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"Arfa Daily" <arfa.daily@ntlworld.com>: Feb 22 02:31AM "Phil Allison" <pallison49@gmail.com> wrote in message news:a52d1b28-264b-4e9e-90ef-1ca3bec05d69@googlegroups.com...   > IME, DJs are equipment wreckers and thoroughly nasty people.   > .... Phil   Wrong type of "DJs" Phil. The proper pros are not part time 'record spinners' in discos. They are entertainers that create tracks 'on the fly' and inhabit the club scene. The mixers that they use are altogether different from the sorts of items that are used by bands or disco DJs. The Pioneer CDJs are nothing at all like a conventional CD player, or anything that a disco or birthday party DJ would use. They have buttons and features that I wouldn't pretend to understand properly. Some systems even make use of time-code CDs that drive external software to allow digitally recorded material stored as MP3 (or whatever) files on the computer to be scratched and mixed and beat synchronised as though they were physical media - specifically vinyl records.   You are even out of date - at least in this country, anyway - with the way that the disco scene that you are talking about works. Most 'proper' DJs of the 'record spinner' variety that work the mobile disco scene for parties and weddings and so on, are these days older people, not kids or drug dealers. The better ones don't even use CD players any more, let alone conventional phono decks, which are of course still used by the pro club DJs, Technics SL1200 series decks being the norm for that work.   I have a colleague that has been doing mobile disco work for more than 30 years. All of his source material is now carried on a laptop, and is controlled by very expensive professional software that was originally written for use by radio stations. He can compile playlists off-line based on what the client requests in advance, and the type of gig that it is - birthday, wedding etc. When 'live' requests are made, just like when people phone in to radio shows, he can select the requested track from the massive archive that he has, and drag it into the playlist in seconds. It's all way way more sophisticated than it was back in the 80s and 90s.   Arfa

Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com>: Feb 21 07:14PM -0800 Arfa Daily wrote:     > > IME, DJs are equipment wreckers and thoroughly nasty people.   > The > Pioneer CDJs are nothing at all like a conventional CD player,   ** I have seen and done work on Pioneer CDJ850s and a few similar units. Also rather nice disco mixers made by Allen & Heath - which, despite being built in China, avoid using SMD and are easy to access work on. > You are even out of date - at least in this country,   ** My post, like TW's is about the scene in Sydney, Australia.   My most recent disco hire customer sold and rented out the exact sort of gear you mention plus a range of dB Tech powered speakers - mainly Opera and Fifty series. The failure rates with these was frightening, as they were never engineered for such hard use.   I no longer deal with DJs (since the mid 1990s) as so few of them own any sound equipment. All Sydney's nightclubs have elaborate, installed systems and I get their power amps brought to me for service from time to time - usually in the worst condition I have ever seen power amps get into.   And the venue operators invariably expect to pay next to nothing for repairs.     ... Phil

"Mark Zacharias" <mark_zacharias@labolgcbs.net>: Feb 22 08:27AM -0600 "John-Del" <ohger1s@aol.com> wrote in message news:7633b5f5-a349-4ef1-be2a-c8558f4e960a@googlegroups.com... On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 6:27:41 AM UTC-5, Mark Zacharias wrote:   >ran into something >similar to this and I think a stick-on rubber disc >slipped off the turntable allowing the space >between the clamper magnet >and the turntable to be reduced increasing the clamping force.       I looked for any missing or damaged felt spacer - no such luck. I'll have to get back into it - what a time-waster. Maybe I'll get lucky.   mz

Chris Jones <lugnut808@spam.yahoo.com>: Feb 22 09:14PM +1100 On 21/02/2015 14:14, Phil Allison wrote:   > .... Phil   Not directly relevant to this discussion, but I am reminded of this story. Perhaps you'll like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_yBBAV3HyM#t=358

"Lord Bergamont" <Lb@dot.net>: Feb 21 11:25PM -0600 > Particularly multiple cells. They require a charge balancing system - if any > one cell gets over charged, it can go exothermic with a fairly entertaining > end of life performance.   That could be interesting.   The battery is flat, appx 5mm thick, 60 mm wide & 80 mm long.   I might open it again soon & get exact measurements. It would be easy to replace, if I knew where to get a battery.   -- :-) Don't let the Zombies get you!!!!

Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu>: Feb 16 05:27PM -0600 Sparky wrote:   > If a diode shorts, there also wouldn¹t be any increase, just a > decrease in DC output voltage. No, ONE a shorted diode would cause huge currents in the winding connected to that phase. Two shorted diodes on the same phase would cause huge DC currents and blow the fusible link.   Jon

John Robertson <spam@flippers.com>: Feb 14 09:48AM -0800 >> just like a motorcycle, if my head hits the ground at 85 >> MPH, I would rsather be dead. Done with it.   > You mean without a helment on?   Darwin still wins.   I wear a helmet and have hit the ground at about 60MPH - scratched (read finished off) the helmet but not my head. Had two wonderful (now adults) children since then.   Helmets can save lives, but if your life isn't worth saving then by all means don't wear one.   As for safety laws - most were put in place because there are a lot of people who don't actually care about protecting the consumer from design faults in products. Consider that roughly 1 in 100 people are sociopaths without the ability to empathize on other peoples pain or injuries - how many of these characters are in positions in companies that make products for folk? These are also the folks that don't carry enough insurance (if any) on their cars, hit & run, T-bone motorcycles, and so on.   So don't give me this anti-safety crap   Regulations are there to protect us from the sociopaths. If you think there are too many regulations then work to get rid of the stupid ones, but not the ones that protect your children from being poisoned by careless food processing companies! And so on...   John :-#)#   -- (Please post followups or tech inquiries to the newsgroup) John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 3C9 (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out."

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