When I was thirteen, I had my pet toads. I thought it would be fun to have them in the pet fair. I can’t remember if this was for Super Plumper or for Regular Plumper. You see, I had named my pet toads after grades of gasoline. I think the people running the pet fair might have thought the name was a bit too strange, so they settled on “Plumpy.”
Updated February 15th, 2020, all video trans-coding performed with Handbrake. https://handbrake.fr/
Direect mp4 download or play – 480 x 360
Download/ Play H265 MKV file – 480 x 360
Download/Play – original full length MPEG 2 capture April 13th, 2008 – 720 by 480
720 x 540 screen capture from original MPEG 2 capture
Here is what happened to a religious TV station earlier this year. I recorded this on April 13th, 2008, but I noticed this channel (CH. 58) was doing this for nearly a month earlier, continuously. Also, it kept it up for several weeks after April 13th. I’m sure the reception was clearer than what was recorded. I simply attached rabbit ears to my computer with an ATI 8500 All-in-Wonder video card and recorded MPEG2 video. I wonder why they left this video on so long or if they simply didn’t care. It looks like some sort of a digital loop. Also this post is a test to see how well the video can be played or downloaded. On my computer the clickable link will play on my Firefox browser when the VLC media plug-in has been installed. If that has been done correctly when you click the link a new browser will open. A black blank page and the words “no video” will appear. Then the video should play. The other options are Flash video and Windows Media. Bear with me, I’ve got alot to learn. You can probably tell my typing, spelling and grammar are not that great. Have fun, comments welcome.
This is one of four I purchased on eBay. As far as I can tell, units like these were manufactured as early as 1956 and I’m guessing all of mine are considerably newer. The DC resistance measures 6.5 ohms and the impedance is 8 ohms. The others all have very similar DC resistance ( 6 to 7 ohms) and are 8 ohm impedance. If you look closely around the edge, you’ll see a Philips head screw and three dark red circles. The red circles are the highly coveted JBL wax seals. If you can find an 075 with all four seals in place I understand they become considerably more collectable. All of mine sound great, and I’m using two at the present time.
One thing I’m not good at is determining the proper value of conponents for a crossover network. I do know that inserting a capacitor in series between an amplifier and a speaker will reduce the level of low frequencies reaching the speaker. With that in mind, I have decided to use a value of 2 microfarads, non electrolytic, 250 volts for a crossover capacitor. The 075’s sit atop and are connected to a pair of older Pioneer CS-63 speaker systems. By the way, I replaced The stock Pioneer 15-inch woofers with Electro-Voice DL-15’s. These are rated at 400 watts and have 2.5 inch voice coils. By now, some of you may be cringing, but I think these speakers sound and work quite well. I’m sure no damaging low frequency energy is getting to the 075’s. My amplifier has less than 30 watts per channel and I always use a compressor ( Alesis NanoCompressor ) between my source signal and amplifier to prevent any peak level from getting to the speakers. I sense after listening to alot of different sounds and especially cat hissing that my crossover is well above the suggested frequency of 2.5 kilohertz. From what I’ve read online, alot of audiophiles prefer a higher crossover on these tweeters for a “sweeter” sound. Please listen and enjoy “Hissing Very Loud” on this site. I think you just might know by now what speakers I connected when that recording was made.
A nice lady from Rossmoor Leisure World in Walnut Creek, California gave this to me after I fixed her cable TV.
I’ve always liked long hair on men. Words such as “longhairs,” “the longhair community,” and possibly “The GEICO Cavemen” come to mind. I thought it might be exciting if I became a “longhair.” But instead, (and of course) unfortunate words like “ridiculous” and “failure” are more appropriate for what we have here. Don’t get me wrong, I did have fun “doctoring” the picture with Photoshop.
Direct mp3 download or play: Dreamo Sleeping Pills
This is from a recording my father made with a friend sometime in the 1940’s before he was married to my mother. I think it was made on a machine that records sound and cuts a record as well. The record itself is made of cardboard and is coated with some sort of material like vinyl. This one is bright orange and is I think seven inches in diameter. The disc has two holes, the regular one in the middle for playing and another one out about an inch from the middle. I guess the second hole was there to secure the disc when a recording was made. The record plays at 78 rpm and the condition of the surface is so poor (the vinyl like surface is actually cracking) that it is almost not playable. I did manage after several attempts to play and record it into a computer. The record was played on a Newcomb phonograph fitted with a General Electric variable reluctance magnetic cartridge. This unit is all vacuum tubes monophonic and is a combination portable PA system and record player with a twelve inch speaker. What is really nice about the amplifier in this unit is that it has a line level output built in and a dual triode 12AX7 vacuum tube as a phono preamplifier. We had one of these at Alhambra High School in Martinez, California where I lived as a teenager and beyond. The recording was done on a PC computer running Windows 2000, with an older Creative Soundblaster Audigy soundcard. I think it was the same computer that I recorded “Ambience Recording June 28th, 2008″(you ought to check that out too) before it was upgraded to Windows XP. I had to use lots of noise reduction and dipped the highs around 6700 hertz down to -3 db to combat the extreme surface noise with Adobe Audition. I don’t think I was very successful, but the surface noise was even worse before processing. The sound here is an MP3 at 128 kilobits per second.
Dreamo
Direct mp3 download or play: BRM 6-17-2008
A baby room monitor (BRM) was received on my AOR AR-3000 communications receiver at 49.845 megahertz, narrow FM on June 17, 2008. It was recorded on a PC running Windows XP with a Creative Audigy Soundblaster SE soundcard. The recording was made and edited using Adobe Audition 1.5 software and is presented here as an MP3 at 128 kilobits per second.
Communications Receiver
Communications receiver display close up showing reception of baby room monitor.
The Grundig model number 121GDM17110384 dynamic microphone & Isis.
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