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Nando,
Gordon has the 4th Edition Spec Bible. With the 5th Edition in 2008, it was expanded to 394 total pages. I have for the last few years been planning to do a complete rework of the database for some other uses. There were no plans to do another updated edition. I would begin doing various things with our data format, then have to stop and start over because....
.... some additions, some minor corrections, etc continued to be made which rendered my work wasted time and I would have to start over. Eventually I stopped working on the data format changes until a final decision would be made that once and for all, it was finished. So anyway, the "unpublished" 6th Edition now stands at 414 pages. No final decision was immediately pending about whether to actually make it available because of various reasons, but mostly because it is too big, too time consuming to produce, too expensive, and not very profitable. And plus in recent years they have not sold in enough quantity to need to make a decision.
As fate would have it, a decision is now pending and will most likely be made in April whether or not to produce a printed 6th Edition. I can tell you that no further additions or corrections will be made to it after April. After the decision day, then I will as time allows begin a long tedious process of converting it's format so that I can more easily use the data it contains for some other purposes.
If you will contact me via email, I can let you know better what I am talking about.
rick.stereomanuals@gmail.com
Gordon has the 4th Edition Spec Bible. With the 5th Edition in 2008, it was expanded to 394 total pages. I have for the last few years been planning to do a complete rework of the database for some other uses. There were no plans to do another updated edition. I would begin doing various things with our data format, then have to stop and start over because....
.... some additions, some minor corrections, etc continued to be made which rendered my work wasted time and I would have to start over. Eventually I stopped working on the data format changes until a final decision would be made that once and for all, it was finished. So anyway, the "unpublished" 6th Edition now stands at 414 pages. No final decision was immediately pending about whether to actually make it available because of various reasons, but mostly because it is too big, too time consuming to produce, too expensive, and not very profitable. And plus in recent years they have not sold in enough quantity to need to make a decision.
As fate would have it, a decision is now pending and will most likely be made in April whether or not to produce a printed 6th Edition. I can tell you that no further additions or corrections will be made to it after April. After the decision day, then I will as time allows begin a long tedious process of converting it's format so that I can more easily use the data it contains for some other purposes.
If you will contact me via email, I can let you know better what I am talking about.
rick.stereomanuals@gmail.com
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I got the bug when Dad built a solid state heathkit around 1962, loved the "Hi-Fi" aspect. Damn sight better than radio. Spent my summers on the farm in Wheatland , Wy while living in Riverside Cal during the rest of the year. One thing that stands out was late at night KOMA, Okahoma City could be heard anywhere. I noticed the hotties always gravitated to the finest sound systems. After graduating hi school had a scholarship to play college basketball. Destroyed my right knee the third week of practice so off to the oilfields to seek my fame and fortune.
The first chance I had, after saving a pocket full of money was paying cash for a Spec 1, 2, Sg9500, RG-1, A denon DP-1500 turntable, with an Infinity Black Widow Tone arm and an ADC " Astrion" cart. Soon after was a Teac 4300. I now knew the real meanong of "Hi-Fi'. The Kornerhorns were the icing on the cake. The real Klipsch at the time. Today I have K-Clones that I built with a 7" skilsaw and a straightedge and some clamps. Drug this system all over 4 states chasing the boom. And that system was a pussy magnet. My Dad had often told me, " Son , don't be afraid to buy the best, you'll never regret it ". And he was right. Worked my ass off for that system, hell, even quit dope till I had saved up enough. And it's true, never regretted it.
In Wyoming exposure to high end stuff was limited, and until the internet I thought I was a dying breed, stuck in 70's music with 70's gear. Little did I know how cool i had been all along. For me Rick, my buying spree was to have spares so I didn't have to worry about not having this beautifully crafted equipment built to last more than my lifetime. That was the main motivation for learning how to fix it, if all the old techs died and no new ones were mentored, at least i had a fighting chance of keeping it going. Having a good tunebox defined our generation to a degree and myself to a much greater extent. I love being physically assaulted by the twist of a knob--- A Hi Fidelity knob no less. Once in awhile as history and the throw away mentality march on, there will be throwbacks to this kind of quality and a true appreciating of it. Whether or not that translates to a comfortable living for you and yours remains to be seen. I for one will promote and support the manual guys, and you in particular, because some day, sometime, somewhere, you will have the only one......
The first chance I had, after saving a pocket full of money was paying cash for a Spec 1, 2, Sg9500, RG-1, A denon DP-1500 turntable, with an Infinity Black Widow Tone arm and an ADC " Astrion" cart. Soon after was a Teac 4300. I now knew the real meanong of "Hi-Fi'. The Kornerhorns were the icing on the cake. The real Klipsch at the time. Today I have K-Clones that I built with a 7" skilsaw and a straightedge and some clamps. Drug this system all over 4 states chasing the boom. And that system was a pussy magnet. My Dad had often told me, " Son , don't be afraid to buy the best, you'll never regret it ". And he was right. Worked my ass off for that system, hell, even quit dope till I had saved up enough. And it's true, never regretted it.
In Wyoming exposure to high end stuff was limited, and until the internet I thought I was a dying breed, stuck in 70's music with 70's gear. Little did I know how cool i had been all along. For me Rick, my buying spree was to have spares so I didn't have to worry about not having this beautifully crafted equipment built to last more than my lifetime. That was the main motivation for learning how to fix it, if all the old techs died and no new ones were mentored, at least i had a fighting chance of keeping it going. Having a good tunebox defined our generation to a degree and myself to a much greater extent. I love being physically assaulted by the twist of a knob--- A Hi Fidelity knob no less. Once in awhile as history and the throw away mentality march on, there will be throwbacks to this kind of quality and a true appreciating of it. Whether or not that translates to a comfortable living for you and yours remains to be seen. I for one will promote and support the manual guys, and you in particular, because some day, sometime, somewhere, you will have the only one......