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I don't post very often Soren but have been a member for several years here. You have been helpful to me many times in the past and I always enjoy following your posts on B&O and your life in Mexico. Glad to hear we shared the Miles music in common.
john
John Francis: I don't post very often Soren but have been a member for several years here. You have been helpful to me many times in the past and I always enjoy following your posts on B&O and your life in Mexico. Glad to hear we shared the Miles music in common. john
Thank you John, help and get help is the blessing of this forum. When someone post music that I may like, I go looking for it (mostly on Amazon), play it a couple of times through my lap top, if I like it, I look it up on my music computer and play it there, if I still like it I go looking for it on vinyl, The vinyl is for me and my wife, we both enjoy the procedures and the sound of the vinyl.
The music then gets stored in my computer for parties, dinner and occasions where the vinyl comes short or in danger
Collecting Vintage B&O is not a hobby, its a lifestyle.
That was a very nice tribute from John Francis….. and Søren, you definitely earned it!
Sharing ideas and sharing music is such a good idea and I really appreciate the camaraderie.
I seldom post on this forum, not for a lack of interest, as I read it, but I don’t see my selections as being for everyone.
None the less with two stereos (BM 2400 & BM 4400) opposite one another I have been playing Ricky Martin on both….. unintentionally.
The BM 4400/BG 8000 is playing “Maria” Spanglish Extended Remixes on the Columbia label. This is a Mexican (Hola Søren!) pressing and really quite good and intended for the North American market. Just the one song on both sides.
The BM 2400/BG 4200 (with its MMC20CL cartridge super-glued in place) is playing Ricky Martin with no title, but with an excellent mix: Fuego Contra Fuego, Dime que me quieres, Vuelo, Conmigo nadie puede, Te voy a conquistar, Juego de ajedrez, Corazon entre nubes, Ser Feliz, El amor de mi vida, Susana, and Popotitos. This record, pressed in Mexico and intended for the Mexican market is of poor quality, but I like the songs.
I finished the evening with Desi Arnez & his Orchestra titled Babalu on a RCA CD. Can’t remotely be compared to vinyl but a nice “desert” to end the evening.
Jeff
Beogram 4000, Beogram 4002, Beogram 4004, Beogram 8000, Beogram 8002, Beogram 1602. Beogram 4500 CD player, B&O CDX player, Beocord 4500, Beocord 5000 T4716, Beocord 5000 T4716, Beocord 5000 T4716, Beocord 8004, Beocord 9000, Beomaster 1000, Beomaster 1600, Beomaster 2400.2, Beomaster 2400.2, Beomaster 4400, Beomaster 4500, Beolab 5000, Beomaster 5000, BeoCenter 9000. BeoSound Century, S-45.2, S-45.2, S-75, S-75, M-75, M-100, MC 120.2 speakers; B&O Illuminated Sign (with crown & red logo). B&O grey & black Illuminated Sign, B&O black Plexiglas dealer sign, B&O ash tray, B&O (Orrefors) dealer award vase, B&O Beotime Clock. Navy blue B&O baseball cap, B&O T-shirt X2, B&O black ball point pen, B&O Retail Management Binder
'Saw Zach Braff's 'Wish I Was Here' this evening. The film: C; the soundtrack: A (Paul Simon, Bon Iver, Coldplay/Catpower, etc). The standout: The Shins: So Now What
Just read a little about my favorite Rock artist Chuck Berry, and found out that he still goes life in St. Louis MO, So go and enjoy if you are nearby, a living piece of Rock history. https://www.facebook.com/ChuckBerry/events
Duck walking....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqS76TFCCYs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
Millemissen: Duck walking.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqS76TFCCYs&feature=youtube_gdata_player MM
Got me Rocking and in the mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1LZuQ9E4JQ
3.182.117 watches - WOW!
Millemissen: 3.182.117 watches - WOW! MM
Yes fantastic, never to be seen that way again
http://www.polarmusicprize.org/home/2014/05/the-laureates-of-the-polar-music-prize-2014-are-chuck-berry-peter-sellars/
//Bo.A long list...
I´m still rocking the roots, just bought this one
Søren Mexico:I´m still rocking the roots
Beovision 7 40 mk 5 ,beovision 6x3, beosound 3000, beogram 3300 , 2 x lc2, 2 x beocom 1401, beocom 6000 x 2, 5 x beo4,
, 4 x beolab 4's, form 2, h2, a2,a1 and a beolab 2 😀😀
Søren Mexico: I´m still rocking the roots, just bought this one
I can imagine Søren doing the 'duck walk' towards the turntable when rising from his chair to flip the LP-sides - 180g vinyl keeps you fit.
“Duck walk,” you make Søren sound like Groucho Marx, sans the moustache.
