four bears ??:lol:
yorkshire calling
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four bears ??:lol:
Thad E Ginathom
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... well, three, at least 
On joining this site a few years ago, I was surprised to find that the answer is pretty much everything --- including some very exotic/expensive stuff.
kuruvilajacob
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Welcome to the Forum. Good to know you are a vinyl lover like few of us in India. But the number is increasing everyday. I would call them as converts from digital though there are many who are still very much into digital due to the lack of quality records availability.
kuruvilajacob
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the engine
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Thanks. I don't seem to have much of a problem getting new stuff on vinyl so I'm lucky I guess. HMV online have a great gatalogue with free postage. Just got the new album by Jack White ( white stripes ) whuch is awesome. The only album I haven't been able to get is the 'hurricane' by Grace Jones.
It seems quite fashionable here for musicians to releases on vinyl. They do become deleted quickly thiugh sometimes so you have to pounce.
Some of your set ups are really exotic up to my gyrodec . But I still think it sounds better than any digital I've heard.
That's just my opinion of course. What I find strange is when journalists say vinyl freaks love the thing about getting the records out of the sleeve , cleaning them etc. I think that's a pain . But I just think the end result is worth the effort.
Anyone know how to put pics on the forum from an android samsung phone album ??
It seems quite fashionable here for musicians to releases on vinyl. They do become deleted quickly thiugh sometimes so you have to pounce.
Some of your set ups are really exotic up to my gyrodec . But I still think it sounds better than any digital I've heard.
That's just my opinion of course. What I find strange is when journalists say vinyl freaks love the thing about getting the records out of the sleeve , cleaning them etc. I think that's a pain . But I just think the end result is worth the effort.
Anyone know how to put pics on the forum from an android samsung phone album ??
the engine
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Right, we're going on our holiday tomorrow so thanks for the welcome and unless Monza for the Formula 1 is totally boring ( hope not ) I'll be back next week . Bye for now.....hope there's some record shops in Milan ?
avidyarthy
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BTW, there is a gyrodec with one member here, very near New Delhi .....
Thad E Ginathom
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But I love all that ...and the inevitable damage is one of the things that makes me stick, these days, to digital.
Probably posted this elsewhere, but, the other day I found a long-lost Grateful Dead CD. Forty years ago, this was mind-altering, life-changing music for me, and the LP and sleeve still inspire a certain thrill. By comparison, the CD, as an object feels like a disposable thing; it inspires nothing. The wonderful covers of the past just do not scale down, and those most-misnamed jewel cases were, and always will be, just horrible.
saikatbiswas82
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Welcome to HFV mate.
the engine
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Nice bunch of people..cheers .
baijuxavior
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Upload your images to tinypic.com or imageshack and post the img link.
the engine
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the engine
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the engine
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How'd he do that ???
heehee...not sideways in real life though but you get the idea.
The technics SL1200 is a new tweaking project. The gyrodec is the love if my life.
heehee...not sideways in real life though but you get the idea.
The technics SL1200 is a new tweaking project. The gyrodec is the love if my life.
ranjeetrain
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Welcome OP!
You have already been welcome quite nicely, but doesn't hurt to welcome more, eh :lol:
And just for the kicks thatguy, you answered your own question. Last link in your post tells that India is THE country with maximum number of English Speakers (as an additional language), and second only to the USA in terms of overall speakers.
So, more people speak English in India than in any other country except USA. :clapping: And that includes the UK
hyeah:
I can also tell you something that the Wikipedia doesn't say. Native speakers of any language don't speak the language as well as someone with a second language does. OP is a good case in point. He is a native speaker, but spelling isn't his forte. He doesn't get the punctuation right. Most Indians would have better spelling. The same goes about the grammar. Most native speakers use a very loose grammar, that doesn't meet the criteria of the standard tests these countries have to let people from non-native backgrounds come to work there.
So, while I don't like going overboard, I do have a reason to say that the percentage of people (however small due to HUGE population of India) are good at English. And this is being as modest as possibly I can.
For more info, please search Business English Index by GlobalEnglish
PS: I don't think a clarification is in order, but I do want to add I don't mean to pull anyone down
You have already been welcome quite nicely, but doesn't hurt to welcome more, eh :lol:
And just for the kicks thatguy, you answered your own question. Last link in your post tells that India is THE country with maximum number of English Speakers (as an additional language), and second only to the USA in terms of overall speakers.
