 681EEE is a highly regarded moving-iron phono cartridge, historically used as a calibration standard in broadcasting due to its flat frequency response (
) and low distortion. It is often sold with a Vivid Line stylus or original Stereohedron stylus and requires precise setup (tracking force 0.75–1.5g, best around 1.5–2g, typically without the brush).
