WAF Factor (again)

[Steve Toy]

Lets see Snapper's pics then!

[Marco]

He hasn't taken any yet, but he will do! As soon as they're ready I'll post them. Right now we're too busy buying records, drinking beer and wandering around town in our slippers...

Oh, and I've just bought one of these little chaps for copying vinyl to CD:

http://www.dancetech.com/aa_dt_new/h...2_USB_main.jpg

What fun!

Marco.

[Spectral Morn]

He hasn't taken any yet, but he will do! As soon as they're ready I'll post them. Right now we're too busy buying records, drinking beer and wandering around town in our slippers...

Oh, and I've just bought one of these little chaps for copying vinyl to CD:

http://www.dancetech.com/aa_dt_new/h...2_USB_main.jpg

What fun!

Marco.

Ummmmm ! ? Why would you want to do that then ?


Regards D S D L

[Marco]

For the car, of course, my boy!!

Also, Stevie-boy (and others) will be able to get some top-notch recordings from the Techy of stuff they like that I've got on vinyl

Marco.

[Spectral Morn]

For the car, of course, my boy!!

Also, Stevie-boy (and others) will be able to get some top-notch recordings from the Techy of stuff they like that I've got on vinyl

Marco.

I was only joking of course...

The only thing about analogue to digital transfer is the nature of recording level overload. Easy to go analogue to analogue..metal tape allows you to capture all the highs etc and push the tape, whereas digital doesn't go into the red so well, and all you end up with is distortion. You have to listen and monitor the analogue recording in its totality to be able to know the maximum peeks and set recording levels accordingly; to avoid slippage into the red. This is the case with the kit I have. Its for these reasons I won't record albums or tapes for people, as frankly I don't have the patience to do it anymore , even for myself. No doubt there is gear that allows you to get round this issue. Is what you have bought such a device ?


Regards D S D L

[Steve Toy]

http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/s...t=67576&page=3

This thread explores the WAF issue rather well. I disagree with the point that Wife Acceptance Factor is sexist for it is a given that this is a male-dominated hobby. Yes there are one or two female hi-fi bobbyists out there some of whom have even had to suffer a male partner not sharing her enthusiasm for getting music reproduction just right at the expense of other requirements in the room, but on the whole WAF = man wants/Woman Has Other Ideas and Gets Her Way.

To opt for the term SAF (Spouse Acceptance Factor) is just excessively politically correct for my tastes and panders to the PC-whistle-blower-apologists-to-the-potentially-offended mentality.

On the internet it is almost impossible not to upset someone and completely impossible not to potentially upset someone. Without being blatantly rude in a way that you'd never dare to someone's face or deliberately cause trouble, I think we can say pretty much what we like here within reason...

This pic was posted on the above thread. Anyone who has a partner objecting to bigger speakers in the room, you could always show her these with a view to buying them instead:

[Joe]

Both WAF and SAF are wrong as they imply a marital relationship. I propose Significant Other Factor of Acceptance, or SOFA for short.

[Steve Toy]

I like SOFA. Very good!

[Gazjam]

Transactional Analysis, the parent/adult/child in us all or even I'm OK, Your OK, the holistic/humanist philosophers, Rodgers, Maslow, Egan et al, Self Actualisation, On Becoming a Person....

Might sound like pretentious psychobabble but a little reading can help to understand what we term the modern condition or dilemma. Once the other half sees you attempting to attain greater self understanding/awareness and so increase your ability to adequately explain your needs then she will be all the more willing to entertain your next indulgence. A little judiciously applied psychology can work bloody miracles

Cheers

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