Dylanstock 2006 - arrangements
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azekeilThis is probably only of interest to those planning to attend Dylanstock 2006 tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday. This post will be updated to reflect the latest information, so keep checking back :). I will email those involved with address and phone numbers. Please let me know on this post of any changes to the arrangements :)
The weather forecast hasn't changed in the last few days - it's insisting we're going to have thundery showers pretty much both days. This will not spoil our fun, however! Can I suggest you all bring as much of the following as possible:
We've still not got any specific trips planned, but if we do it's most likely to be on the Thursday. We'll probably decide on the day depending on a number of factors like what people feel like and how the weather's doing.
So, here are the people potentially interested, and what the arrangements are for everyone as I currently understand them:
Right, now I'll go and try to hunt down email addresses for everyone to email them phone numbers and the address :) Emails sent - let me know if you've not got it!
The weather forecast hasn't changed in the last few days - it's insisting we're going to have thundery showers pretty much both days. This will not spoil our fun, however! Can I suggest you all bring as much of the following as possible:
- Clothes you don't mind getting photographed in while wet (it'll be warm, and we'll bring towels :) ) - and some others for indoor photos
- If you're interested in pillioning on a motorbike and have had problems fitting properly into either a small or medium helmet, then bring one that fits - and sensible clothes for biking in (including biker jacket if you have one)
- A sleeping bag (although we probably have some bedding and airbeds and such lying around if necessary)
- Music you want to share, preferably on original CD :)
We've still not got any specific trips planned, but if we do it's most likely to be on the Thursday. We'll probably decide on the day depending on a number of factors like what people feel like and how the weather's doing.
So, here are the people potentially interested, and what the arrangements are for everyone as I currently understand them:
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dylan - It's his new house we're invading, so be nice to him!- azekeil - I live in Cheltenham; I have a doctor's appointment first thing on Wednesday morning in Cheltenham, but other than that I plan to drive down to Bristol on Wednesday morning and drive back on Thursday evening. I am giving lifts to Cheltenham people...
- ev1ldonut - You're riding my bike to your work in Bristol so I can pick it up on Wednesday morning, but you're not turning up until Thursday. Then you're taking the bike back to Cheltenham for me on Thursday evening or Friday morning.
- kissycat1000 - You're showing up on Thursday during the day?
- ninjagirl - You're grabbing a lift with me on Wednesday morning at 10-10:30am, and I'll call you just before I leave to pick you up.
I need to know your address! (where's that email!) - leopardspice - Unable to make it due to other commitments :(
- izzy_stradlin - You're getting a coach to Bristol coach station for 11:30am on Wednesday, and either dylan or myself (if I'm around in time) will pick you up. You're getting the coach back on Wednesday evening.
- sepheri - Unable to make it due to other commitments :(
- darkjewelz - Will make your own way to Bristol/dylan's and arrange with dylan if you need picking up from town on Wednesday morning.
- aeia - Will make your own way to dylan's on Wednesday afternoon/evening (and possibly Thursday evening?)
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Date: 2006-07-04 09:54 am (UTC)Why music on original CD, by the way? That's remarkably… respectable of you. :-p
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Date: 2006-07-04 09:56 am (UTC)And it's just easier to say original CD than try to explain quality to people who don't necessarily have their own hifis :)
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Date: 2006-07-04 10:06 am (UTC)Since we're doing something approximating eXtreme Programming and are getting close to project deadline, it's good to know about impending holiday requests the previous fortnight. If I know the previous week then it's 50-50 whether it crosses an iteration boundary.
Ah, right. Concerning the CDs, I was otherwise going to mention that a Plextor recording onto TDK blanks beats original discs on every objective and subjective measure I could find apart from subsequent physical resilience.
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Date: 2006-07-04 10:09 am (UTC)Interesting thing about CDs! Maybe you could do a post about it, detailing the tests you did?
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Date: 2006-07-04 11:05 am (UTC)I can't remember the exact numbers, but I took a CD transport that was audiophile grade (based on the Philips CDM12.2) but intentionally four generations old — because it wouldn't do much to eliminate disc-borne jitter yet would introduce little of its own. I fed it through a good-quality DAC (with twin-PLL clock recovery) into a Paul Miller jitter measurement card. This showed about 2-3ns jitter from a real CD, and a few tenths of a nanosecond lower a Plextor/TDK CD-R recorded at four times speed. More importantly, the jitter spectrum was whiter from the CD-R.
I verified the result using Audio Precision and Neutrik test instruments in the S/P-DIF domain, then listened (no, not double-blind, but I think I was neutral) on the best passive analogue system I could easily set up. The difference was definitely in the CD-R's favour, but quite slight, comparable to the differences in the Pink Floyd/EMI mastering jitter tests of the mid nineties. I think this means the very best CD pressings will beat CD-R, but the average doesn't.
A Verbatim disc was just as good in the Plextor drive, and I suspect most "name" brands would be, too. An unbranded cheapy CD-R wasn't even error-free (the TDK and Verbatim burns, however, all compared bit-for-bit identical when ripped using an old Samsung read-only drive), and jitter was very bad.
HP drives made copies just a little inferior to the original. I can't remember which other drives I tried, but they were all noticeably worse.
Quality deteriorated negligibly as burn speed was increased with the Plextor drive, but very seriously on the HP.
The best CD-RW discs sound inferior to the worst CD-Rs.
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Date: 2006-07-04 10:59 am (UTC)I'll email you my address :)
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Date: 2006-07-04 11:01 am (UTC)What time can you be ready by on Wednesday morning?
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Date: 2006-07-04 11:23 am (UTC)As for wednesday morning, I'll happily fit around your plans - Suggest a time and I'll tell you if I can be alive by then ;)
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Date: 2006-07-04 12:27 pm (UTC)I didn't even notice.
Are you sure you're not a Minoan Snake Goddess come to devour us all? Oh, or is that Cthulu?
Should I be scared now?
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Date: 2006-07-04 04:37 pm (UTC)xxx sorrryyy :(
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