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Cuir_Beluga

askthe coffeeguy wrote:

if raising kids isnt as demanding or more so that a full time job then i dont know what is! I do know that my (already considerably high) coffee consumption doubled when child number two came along! pat

They don't half take it out of you and I am not 22 years old anymore either 8).

Brett_H

I'm a muso/teacher and all the things that go along with that line of work.

Dry_bean

I'm retired! which tells you absolutely nothing :🙂 however prior to retiring I worked in the Geology section of a large Aust mining company. 🙂

Dry_bean

Brett H wrote:

I'm a muso/teacher and all the things that go along with that line of work.

Wish I'd had the opportunity to study music Brett. When I was very young my parents took me along to do a musical aptitude test, sadly I didn't do very well, my parents spent the next week or so telling everyone who would listen what a musical dill I was, then they would roll around on the floor laughing, most humiliating for a kid of tender years. So, my musical career stopped before it even started. 🙂

GeekKopi

Brett H wrote:

I'm a muso/teacher and all the things that go along with that line of work.

Brett. What type of music are you into? Hopefully you respond with Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Motley Crue or KISS. Then we can start discussing LP collections.

Dry_bean

GeekKopi wrote:

Brett. What type of music are you into? Hopefully you respond with Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Motley Crue or KISS. Then we can start discussing LP collections.

Do you still have a working turntable Ron? I have quite a collection of LP's, the only Pink Floyd I have is DSM. Still believe well pressed LP's are superior to CD's.

GeekKopi

Dry bean. wrote:

Do you still have a working turntable Ron? I have quite a collection of LP's, the only Pink Floyd I have is DSM. Still believe well pressed LP's are superior to CD's.

I agree regarding well pressed LPs. My fav PF album is wish you were here. shine on your crazy diamond on it is bloody fantastic. I've got a new turntable bought 4 years back. It's a Project Xpression III classic. I run it through a vacuum tube preamp and then my active amp with no processing straight through to 2x Mission speakers. The aim is to hear the record as it was pressed. Here is a vid I recorded with an original Hendrix pressing from BBC Radio One from back in the day. http://youtu.be/DLOPEK7TzJU

Brett_H

My job is nothing as exciting as your LP collections guys. If I had a dollar DB for the number of potentially good or great musicians who were broken before they started 🙁 I'm an acoustic musician. I'm a choral director by day and an opera singer by night. I adjudicate, worksop, coach and teach and I reckon I've the best job in the world. I was poorly trained initially but then subsequent studies with great mentors has fixed that. I'm lucky enough to have had a dozen of my students sing professionally with the national company and many more with the state company. You need to get on to the audio file thread guys. I've got a set of speakers that would suffice audio-file standards but no turntable or valve amps.... as yet. Kids.....

Koffee_Kosmo

I am " NOT " a millionaire :angel: Self employed for 9 tenths of my working life Currently into franchising I am still waiting for BrettH to visit me to see & hear my Audio System :tearhair:

Brett_H

LOL... It will happen. I'm currently in the middle of a music festival, rehearsing an opera and have just finished some adjudicating. I too work a lot of hours for someone who is not a millionaire 😉

Dry_bean

GeekKopi wrote:

I agree regarding well pressed LPs. My fav PF album is wish you were here. shine on your crazy diamond on it is bloody fantastic. I've got a new turntable bought 4 years back. It's a Project Xpression III classic. I run it through a vacuum tube preamp and then my active amp with no processing straight through to 2x Mission speakers. The aim is to hear the record as it was pressed. Here is a vid I recorded with an original Hendrix pressing from BBC Radio One from back in the day. http://youtu.be/DLOPEK7TzJU

I have a Rotel RP3000 TT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FncJ1erZUpw with an SME tone arm and Shure V15 III cartridge, Cambridge Audio solid state amp, and a pair of VAF speakers http://www.audioreview.com/cat/speakers/floorstanding-speakers/vaf-research/dc-x-generation-iv/prd_331500_1594crx.aspx Good setup, though I don't get the full benefit, my hearing is not what it used to be. I was/am a big Jethro Tull fan, favorite album was Thick As A Brick.

Brett_H

I have a Cambridge Audio solid state amp in the studio paired with Polk Audio RT12s. Very clean amp considering it's not D-class???? (I think).

Koffee_Kosmo

My system will set you back a small mortgage Sorry can't give more detail KK

Brett_H

Koffee Kosmo wrote:

My system will set you back a small mortgage Sorry can't give more detail KK

The pictures burned my eyes 😉

Dry_bean

Brett H wrote:

My job is nothing as exciting as your LP collections guys. If I had a dollar DB for the number of potentially good or great musicians who were broken before they started 🙁 I'm an acoustic musician. I'm a choral director by day and an opera singer by night. I adjudicate, worksop, coach and teach and I reckon I've the best job in the world. I was poorly trained initially but then subsequent studies with great mentors has fixed that. I'm lucky enough to have had a dozen of my students sing professionally with the national company and many more with the state company. You need to get on to the audio file thread guys. I've got a set of speakers that would suffice audio-file standards but no turntable or valve amps.... as yet. Kids.....

My/our musical tastes are pretty diverse Brett, cant call myself an opera tragic, however I do enjoy many of the more popular operatic aria's. We attended a couple of short operatic recitals last year during our trip to Italy, one in Lucca, birthplace of Puccini, the other in Florence, the experience left us wanting more. Surprisingly the artists were not even identified, nonetheless thoroughly professional. Sadly not a lot of live performances of this type in the Moonta area. :🙂

GeekKopi

Dry bean. wrote:

I have a Rotel RP3000 TT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FncJ1erZUpw with an SME tone arm and Shure V15 III cartridge, Cambridge Audio solid state amp, and a pair of VAF speakers http://www.audioreview.com/cat/speakers/floorstanding-speakers/vaf-research/dc-x-generation-iv/prd_331500_1594crx.aspx Good setup, though I don't get the full benefit, my hearing is not what it used to be. I was/am a big Jethro Tull fan, favorite album was Thick As A Brick.

Great set up DB. your cartridge costs more than most consumer sound systems these days! ;D