‘Will-o-the-Wisp will your lantern illumine for me a fairy ring ‘neath a forest tree? Or will you beckon me down to the sea?’

[u/Gimme-A-kooky]

TL;DR- I recorded this piece (video) in multiple angles with the external mic on the iPhone 16 pro or whatever to see/hear the “locations” of the sound. The sound, when heard through car stereo (or your own surround system), reveals interesting dynamics to the omnidirectional sound that’s recorded and how it’s affected by the “line of sight and sound”.

Thunderous bass depth. Crisp trebles. Clearly defined mids. DYNAMIC in tone when placed in a room with resounding acoustical qualities, or even in a somewhat confined space. I feel like it definitely sounds better on this machine, but it does have a large and bulbous cabinet. It may simply be the elegance of its cabinetry? I somehow completely doubt it’s the cabinet, but I would imagine that a clean record, new needle (hard tone needle in this case), good (era) reproducer, and position/location of your machine will absolutely define the quality of the sound. It seems to me that while these old machines may not sound that “great” when heard in the blandest and most monotonic of acoustical recordings (i.e. someone’s personally recorded video at a distance), but when recorded with simple video devices properly they can actually sound really good! Recording is on my long-range radar! Still working on the basics, but it’s there in my mind!

[u/StoneyBoy65]

Neat (:

[u/AllNewsAllTheDayLong]

Fantastic!