DCC Archive Steve: what the heck is a "Duffoscope"?

This question has been nagging at me for a long time and I can't believe its taken me this long to think of asking this question in this forum.

In the early 80's I bought the RUSH album Hemispheres on vinyl (I think it was a few years old already at that time) and when I read the sleave it said "This album has been processed thru a duffoscope!"

That album has always sounded a little muffled to me no matter if its that vinyl, cassette, the original CD from the 80's or the 20 bit remaster that came out a few years ago.

If its because of that duffoscope, I hope they've pushed them all off a cliff.

 

Hmm...my guess would be a device that creates an awareness of Duff beer. Kind of like Duffman...

 

Pass me another Duff beer! I'm thirsty from pushing that duffoscope off a cliff

 

"What kind of pathetic drunk do you take me for? Hey, somebody spilled beer in this ash tray! (slurp)"

 

Thats he-haw funny, but I stopped watching the Simpson's a few years back because I thought it was getting to cutesy cute.

Actually I took my TV down to the pawn shop a few years ago. I think I used the cash to buy Jethro Tull Aqualung on DCC Gold.

(Thats not a joke!)

Saves money on cable too!

 

Now THAT is an audiophile.

 

To bad I don't really have great equipment to play my collection on (yet).

 

I might recommend stealing cable. I did this successfully in Dayton for a period of almost a year till Time Warner came out and put the Denver boot on my hook-up box.

Incidentally, both "stealing cable" and "the Denver boot" have been covered by The Simpsons. Very educational!

 

At least you didn't use it to go to Dr. Marvin Monroe's Family Therapy Center (family bliss or double your money back)...!

 

I had free cable the first year that I lived in my current apartment. It was turned on when I moved in and I never paid. One day I came home and found a nastygram taped to the door that said something to the effect of "upon a routine inspection of our cable service we noticed yours was turned on. By the way, theft of of service is punishable by up to 5 years in jail." I quickly dived for the remote and when I turned it on all I had was snow.

I never gave a dime to a cable company for their service until I had them hook up the cable modem.

Thats $40/month that could be going to my DCC Gold Disc/Single Ended Triode Tube Amp/High Efficiency Speaker fund.

Now... I wonder how much I can get for that old set for rabbit ears I have stashed in the closet.

Guess I'm not the audiophile Sckott thinks I am.

Now... I wonder how much I can get for that old set for rabbit ears I have stashed in the closet.

 

Oops... I'm stuttering... Too much Duff beer!

 

Yeah, cause he's dead!

 

You peaked my interest so I had to do a search for duffoscope.

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>Subject: Re: Duffoscope?
>From: "Sabre-X" <[email protected]>
>Date: 11/10/98 9:02 PM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: <[email protected]>
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>the omega concern wrote in message <[email protected]>...
>> In the liner for the Hemispheres CD it says, This albumn was
>>passed through the Duffoscope. Does anyone know what this play on
>>words refers too?

Duffo was the nickname for Pat Moran, who was the engineer at Rockfield
Studios, where A Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres were recorded. The band
liked the way he heard their sound, and called his process of mixing the
"duffoscope".
jim


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