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5th Jun 2022, 5:49 pm | #21 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Radio Caroline off the internet via an FM pantry transmitter and a selection of Wireless sets with added FM front ends where necessary and a selection of 60’s to present day classic rock, psychedelia, and blues biased towards the late 60’s to mid 70’s. Really enjoying pre Dark Side, post Syd Barrett Pink Floyd at the moment having seen Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets at Birmingham and Cardiff recently. HiFi is a Leak Stereo 20 with a modified power supply and an early pair of Quad ESL’s.
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6th Jun 2022, 11:04 am | #22 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Listening to The Velvet Underground banana album on a homebuilt triode PP Class AB2 valve amp and Mission 720 floor standing speakers, neighbors are out, so cranking it up. Previous to that it was Potato land by Spirit.
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6th Jun 2022, 5:39 pm | #23 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
This afternoon it was the TT on the Yacht Boy, and this evening it will be the TT on the Globetrotter.
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6th Jun 2022, 6:58 pm | #24 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Today it's been a nmix of a pantry-transmitter streaming 90s-vocal-trance to my Roberts R707 in the summer-house, and streaming a bit of Tex-Mex stuff to the car-radio [via a Bluetooth-equipped phone] while I've been driving up and down M4.
Pragmatically, I love the seemingly infinitely-extensible choice which streaming-services give us. Equally, stuff stored on USB-sticks is fun; It's great to pull up at the traffic-lights alongside some kid listening to 'rap', wind down the windows of my car and give them my full 690-Watts-of-factory-fit-Meridian-audio-system playing Burt Bacharach, James Last, Mantovani, or Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" James-Bond title-track... https://youtu.be/5JG-J1ZTGgw
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7th Jun 2022, 6:03 pm | #25 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
TT?
I used to love listening to Radio Luxembourg when you could get it on medium wave. But these days it´s mostly Bayern 1 in the car, or 60° North (Shetland) as web radio, or Klassik Radio, which is the Radio4 of classical music. |
7th Jun 2022, 6:30 pm | #26 | |
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Re: What are you listening to?
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7th Jun 2022, 9:23 pm | #27 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Non-stop elevator music from
jibontheweb.com (via SimpleRadio app and pantry transmitter). Steve
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7th Jun 2022, 9:28 pm | #28 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
In recent months I have got into big time Nightwish, Epica (Finnish and Dutch Symphonic Metal bands) and Ayreon (Dutch musical project).
All three are seriously good if you like rock music. David |
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8th Jun 2022, 7:34 pm | #30 | |
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sanguinolentus coultergeist again.Coulter took it as a hint and wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYDk...hannel=NixPage What I do like is youtubes of Wolfman Jack. But they tend to run later in the evening just before sleepy time. Last edited by Slammer; 8th Jun 2022 at 7:59 pm. |
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9th Jun 2022, 11:35 am | #31 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Thanks to having literally no QRM, I'm hearing Radio Caroline on 648 AM coming in very well. Never received there station here before. I'm listening on Star DX-Mates SR-150, with spare piece of about 6 feet of speaker wire clipped on to it's telescopic antenna. Enjoying the good variety of music they are playing.
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9th Jun 2022, 2:51 pm | #32 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Radio 2 or GHR both on FM on my car radio or 20 year old Philips Gheto blaster.
I also like Absolute on 1215 but that is almost impossible now that its off air from the Washford transmitter. During the evenings its Radio 4 on 198 Long Wave via a number of my repaired portable radios including my ITT Tiny Super, ITT Colt, Bush TR130, Binatone Mustang and Hacker Hunter RP38A.
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11th Jun 2022, 9:03 pm | #33 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Now and then, late at night, or early in the morning, depending on your view, and sleep is not coming I fire my Murphy up and twiddle the knobs. Scan the shortwave band until I find something to latch onto. I use the finetune to hone in and just wait for a hint as to where this station is located. Some nights reception is clear as a bell and sometimes it fades and comes back. The only illumination is the dim but warm glow from the dial, a tiny island of light in the darkness.
It´s like this old wireless transports me to another time and another place... Or am I just rambling on in my dotage? |
11th Jun 2022, 10:37 pm | #34 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Right now, news on BBC R4 LW, on holiday cruise ship via Vidor CN420a.
Reception is non-existent inside the cabin, but just outside it's good! |
12th Jun 2022, 7:08 am | #35 |
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12th Jun 2022, 11:05 am | #36 | |
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12th Jun 2022, 3:24 pm | #37 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Right now it's Radio Caroline on the ACE U50 along with Sunday lunch
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14th Jun 2022, 6:26 pm | #38 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
Must admit, I have a bit of a weakness for the genre that's described dismissively as "elevator-music/Muzak®, Easy Listening, Cafe-Jazz or 'Lounge-music'." A couple of decades back there was a brief resurgence of interest in Lounge-music, as a spinoff from the more-intense Trance/psytrance and Chillout scenes.
See this, from "Euphoria" == https://youtu.be/3RhxGewa6C8 currently streaming via a pantry-transmitter to my Roberts R707. For me the most intriguing thing is trying to track down the movies from where they've taken the audio samples!
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14th Jun 2022, 9:25 pm | #39 | |
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I do (Ahem) listen to stoner music like Re-Stoned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4in0wKB1jRU But for my standard lay-on-my-back-and-stare-at-the-ceiling music, I like listening to Heilung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRg_8NNPTD8 That and some Wagner and I´m ready to take on the Fenris Wolf. |
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14th Jun 2022, 10:36 pm | #40 |
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Re: What are you listening to?
14.060MHz today.
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