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    Onkyo TX 8500- any love there??

    I know it's literally decades since the thread has been active, but I had one of these from about 1988 - 2000. I loved it. I got it at a pawn shop for $100. and I ran it through a pair of Infinity RS4b's . It also had a tuning string which wasn't broken it was just very stiff and if you went...
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    Advent "Laureate", anyone own them?

    Still enjoying mine!
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    Reducing Background Noise On My Records

    Buy CD's. There. Problem solved. Heh...heh.
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    Black Sabbath - The End

    While Sabs were ONE of the first "heavy Metal" bands, I think the MC5 predated them by a couple years. "Kick Out the Jams" was 68 and MC5 had been around a couple years.
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    B & W Pics

    My Dad did this using a mask. It's from the local prison cemetery.
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    Critters

    Our neighborhood is lousy with Opossums. My "man cave" is a converted porch with a flat roof. I can her the little varmints up there, along with raccoons, squirrils, etc. ,
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    Pictures of Cats on Audio Gear

    Noodle, sittin on the sub!
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    Teach me about the pros/cons of a dedicated Preamp and power amp over an integrated

    Rotel RTC-940AX Tuner/preamp Rotel RB-971 power amp. $60 on Craig's List. Later I can get a bigger amp.
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    Any old farts remember synchronized slide shows?

    When I was a sophmore in 1977, some guys slipped LSD into my lunch. It kicked in about 10 minutes into one of those filmstrips in a shop class. ("The World of Work"). The slides REALLY "Tracked" when changing and the "Beep" was a BwowWOW wowow" . It was an interesting afternoon to be sure...
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    Caught a UFO on Camera

    CLEARLY It's a balloon, (video would have helped) and the stuff that passes the ISS is just that. "stuff". Meteors and human space junk.
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    Critters

    My wife feeds stray cats on our porch. Sometime we get different "kitties".
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    I have been shocked!

    THAT is what I was looking for! (especially someone who saw the python ) I once bought an Onkyo TX- SV919TXS receiver at a garage sale for $30. Looked like it just came out of the box but nothing worked. They said It was their Dad's and they knew it worked for him, but they couldn't get sound...
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    I have been shocked!

    Wires were correct. I know what polarity is, in fact I hooked up BOTH ways this time around just to see the difference. I had it right. You know, this was supposed to be a thread about how we can be surprised by gear, and it's turned into a Spanish inquisition. Forget it.
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