xxp I can't get it to you anytime soon, but honestly, if you'll cover the shipping (maybe just email me a shipping a label), you can keep it and hopefully fix it for yourself. It's basically in storage back home, where Covid has gotten really bad at the moment. Once it settles down, I can ask my parents to fish out the player and power adapter the next time they swing by the storage unit. I'll probably remember - there's a bunch of stuff I need to ship to my current place, but I won't be able to do it until things settle down and I have time to travel back.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
(I already have enough players, so I don't mind giving it away if you can fix it. I just don't want to toss it into a landfill.)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link
I have no idea what happened to my Goodmans. I certainly didn't eBay it like the rest of my gear. It may be in a box somewhere. But for 2.5 years it was the heart of my hi-fi. It never went outdoors. "Outdoor hifi - is it a sin?"
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link
lol. high frequencies mess with the birds.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
cool man that sounds good! I'll ilxmail ya xxp
― 龜, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
the old discmen were really nice SQ wise - i currently use a d-4 discman and it gets LOUD, even when using full sized headphones. of course the battery life is like 2-3 hours on AAs (for those that take em - a lot of the early ones used lead acid battery packs that are all dead by now) so I just use it on wall power.
― 龜, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
in other CD news:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-makes-surprise-visit-rome-record-store-gets-classical-cd-2022-01-11/
― 龜, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
the old discmen were really nice SQ wise
similar to the time that scott once told us that PS1s were great as audio/cd players !?the same techie gubbins given both = Sony ?
― mark e, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
hmm probably! i would say (not having been there in real time) it's probably an example of sony taking a no holds barred approach to what was then a pretty new tech. the later discmen of the late 90s and early 00s were designed more to the market's taste. ironically, it seemed discmen got really good right featurewise w/ unlimited skip protection and mp3/cd-r support right around the time mp3/ipods were taking off
― 龜, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
where do uk people buy back-catalogue cds (that isn't amazon)?
i have christmas money burning a hole in my pocket and figured i'd pick up those cure and fall and siouxsie and sonic youth cds that i don't have and don't really know where to look for them. norman records, lots of hits, but the cds, the 10 i looked for, were ALL sold out. is there anywhere with decent stock?
(actually, the sonic youth were on bandcamp so those were easy)
― koogs, Friday, 14 January 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
Basically, discogs.
― Mark G, Friday, 14 January 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
One thing I've been enjoying is checking out CDs from the library, ours always has interesting selections
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
discogs or eBay or webuy.com (cex) or music magpie (i buy a lot from musicmagpie on eBay)
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link
just bought a Norma Tanega CD from Discogs last week
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
And a wonderful resource that is.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 January 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
Koogs:
I would never buy from Amazon unless it was somehow necessary. But surely Fopp? They sell all that stuff upstairs.
― the pinefox, Friday, 14 January 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
I'm jealous of this. Our otherwise excellent library has an absolutely terrible CD selection. They've got a great DVD/Blu Ray selection, but they appear to have given up on CDs about 2004. When I first moved here in 2008 it already appeared to have been ignored for several years and it hasn't been touched since. It's so disappointing. The jazz section that remains is decent, but only about 20% of the CDs I've checked out have been playable, they are either scratched to absolute shit or the anti-theft strip they apply to the top surface of the disc itself renders them unplayable in most of my disc drives.
Yeah, I get a twinge of jealously when I see people talking about local libraries with great and well curated CDs.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
And not just local - Seattle and King County both have great online catalogs and will deliver for pickup at your local. One of the reasons I donate to them.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
yeah, PF, fopp. i was hoping to do it from the sofa though, avoiding the great unvaxxed.
i always forget about upstairs at fopp. downstairs is full of dvd goodness, but i never think to go up.
― koogs, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
Picked up a tall IKEA CD storage unit left out on the pavement today. There were two but I could barely carry that one.
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
uk online option : music magpie.free postage no matter the price.
― mark e, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
Koogs, surely you can order online from Fopp?
― the pinefox, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
Maybe a dumb question but how does one use a Discman or similar device with external speakers without losing one of the stereo channels of the CD mix?
― Josefa, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
if your current cd player is losing a stereo channel when connecting to external speakers that means you probably have a bad connection or are using a mono cable instead of a stereo cable
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
ok but if there’s a single output on the Discman and a single input on the speaker how do you get stereo out of that?
