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graphicguy · July 2020

laurasdada said:

graphicguy said:
@ab348 ....I know a couple of “Willy-wavers”. I can only take about 5 mins with them. For some reason, they seem to seek me out when we’re in a group. Maybe it’s because I’m polite and will listen to them for 5 mins and nod like I care (I don’t).

Live music reproduction in your home....not happening. No matter how much you spend, you’ll never reproduce that. Pro musicians have huge venues to play in. And overall, they have pro-audio equipment to fill those venues.

But, you can spend some money (OK....a LOT of money) and get a relatively holographic sound with your stereo system where the speakers disappear and your room seems to expand where the sound seemingly comes from beyond your walls and ceiling. Neat party trick, but nowhere near a live concert in a venue made for live concerts.

@roadburner ....that Hanson Audio place was a Field of Dreams type of venue. You can drop buckets and buckets of cash there. They had some B&W Nautilus speakers playing that consumed me for about 30 minutes. And, I would have listened longer if they hadn’t kindly asked if they could do another demo for someone. What they were really saying was “get out of the way so we can sell something to someone who can actually afford these”. The speakers alone cost $60,000 (you read that right). Who knows how much the electronics cost they used to drive them.

I will say this...they had a nice home theater set up that they were demoing. My guess is it probably cost 4x-5x more than my set up. I still say mine looks and sounds better. I have yet to see or hear anything better than my set up. For that, I’ll wallow in the sadness that I don’t have an unending stream of cash to make it sound even better.

So, I set up the Magnepans in my home theater room, as that’s where I have everything set up. Spent a couple of hours with them just trying to get their positioning right. My Denon can drive them and does a credible job while doing it. They don’t have much in the way of low end reproduction, so they would need a subwoofer. The mids and highs are glorious, though.

Downsides....again, they need a sub. To get the “glorious” sound, the listening position is very small and you have to stay there. Not a problem for me as I’d just set up a recliner in the “sweet spot”. You move a little left or right of the “sweet spot” and the holographic nature of them collapses, and they just sound thin and lifeless.

I can’t integrate them in my Home Theater set up. So, unless I drop more cash into a pre-amp, amp and a source (turntable, streamer, etc), they will get shoved into my closet of forgotten audio gear in the hopes I can resurrect them some day.

Don’t make fun, but the GF loves “PINK”. I let her listen to Pink after I got the speakers dialed in. Her reply? “I don’t know why you spent so much time setting these up. What’s so special about them? Take me out for dinner.”

So much for my wish to have her enable me.
"Why would you spend so much $ on a stereo (watch, car, insert any male desired/life enhancing object) when you could have bought me jewelry or shoes!"

The jewelry and/or shoes would bring temporary happiness. Like cars, audio gear brings both immediate and long term gratification. LOL!

graphicguy · July 2020

@roadburner ....I messed with the Magnepans a little more last night. Hard to get the subwoofer(s) to integrate seamlessly with them. I can get the speakers set up right, but they are not what I remembered when I first heard a set many years ago. I think I’d have to move way up the price chain for their “better” speakers and spend even more money on electronics. Can’t decide if I’m not interested enough in them to do that, or I just don’t like them (probably a little of both). What do they say about a fool and his money?

Anyway, I’m not into them for much money. I am going to load them up to take them to a high(er) end audio swap meet and see if I can turn them into something I really want. If not, I’ll put them in the closet to haul them out another day to fiddle with.

oldfarmer50 · July 2020

graphicguy said:
@roadburner ....I messed with the Magnepans a little more last night. Hard to get the subwoofer(s) to integrate seamlessly with them. I can get the speakers set up right, but they are not what I remembered when I first heard a set many years ago. I think I’d have to move way up the price chain for their “better” speakers and spend even more money on electronics. Can’t decide if I’m not interested enough in them to do that, or I just don’t like them (probably a little of both). What do they say about a fool and his money?

Anyway, I’m not into them for much money. I am going to load them up to take them to a high(er) end audio swap meet and see if I can turn them into something I really want. If not, I’ll put them in the closet to haul them out another day to fiddle with.

As with buying cars, get what makes you happy as long as you can afford it. Doesn’t matter if others don’t understand or approve.

graphicguy · July 2020

oldfarmer50 said:

graphicguy said:
@roadburner ....I messed with the Magnepans a little more last night. Hard to get the subwoofer(s) to integrate seamlessly with them. I can get the speakers set up right, but they are not what I remembered when I first heard a set many years ago. I think I’d have to move way up the price chain for their “better” speakers and spend even more money on electronics. Can’t decide if I’m not interested enough in them to do that, or I just don’t like them (probably a little of both). What do they say about a fool and his money?

