Hi from Austria/Europe

[mimoser]

as requested some information about myself:
born in 1967 I went from my parents’ DUAL 1219 via some more DUALs (505, 704, 601) to a Heybrook TT2 (cast chassis, long armboard, added Heed Orbit) and an LP12 (EUR 10,– fleamarket bargain, pre-circus, 1986ish, added Hercules/Mose). Both with RB 25x arms and heavyweights …
At present I try to bring both up to spec with some TLC.
The rest of insanity consists of 1992 Yamaha components (Receiver, CD930, tape deck (?!), Trichord Dino, Monitor Audio 7s; on the other side sits a Stanton ST-100 with expert stylus truncated spherical pickering V-15 and a dedicated mono variable preamp for 78s replay.
some pics:

TT2:
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp164/mimoser67/_MG_6239.jpg (http://s408.photobucket.com/user/mimoser67/media/_MG_6239.jpg.html)

LP12:
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp164/mimoser67/_MG_6238.jpg (http://s408.photobucket.com/user/mimoser67/media/_MG_6238.jpg.html)

ST-100 (with Shure M78):
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp164/mimoser67/_MG_3997.jpg (http://s408.photobucket.com/user/mimoser67/media/_MG_3997.jpg.html)

Shellac preamp:
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp164/mimoser67/_MG_3998.jpg (http://s408.photobucket.com/user/mimoser67/media/_MG_3998.jpg.html)


V-15 DJ with expert spherical truncated:
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp164/mimoser67/_MG_5052.jpg (http://s408.photobucket.com/user/mimoser67/media/_MG_5052.jpg.html)

other fora I hang out in under similar or identical nick include vinylengine, Linn forum, lencoheaven, analog-forum.de, etc
;-)
Michael

[The Grand Wazoo]

Hi Michael and here's a warm welcome to AoS.
That's a great introduction, thanks for that. Nice photos too.
It's great that as a long standing member, you've finally decided to share a post or two with us.
Well, there's not a huge amount of love for the LP12 by many here, though I think it's true to say that even it's biggest detractors recognise that where it does well, it excels. I don't think, however, that any of us would walk away from the chance of buying one for 10 Euros! That was a fantastic find - well done.
I wonder if you'd like to tell us what sort of music you favour?

Cheers.

PS - just as a point of 'housekeeping' I wonder if you would mind amending your profile to include your first name and rough location in the details as that's now a requirement of all members - it just helps to keep the community atmosphere a little more close. Thanks.

[trio leo]

Hello Michael,

Welcome to AoS, nice equipment past and present, enjoy your stay with us and please join in whatever tickles your fancy.
I find this a relaxed and friendly forum, many accept it's just a hobby and don't get too heated about things.

Camped in Austria on the way back from Greece, what a beautiful country, the smell of pine in the air and castles seemed to be on every hillside.
Your English is excellent,do they speak German there or is Austrian quite different? I'm learning German at the moment and I'm finding the grammar difficult.

enjoy your music

regards Al

[Werner Berghofer]

Al,


do they speak German there or is Austrian quite different?

officially we’re speaking German here, but in reality there are huge dialect differences between Germany and Austria, leave alone eastern and western parts of Austria. I was born and spent the most part of my life in Vienna, in the far east of Austria, relatively close to the Hungarian and the (then) Czechoslovakian border. Nine years ago I moved to the far west in Tyrol, and there are big differences in language as well as culture and ways of living. Some linguists even claim that (old) Viennese is an independent language, since there a many influences from Yiddish, Italian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, French, Turkish and Arabic.

There’s a famous quote from Karl Kraus, a satirist and cynic author from fin de siècle’s Vienna: “Germany and Austria are two countries which are separated by a common language”.

And please don’t even think that the thing they’re speaking over there in Switzerland has *any* similarities to German, although the kids are taught German literature in the German speaking parts of Switzerland :-)

Werner.

[mimoser]

It's great that as a long standing member, you've finally decided to share a post or two with us.
Sorry, as I am not the great storyteller and had nothing special to ask, I was just silently reading along. In fact I only registered to be able to look at pics, if I remember correctly



Well, there's not a huge amount of love for the LP12 by many here, though I think it's true to say that even it's biggest detractors recognise that where it does well, it excels. I don't think, however, that any of us would walk away from the chance of buying one for 10 Euros! That was a fantastic find - well done.
Some friends, wife and I did some comparison- listening and our LP12 and TT2 come very close sonically. The LP12 emphasizes the foreground a little bit, whereas the TT2 brings the in-betweens up a little bit more. In fact the heavyweight makes more difference than the table. At least in our configuration of both tables …




I wonder if you'd like to tell us what sort of music you favour?

Mainly classic, Jazz and the usual mainstream pop/rock/whatever. Additionally German sung music as Neue Deutsche Welle, Austropop, Die Ärzte, Jan Delay, …
In fact Jazz got me into 78s with some very nice V-discs I stumbled upon in a bulk buy some years ago.


do they speak German there or is Austrian quite different? I'm learning German at the moment and I'm finding the grammar difficult.
[…] regards Al
… the thing that sets Germans and Austrians farthest apart is said to be their common language. In fact it is dialects all over the german speaking part of the world. Austria and Germany are united and divided by shared history and animosities. Like the hate-love joke that Adolf Hitlers highest social status in Vienna was unsuccessful painter in a homeless shelter. It took the Germans to promote him to dictator in the Reichskanzlei.
:mental:
German grammar is rather elaborate, which has to do with declinations and cases and their suffixes. The upside to that is a very flexible word order in comparison to say French or English, eg. you can put an object in first place and build very long sentences, which are rather complicated to read, follow and understand for non-native German speakers, who are more accustomed to full-stops every tenth word or every object, respectively whatever comes first, whereas German native speakers are accustomed to use so called chameleon eyes to scan rather long sentences as the romans reading latin must have been, which is a main obstacle to German native speakers to ever write, respectively speak intelligible English sentences …
;)
Michael

[Werner Berghofer]

Michael,

[regarding Adolf Hitler:]


It took the Germans to promote him to dictator in the Reichskanzlei.

that’s no big surprise: At least in Austria it’s part of the general knowledge that the Austrians are the more creative types, while the Germans are the perfect recipients of orders and their executives :-) In thouse dark ages of the Third Reich core management personnel mostly originated from Austria, while the subordinates and performing were from Germany.

Werner

[Marco]

Superb stuff, Michael! Welcome to AoS. Great to see another vinyl and T/T nut join the resident motley crew of audio maniacs! :respect:

Marco.