bob540
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| Why is There Not More Consolidation in Audio? Some very good responses. Since posing these questions, I happened upon a site that lists now-defunct electronics companies. There are many more than I realized, and few that I ever knew about. So, as others said, the history of audio businesses... | |
| Charity store bin diving? Am I the only one that suffers this addiction? I have had relatives tell me about nice clothes they found at Goodwill, but I seldom ever went there, and especially not for electronics. Same with pawn shops. I assumed that any equipment at such places had lived a hard life. Now, had I known ... | |
| Happy Scale Maybe it’s why the teen years are called “The Wonder Years” — so many firsts, so many milestones, life as adventure.Then we get a bit older and get regimented into work and family and the exciting things we thought might be in our future become ra... | |
| Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?.... On my local Craigslist, I saw a listing for a NAD tuner, 4225 if I recall correctly. I looked it up and it is about 30 years old now. I think they are asking $400 for it. I’m not sure if that is a reasonable price??I don’t have a tuner and not s... | |
| Visiting audio stores? What I see amongst my neighbors is checking on each other and offering help. Too bad our media and government don’t take the same approach of “how can we help and encourage” instead of “who is most to blame for this mess?!” I haven’t seen anyt... | |
| So many drivers.....better sound or just more sound? 2 and 1/2 way speakers? What is the 1/2? | |
| Power Amplifier Longevity I know nothing about electronics, but a couple of months ago I gave the Sony AV receiver I bought new in 1991 to my nephew to use, along with similar vintage Jensen speakers rated at 8 ohms. Before I gave it to him, I looked inside and cleaned it... | |
| So many drivers.....better sound or just more sound? Correction: The drivers are 2.5 inches, not 4. | |
| So many drivers.....better sound or just more sound? Parts Express/Dayton Audio has a speaker kit (also available as a finished product) that features an arcing array of 4 inch drivers. I wondered what the advantage of all these little drivers could be, but it might be as millercarbon noted, that s... | |
| Whatta Ya Think About Hsu Research Subwoofers? I will try that, thanks | |
| Keep noise creators outside your clean power zone Wow, I guess you could say that my whole life is cluttered (I blame my mother, who always told me, “Save everything. You never know when it will come in handy!” . . . . “Yes, Mother”. It was my father who showed me that saving too much, such th... | |
| What other Hobbies or Interests Do You Have? I’m an internet junkie — discussion forums, repair videos of cars and electronics, music, current events, FacebookHome repairs, both at my rehab home and a rental property I co-ownExercise, I don’t have the knees to jog anymore, but I enjoying bik... | |
| Keep noise creators outside your clean power zone This makes me think of the guy who commented here, after seeing my set-up, that I had too much cluttered together. I took that as meaning the clutter was visually unsettling, but having read Erik’s comment, I’m thinking now that he might have bee... | |
| Whatta Ya Think About Hsu Research Subwoofers? Tim, I saw that you mentioned the “crawl method” for determining best position for subs. Does that involve moving the subs a little at a time and listening to the sound each time? i.e., being on my knees crawling about with them til I find the sw... | |
| Just curious — Crown xls 5202 amplifier I read that the amp is Class D, but I don’t know how they get such power generated from such sparse innards (when compared to my Parasound A21, for example, which is rated at 250 watts RMS into 8 ohms). |