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What A Drag It Is Getting Old

The other day, I was listening to some CDs and then decided to put on a record. I turned the selector knob on my Audio Note OTO to “phono”, which is to the left of “cd” and no sound. I thought maybe it was a dirty contact, so I turned the selector back to cd and then to “aux” in hopes of cleaning the switch. Lo and behold- the record played on “aux”!  Impossible. An aux input doesn’t have enough gain for a phono cartridge, but there it was. I called my dealer and he said to bring it in on Monday. OK. Later that day I decided to try again and I realized something. The selector on the OTO is on the bottom of the knob, so turning the knob to the left towards “phono” is actually moving the indicator on the bottom to the right towards “aux”.  Turning the knob to the right towards “aux” moves the selector on the bottom to the left to “phono”.  I’ve owned this amp for 2 years and I just forgot. As I said- WHAT A DRAG IT IS GETTING OLD.  

chayro
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gents
124 posts
 

"Old is actually when it is too hard to play an LP in the first place".

For $20, What is...what you find turning the corner of 64?

helomech
1,850 posts
 

I am only approaching “mid life” (whatever that means) years, but I occasionally have moments like this. It’s funny though, it was much worse a few years back when I wasn’t taking good care of my health. It helps that are brains are rather 
malleable, even as we get up there in years. Creatine and Vitamin D supplementation works wonders. 

mrdecibel
3,174 posts
 

The ability of moving heavy objects, such as speakers and power amplifiers, that at one time, was easy....not any morecrying

mrkrichman
10 posts
 

How About Trying to run a Music signal thru a Power Amp that isn't plugged into the AC outlet. Since the Power Amp Pilot light LED burned out a month before and you had it on your to Do List but later forgot you were going to do it and had unplugged it the month before but never did it.

Then one day You decide to Listen to some "Pink Floyd" and everything is on (YouThink) and for 20 minutes you play with all the knobs and switches to make it work. 

Then you light up a cigar and sit back in frustration and some Neuron in your brain finally connects and your realize I better check the rest of my body parts to make sure there still there and then plug in the Amp

davetherave11
7 posts
 

The beauty of being 68 is that your speakers don't have to go up to 20 kilohertz.

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