It was a somewhat jumbled question, in terms of temporal or time frames /organizantion..
To be clear I used to look inside of everything I owned just for the fun of it when I first started out 33 years ago.
Then the big hiatus for me while persuing a career, kept all my stuff. All of it kept on working replaced a stylus added a cd player etc. but fundamentally the same. all is good right? No of course not! My amp dies and the my stero shop just "round the corner " left town a decade ago. Big Box was All I could find. I bought a Pioneeer reveiver still only 2 channel with an incredible- by my old standads-120 wpc only to find it clipped and threw a relay with every Freebird crescendo.
At forty one or two Enters a student of mine tells me you need current not just watts(he posts here as sufentil) And I get introduced to a guy name Joe Trelli. The hobby is now called high end and my peering under the hood stops. Except for speakers which I admit I still am as clueless as I was when I pointed that out in the first post.
The only time I look now to do the car thing. I look hoplessly, well not totally, into a box stuffed with electronic parts hoping to isolate the problem. Just feeling better knowinw what general area needs attention.
I still don't solder, I have the iron but no courage. I even have a voltmeter still in its Rat shack blister pack. I have not looked under any of my functioning units that were broken that I manmagede to get going again.
Go on- I am sure there are a few more true confessions sans porno references thank you.
To be clear I used to look inside of everything I owned just for the fun of it when I first started out 33 years ago.
Then the big hiatus for me while persuing a career, kept all my stuff. All of it kept on working replaced a stylus added a cd player etc. but fundamentally the same. all is good right? No of course not! My amp dies and the my stero shop just "round the corner " left town a decade ago. Big Box was All I could find. I bought a Pioneeer reveiver still only 2 channel with an incredible- by my old standads-120 wpc only to find it clipped and threw a relay with every Freebird crescendo.
At forty one or two Enters a student of mine tells me you need current not just watts(he posts here as sufentil) And I get introduced to a guy name Joe Trelli. The hobby is now called high end and my peering under the hood stops. Except for speakers which I admit I still am as clueless as I was when I pointed that out in the first post.
The only time I look now to do the car thing. I look hoplessly, well not totally, into a box stuffed with electronic parts hoping to isolate the problem. Just feeling better knowinw what general area needs attention.
I still don't solder, I have the iron but no courage. I even have a voltmeter still in its Rat shack blister pack. I have not looked under any of my functioning units that were broken that I manmagede to get going again.
Go on- I am sure there are a few more true confessions sans porno references thank you.