Trying out a new media (for me anyway)

amulford
amulford Posts: 5,020
edited June 2009 in 2 Channel Audio
So I was perusing Craigslist the other day, know what I'm sayin? See I was lookin for a NAD tuner to round out a component set I'm collecting for a future eff around rig...

So I come across this ad for pre owned ****, see. Some vintage album shop is having a thing, ya know? I figger, eh, WTF, I gots nuthin better goin on... Tell the skirt to get in the friggin car...(:D)

Make a long story short, I gets to da joint, see. And I starts lookin around, all kinds of **** dis guys got. Alot of crap, but Some decent stuff, ya know. Start talking to this whistledick who's in there, and figure out real quick this geek and me ain't from the same old neighborhood. 'Specially when he starts off about how power cords are a joke, miles and miles of **** power, so many feet of cord, yada-yada-yada. I'm think this whackoff is begging to sleep wit da fishes...

And I peeps dis here RTR. Damn thing looks pretty good, fugheddaboudit. All done over, thing looks damn near new, I'm tellin ya.

So's I ask the guy how it sounds. He tells me it's one o' dem Akai GX-270D's. see. 4 track, 7 1/2 & 3 3/4 IPS, 7 inch RTR. Then he goes into this song and dance about the jagoff who worked it over...I'm thinkin, hmm, worked over, huh? Little does he know...Look, I just wanna hear the f#ckin thing, pal, save the fairy tale, ya know???

So he hooks it up, and he's got a pile of **** to play on it. I picks out a couple and he sets it up.

All kidding aside, it sounds pretty damn good. Now I have heard RTR, and i always liked it. Damn fine medium, minimum hassle for great sounding reproduction. Ken Swauger's into it, heard some really nice recordings he has, and I remember him talking about a source for it.

To end the tale, I picked it up, and a pile of various music to go with it. Just what I need, another f#ckin toy... I'm really startin to get some bad feelins for you ****...
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited June 2009
    Ant I have an NAD tuner that I bought from George that I am no longer using. Fifty bucks and it's yours.
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited June 2009
    lol now that's a sick **** gangsta tale, yo!:D Congrats on your new toy. You mentioned that he had a pile of crap to play on it, did you purchase the media lot as well? At least you'll have a lot of things to listen to on the new R2R.
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited June 2009
    Of course. Probably about 20-25 of them. I need a source for now for tapes, both blank and recorded. I think it would be smart to use this to record my older vinyl, to save wear...
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited June 2009
    amulford wrote: »
    Of course. Probably about 20-25 of them. I need a source for now for tapes, both blank and recorded. I think it would be smart to use this to record my older vinyl, to save wear...

    Oh, god. Deju vu. That's what everyone was doing back in the 70's.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited June 2009
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    Oh, god. Deju vu. That's what everyone was doing back in the 70's.

    well that and a few other things................or was that the sixties.........Go ask Alice when she's TEN feet Tall.

    RT1
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,965
    edited June 2009
    Nice atny,except for the small observation of ...your going the wrong way,as far as evolution of audio go's.Let us know when you find those tin cans with the string between them.

    Yeah,kidding....RTR sound quality is pretty damn good.I liked it back when even better than a TT. That aside,you better hide that thing before the skirt has the dudes in white coats come to have a talk wit ya.
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited June 2009
    Too late for that ****. Look at all the pretty colors....

    All kidding aside, nothing wrong with going a little backwards, know what I'm sayin? Hey, it works, ya know? Hell, I have a 1966 tube integrated that sounds good as hell driving a pair of 1989 speakers. I mean REAL good...

    I'd like to find some more media, I think I got a line on some blank tape.
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  • pearsall001
    pearsall001 Posts: 5,068
    edited June 2009
    Sounds like an episode from the "Twilight Zone"!!!! But I'll bet it's a boat load of fun. Traveling back in time can produce some fantastic results. Rock on Ant!!! :D
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,561
    edited June 2009
    And if you go chasing rabbits
    And you know you're going to fall
    Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
    Has given you the call.....:D
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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