Visit the Wonderful World of Analog Raul Style


OK, all regulars on this site know Raul. As some of you may remember, I suggested to Raul within a previous thread that he post pictures of the various tables, tonearms, and especially the large number of cartridges he has referenced over the past several months. I figured that such would provide a great resource for the vast majority of us who have never even seen, let alone heard, a number of the cartridges he mentions both favorably and critically. Some contacted me with encouragement, some with skepticism that I could pull it off, and some with skepticism that the cartridges existed. In short order, I heard from Raul, himself, and it became clear that he was not unwilling to share images of his treasure trove (and I mean treasure trove, literally) but, rather, did not know how to go about creating a forum to do so. As such, I agreed to create for Raul a dedicated webpage for their display, if he would send to me pictures. Well, to say that I was overwhelmed at what came my way was an understatement. I think you will agree.

I subsequently created the webpage, a link for which I provide below. No, it is not professional – I am not a professional web builder. Yes, it is LARGE and, yes, it will take awhile to load, depending on your connection speed. In any case, my advice is to be patient and wait for it to load completely. It is my hope that this will prove a fun and educative resource for us all. I would appreciate it if folks would bump this thread now and again so that others might have the opportunity to view the site and bookmark it for future enjoyment.

Above all, THANKS to you, Raul!!!

The Otherworldy Analog World of Raul
4yanx
4yanx, you have some very big images there. The whole page is over 15MB so it takes a while to load. And the images are really much bigger that the image size you have set, forcing the browser to resize them - something they do very poorly.

Let's take an example.

http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Analog_rig.jpg

is 1600x1200 pixels - half a MB. But your HTML says to show this as:

IMG SRC="/~iowan1/Analog_rig.jpg" ALIGN=left HEIGHT=400 WIDTH=533

It doesn't look as good like that, and there is no download saving in restricting the image size - the browser fetches the big image and then resizes it.

What you need to do is adjust the image with PhotoShop, ArcSoft PhotoStudio etc to make it a smaller size (say 640x480) and put that on the main page. Photo editing software will do a much better job of resizing each image. Each small image should be a hyperlink to the big mothas you have stored on your site.

It will take a bit of effort to run each one through the PhotoStudio and resize them, and then put those up on your site. And then the HTML page needs to be recreated with the smaller images (don't set the HEIGHT and WIDTH parameters) and activating the hyperlink.

The page would be only a couple of MB, but people could get access to the full resolution images you have stored on your Web server. They are the treasures.

If anyone wants to see these in HiRez, click on these links:

http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Turntable_1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Turntable_2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Turntable_3.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Phono-line_preamplifier.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Tonearms_1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Moerch_DP-6.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Technics_EPA-100.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Koetsu_SA_1100D-Mark_2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Ortofon_RS-212.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Cartridges_1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Cartridges_2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Cartridges_3.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Audio_Technica_OC-30.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Benz_Micro_LP.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Benz_Micro_Ruby_2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Clearaudio_Discovery.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Dynavector_XD-1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Goldbug_Mr_Brier.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Koetsu_Onyx.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Lyra_Helikon.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Ortofon_MC-7500.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Sumiko_Celebration.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Transfiguration.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Van_denHul_Colibri.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Van_denHul_The_Frog.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Accuphase_AC-2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Allaerts_MC2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Audio_Technica_ART2000.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Audio_Technica_ART-1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Audioquest_AQ-7000Fe5.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Denon_DS-1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Ikeda_Rex_9.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Koetsu_Rosewood.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Ortofon_MC-2000.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/Shelter_90X.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~iowan1/body2.jpg

Regards,
Metralla, good point. I resized all the images and forwarded them last night to 4yanx. Hopefully he'll be able to substitute with the resized images to make things easier on the bandwidth. If he's successful making the switch, I'll help him create some hyperlinks to the full-sized images for those wanting to see any given image in greater detail. (In the interim, the full-sized images may go away for a while because the re-sized images all use the same file names, but we'll get 'em back again in a few days.)

My compliments to 4yanx, though, in helping Raul make these pictures available. Without his efforts working with Raul on this, we'd never have been able to see these. And thanks to Raul for being willing to take all of these photos and make them available.
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