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Brenda Ann wrote: -- 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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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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David wrote: 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 This was in the winter of 73/74. It has just been too darn long. I think dxace called it when he mentioned stereo. While I had a Strat at the time, I was more into acousitc guitar. I still have my home made 6L6 guitar amp. Somehow I traded for an output transformer from a large electic organ and my Amp was popular with a couple of bass players. I even added a 1/4 jack to my GR64 so I could use it as a practice amp. A single 6AQ7 driving an old 12" dynamic speaker. I used my TTY loop to power the dynamic speaker electromagnet. The fun old days. Terry |
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I own a Strativarius (spelling) Violin,but it is one of those fake ones.
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