Millemissen: I can imagine Søren doing the 'duck walk' towards the turntable when rising from his chair to flip the LP-sides - 180g vinyl keeps you fit. MM
I only buy vinyl albums because I dont need my reading glasses, to read text and see the pics, as for the Duck walk, I only use it when dancing with my wife, She is 1.5 M tall, I am 1.9 M tall. The exercise changing records keeps me young, I will survive all the remote control geeks with at least 10 years. The walk the the BG also gives me the possibility to fill up the Cuba glass.
Søren, I admire your attitude.
I buy vinyl records because they sound better than anything else….. although I am fond of my cassettes too. (with either I still need glasses.)
And this has nothing to do with anything, but I was “intrigued” by your comment on height measured in meters. I had to stop an think about the 1.9M tall.
When I moved to Canada I was determined to “fit in” and routinely used metric terms (which was a challenge) until I found that Canada has it very special way of being a “metric” country with the United States (a non-metric country) just south of it.
Now temperature is vehemently Celsius, as people will get really hostile at the mention of Fahrenheit….. ditto kilometers for driving, but there the official metric ends.
No one would say they are 1.9 meters tall, they’d be 5 foot 10 inches….. and the same goes for weight, people don’t quote kilograms, weight is measured in pounds. Why? Who knows?
Also property is all listed in acreage not hectares with rooms in square feet.
Better still are the grocery stores which list small items like cheese in kilograms, but larger items like meat in pounds or ounces. Absolutely insane, but gives me a chuckle every time I notice the two measurements side by side.
I am 6’ 3” which makes me a bit taller than the 1.9 meters.
As for the beneficial exercise, I think I will play more vinyl records rather than the cassettes, as the cassette can play for 45 minutes, providing less need to walk over and change the record and top-up my glass of cheap white wine.
It’s all good.
Søren Mexico: The exercise changing records keeps me young, I will survive all the remote control geeks with at least 10 years. The walk the the BG also gives me the possibility to fill up the Cuba glass.
Maybe I should convert to vinyl
@Jeff
and some how 36 24 36 seems better than the metric equivalents ...
BeoNut since '75
@ Elephant, you’ll get no argument from me! J
Do the math. Jeff 1.90 M = 6´2 3/4". 1"= 2.54 Cm. I had a worker in my company 6´4" I didnt like that so I bought Danish clogs, that added nearly 2" to my height.
I have been using Amazon Prime music the last 2-3 weeks, we buy a lot on Amazon and a lot of the vinyl records comes with a free 320 Kbs. download. BEWARE, if you download the Prime player, it goes into your Itunes and add the Itunes library to the Prime player. Now, the player not only let you play your own music but also offer some free Prime play lists, I use this for listening to something I dont have in my library, Using it only for background music when working at home. Somehow I find the Prime player better than Itunes
If I want to listen to music of course I let the BG spin with a good old vinyl record.
Mexico has the same problems as Canada. Officially Mexico use the metric system, but in the steel and woodworking industry its all Feet and inches. I had to educate my mechanics accordingly, 1/4" is not more or less 6 mm. but 6.25 mm and so on, I make all my drawings with all measurements in mm. The machinist convert it into fractions, sometimes with disastrous results. This forced me to get my own machine shop.
Hi Søren,
Life without adjustments doesn’t exist and shouldn’t. And not to worry, I can and do the math.
Canada is a “special case” in that it is right next to the US with most Canadians living within 50 miles or 80 kilometers of the boarder.
When Canada switched to metric the government decided that it was far too expensive to reevaluate every piece of property in the vast country, so they left the English system in place. Thus all property is described in feet and inches and land as acres. Just makes it a whole lot easier for me, so I ain’t complaining.
In the grocery stores it is purely marketing as buying ham or chicken by the milligram looks more expensive than by the pound or ounce. Smaller items do OK with metric and are sold thus.
Kilometers by liter is a difficult concept for many, so cars are often sold by “miles per gallon.” But here the dealers are split; some use the metric system as a sales tool.
What I don’t understand as the English system is not taught in the schools, so how the kids know about feet, inches, pounds, etc? I have no idea, but they do.
When I started working I was asked how tall I am and I said “1.9 meters” and got a look like, “Huh? No really, how tall are you?” I told them 6’3” and they were happy.
However when I was having trouble with the mall management regarding our store temperature I brought in a thermometer set for Fahrenheit so I could talk with the mall manager intelligently about how HOT the store was and one of my employees changed it to Celsius. Annoyed me no end as the thermometer was my property….. I reset it and told the offending employee “You touch that again and I’ll smack you.”
As for your clogs, that put a smile on my face as in the early seventies “platform shoes” were all the rage and I liked being in fashion. Those shoes added at LEAST 2” to my height, which I didn’t need as I towered over everyone without any help. Those shoes were also a *** to drive with.
Once again (typical Jeff) slightly off subject, the other “interesting” fact of life in Canada is the dual language in packaging and all federal signage being in both French and English. Now in Quebec, in an effort to “preserve their language and culture” all signage is by law French ONLY, even in-store signage must be in French with no English.
