Search results for: “technics”
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Money out of China + more things
So you want to get your money out of China? Cut out and keep edition | FT Alphaville – getting money out of China is notoriously difficult (paywall). More China related posts here. Big in Japan! Geomagnetic indoor positioning | Electronics EETimes – interesting deals by IndoorAtlas with Yahoo! Japan, SK Planet (Korean commerce service) and Baidu…
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Zoetrope + other things
Zoetrope based on a number sequence Amazing zoetrope based on Fibonacci sequence made using 3d-printing – just mesmerising. The strobing effect reminded me of the strobe edge on the Technics SL-1200 turntable. The zoetrope were moving images before film or television existed. This embedded the zoetrope in a wider steam punk aesthetic that harked back…
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Made 2 Fade GM-25 Mk II mixer
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a house party wasn’t a house party without a set of decks and the Technics SL-1200 MkII is well known as being the de-facto turntable that even now manufacturers try to emulate. A second ingredient in the DJing process was a mixer to well mix the sound…
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1 percent dominance + more things
This is the proof that the 1 percent have been running the show for 800 years | Quartz – know your place serfs. Interesting long term research on the 1 percent. There is also research that shows that the descendants of Chinese landlords doing better. These would have been the pre-revolutionary 1 percent. This rise of…
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DJ equipment + more stuff
Pioneer To Sell DJ Equipment Business For More Than Half A Billion Dollars » Synthtopia – interesting move, particularly with the launch of the new turntable. Pioneer’s DJ equipment business gave them a fill up as hi-fi revenue dropped. Pioneer CDJs managed to replace Technics as the industry standard in DJ equipment for many clubs. What…
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Slack + more news
Slack Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield’s new Slack signed up 8,000 companies in 24 hours | VentureBeat – psyched for Stewart Butterfield. met him once during a press junket to Sunnyvale and he was a gracious host for the media. Slack is a messaging client that allows groups, internal and external. It facilitates moving a lot…
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Revox B77 series
When I started off having an interest in DJing I went around to a a friend’s house whose older brother was into audio engineering. As well as having one of the first set of Technics 1200s I had ever seen he had a Revox B77 tape recorder. He used to record tracks on to the…
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Sennheiser HD250 II Linear headphones
The Sennheiser HD250 II Linear came from a time before Dr Dre and Lady Gaga had their own headphone lines. Quality headphones were dominated by German and Austrian companies. The three companies were AKG, Beyerdynamic and Sennheiser. These companies had a number of things in common: their headphones were very well made, sounded amazing and…
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Desert Island Discs
A while ago my friend Ian Wood did a kind of desert island discs meme asking friends on Facebook what six tracks were the soundtracks to their lives. Here were mine. What would be in your Desert Island Discs? Jim Reeves – Senor Santa Claus – My Dad was a Jim Reeves fan and Christmas…