― Josefa, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
1/8 inch headphone out is a stereo connection iirc
― call all destroyer, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
yeah the headphone out on a discman is TRS or a stereo jack. older discmen have a separate line out jack (i.e. no volume control) that you could connect to a preamp or receiver with volume control
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
Here’s my situation. I have a circa-2000 Panasonic discman that only has the headphone jack output so I use to use that to play thru an external speaker but it only played one channel. Later I acquired a late-‘90s Panasonic that additionally has the separate line out jack, but I still have the same problem going out of that jack. Still just one channel.
― Josefa, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
what external speakers are you using?
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
it sounds like you're plugging a mono 1/8" into that jack, not a stereo one - there are both versions
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 14 January 2022 21:09 (two years ago) link
make sure the plug of the wire you're using has a stereo tip:
https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-6stteikkyf/product_images/uploaded_images/stereo-vs-mono-plugs.jpg?t=1602102561&_ga=2.189390443.157792817.1601837151-826071131.1599170371
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
^^^
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 14 January 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
Ah OK, that could be all it is, thanks
― Josefa, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
And at the other end you need to send one channel to one speaker and the other to the other speaker.
― nickn, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
Right, but the speaker I’ve been using is just a single speaker (designed for iPods actually)
― Josefa, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ab2c68a32f2e5ece753428fc7b400b00-c
you can get converters for mono sources to stereo earphones, just feeds the same signal to both poles. i guess something else is available for the opposite. although i'm kinda surprised that it isn't designed to take stereo and just deal with it (effectively mixing it down to mono).
fopp famously has no online shop - it only has a few stores as it is.
hmv.com is ok, but there's one local to me so i can just pop in (plus i have vouchers and they don't take them online)
― koogs, Friday, 14 January 2022 22:07 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I just found that I do have a stereo plug in the house… which splits into two plugs at the other end… but then I also have an adapter thingy that takes the two plugs and channels them back into one plug so I can input that into my speaker. And it works! Now I can listen to “Purple Haze” and finally hear a vocal along with the instrumental part.
― Josefa, Friday, 14 January 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
sounds like it probably splits into rca plugs (i.e. red/white plugs)? if it works, it works! but you could always get a 3/8 to 3/8 stereo aux cord, they're quite cheap and available pretty much everywhere. https://www.radioshack.com/products/3-ft-1-8-stereo-plug-cable
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
Yep that’s what it is, and yeah I figured there must be a single cord to use instead of going thru the adapter. Thanks!
― Josefa, Friday, 14 January 2022 23:03 (two years ago) link
*you mean 1/8” cord tho I assume
― Josefa, Friday, 14 January 2022 23:08 (two years ago) link
ah yes 1/8"
― 龜, Saturday, 15 January 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
spent the past three months collecting & finally got a hi-fi sorted this week. thrifted for £100. i need a shelf!
https://i.imgur.com/uXv9yG0.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gezkpoa.jpg
― maelin, Saturday, 15 January 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
slick!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 15 January 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
Still buying CDs. Just ordered some late '60s/early '70s out-jazz titles in fancy mini-LP sleeves from Japan:
Stanley Cowell, Brilliant CirclesAndrew Hill, SpiralOliver Lake, NTU: The Point From Which Creation BeginsCharles Tolliver, The Ringer
And ordered the new Iannis Xenakis 5CD box Electroacoustic Works straight from the label in Germany.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 15 January 2022 16:30 (two years ago) link
nice maelinalways cool to see Teac
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 15 January 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
I recently picked up a cd of Joe Chambers excellent 1974 album The Almoravid, reissued on Joel Dorn's 32 Jazz label which uses the fairly rarely seen Q Pack, instead of a jewel case or digipack https://img.discogs.com/7rcu0J-p9Lh92itKXwmJPe4XZzE=/fit-in/600x539/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3362060-1553861765-3956.jpeg.jpg
I remember these being used by Bar/None records for a while. It's very sturdy feeling.
― mizzell, Saturday, 15 January 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
32 Jazz was somewhat legendary in jazz circles for slapping the most hideously 1990s cover art imaginable on everything they reissued. That one is a perfect example. I mean, here's the original cover:
https://img.discogs.com/8jj64rEsHb2CGncrJ6-FhYdnxW8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1202485-1200414367.jpeg.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 15 January 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
Now That's What I Call Spiritual Jazz! Vol. 1
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 15 January 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
graphic design was their passion
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 15 January 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
f^ck.now the "revival" has gone mainstream.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/cd-revival-compact-discs-rob-sheffield-1284487/
― mark e, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link