So like most people, folks from Quebec assume that what they see at home is the same throughout the country, but it isn’t. Airports and the Post Office are bilingual, but outside of federal property the rest of Canada is English only and the Quebecers react in absolute and utter shock, which I admit I find a bit amusing.
ok it hasn't arrived yet but I'm tracking daily its movements from the States..... ZZ Top's "Lucky 13" 180 grams of red vinyl.
I could have downloaded it in seconds but I decided to wait in anticipation on this occasion and cherish the 1st play rather than listen to it on the morning train commute.
It's rather fun...
we tend to forget there is more to design than designing.
and if by magic the postman delivers .......
Hi,
A little mouse (or perhaps it was a large cat...) just suggested that I post a link to this recording on this thread.
I stumbled on it the other day while searching at work for some Edgar Varèse to drown out the noises inside and outside my head(phones).
artist: Michael Wollny Trio
album: Weltentraum
track: In Heaven (but all the rest of the tracks are good... my personal fav is Un Grand Sommeil Noir)
cheers
-geoff
Don't know exactly why - but this inspired me to pull out (actually find on WiMPHiFi) some Bela Fleck.
This is his first with the Flecktones
Mark:Ok not sure where to post this as I'm both listening and watching. Live from Daryl's House (easily found on youtube). Basically it's the talented Daryl Hall and his house band playing with some great friends (the list is too long). His house band is tight nit and the quality of sound and picture is extremely good. Watch and listen and enjoy ...
I was never a big Beatles fan, but just watched the Beatles story from Liverpool to the Ed Sullivan show in the US, so I put on the Abbey Road LP on the TX2
Søren Mexico: I was never a big Beatles fan, but just watched the Beatles story from Liverpool to the Ed Sullivan show in the US, so I put on the Abbey Road LP on the TX2
The older I get (I'm 48), the more I find myself listening to the Beatles.
When you are 65, you are listening the whole day.....to the Beatles
Millemissen:When you are 65, you are listening the whole day.....to the Beatles MM There is a tv - and there is a BV.
I am the perfect age for that song, but still, Rolling Stones does it.
Søren Mexico:I am the perfect age for that song, but still, Rolling Stones does it. Collecting Vintage B&O is not a hobby, its a lifestyle, Pics with text, explains
I don’t know what the perfect age is, but in the words of the timeless Molly Picon, “I am too old for Hialeah, but too young to shoot.”
Actually Søren and I are the same age, only he is wiser.
Piaf: I don’t know what the perfect age is, but in the words of the timeless Molly Picon, “I am too old for Hialeah, but too young to shoot.” Actually Søren and I are the same age, only he is wiser. Jeff
That just about describe our age, but I still do a little Hialeah, and I am not wiser, we are different Jeff, different upbringing and cultures.
And yes, cheers to the 50 generation
Most kind Søren,
We are also “joined” a bit by the Danish modern furniture my parents purchased in Copenhagen in 1961.
I still have the classic Danish modern rocking chair & ottoman, black vinyl body on teak and the teak Danish modern chair with a black leather flip back that turns 360° and the seat, black leather in-between the two teak bars. Amazingly comfortable.
What I really miss however was my dad’s teak bar, about one meter square with an opening top of exquisite design and a lone drawer, all on 3’ stainless steel legs. I sold this ages ago and regret it.
Salute!
The talk about age and the 50es, triggered some memories from my childhood.
My family was poor, so to save money there was only basic but healthy food on the table, the radio was turned on only for the news in the evening, power was expensive. Our daily meals was always on a fixed time, as we children went to school and my dad was working (when he had work) our most important meal was at 5:30 Pm, the rules were simple, eat whats on the menu even if you did not like it, eat it all, no left overs, show up on time or go hungry to bed.
But Sundays were different, Sunday dinner at 12:00 noon. Always a 3 plate dinner and always delicious, of course all of us dressed in our Sunday garments (I hated that part, because I had problems staying clean until the dinner). All this just so you understand the setting.
The Radio was turned on, on P1 DR (Denmarks Radio). I dont remember the right sequence of the of the programs, but one was the Sunday Concert, 12:00 noon, and after that Giro 413. I think. Giro 413 was a wish program, where you had to go to the post office and pay a small amount to giro 7000 413, Save the Children, write your message of music wish, and maybe a short message for whom the wish. Often played was waltzes or marches of H C Lumbye, and of course Raquel Rastenni, Gustav Winkler, Birthe Wilke and so on. I loved Giro 413 and was sitting in front of the radio every Sunday 1956 to 59 something.
Giro 413 still exist, must be one of the oldest radio programs ever, started 1947 and still going strong. Today the program is to be broadcasted on a DAC radio channel, and not P1, bit of shame I think. DR also want to scrap their own symphonic orchestra (Radions Underholdings Orkester) to save money, this orchestra has been performing nearly as long as Giro 413. The orchestra has recorded a lot of LPs, cassettes and CDs and was nearly always performing in the Sunday Concert. My idea would be to do some commercial use of the orchestra and increase sales using the more expensive marketing department of DR.
I went digging in my vinyl and found him