Nero
Re: Tired
Yes the Germans have some wonderful words. Like luftkissenfahrtzeug for example
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Tweek v. "Upgrade"
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tpetsch
...The rhythm has Control
So tell me, which piece of gear down the line improves upon the source audio signal? ...If the signal produced by the source doesn't maintain the tune, nothing down the line from it can ever fix that.
Rosewind
Lost in Translation
@mansr - "verschlimbessern" ... I simply have to love German for its ability to be very precise. I have just added this to my active 20th century German vocabulary.
"verschlimmbessern Vb. 'durch vermeintliches Verbessern schlechter machen' (von Lichtenberg geprägt, 2. Hälfte 18. Jh.); dazu Verschlimmbesserung f."
"verschlimmbessern Vb. 'durch vermeintliches Verbessern schlechter machen' (von Lichtenberg geprägt, 2. Hälfte 18. Jh.); dazu Verschlimmbesserung f."
Mike Reed
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Rosewind
Lost in Translation
Twank - Urban Dictionary
"An over-the-hill twink. The twink is the slender, often androgynous gay sprite ..."
Sorry, Mike. I had to look this up. Must have looked in the wrong dictionary.
"An over-the-hill twink. The twink is the slender, often androgynous gay sprite ..."
Sorry, Mike. I had to look this up. Must have looked in the wrong dictionary.
Mike Reed
pfm Member
I just knew my charity shop bought German dictionary would come in handy sometime but I found this aggravating.............
Gay sprite, Peter? Is that the one which got pixielated (sp) and needed the National Elf Service?
Tigerjones
Bagpuss
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Ho ho! I wasn't aware it was a word and sure enough, t'aint in my New O.E.D. It was supposed to be the verb stem 'to w.... Either too subtle or I'm losing my grip on pun humour (probably!)
Rosewind
Lost in Translation
@Mike Reed: It also means this in its more standard usage,
"intransitive verb. dialectal, chiefly England : to sound with an abrupt twang. transitive verb. dialectal, chiefly England : to cause to sound with an abrupt twang."
"intransitive verb. dialectal, chiefly England : to sound with an abrupt twang. transitive verb. dialectal, chiefly England : to cause to sound with an abrupt twang."
Gervais Cote
Predator
Tweek : only the person that paid for it can hear it
Upgrade : everybody can hear it, including wife and daughters
Upgrade : everybody can hear it, including wife and daughters
Mike Reed
pfm Member
That sonic description has an echo. Peter. Confusion with 'twank' (which doesn't exist) and the guitar string sound twang perhaps? Hank Marvin (ex Crickets) was famous for his twangs.
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Arkless Electronics
Trade: Amp design and repairs.
Yep fab words like Handschuhschneeballwerfer as a colloquialism for coward... "throws snowballs with gloves on"
Darth Vader
From the Dark Side
One of the best upgrades I have had cost me nothing but gained me a lot of dosh - I removed the pre-amp and I was gob smacked by the slap-in-the-face improvement! That was years ago.
When I first went to work in Germany one of the local guys on downing tools on a Friday turned to me and shouted "frei zeit! - the most important words in deutsch!"
DV
When I first went to work in Germany one of the local guys on downing tools on a Friday turned to me and shouted "frei zeit! - the most important words in deutsch!"
DV
rontoolsie
pfm Member
For a while I was running both a legacy Radio Shak Lab400 turntable and an LP12/Aro/Armageddon/Prefix both using the (same) Lyra Helikon SL cartridge.
The LP12 was markedly better in all ways.
Then the RadioShak TT was 'tweaked' by platter damping, hot-wiring microswitches, replacing the signal flylead with much higher quality etc.
The RadioShak TT was then better in many ways than the full monty (at the time) LP12.
The Linn was sold.
That is the difference between a 'tweak' and an 'upgrade'.
The LP12 was markedly better in all ways.
Then the RadioShak TT was 'tweaked' by platter damping, hot-wiring microswitches, replacing the signal flylead with much higher quality etc.
The RadioShak TT was then better in many ways than the full monty (at the time) LP12.
The Linn was sold.
That is the difference between a 'tweak' and an 'upgrade'.