I long for the good old days, when a big red power switch, or full counterclockwise rotation of a volume knob, shut everything off, entirely. Power switches today are merely suggestions.

Are wall warts on the sine wave? How many of you keep the wall wart when the accompanying appliance is tossed? I do, and now have a large box full of them. Never before has any wall wart exited the box to have a second life, but recently my daughter’s musical keyboard suffered a wall wart...

You are bravely treading on hallowed ground. I neither agree nor disagree. I’m just pointing out that the mob with their pitchforks might come for you. I’m not a psychologist. I have set up both the Hafler four channel simulation and the Paul Klipsch phantom middle channel. I liked both but did...

I listen to CD’s when I can. I rip all my CD’s to both FLAC’s and to very high res MP3’s. I could A/B them to each other or to CD’s but I’m unmotivated. I listen to the CD’s in my music room and to the files in the car or hotel rooms or my kitchen. If others find CD’s more audibly appealing I am...

Roland is one of my favorite songs/characters.

Four college roommates (circa 1978 or 1979) had a joint checking account to pay our common bills. Two of us were insane Zevon fans. Our checks had the name “Excitable Boys” emblazoned on them. We two Zevon fans had suggested “Werewolves of London” but that shocked our two milder roommates. They...

Les Paul, at home. His wife looks on approvingly. Some of you guys are pretty jealous right now.

I’m taking bongo lessons over the internet from a man in Columbia.

My wife refused to eat Cincinnati Chili for ten years after moving to the Cincinnati environs. She eventually succumbed. Nothing about the spices or flavors disagreed with her, but the name turned her off, it was "NOT chili!" She refuses to eat blood oranges because of the name as well, if they...

I found a lot of recipes for this previously unknown (to me) condiment. If I do not see it in Alabama I will attempt to create it. When I eat BBQ it is always pigs or cows, birds will be a new experience. I did smoke a turkey once but ate it without sauce, and with a more conventional tomato...

I once heard that BBQ is the only American food that follows the European model - there are regional variations. I have personally argued that Italians invented pizza but Americans (Italian Americans, but Americans still) made it a billion dollar industry.

I’ve been to Alabama a few times and even ate BBQ. I never ran into the white sauce. I’ll be there again in late April. How do I find this white sauce? What oddball sides should I seek out?

Meaning URD without the CD drive? My memory is that he said, "Possible" but did not seem really excited about it.

My late sister-in-law lived in Charlotte. I always enjoyed visiting. I also spent a lot of time (for work) in Raleigh-Durham. Both great towns. The Charlotte drivers scared me, I eventually realized that their role model was Richard Petty.

TLDR A friend in high school had one of these Cudas, white, with a massive CB antenna mount on the rear bumper. It snowed and the public parks were not plowed. He tied a 1" diameter rope to the antenna mount and pulled several of us, on sleds, through the twisting park roads. The spinning rear...

I have a ResMed 10. I have never used anything else but I can testify that it works well for helping me sleep, and my wife will tell you that it stops snoring. I found an amazing side benefit of a CPA machine - I can take power naps. I have napped for as little as 20 minutes, and at any time of...

This was my thought. The key board is expensive enough that the two speakers might have cost as much as $4.50 each😊. But perhaps not.

Perhaps a silly question: my daughter bought an electronic keyboard (musical, not computer). It has built in speakers and so (obviously) an amplifier. It has “line out” jacks as well. Could the line out jacks be routed through a Saga or Vali and then to a Vidar? I don’t want to hurt anything...

I only hate styrofoam cups. Eeeeew!

I was gone for a few days and began reading this thread from the end backwards. I thought you were putting holes for whiskey glasses into the tops of tube amplifiers. It seemed a step too far, to me.

I have those speakers. They are excellent near field. The larger RP600M’s fill a room better. Heresy even better. But on a desk the 50’s are great. Yes I have too many Klipsch speakers. Currently looking at Cornwalls.

I have a Vali 2+ that is built for the smaller 9-pin tubes and a Lyr 3. The Vali 2+ sounds better with an adapter and a 6SN7. So I never tried the opposite - a smaller tube in the Lyr 3. Just my probably inexpert opinion. I listen to a lot of Frank Sinatra - he recorded on an actual stage with...

I’m a mechanical engineer, in a prior life I used to wire houses. I now test non-audio stuff. I rub shoulders with electrical engineers. Some of those EE’s care about tiny signals in tiny wires. Some of them want huge charges (real honest lightning) to get the heck out of their stuff, without...

I admire your honesty (you do not like Onkyo, but you do not proclaim them "wrong.") I did not bother to check but I will bet Onkyo makes some product's that measure well. Still I will fight (only on the internet) for your right to dislike them.

I have been inside a lot of electronica in my day but I cannot tell what is going on there...