Light Entertainment

So once again Mat one of your videos forced me down into storage to dig out my old TEAC EQA-20. A glorious display of LEDs from the 80s before LEDs were cool. Even back then I bought it for the light show instead of it's actual capability as a graphic EQ. Who doesn't want a little light show while listening to music? Great stuff.

I am really tempted to add something to the pile... but I already have a Behringer DEQ2496 for my eye candy (and apparently it also does some eq stuff :D )

Realizing that it's your voice in the music during the peel has me laughing my butt off.

Thank you for doing the plastic peeling bit. I quite enjoy those.

Cool! I like both of them. Let's see whether my 1978 Luxman receiver (VU meters!!) can do something with them. Through a tape loop perhaps?

Cool stuff! The design of the loudness meter reminds me of the Robotron RS5001 that I own: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/robo_somm_rs_5001_rs5001.html Rather strangely, though, RFT used the long row of LEDs to indicate the tuner position on an FM scale.

I want a spectrum analyser like this but that passes through HDMI as I don't have any RCA connections any more in my set up - everything is HDMI switched!

I can't believe that nobody has commented on the "average, ordinary hi-fi" joke. That setup is about as ordinary as a pride of lions in Antarctica.

I'd have the spectrum analyser but it would drive my Mrs up the wall! :-)

Hey Mat, just thought I'd let you know that your Bob video is popping up regularly in my recommended feed so hopefully the views do well! Seems alright at 100k so far

Fabulous - really love these. You are becoming very expert at videoing these flashing lights; it must take some skill to capture them so well. Completely agree with your comment above that music is supposed to be enjoyed - audiophiles are always so miserable and talking about what's wrong with other people's set ups. They hardly mention the music itself at all! Hope you're feeling better - I guess you must be relatively high up on the priority list for a vaccination?

Another excellent video Mat, it just so happens that most of my vintage kit is mounted in a 19 inch rack, (Teac minidisc, Prinz 8 track , Fostex DAT, Teac 3440 reel to reel, Sansui front loading cassette etc) so the display will fit in well - shame its on such a long lead time.

The best part is that the bottom unit is in Futurama Green. To which I'd have to say, "Shut up and take my money".

Can I get that peel-porn audio for my next date-night please 😉

Unrelated, but I just got Tidal and wanted to test out the equalizer, but couldn't find it - I later realized it doesn't have one. I found a reddit thread asking the same question I had, where is the equalizer, and the comments stunned me. The number of people who were so uptight saying that you should never 'subvert the sound engineers intent' was staggering. Getting to why I posted it here, It reminded me of the very thing you talked about in your reverb video (I think it was) I thought you were being a bit saterical, but people really get so upset about how other people listen to music that I wonder if they even enjoy it themselves.

Thanks for the video Mat. I like both items I am going to save up and buy them both.

The spectrum analyzer looks nice - more than you would expect from a company called "fungeneration". A suggestion for the future: Play the frequency sweep also on the dB meter. (I assume it has the same volume on every frequency.) Cheap dB meters show different values depending on the frequency, the OneLittleBear LED meter you showed in another video displays more dB the higher the frequency gets but it shouldn't because the volume doesn't change. (Maybe that is intentional to make it look nicer?) Good devices like the RTW (was that the same video?) show the same value on each frequency. So it's a good way to test how accurate a dB meter is.

I demand the raw recording of you doing a Barry white voice over session

Matt seriously , don’t ever stop doing the peel off protecting film joke , it absolutely made me howl , and as a film editor myself the more I watch it I see how much editing and effort you have gone too to make it , the music the voice it’s just brilliant

Enjoy some time out for yourself and real life stuff - hope you get a chance to recharge a bit. Wishing you all the best.

I was in love from the first blinks of the lights, but I don't have a system setup to support something like this anymore. I stumbled upon this some time back and sorely wish this wasn't just a concept item: https://davesgeekyideas.com/2019/01/29/star-trek-soundbar/

Hope you are feeling better

I appreciate the word play in the title. Content was also great!

Oh yeah.....' nice and slow Hilarious 🤣

Nice video. I like the RTA-31 more. I think it's more useful. Nice PS5 joke :)

Love the spectrum analyzer. The LED VU meter looks a bit like a ripoff since it only lights up the LED in pairs. I would have liked if you had a peek inside. But still great vid!

Thank you for your quick response. It is 4PM Friday here in Front Royal Virginia. Correct. It is a gentle sound.

I tried to order the RTA-31 but their server would not accept a US PayPal order. May I ask what is the name of the music clip at the end of the video?

You deserve a break take care

Love the video. Enjoyed your comment about attaching to an "average, ordinary HiFi." I don't view your system as average or ordinary in any way. It's an excellent setup.

Thomann, that's where Messrs. Jensen and Murray went to for a convention of synthesizer YouTubers. That was back in the Before Time of course. And Mat, I didn't congratulate you for your milestone birthday in your latest update video, so I'll do so now and wish you all the best and enjoy your well-deserved break.

That's easily one of the better ones.

This is perfect timing. I bought a dB-90 by GLiPro years ago and it's always kinda been junky but now one of the meters doesn't work at all. I got one of each. Come to think of it I also got the Mr Nixie analyzer and the breadboard looking LED spectrum analyzer because of your videos. You're costing me a lot of money but I have enough dancing music lights around me to turn off the overhead light. :D

Perfect timing, I was *just* going on about the need for decent 1U audio displays in my MIDI Mountain video, haha. I imagine a slew of comments and emails are headed my way. I've had both of these bookmarked for ages now too, so this'll be mighty useful for me 👍

🤘 BLINKENLIGHTS FOREVER 🤘

Oh No! Premature Ejac... er um, Peel-off!

I'm getting flashy now 😁

Great vid! You mentioned the meter reminded you of a fireplace which made me wonder, is there any awful VU type devices you will eventually feature? I loved the Atari one (although I wonder consider that awful, it was pretty great but you know what I mean)

Oh I wonder when Clint (LGR) will see this, he was kicking himself over buying the cheapy equaliser you featured some time ago for its (inevitably fake) display. The first device would have been perfect. Certainly has visual impact.

I like the spectrum analyzer better than the DB meter. Although I would like to see more different colors on the analyzer. Maybe green at the bottom, red at the top and at least two other colors in between. It would make it even more enjoyable. By the way, nice strip tease.

yeah that is pretty sweet. I have a Technics SH-8055 graphic equalizer that has a display similar to that only smaller and monochrome.

Kind of wish my desk had some 19" slots free.

A sandwich video on Friday? Sweet.