So, more people speak English in India than in any other country except USA. :clapping: And that includes the UK
hyeah:I can also tell you something that the Wikipedia doesn't say. Native speakers of any language don't speak the language as well as someone with a second language does. OP is a good case in point. He is a native speaker, but spelling isn't his forte. He doesn't get the punctuation right. Most Indians would have better spelling. The same goes about the grammar. Most native speakers use a very loose grammar, that doesn't meet the criteria of the standard tests these countries have to let people from non-native backgrounds come to work there.
So, while I don't like going overboard, I do have a reason to say that the percentage of people (however small due to HUGE population of India) are good at English. And this is being as modest as possibly I can.
For more info, please search Business English Index by GlobalEnglish
PS: I don't think a clarification is in order, but I do want to add I don't mean to pull anyone down
the engine
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Course you don't....we usually say "put down" not " pull down " though.
I come from Yorkshire and so I totally agree with you. The Yorkshire accent really abuses the English language.
"Nah thun Sithee" ?
;-)
I come from Yorkshire and so I totally agree with you. The Yorkshire accent really abuses the English language.
"Nah thun Sithee" ?
;-)
Thad E Ginathom
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Indeed. The Scottish and the Irish are much better at English than the English. However, native speakers know their idioms, because they grew up with them. Non-native speakers who have learnt a language through study, rather than picking it up through exposure, tend to know the grammar, because they have learned it: native English speakers under fifty or sixty years of age may have little or no knowledge of the formal structure of our language.
Long live the varied regional accents and dialects of UK
I'm reading Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell at the moment. Some of the mid 19th-C Manchester dialogue is comprehensible only because of the footnotes, with words going back to the time of Chaucer. I have no idea how many of those words would be understood there today: sadly, I suspect, not many.
I'd better stop mithering
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the engine
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Eye gioer bein mardy .
My apologies for the delayed reply but my ISP was down for the most part of the past 2 days...
No citation as I did not pull my data from any source... was just stating my general observation.
I'm talking about the Indians I personally/professionally know and interact with on a daily basis. The people I meet at work, the streets, the banks, the restaurants, the movie theaters, the shopping malls, the grocery stores, the audio CD shops, the audiophile shops, the videophile shops, shops where I buy just about anything.... all of them converse and conduct their business in English or at least passable English.
Coming to education... we Indians need to be educated in English as it is not our mother tongue/native language. For people in US, UK it is their mother tongue/native language so we need to see how many of them are educated in learning new languages? I'd say most Indians are more educated because most of us speak multiple languages i.e. I speak Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, a fair bit of Tamil and Malayalam and consider myself proficient in English. My wife also speaks German! I am pretty sure you would be hard pressed to find many with so many language skills in the US and UK (and I'm talking about the white natives from there... not the immigrant Asians and other races).
Here are a few stats from Wikipedia about how educated the white folk in US are. The higher the education the lower the number. In India competition is so much that most of us are post-graduates... (again from the people I interact with on a daily basis so I cannot consider people from villages) but let me assure you that I've spent time in the US and from the people I've interacted with there I can say most are not highly educated i.e. not post graduates.
Anyways I'm not beating down the whites here (before anyone certifies me a racist (in reverse)) and I definitely do not mean any offense to you. I'm just proud to be Indian despite traveling to the US and a couple of places in Europe and despite spending time abroad I'm still happy calling India my home and proud of India. I don't see any need to beat India down either. We are still successful despite all the corruption, the bad roads, the traffic, the population, the lack of water, lack of civic amenities, etc. Put these same situations and circumstances in the US and the UK and I'm sure you will see a collapse of their entire system and probably their countries... a Katrina amply demonstrated how under prepared the US was... Mumbai had more rain and even floods and was back on its feet in 2 days.
I'm posting a link to the stats - Katrina in US Vs Mumbai in India.
Welcome 'the engine' to HFV Forum. Although the thread is going more towards spelling, pronounciaiton etc of English than Audio gears, I like to welcome you more because you have a Gyrodec TT like me. I have purchased it about 6 months ago from a fellow HFV member in India. Want your detailed feedback about your Gyrodec TT. How old it is? Is it Gyrodec SE version or some other version?
Regards
Amit
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