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Re: Piecing the audio lab together. Got my first small win, test equipment-wise. Found, ordered, arrived, opened up for careful visual inspection, cleaned/polished scratches off of paint & clear lexan face, ready for duty. Without further ado, here's a sequence of thumbnails showing you a...

Ha - Made you look! :0) I had to count them out anyway, so I figured why not make it into a visual mnemonic so that I couldn't forget that they're already in house? I hate flimsy, for I'm the one where stuff wants to get all twisted up, even though I use a torque wrench religiously. (Got...

Hey Lee, Good news -- your box arrived this afternoon! I performed a checksum against the transmitted packet -- 0 bits were missing! Better yet, TO-3 bases were counted into bags & we're 1 step closer towards the finish line. That was quick -- this discussion started just over a week...

I was looking at the photos you put up, and that lighting *is* impressive! The mistakes always lurk in the shadows, while the repairs are easily seen on the brightly lit operating table! - Nice -

To build on your comment, if you followed the link I embedded the price of admission was very fair -- I did the entire kitchen essentially with a single kit for <$60! For the workshop I'm planning on buying (2) kits, and keeping whatever I don't implement immediately as in-house spares. NOTE...

J!m, You are so on target with your lighting comments! For example, when I moved here last year, everything was perfect except for the lighting in the kitchen. It was dark with what was in the joint, so I first upped the lumens coming from the existing ceiling fixture. (safely w/quality LED...

That last photo -- man, these amps has a nice look even when powered down...but equipment looks soooo much better when it's powered up & live. Here's a tune that's apprapos for this moment: "Light up and be happy sweet, sweet sounds will fill the air!" Congrats on all light, but no smoke...

Joe, You are bringing back a lot of memories! In class I would explain that these machines were going into the "You Bet Your Business" mainframe/server arena. And if you 'fixed' a system that was crashing every 5 hours, and now it was crashing every 5 days to 5 weeks, you had actually managed...

Great point! Back in the early '80s mother DEC managed to figure out that as they souped up the clock speeds & started shrinking the logic gates, that everyone touching these new, faster, spendy logic modules were either weakening or outright blowing the logic gates with uncontrolled static. I...

That's a great tip! This is *exactly* the kind of input I'm looking for! To be honest I have vacillated between calling the repurposed room an electronics lab, project workspace, or mental health spa/sanatorium . :0) Of course I'd like to make my electricity hero (Nikola Tesla) proud, but as...

Actually, this sounds like a reasonable solution -- especially if you have a sign (on the inside of the top cover / or even on top of the top cover, 'Fear This' style ) to tell anyone going in something to the effect that "Please wait 6+ minutes for lethal voltages to dissipate BEFORE...

No worries -- where I'm living this is a well-worn path, & nobody will notice. (Thinking of our ex-governor & his little brother as {former} CNN lead Big Brother cheerleader.) "Would you like some fries with that self-aggrandizement, Guv"? :0)

OK, for the handful of Tone Warriors following along, last night I introduced myself to the PL 400 S2 amp that I'm going to use as my 'proof of concept' for taking my vintage Phase Linear gear & making it better instead of worse. It's going to get the honor of not only debugging the electronics...

Lee, my reading assignment is pretty much this entire forum...and in particular, reading for comprehension when Gepetto holds forth. :0) Anyway, thanks for the pointer -- haven't seen it yet, but will track it down next! At this point, just as soon as I figure out the shopping list, I want to...

Greetings rollcentre, I'm reading through your thread, and I'm shaking my head up & down while reading your comments amount how the Watkins woofers sound so alive on PL gear. (I have a set of QLS-1s upgraded from the original paper/pulp to the newer Polypropylene Watkins woofers) The best way...

Sir, that is simply the clearest, most concise overview about the +'s & -'s of quasi vs. fully complementary PL output stages I've read anywhere. **** You know, at one time I used to hate spending money with any body shop. I would listen to what they promised, discount by a factor of 2, hold...

Triple D here, thanks for the words of encouragement! Listen, since you are to the WOPL / fully complementary D500 as Edmund Hillary is to Everest, I'm hoping that you will take your hard-won experience & will be right over my shoulder guiding me to the summit! :0) The last time I was on the...

Lee, given that I'm proposing to take 2 scopes (+ new caps) and make 1 good one out of them, I was hoping to find a quality troubleshooting guide. Good news -- here's a period-correct Tek troubleshooting manual. I skimmed through it -- looks very informative. NOTE: If anyone out there has...

Yes, Indeed -- I fully subscribe to this philosophy: We are in violent agreement -- keep it coming! :0)

To finish this up, I (of course) paid immediately after winning the auction...and then, to help prime the pump, I sent the following message to the seller: To which he replied shortly thereafter: Given the above, I'm cautiously optimistic. (!) Please send positive vibes in the general...