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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...

I have yet to read any Kris Kristofferson tribute mention him being in Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea. It was the only Kris Kristofferson movie I saw and that had everything to do with the Playboy pictoral of him and Sarah Miles.

I did not realize that song was covered by anyone else. The Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is one of few albums that I can honestly say is one of my favorites. I have owned my vinyl copy (not an original release) since the early 1970's and have played it uncountable times. Eventually I...

Thanks Glen. Happy that you cleared up my imagined, assumed problem.

I'm going from memory (which should not be trusted) of a past experience. If a schematic shows voltage at large filter caps as 42 volts but with those filter caps removed, 52 volts is measured....is that expected?

I am going with the flow on this one. Over the past two days, I google searched a number of terms and power switch failure was commonly cited as the source of problems with multiple Kenwood, Pioneer and Marantz models. This Kenwood I have is model KR6030 and the power switch is located at the...

Is your triac a production part and available to purchase? There was too much infomation (or too many posts) contained in that AK thread for me to comprehend. I happened across a mid 1970's 80WPC Kenwood receiver a few days ago which exhibits a behavior that is reportedly a symptom of...

Jeez, next thing you guys are going to say is that those 3000 watt complete home theatre in a box systems for $299 weren't really 3000 watts.

I quite agree. I lost interest in Pink Floyd after Meddle. I was given DSOTM and The Wall as presents but only played them if someone visiting me wanted to hear them. Other than it's existence, I knew nothing about Obscured by Clouds until a couple of years ago when I found a copy, flipping...