Two teenagers trying to figure out how to dial a phone

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12 Jan 2019, 8:49 pm

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We have a really old spinny phone at my house! I kinda forgot those things could actually call people tho. I always thought it was just decor.

Does anyone know how to use one? How do you call someone??

Sure its easy. You need a landline connection. The phone must be plugged into the connection. Lift up the receive, listen for the dial tone and then dial the number. The way you dial is to put your finger in the hole for the number and rotate the dial clockwise until you come to the end. Then dial the next number and the next, until you have dialed them all.

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13 Jan 2019, 6:08 pm

young people love vinyl though. it's not an old thing anymore, really.

also i know how to use a rotary phone.

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13 Jan 2019, 6:13 pm

Funny how some things come full circle like with vinyl.

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13 Jan 2019, 6:50 pm

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young people love vinyl though. it's not an old thing anymore, really.

There was a special kind of record. It went by various names such as "direct to disc", "direct disc recording", "original master recording".

Most vinyl records were first recorded onto magnetic tape and then the vinyls were cut using the tape. Quite a bit of clarity was lost in the process.

The master recordings were quite different. They were recorded in the studio. It was created live directly onto a cutting lathe that created the master. If the musician made a mistake during the cutting, the master had to be tossed. The master was then used to press a very limited number of copies. So nowhere during this process was the music recorded digitally. As a result the clarity was beyond belief. You could sit in a dark room and it was very close to being in a live studio. You could detect the placement of each instrument in the room of the studio.

One of the unknown secrets at the time was that most record shops when they demonstrated their audiophile equipment would demonstrate the quality using one of the master disc. It made even lousy equipment sound exceptional.

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14 Jan 2019, 1:43 am

the oldest direct to disc recording I have are a few 78 rpm records, which despite the compromised sonics had a more direct sound with no obvious trickery. I have a few Direct to disc LPs as well, they had an immediacy [no artificial reverb, close sonics] that no regular studio recording i'd heard up to that point, totally lacked. analog magnetic tape is a type of filter upon the sound- it adds noise and distortion of various kinds, various kinds of speed irregularity [flutter], squashed dynamics especially in the bass and treble end, even a Studer 15 inch per second 1/2 track unit suffered [albeit to a lower degree] from these limitations. digital is loads better but has a subtle "edge" to it unless one is using very high sampling rates and/or oversampling/upsampling.

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14 Jan 2019, 10:15 am

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Most of my direct to disc LP albums are 33 RPM but I have one that is a 45. It is on a thick pure white record.

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14 Jan 2019, 11:47 pm

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auntblabby wrote:

Most of my direct to disc LP albums are 33 RPM but I have one that is a 45. It is on a thick pure white record.

I have a white d to d of guitarist Charlie Byrd, that is prolly the finest-sounding record I have. I have two 45 rpm d to d's - one is Keith O. Johnson's Amazing Sound Show, can't remember what the other is. it is a tie for the best-sounding record I've heard.

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15 Jan 2019, 9:07 am

There was something really satisfying about using a rotary dial phone. The noise it made as you rotated the dial , the noise it made as whizzed , clicked back into place and the noise it made in the speaker of the phone ( although this was the line not the phone )

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15 Jan 2019, 10:33 am

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I have a white d to d of guitarist Charlie Byrd, that is prolly the finest-sounding record I have.

We are a match.
I have a 45rpm direct disc recording of Charlie Byrd album, also. That is quite a coincidence. (maybe a billion to one)

The others I have are:
Sunken Cathedral/Jackson Berkley pianist.
Harry James & His Big Band/ The King James Version
Lincoln Mayorga Vol III
Kenny Rogers "The Gambler"

My boss once said that life is unfair.
When you are young and can appreciate the fidelity of fine music, you are unable to buy high end audiophile equipment because it is too expensive.
When you are old and can finally afford to buy high end audiophile equipment, your ears are shot and you can no longer appreciate it.

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15 Jan 2019, 10:39 am

SaveFerris wrote:

I never really though about it that way. At 4 A.M. when the phone rings (bell ringer), it can jar you awake, like someone trying to revive you from a cardiac arrest by applying paddles to your chest for electric shock. That is the downside.

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15 Jan 2019, 12:15 pm

EzraS wrote:

Currently watching columbo- old fashioned murder. Just paused during a scene where a man is making a rotary dial call from a phone booth. But what the heck is a phone booth?

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15 Jan 2019, 9:47 pm

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auntblabby wrote:

I have a white d to d of guitarist Charlie Byrd, that is prolly the finest-sounding record I have.

We are a match. I have a 45rpm direct disc recording of Charlie Byrd album, also. That is quite a coincidence. (maybe a billion to one) The others I have are:
Sunken Cathedral/Jackson Berkley pianist.
Harry James & His Big Band/ The King James Version
Lincoln Mayorga Vol III
Kenny Rogers "The Gambler"

My boss once said that life is unfair.When you are young and can appreciate the fidelity of fine music, you are unable to buy high end audiophile equipment because it is too expensive. When you are old and can finally afford to buy high end audiophile equipment, your ears are shot and you can no longer appreciate it.

yup. i'm thankful, however, that my hearing mechanism [aside from a bit of tinnitus] has survived so far, against the onslaught of the years and environmental hazards sufficient to appreciate my Thiel cs .5 speakers [the spaciousness and image specificity of Maggies but with deep bass]. wish I could afford the beefy amp they really require. I can't remember if my copy of Charlie Byrd is 45 or 33. Lincoln Mayorga is a long-time Hollywood ace pianist, since the 50s.

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15 Jan 2019, 10:42 pm

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the dial tone back in the rotary days was also different. it sounded something like an engine purring but with the bass cut off.

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