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Pat Metheny Group - Travels

Billy Joel - Songs in the Attic. It was recorded during his tour in 1980 and combines recordings from small venues as well as big stadiums.

Pauline Oliveros was inspired by „Vor der Flut“, a project in Cologne in 1985 where she played, you can see her in Minute 32: I think he was not mentioned yet, Simon Fisher Turner:

Frankly, I still have the vivid memory that I could clearly hear the vinyl noise in the pauses between tracks after copying a freshly bought record to a tape recorder, equipped with Dolby B. I guess, a middle class tape recorder from the early eighties had about 50dB SNR...?

No ideas how the MEMS - microphone for speech can be improved? What do the 3 Connectors FM+ / FM- / FMB mean? They could give me a hint how the MEMS - mic is implemented...

Forgot this one. Sorry.

Very old - but while doing research on the history of Calcutta between 1971 and 2010, I stumbled over it in the beginning of this year: Immediately bought the CD, but Ravi Shankar outperforms the Rock Giants of the seventies.

Opened mine because the voice mic was not working properly. The mic was almost muted, it did just let some scrambled peaks through. After replacing the voice mic, things got better but the sound of my QC 35 II is still far worse than in this review, check from minute 2:35. Even in a quiet...

Bomb proof transport: The force with which the disc is pressed onto the platter is also generated by a leaf spring and not by a magnet, as in all subsequent designs. I wonder if they were very careful 42 years ago and thought that a magnet might interfere with the control of the laser lens...

They were also built to last. The service manuals are a good indication for this. In the first generations, service technicians got thorough instructions how to swap lasers and align them mechanically and electronically.

It is also understandable that Philips drives - I assume the first generations - were not able to consistently scan scratches without errors, because the lens/arm assembly of the first swing arm drives had to / could be adjusted vertically to the surface of the CD. I remember that this...

I remember that CDM-1 swing arms tracked extremely well across errors on the pit surface (don’t remember the “classical” scratches.) and traverse mechs did not. I guess the reason is that coarse and fine tracking are not aligned when the servo loses the signal in traverse systems (but still work...

I remember that it was very easy to mix up the internal connection cables on the Philips players because the plug connectors are identical. That was impossible with Sony. The Philips service manual was also horrendous because they printed code numbers instead of voltages. You had to look them up...

I remember I heard it when listening to the silent gaps between tracks and raising the volume all way up for a second. The CD73 was my first player when prices dropped. Unfortunately I sold it, being unaware of the built quality. All first and seccond generation players use the Sharp-LT022MC...

Still not available @amazon Germany. No discount possible @ebay Germany.