Recent content by 62vauxhall

And for after the friendship blossoms.

Yesterday I crossed the border to get a package at a US mail and package depot I have an account with. Normally, it has been one of two border officers in attendance. Both were pleasing to interact with. Whoever was there yesterday, was new to me. And what a dick! He certainly enjoyed his...

I had a look inside the 23** (something, something) that a friend bought just after he got it around 2010. 130-ish watts per channel. There was only a single large cap inside that one but it had two layers. Despite that, not of a very impressive size. That pretty much summed up my...

In the early '70's a friend going to university was involved with putting a mens floor hockey team together. There was already a women's team. His suggestion for the team's name was the Nads. The objective being that if the men's team ever played the women's team, men's team supporters...

In case your 5300 shares the same transport as my 5100, I'll be following your investigation of the drawer switch. With my 5100, the drawer opens after I push the switch but retracts again immediatly afterwards. It takes 3 to 5 attempts before the drawer stays open. And once it does stay...

If I cleaned out my bank account, I'd stll be some thousands short for that one.

The exact same thing happened 10 or so years ago when I took a very well packaged TEAC open reel deck to FedEx for shipping. It was going from Vancouver, BC to Montreal, Quebec. I asked for some "Fragile" stickers and was that told they no longer provide them. The clerk said that the reason...

When it was being broadcast on TV, I did not watch a single episode of House. I couldn't think of Hugh Laurie as any character other than George in Blackadder which I was addicted to. Several years later, I binge watched every episode of House on Netflix. There were severeal scenes in...

A quarter of a century went by fast.

Just reviewed the order I placed last April. Seems what I got are non-inductive. Was also off on my itemized costs so bottom line was almost $40 but not $40.

When I replaced the old bi-polar electrolytics with film capacitors, I ordered 2 new 2.7 ohm cerment resistor from the same vendor. I did not go for a wirewound at that time due to cost. I had been posting on the vintage speaker page of the Polk Audio Forum to learn where the new generation...

I thought it was a pair of Monitor 5jr+ that I bought from a garage sale last year. I could not pass up the $2 asking price. During my first two or three years with a large audio retailer, Polk was that company's best selling speaker line. I was particularly fond back then of the 5jr+ and...

Did the 701 come from Nick?

I read a book last winter when housesitting a friend's place called Salt - A World History by mark Kurlansky. I had minimal expectations from what I presumed would be a dull subject. But it was the most facinating read I've had in a good long while. That salt mine in Germany was discussed in...