knittersspouse
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| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening @paqua123 I heartily concur. Back in 1980, I came across a shop in Ft. Wayne called The Tinder Box where I met Leonardo. We spent many relaxing evenings on motel verandas around the Midwest as I traveled 50,000 miles a year by car across 9 st... | |
| Did I Expect too much? Parts cost vs. total item selling price is always a black art. Back in the early '70's, I was a salesman in a small but decent audio shop. One of the perks was the discount offered to guys like me by manufacturers - want to know a product better... | |
| Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity? What’s really important to someone who enjoys audio? - Here's some perspective. I'll be 80 all too soon, and tomorrow I will be spending a few grand on a couple of hearing aids. When I am not enjoying my Sennheiser cans I will use these new aids... | |
| Dealer selling B stock doesn't tell customers If something is an electrical product and has been through QC testing even once, then it is the equivalent of "B" stock in most ways that matter. I'm not someone who is overly concerned by product appearance because between kids and pets I tend ... | |
| A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks Re: the post by Chuck and also attributed to The Absolute Sound. I might have a suggestion for those folks in the position of building a new home: When I renovated my home and upsized 49.9% (a limit to avoid immediate reassessment) we changed o... | |
| LoFi At one point in this string the OP said: "I’m trying to find the problem. The best guess is that I have a tube that went bad in my preamp" I have the same problem, but since my audiologist says it is not my hammer, anvil or stirrup I may have... | |
| 2025 Audio System Wish List Time! My goal for 2025 is to convince my wife to leave the glass doors over the speakers in our home theater console OPEN when listening to something! | |
| Realistically Speaking..... Ah, memories from the early '70's... I remember selling and buying these - a solid sell that NEVER came back to haunt me. Some of the special features were the “glide path” volume controls which featured dual pots for each slider so that lo... | |
| 15 amp circuit VS. 20 amp Circuit Some good comments above from some quite knowledgeable folks - nice to see and is why I like to frequent this forum. I agree that adding a couple of dedicated 20A circuits with 10-12 AWG wire should do it _ IF the in-wall wiring back to the brea... | |
| Using a power strip in an old home that was build back in 1955 @MickeyB et. al. Comment 1: Spring for a < $20 receptacle tester to find out what you really have at each outlet before you do much of anything else. It should have 3 lights to tell you if the outlet is wired correctly and also if ther... | |
| No More Fake Reviews - So Who’s Gonna Tell Us What To Buy? I may be wrong, but my guess is this is an attempt to weed out the 4,217 positive reviews tomorrows' newly introduced gadget gets on the day of introduction, all posted by bots from different IP addresses in the first few hours the product has exi... | |
| AI-Written Stereophile Articles I feel your pain... Years ago (before starting my own business in the 90's) I was a publications writer and editor for a division of a large corporation. I got the job because every pub they issued I would mark up with all the errors they had mad... | |
| 1990 Radio Shack catalog Nostalgia for a record brush: Radio Shack in the 90's and later was not the "Shack" of the 60's and 70's. I worked as an Assistant Manager in the late 60's when Charles Tandy took over and cleaned out any managers that were not White Christians... | |
| How do I discharge the capacitors in my PS audio P20 ? Cleeds, et. al. - I don't know if there is any standby power battery in the described device, but if the unit has been unplugged from the wall, ANDS REMAINS UNPLUGGED, I am not sure where the power is coming from to recharge the capacitors when ... | |
| When did you last update your Wifi firmware? I have 4 Asus XT8 mesh routers, set to auto-update both firmware and security patches. Nothing was current until I manually updated them 2 days ago in response to an article on TheHackerNews.com. Disappointed. Routers bought in '21, last update... |