DIY Audio or OCD to the next level

[MarcelNL]

Wow! Hello sound, goodbye living room!

that was the idea anyhow, the current idea is not that much larger than the previous one ;-)

 

[MarcelNL]

think BIG....my best friend bought a Telefunken M15a Magnetophon, wow what a sound (a direct to tape recording made for a radio program)

 

[ACHiPo]

think BIG....my best friend bought a Telefunken M15a Magnetophon, wow what a sound (a direct to tape recording made for a radio program)

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“Shaped like a Telefunken U232”. “Pluking too hard!”

Sorry—listening to Hot Rats and couldn’t resist.

 

[MarcelNL]

does not ring a bell, other than Zappa... A telefunken Mike?
(Almost bougt a couple of Telefunken/Neumann CMV3 some years ago, the famous tube mikes from the heydays of the NSDAP)

 

[ACHiPo]

does not ring a bell, other than Zappa... A telefunken Mike?
(Almost bougt a couple of Telefunken/Neumann CMV3 some years ago, the famous tube mikes from the heydays of the NSDAP)

Zappa's Joe's Garage. It's a long story. Give it a listen--my adolescent brain loved it, and it's still a fun, if somewhat off-color, musical story about the evils of music. The allusion was to a Telefunken vacuum tube (presumably). And "pluking" was, well, what you could call sex back in the day I suppose.

 

[MarcelNL]

I like Zappa!
will do!

 

[ACHiPo]

I like Zappa!
will do!

I corrected my memory—Joe’s Garage Act II Scene 11 “Sy Borg” refers to a “Telefunken U-47” which is a mic. I always assumed it was a tube given the delightfully raunchy context, but the size and shape of a U-47 mic makes it even raunchier.

Regardless “Telefunken” always makes my inner 14 year old giggle a bit.

…now back to your regularly scheduled DIY audio thread

 

[MarcelNL]

aha, U47 is indeed a famous Telefunken Mike!

 

[Lars]

Neumann made U47's as well. The long body versions with VF-14 tubes are amazing, the short body FET versions are mainly used for kick drums

 

[ACHiPo]

Neumann made U47's as well. The long body versions with VF-14 tubes are amazing, the short body FET versions are mainly used for kick drums

Well in “Joe’s Garage” the shape is used in a totally different non-audio way!

 

[HolyDiverScallop]

“With leather??” *giggle*

 

[ACHiPo]

“With leather??” *giggle*

‘On the bus!”

 

[Lars]

Well in “Joe’s Garage” the shape is used in a totally different non-audio way!

This should make you exited then and still fit in the theme of this thread..!

Here is an original U47 next to a tube mic I build from scratch. Mine held up very well.

 

[MarcelNL]

Telefunken is sort of Neumann, in those days all the companies were intermingled.....AEG Telefunken, Neumann, Klangfilm, Philips, Zeiss Ikon, andso-on

 

[MarcelNL]

Came across a stash of Panzerholz (Delignite) and could not resist...only one issue; the slabs (1100x2400x45mm) are WAY too havy to handle alone (s.g.1.4), with two is about manageable...

 

[ACHiPo]

Came across a stash of Panzerholz (Delignite) and could not resist...only one issue; the slabs (1100x2400x45mm) are WAY too havy to handle alone (s.g.1.4), with two is about manageable...

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Heavy enough and expensive enough to be gold! What will you do with it?

 

[HolyDiverScallop]

Are you going to build your horns out of panzerholz?

 

[MarcelNL]

The Panzerholz is for vibration control in specific places, like a shelve under the Server one for the DAC, also plan on making brackets to support the speaker magnets out of it (lowering distortion)

For cabinets etc I'd never want to use panzerholz, I now have far more than I need so I think much of it'll be dispersed amongst a few friends in this crazy hobby...