ibmjunkman
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| Is Recording quality the real culprit? Your Can't Polish A Turd But you can. https://youtu.be/yiJ9fy1qSFI | |
| If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it? Rick Beato takes. https://youtu.be/zbo6SdyWGns https://youtube.com/shorts/Tq5zfDyQL5k | |
| A Sanely Priced Power Conditioner That Actually Works - OnFilter PDU A link like this would have been nice. https://www.onfilter.com/filtered-pdu And this site put an ad over the right side of your chart that moved with it and could not be eliminated. | |
| Shorting plugs Without a center pin how do the RCA plugs actually electrically short anything? That would just be a dust cap. | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? Signal source. Garbage In, Garbage Out. | |
| Speaker Slip Covers In the late 60s my JBL Dorian S12s needed protection from our cat. That was the days of clear vinyl sofa protectors. Ask your grandmother. 😊 I went to a local slipcover maker and had them make 2 flat bottom bags whose inside dimensions were just ... | |
| Do you past equipment appear in your dreams? I still have my past equipment. 😊 | |
| Suggestions for testing a never installed, 20-year boxed amp. Before I powered up my long dormant Pioneer SX-1050 I found a current limiting device on eBay. It used a light bulb to someone limit current. It powered up OK. I then used a multimeter to check for DC on the speaker terminals. Luckily there was no... | |
| Favorite moment with music in your car. Late 1998. My client in Italy gave me a new company car. Audi R4. I had a music system installed. One ZZ Top song had such low bass it gave me goosebumps. Had more impact than my JBL L222 Disco towers at home. | |
| how to remove a woofer from b@w801n Thousands of dollars for interconnects, power cables and speaker cables and the expensive sound unceremoniously goes through a 5 cent crimp on connector. 😊 | |
| How can I measure the noise on my AC mains with a 2ch oscilloscope? If only Edison had won the power war. We would have DC direct from the wall outlet. 😊 | |
| Napping while listening I have a custom mix CD of Elton John I play when I go to bed. If I am not asleep by the 5th song I get up and watch TV for a bit. | |
| blast from the past www.ibmjunkman.com | |
| blast from the past Now that you mention it I am not sure why I had them. I used to have 30+ years of records but trashed a few decades when I moved 6 years ago. I started my punch card website 15 years ago. The only thing I can think of is I previously did a culling... | |
| Classical Record Collection Needs New Home I donated my Dad’s vinyl to my county’s symphony orchestra. They have regular auctions to raise money. People win a 78, keep it for a while then donate back. |