Round Earth Points 1.0
Posted by: Mike Sae on 17 January 2002
Sources:
Is SACD your main source? Add 100 points
Do you use an off board DAC? Add 20 points
Is a tuner your *main* source? Deduct 30 points.
Is a turntable your *only* source? Subtract 30 points for missing out on all that exciting new technology.
Does it weigh more than 15 kilos? Add 5 points
50 kilos? Add 20
Are you unable to convert pounds to kilos? Add 15 points.
Is your turntable made in the UK? If yes subtract 20 points
Electronics:
Does your amp cost more than your source? Add 25 points
Does your amp generate >150 watts @ 8 ohm? Add 10 points
Add 30 for each tubed component, 40 of it’s a CDP.
Does your tube amp generate <10 watts? If yes, add 20
Does your preamp have a phase switch? If yes, add 30
Are any of your RCA jacks gold plated? Add 10 points
Add 10 for each fascia in brushed aluminium, champagne or chrome. Add an additional 10 for each casing in said finishes
Deduct 25 for each component in black.
Speakers:
Do your speakers cost more than your source? If yes, add 50. If no, subtract 50.
Are your speakers ported? If yes, add 15 points.
Are your speakers floorstanding? If yes, add 10 points for wanting bass. If no, deduct 10 points.
Are your speakers >93 db? If yes, add 25 points
What are the speaker cones made of? Add 35 for Kevlar, 15 for polypropylene, carbon fibre, or aluminum. Deduct 20 for paper or Bextrene.
Do you use a subwoofer? If yes, add 20 points. Add 50 points for each additional subwoofer.
Add 5 points for each 5 degrees of speaker toe-in
If speakers are poiting straight out, deduct 20 points.
Accessories:
Is your remote hewn from a solid billet of aluminum? If yes, add 10 points
Do your speaker cables cost more than your source? If yes, add 100 points
Do they employ network boxes? If yes, add an additional 50 points
Do your interconnects cost more than your source? If yes, add 100
Do they employ networks? Add an additional 50
Are they RCAs? Add an additional 100
Deduct 100 for using the stock interconnects.
Do you use a PLC? If yes, add 100 points
Add 15 points for each squidgy footer
Add 5 points for each cone.
Add 35 for each air bladder/ colostomy bag.
Add 25 if your rack contains marble
Subtract 20 points if your rack employs glass shelves.
If you recognized satirical quality of the previous question, deduct 30 points instead.
Add 10 points for each album you own by the following artists: Patricia Barber, Holly Cole, Keb Mo, Mike Oldfield, post-Police Sting, Diana Krall, The Eagles.
Subtract 15 points for each album you own by the following artists: XTC, King Crimson, Ken Boothe, Leftfield, Photek, Aphex Twin, Phish, Gang of Four.
[This message was edited by Mike Sae on FRIDAY 18 January 2002 at 18:01.]
[This message was edited by Mike Sae on FRIDAY 18 January 2002 at 22:09.]
I wonder if one could scan an LP and then, rather than OCR, Optical Groove Recognize it? Save a lot of effort on laser focusing....
For some reason I'm doing pretty badly on REPs, perhaps because I only own one XTC LP, albeit that's a very original 'White Music' direct from the pressing plant.
"You can checkout, but you can never leave"
Paul
quote:
The original 'Take Five' is not tinkley. Not even in the slightest. Yours has to be at least an '80s re-issue.
By tinkly I was referring to the impression I get of his piano technique, not the recording quality; it sounds like he's j@rking off his piano, IMHO.
The music portion was culled from comments read here, plus my personal sensibilites. I like Mike Hanson's coinage: REP heroes or anti-heroes. Where would Pink Floyd fall in all this? They seem to care too much about sound quality to be considered FEP heroes, imho (their Division Bell concert was the best I've ever heard BC Place stadium sound) 
BTW, I own a single 78, Ink Spots, "If I Didn't Care". Unfortunatly, my grandfather's 78 ampliphone doesn't work anymore- cracked tonearm, metal grinding sounds, etc.
luckily I kicked the b+w's out last week - so no floorstander minus - gold plated rca's: chord cobra has gold plated rca's and my tuner needs it... phew.
But minus 320 for a (nesrly) newbie!
Guido
If you ordered MDF shelves in black, they give you silver rods, and vice versa.
I specified black with black. 
It's always a nice day for it Have a good one! 
Steve.
It's good to get back to normal.
quote:
Originally posted by Bob Edwards:
I get minus 640. Waiting on a decision to include mono 78's at -25 each--I'll be in minus 9000 range.
Equally strangely, Mike in CO also alludes to a surprising number of 78s. What is it about Colorado (presuming of course the "CO" in "Mike in CO" is Colorado) and 78s? Is this some strange Ayn Rand thing?
I have a fair number of 78s, and I too lived in Colorado a few years back ... 
Erik
David 