Everybody is on vacation after annual meeting crunch last few weeks so I only have to meet with legal firms. Most of the hard work done with those guys back in december so meh.
Also I tried this mid side thing and it sound waaaay noisier than a regular transfer without much gain. Also freaked out the alignment algo.
Have you taken a vacay since joining the illuminati fighters?
Less than 5 days total and worked easily twice that in weekends but they compensated me for those before year end which was cool.
They have euro style mega vacation here (20+ days a year). Because I get cashed out in CA on unused vacation I can walk away with over month of full pay and maybe 6 or 7 months of unemployment cuz they do yearly renewals in their employment agreements here. All said and done that would carry me through taking 2024 off without dipping into savings and while banking the earnings on house savings I dumped in t bills.
Everybody thinks Iām nuts for walking away and Iām likeā¦ uhā¦ not work, get free money for most of the year, AND save around the same cuz my expenses cut by 2/3.
Thats how Iām justifying the burnout anyway 
Employers wonāt care about the year off?
That is why god made āconsultingā lol
I was thinking about this the other day. If you have roughly 104 weekend days a year to yourself (lol nowadays) in which you fit all your non slave labor (lets bump to 114) assuming you can take vacation days at your job.
If I take 7 or 8 months off Iām basically earning 2 years of āfreeā life back at relatively low cost in this situation at an age when itās more useful to me then when Iām oatmeal brained like the biden and trump.
Good for you. Enjoy the time off. Visit NYC so we can chill and watch obscure movies in tiny movie theaters with gourmet concession stand goodies.
Iāll see if i can find a company to fly me out for an interview Iāll pass on there
I found an old transfer file from when I had access to good equipment.
Man this LP sounds better than the digital reissue dynamics and tone wise which got squished and sanitzed.
I think that was when I was experimenting with silicone coatings on vinyl then which sound pretty dang good! Will order and put on my garbage shellacs.
Hoās Longo D 465
Canāt sleep again so reading about constrained layer damping.
Basically you put something squishy between to hard things and the shearing of the squishy thing transfer energy to heat. I donāt really buy tone arms are both perfect tracking mechanisms and perfect vibe energy absorbers - at least not in the low freq range that rapes the whole tonality of 78rpm records. Goal is to damp that range to reduce bad harmonics throughout signal.
I tried stuffing sorbathane between headshell and cartridge and stylus and cartridge and that worked from OK to good. Gonna fully decouble this bitch with my left over sorbathane and super glue it to cart top and at a ceramic layer above - no scews so fully decouples.
Will ruin headshell and cart but mehā¦ I gotta know if it work
I remember sorbathane need downforce to go viscoelastic. So use screws to hold sorbathane sandwich together.
Clear as fuck.
If someone want a flac let me know. I think this ultra detailed outcome def the new TRUWAY
Thinking more about this and decide to go with this layering.
The white thing is EVA foam. This likely what your insoles are made from btw.
Also gonna experiment on friction front with introducing silicones again. I got some stuff with dimethylsiloxane that worked so great when messing around with Vinyl era stuff.
Getting properly weird
Friction + Noise Reduction + Damping Combo Test
Even running it all the way through I still like sorbathane better.
Ultra sorbathane time! I decoupled the record from the platter along with what you see in the thumbnail.
GLORIOUS! (at least on laptop speakers) It so clean i just add a little white noise to background after AI cleaning. Almost no chirpies or weird shit cuz trasfer so unfucked.
Update YouTube processing fucked this hard mehā¦ gotta love tech monopolies
Its not terrible but a long way to go. I sadly busted the tip off that audio technica stylus tho. Distracted with work stuff while trying to damp the stylus for an all mechanical noise reduction attempt.
I still have the denon DL 102SD so donāt worry I can get at least another dozen valse oubliee transfers in
WHUUUT!
Maybe all the sick lost piano broadcasts just chilling at library of congress untransferred. !
Wow, I bet there still cool shit everywhere and it just not catalogued.
That guy from endpoint audio who make laser controlled cylinder players (super genius design) also does worldās best transfers. Mostly working on hollywood money projects but also did the 78s for the American Epic project. He also built a 1920s electrical recording system from scratch to see how they worked for that.
What oligarch do I need to blow to get him to transfer piano recordings?
This was recorded in 1927.
Maybe ask him if he needs an intern during your break?
I reached out on linkedin already to see if he would tell me how he did it.
#shameless
I got an idea. His whole machine based on measuring and compensating for vertical and horizantal problems with the medium. I canāt build a tracking servo like he did but I could probably set up the stylus height and record centering a lot better.
The idea is to buy a very tiny laser that sits on top of the cartridge and track vertically and horizontally its movement on the far wall as i play a record and it travel the goove, adjust accordingly.
Def nip eccentricity and maybe help me set arm height best.
Lol eccentricity detectors cost thousands and i think I can make one for like 10 bucks.
I bought laser to measure eccentricity and vertical travel.
Eccentricity I can fix with hole reaming (favorite turntable phrase) and I think I can fit a small brush earlier in the travel path to help position the cartridge through its vertical travel without putting all the force on the stylus suspension. Probably get pretty close to what that guy is doing with his billion dollar machine.
