[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

[Julf]

The ultimate vinyl-o-phile record player, for the truly hipster
audiophile. We all know steam gives more solid bass.

'steam powered record player'
(http://www.asciimation.co.nz/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=877).



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[ralphpnj]

Post by Julf
The ultimate vinyl-o-phile record player, for the truly hipster
audiophile. We all know steam gives more solid bass.
'steam powered record player'
(http://www.asciimation.co.nz/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=877).

While the bass may be solid the highs are very sibilant with lots of
hiss.



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[Julf]

Post by ralphpnj
While the bass may be solid the highs are very sibilant with lots of
hiss.

But that is good, old-fashioned analog hiss.



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Post by Julf
But that is good, old-fashioned analog hiss.

I was thinking of a "wetter" kind of hiss, more like that of an old
steam heat radiator.



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[Julf]

Post by ralphpnj
I was thinking of a "wetter" kind of hiss, more like that of an old
steam heat radiator.

That is what I was assuming. What can be more analog than that fluid,
rounded sound of heated water vapour escaping? So much more organic than
the crude, edgy "digital" sound created by electrons...



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[SBGK]

the sound of the sex pistols is barely audible above the steam sounds,
I'm sure Sid would have approved.



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[ralphpnj]

Post by SBGK
http://youtu.be/lSiVWkk5zaQ
the sound of the sex pistols is barely audible above the steam sounds,
I'm sure Sid would have approved.

Great find and an excellent video.

After watching the video I think that this record player should only be
used to play the soundtrack from "The Great Train Robbery"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_%281903_film%29),
which of course is a silent film.



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[Mnyb]

He he the wov and flutter is clearly audible :) and it actually
explained the strange arm mount , he turned it 90 degrees over the
spindle to use it .
But i duobt any corect distnace and angles are cared for . fun never the
less .

We must have a pair of flame speakers to this

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Post by Mnyb
He he the wov and flutter is clearly audible :) and it actually
explained the strange arm mount , he turned it 90 degrees over the
spindle to use it .
But i duobt any corect distnace and angles are cared for . fun never the
less .
We must have a pair of flame speakers to this
http://youtu.be/lGXIuBK_Hqs

question: Would the steam turntable be driving the flame speakers or
would the flame speakers be driving the steam turntable?



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[Julf]

Post by SBGK
http://youtu.be/lSiVWkk5zaQ

Yes - that link and more from 'the full story'
(http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bb/2010/11/30/a-steam-punk-record-player).



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[DJanGo]

I think 'Renault'

introduced 'these'

Music
Devices.

btw:

Have a nice night we see us next year:o



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Jan
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[ralphpnj]

Okay time for even more audiophile humor.

I hope that the steam powered turntable is using triple distilled RO
water, any other water would just add a graininess to the sound from the
trace minerals in the water.

One would imagine that the flame would definitely color the sound so the
choice of fuel for the flame would very important. Any chemists out
there? What fuel for the Blues?



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[Julf]

Post by ralphpnj
I hope that the steam powered turntable is using triple distilled RO
water, any other water would just add a graininess to the sound from the
trace minerals in the water.

Oh no, you really need to buy the special mono-molecule audiophile water
from a tibetan mountain stream, that has then been processed by playing
for 100 hours of Fleetwood Mac to the bottle of water. Only
$999/bottle.

Post by ralphpnj
What fuel for the Blues? Alcohol?

We all know alcohol makes the music sound better....



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Post by Julf
Oh no, you really need to buy the special mono-molecule audiophile water
from a tibetan mountain stream, that has then been processed by playing
for 100 hours of Fleetwood Mac to the bottle of water. Only $999/bottle.

Fleetwood Mac? I would think something with a little more audiophile
pedigree. Perhaps water from the Pawn Shop jazz club, of "Jazz at the
Pawnshop" fame.



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[cliveb]

Post by ralphpnj
I hope that the steam powered turntable is using triple distilled RO
water, any other water would just add a graininess to the sound from the
trace minerals in the water.

I'm afraid that the use of an Ardunio to control the speed means that
there is inevitably going to be some sort of digital harshness to the
sound, so this can never be a true audiophile player. Surely he should
have used a mechanical centrifugal governor instead?



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