• Re: When everything is di

    From Cougar428@VERT/CJSPLACE to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wed Mar 1 07:09:00 2023
    Quoting Poindexter Fortran to Nightfox <=-

    Nightfox wrote to Gallaxial <=-

    I disagree that records sound better than other formats.. But that's a debate of its own.

    Let's talk about the "loudness wars" if we're going to get into which format sounds better. I'm now actively avoiding any CD that's been remastered since 2010 or so, because it's remixed to sound better
    through cheap earbuds. When I compare an older CD with the remaster (bought the remaster to get some additional tracks not on the original release) the remaster sounds *muddy* and loud.

    Kids these days. They're missing out.

    Oh... Dissapointed... Thought you were going to start a 'stereo
    war'. My Sansui 9090db is better than your Technics junk! I was in
    the army in the 80's and every room had a state of the loudness
    stereo system in it. Those were the days...

    Cougar

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  • From Nopants@VERT/CITBBS to Cougar428 on Thu Mar 2 08:00:00 2023
    Re: Re: When everything is di
    By: Cougar428 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wed Mar 01 2023 07:09 am

    Let's talk about the "loudness wars" if we're going to get into which
    war'. My Sansui 9090db is better than your Technics junk! I was in

    My approch has been to use digital files (high quality mp3 or flac) and a good stereo/speaker combo from the 70s. When the 80s came around and stereos went all electronic, it took them awhile to regain quality of tube amps from the 60's and 70's. So yeah, my Dynaco is better than your Sansui from the 80s :).

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Cougar428 on Thu Mar 2 05:42:00 2023
    Cougar428 wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

    Oh... Dissapointed... Thought you were going to start a 'stereo
    war'. My Sansui 9090db is better than your Technics junk!

    Technics? Pah! My Harmon Kardon 330b would have something to say about
    that.

    I was given it when my mom moved out of the house I grew up in, I even
    have all of the documentation from when they bought it in the 1970s.

    https://classicreceivers.com/harman-kardon-330b





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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Mar 2 20:49:00 2023
    Hello pF!

    Technics? Pah! My Harmon Kardon 330b would have something to say about
    that.

    I was given it when my mom moved out of the house I grew up in, I even
    have all of the documentation from when they bought it in the 1970s.

    https://classicreceivers.com/harman-kardon-330b

    No problem with the pots and switches after all these years?

    My folks acquired a Clairtone + Gerrard turnable cabinet.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairtone

    I can't find the actual photo of the receiver, but it was
    loaded with all kinds of special options such as bass-boost,
    treble boost, flipping L-R audio channels, re-directing the
    phono output to one channel and having the radio on the other,
    etc.

    I think it was around 1962 when I was still pre-school age when
    was allowed to operate it. The unit still served well into the
    late 70's. But by then, some of the switches started to not
    cooperate, and the tuner was having issues.

    The first issue it developed was a grounding hum. A couple of
    large capacitors had dried up. With the help of an
    electronics/shop highschool teacher, the capacitors were
    replaced successfully.

    But the switches deteriorated soon after.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Ogg on Fri Mar 3 05:55:00 2023
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    No problem with the pots and switches after all these years?

    There's a little crackle here and there when turning one of the knobs,
    but otherwise no.


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