@hilde45 , Thanks for sharing your experience, as a novice I greatly appreciate what you share and how respectful you are. Also having taken the time to PM you, I have appreciated your advise and look forward to meeting you when I visit family in your area. Also since my son received my vintage Marantz I'm sure I'll be seeking assistance with locating a good tech for a rebuild. To the Poo Butts that throw negativity constantly , Would you act this way in person? And to all of you, God Bless and have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Happy Listening , Mike.
Great experience with audio society and local tech
I'm in the process of having an amp upgraded with new caps, etc. But perhaps the best thing that's come out of this so far is getting to know my local tech a bit. I spent a wonderful two hours with him yesterday; parts and amps everywhere, tubes of many varieties, rebuilt and one of a kind gear, and stories of personal, audio-related interactions with great designers — Kara of deHavilland, Fritz of Fritz speakers, Earl Geddes, Dan Modwright, Duke LeJeune, and many more. We talked amps, subwoofers, caps, speakers, subs, room acoustics, and more.
I'd not have known about this great guy if I had not joined my local audio society. Personal contact and conversation has provided me with a path beyond conversations about brand names (unavoidably) idiosyncratic listenening reportage. Many of you know this already, so I'm sharing this for newer folks. Work the grapevine, find the grapes.
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Same in the Bay Area. There are groups you literally have to be referred to get an audience. Then, there is a vetting process by the rest of the group. Some are very nice some are pure eitist. If you don’t have anything to offer and just want to learn, and invitation is a great sign of what your peers actually think about YOU. A lot of the real techy types are usually Ham radio, heavy RC stuff, model railroaders and of course stereo buffs.. None of them make a living at their hobbies, that I know of. A lot of them work at the local labs in SV, Propulsion lab, Stanford and 50 others.. You all most need a securiety clearence to get into the club.. Some of these groups the patrons keep ice on their brain just to keep them from overheating.. :-) Chicken feedin’ doesn’t come up too often either.. the subjet of dogs do. I tend to lean toward the Stereo Terrier Groups. They had really good groups in Oakland and San Francisco, but the whole group got stolen. They didn’t restart new ones. :-( Regards |
@oldhvymec this is exactly what I've been curious about. Im not sure if I can be dedicated enough to make a meet once a week and a few dealers I've done with in the Bay Area we're completely off-putting, so I could imagine how snoody groups could be. I might have to do some further research. |
hilde45:
Are you having the power amps upgraded or the preamp?
From your last OP on the QS's I learned of the TDK volume pots, and if you end up installing one I'm interested in your take (VS the ALPS that I assume is stock).
Also - perhaps a Star-Lord mix tape would be fun for the next time the group gets together as I understand that he hails from Colorado?
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