HiFi & Personal & Site Wojtek on 02 Jan 2007 02:15 am
Another bedtime update…
OK, it’s almost 2 am now and I’m finally back in Warsaw, in front of my computer. Actually, I came back as I planned before, meaning that I arrived in Warsaw on Thursday, 28th December. Why haven’t I written anything since then? The answer is that I was too busy and too tired to touch the blog at all. I had to have some good old fashioned relaxation after Christmas (a bit funny, isn’t it?) and after that preparations for New Year’s Eve were afoot and so on. Anyway, it’s easy to justify yourself for lack of time, right? That’s why I’d like apologize to any returning visitors of my blog for being absent for the past one and a half week. Now what happened exactly during that time …
Christmas was nice, seeing my parents and most of the family and all. Everybody enjoyed their presents (including me of course) and we had a very good time together. I also met up with my friend Daniel (I’ve mentioned him in my previous post).
One could say that throughout my presence in Lebork, I’ve had my hands full. I won’t get into details, cause it was mostly family related. I haven’t even touched my turntable! I also promised myself before to take some photos that would be a good addition for my previous posts, but nope, didn’t have the time to do that either…
I can already say that the year 2007 will bring me some good sound, because one thing that turned up while I was back at my home is that I found a pair of good loudspeakers (JBL L-100T) on an internet auction and won them for a good price. I’ve bought a receiver in October, a Sansui 9090DB, and since that time I was mainly using it as an amplifier for my headphones (Sennheiser HD-280 Pro) while getting most of my music from my computer’s soundcard. I haven’t searched for a CD player or a turntable, because I decided that having some speakers was the first priority before anything else and now the time has finally come. They will most probably be delivered to me tomorrow. I’m pretty happy about the fact, because I’ve been hunting for some good and renowned speakers for quite some time now (over a year at least). I’ll let you know more about my first impressions when they get here and when I’ll have a chance to hook them up to the receiver (gotta go and buy some speaker cables too).
As for the blog, I’ve slightly updated the “Vinyl records: Collecting 101 - part 2″ post with some info about vinyl records having drillholes and cut-corners (I’d forgotten about it while I was writing it). More details about that in said post.
I’d also like to say a few things to those people who have posted links directing to my blog on some websites. I appreciate it very much, but I really don’t like it when somebody describes my site as a “vinyl blog”. OK, I know that I’ve written a big deal of information about vinyl records, but I really have no intention of writing ONLY or even OFTEN about vinyl. The blog’s title is “Young HiFi” and not “Young Vinyl”. I have posts about turntables, laserdiscs, the computer demoscene, quadrophonics and other stuff all written up already in my notepad, just waiting to be expanded and published here online. To put things in a nutshell, I really appreciate it that people put links to my blog in the world wide web, but please read the “About” page prior of doing so and if you really find it satisfactionary to just tell of my recent vinyl articles than just point the link at the first part of the Vinyl Records: Collecting 101 series. Why? Because if I won’t be writing anything about vinyl for the next couple of months, then how good is a description of my blog , saying that it’s all and only about vinyl, when it’s not true?
That’s all for today (or rather “for tonight”). Time to get some well earned sleep…