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Couldn't be my brain sloshing around,I dont have a brain.

www.devilfinder.com What causes that swishing noise in my ears?

My Grandpappy used to say if you have an ear ache,let somebody pee in
your ear.
cuhulin

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Brenda Ann wrote:
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Say no to institutionalized interference.
Just say NO to HD/IBOC!

Always good to limit one's exposure to overly loud sounds.. but one must
also remember that there is natural loss of high frequencies as we age.
Teenagers are taking advantage of this fact now with their 17KHz ringtone,
which the average person over 30 cannot hear.
http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images...ng-graphic.gif

In my case I road a motorcycle for 25 years and that didn't help.

Given that I always have several receivers running, and am constantly
testing
new everythings, detectors, filters amplifiers etc, I have managed to
connect
to a receiver that is running way too high an audio level several
times. And
the two worst events are when the people next door use their food
blender,
a noise source from hell, and when an amplifier that had been stable
for years
decided to turn into a loud CPO. 5 Watts of audio is a little loud via
the
headphones.

I also use something similar with my Minimus 7 speakers after blowing a
"woofer", somehow a 4" driver just doesn't feel like a woofer, when I
got a
little distracted and fed 40W of white noise into it. It was only
painfull for a
moment.

Years ago a friend got the bright idea to connect his El Cheapo Tandy
stereo headset to his Marshall guitar amp. He didn't know that the
typical HiFi has a ~200 ohm resistor in series so he fired up the amp,
put the phones on and played a lick. Called me to complain about
how low the volume was. I went over and found the back of the
earphones discolored from the heat of the fried little speakers. He
was very lucky, God does sometimes look out for fools and children.
His amp was rated at something like 400W. And it had 4 pairs of
push pull output tubes.

I can remember what TV horizontal output transformers sounded like,
from maybe 25 years ago. I don't know if they are still as noisy. A
local
swanky clothing store had egg frier ultrasonic intrusoin detector that
used to hurt when I walked in. I dpn't miss 15K and up but I really
miss
the 8 to 10K range.

Terry

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SC,it sounds like a few days ago in another thread you said my house
sucks.
Really though,I am not going to be guessing at what causes my
tinnitus.(if in fact that is what it is) Sooner or later I will go to
the G.V. ''Sonny'' Montgomery VA Medical Center on Woodrow Wilson Blvd
and let them check it out.Or I might go to Dr.Harrison's Ear Nose and
Throat Clinic in down town Jackson.That is where I went the day after
Tuesday just before Christmas last year.

Of course if I go to the VA Center,I might as well get some free blue
and green and brown contact lenses too for whenever I get to dressing up
like a woman.
cuhulin

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On 24 Aug 2006 16:56:43 -0700, wrote:


Years ago a friend got the bright idea to connect his El Cheapo Tandy
stereo headset to his Marshall guitar amp. He didn't know that the
typical HiFi has a ~200 ohm resistor in series so he fired up the amp,
put the phones on and played a lick. Called me to complain about
how low the volume was. I went over and found the back of the
earphones discolored from the heat of the fried little speakers. He
was very lucky, God does sometimes look out for fools and children.
His amp was rated at something like 400W. And it had 4 pairs of
push pull output tubes.

I'm pretty sure the most powerful Marshall tube amp was 200 Watts.

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David wrote:

On 24 Aug 2006 16:56:43 -0700, wrote:

Years ago a friend got the bright idea to connect his El Cheapo Tandy
stereo headset to his Marshall guitar amp. He didn't know that the
typical HiFi has a ~200 ohm resistor in series so he fired up the amp,
put the phones on and played a lick. Called me to complain about
how low the volume was. I went over and found the back of the
earphones discolored from the heat of the fried little speakers. He
was very lucky, God does sometimes look out for fools and children.
His amp was rated at something like 400W. And it had 4 pairs of
push pull output tubes.

I'm pretty sure the most powerful Marshall tube amp was 200 Watts.

And those were the 'stereo' amps, weren't they?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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On 24 Aug 2006 07:38:25 -0700, wrote:


John S. wrote:
I probably do not understand much about your project. But wouldn't the
simple solution be to just use the AF gain judiciously? To start at a
low setting and increase only to the level needed.

Yes.
If you can be certain to never mess up.
I am experimenting with several different detectos, filters and audio
amps. Very easy to mess up and get very loud pops, squals and
other unpleasent shocks.

That, plus the fact that when trying to dig out a weak station I
turn the volume up and when someone nerby turns on a light, or
that nasty flood blender also causes very loud pops etc.

By having the limiter the last thing before my earphones I
insure that simple mistakes won't hurt.

Terry

There's nothing I hear in earphones that I can't hear in a speaker.

bob
k5qwg

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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:49:04 -0400, dxAce
wrote:



David wrote:

On 24 Aug 2006 16:56:43 -0700, wrote:

Years ago a friend got the bright idea to connect his El Cheapo Tandy
stereo headset to his Marshall guitar amp. He didn't know that the
typical HiFi has a ~200 ohm resistor in series so he fired up the amp,
put the phones on and played a lick. Called me to complain about
how low the volume was. I went over and found the back of the
earphones discolored from the heat of the fried little speakers. He
was very lucky, God does sometimes look out for fools and children.
His amp was rated at something like 400W. And it had 4 pairs of
push pull output tubes.

I'm pretty sure the most powerful Marshall tube amp was 200 Watts.

And those were the 'stereo' amps, weren't they?

dxAce
Michigan
USA


I was thinking of this one:
http://www.blamepro.com/marmajor.htm

perhaps you are thinking of this one:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--MSHEL34100100

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In article , says...





Everyone I know under 65 can hear that ringtone, except for a friend of
mine who worked around jet aircraft for several years..

BDK

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In article , says...





I had a TV that did the squeal and it drove me nuts. All I had to do it
fix it was to raise up one end slightly, and it stopped. Later on, it
started again, and I just took the little shim out and it stopped.

Another one stopped if I smacked the top of it.

BDK

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My first tv set I bought for $25.00 with some of my mowing yards money
back in the mid 1950's was a second hand RCA black and white metal
cabinet table model tv set.It worked fine for the first few weeks and
then the picture would start blinking off.I would reach over slap the
side of the tv set and it would work ok again for a few minutes.
cuhulin