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These shiny records don't seem to work on my turntable for some reason...am I doing something wrong?

Try flipping it over.

Looks more like a laserdisc than a record.

Aerius has turned into my gran (who whilst she didn't actually do this, asked about it.)

The lighting is horrible and it looks like the camera's flash was used wrong which over-exposed parts of the picture. I think the colour balance is off too, your camera skills suck.

There are no swimmer chicks in it?

What's wrong with this picture? The fact that you didn't include a pretentious magazine like "Stereophile" in the background to go along with the turntable

General Zod wrote:Looks more like a laserdisc than a record.

It doesn't look anything like a laserdisc.

Looks like an LP...made out of denim.

Okay, NOW I see what it is.

What's that big old thing touching the CD?

I dunno. Emerson, Lake and Palmer?

Darth Wong wrote:What's wrong with this picture? The fact that you didn't include a pretentious magazine like "Stereophile" in the background to go along with the turntable

And that's exactly why there isn't a single copy of Stereophile or The Absolute Sound in our apartment. When the magazine reviewers consistently manage to write better ad copy than the manufacturers advertising in the magazine, something is well and truly fucked.

BTW, what do you think of that big AutoCAD manual in the background?

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:It doesn't look anything like a laserdisc.

Looks like an LP...made out of denim.

The green fabric is a home made record mat.

How do you play a CD with a turntable?
That is what is wrong.
Now for your picture:
You were too close to the subject when you activated the flash and that balance of colors is off....

I don't see SDNet anywhere.

aerius wrote:The green fabric is a home made record mat.

The mark of a true audiophile is his personally made record mat.[/pretention]

Man, ELP had the best fashion sense, back in the day.

aerius wrote:BTW, what do you think of that big AutoCAD manual in the background?

Release 12? It must be a fake -- my r12 manual was in Sanskrit.

Turin wrote:

aerius wrote:BTW, what do you think of that big AutoCAD manual in the background?

Release 12? It must be a fake -- my r12 manual was in Sanskrit.

I seem to recall some law of documentation, to the effect that: 9 times out of 10, you don't have any documentation. If you do have documentation, 9 times out of ten it's for the wrong version of the product. If it's for the right version of the product, 9 times out of ten, it's missing the section you need. If you have the complete version of the docs, for your product, they're in Japanese, if not Sanskrit.

Is the problem that you've got the turntable set at the wrong speed?

Have you been watching Austin Powers?

Dull needle

darthbob88 wrote:

Turin wrote:Release 12? It must be a fake -- my r12 manual was in Sanskrit.

I seem to recall some law of documentation, to the effect that: 9 times out of 10, you don't have any documentation. If you do have documentation, 9 times out of ten it's for the wrong version of the product. If it's for the right version of the product, 9 times out of ten, it's missing the section you need. If you have the complete version of the docs, for your product, they're in Japanese, if not Sanskrit.

It's funny, my dad got the manual when he was using Release 11, figuring his company would upgrade to R12 in the near future. Instead, the company decided to skip R12 altogether and go right to R13. After my dad retired I got his AutoCAD discs and manual.

Tsyroc wrote:Is the problem that you've got the turntable set at the wrong speed?

That's a distinct possibility, would you happen to know the correct RPM setting for these shiny discs?

Dalton wrote:Have you been watching Austin Powers?

Nope, I just had a spontaneous "I want to do something silly" moment, and decided to post the results on a couple forums to see how many people get it.

aerius wrote:That's a distinct possibility, would you happen to know the correct RPM setting for these shiny discs?

500 RPM on the inside on the disc, slowing down to 200 RPM on the outside edge.

skyman8081 wrote:

aerius wrote:That's a distinct possibility, would you happen to know the correct RPM setting for these shiny discs?

500 RPM on the inside on the disc, slowing down to 200 RPM on the outside edge.

No try 40000 RPM at the edge and 16000 RPM at the center.

I watch Mythbusters, I've seen what happens when you spin a CD much past 20,000 RPM.
CD go kablooie!

Ohhh! That would be fun to see.

*goes off to try and find it on you tube*

Case in point: The old Plextor 70x CD-ROM drives. Sure, they read faster than light, but if you put a CD in that wasn't totally structurally sound internally, it would explode and literally shoot chunks of shattered CD across the room out of the drive. Or it'd toss the pieces the other way, even up into the inside of the computer itself. Hilarious, if a bit tough on discs.