Anyway, I’m not into them for much money. I am going to load them up to take them to a high(er) end audio swap meet and see if I can turn them into something I really want. If not, I’ll put them in the closet to haul them out another day to fiddle with.
As with buying cars, get what makes you happy as long as you can afford it. Doesn’t matter if others don’t understand or approve.

Amen!

dino001 · July 2020

graphicguy said:

The jewelry and/or shoes would bring temporary happiness. Like cars, audio gear brings both immediate and long term gratification. LOL!

Judging by yours and Mike's transaction frequency, NOT THAT long term

driver100 · July 2020

It is a little slow here this morning so if you have a few minutes, this is quite entertaining.........
Just sign the ticket. When you find that you have dug yourself in to a hole, it is best if you stop digging.
https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_q5t6xc4MD01yawcmt.mp4
This woman's poor husband

jmonroe1 · July 2020

driver100 said:
It is a little slow here this morning so if you have a few minutes, this is quite entertaining.........
Just sign the ticket. When you find that you have dug yourself in to a hole, it is best if you stop digging.
https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_q5t6xc4MD01yawcmt.mp4
This woman's poor husband

Yeah, seems like the type that would refuse to make diner when ordered to.

jmonroe

driver100 · July 2020

jmonroe1 said:

driver100 said:
It is a little slow here this morning so if you have a few minutes, this is quite entertaining.........
Just sign the ticket. When you find that you have dug yourself in to a hole, it is best if you stop digging.
https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_q5t6xc4MD01yawcmt.mp4
This woman's poor husband
Yeah, seems like the type that would refuse to make diner when ordered to.

jmonroe

Sure wouldn't want to tangle with that one!

sda · July 2020

This is the system my parents bought in 1971. It also included a Garrard record changer. It sounded so much better than what it replaced. It was in use for 20 years or more.

driver100 · July 2020

I had a 1970 model that looked something like this. It wouldn't lock in the channel though...it could drift off, must have been the bargain model.

imidazol97 · July 2020

sda said:
This is the system my parents bought in 1971. It also included a Garrard record changer. It sounded so much better than what it replaced. It was in use for 20 years or more.

OMG. I remember those. I shopped those. I ended up buying and assembling a Heathkit receiver. Put out 55 w per channel into 4 ohm speakers.

Heathkit AR-29. Still worth up to $129 on ebay if it works.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/174358330067

I wonder how much my Dual 1019 turntable with elliptical needle and cartridge are worth?

ab348 · July 2020

I just read that the 240 watts that Lafayette stated is equivalent to about 35 watts RMS which is the standard measurement since the mid-70s.

jmonroe1 · July 2020

sda said:
This is the system my parents bought in 1971. It also included a Garrard record changer. It sounded so much better than what it replaced. It was in use for 20 years or more.

Ah man, you gotta be kidding me. In 1967, a few months after I was married, I bought the Lafayette Model LR-1000 TA which was the 120 watt version (60 watts per channel). I was waiting and waiting for Fisher to introduce their 60 watts per channel transistor model but no one had it. Finally one Saturday night I walked by a Lafayette Electronics store and there it was in the window. I was excited and immediately went in to buy it but the salesman asked me to at least listen to the LR-1000 transistor unit before I bought. I did and it sounded better and was even less expensive. So I bought it and Lafayette speakers and a Girard turntable with a Sure cartridge.

When I went to work the following Monday I told an audiophile guy what I bought and he very disappointed in me almost to the point he didn’t even want to talk to me anymore because we had talked a few times about me wanting to buy the Fisher unit although he wanted me to buy a Marantz job. That was out of my budget so he felt a Fisher would be just barely OK but he went off on me when I told him I bought the Lafayette unit.

Fast forward a few months and he shows me the cover of one of his audiophile rags where they rated the Lafayette unit as very good. Not high end good but damn good for the price and even beat out the Fisher I originally wanted to buy. So we were on speaking terms again but he was still a Marantz guy...all the way through to the bone.

jmonroe

sda · July 2020

I remember how excited dad was when he brought everything home. It was Christmas in Sept! it took him the afternoon to get everything set up and he was soon rocking the house. I seem to recall dad and mom using the ratings in CU to make their decision. 1971 was a big year for our family. We moved to a new and larger house, dad bought a Zenith 25" color console TV to replace our old portable RCA black and white TV, and dad got a new 71 Pontiac Catalina 2dr as a company car. Mom got her 72 Cutlass Supreme in late '71.

omarman · July 2020

I recall being told in the early 70s that there was a recession, but those were good years for a lot of families including mine. By 1971 even I as youngest child got my first real job and also got a raise in my allowance to an exorbitant $5 per week. Thanks Dad!

By 1973, Dad got a promotion and we got a bigger house with wooden saloon doors leading to the kitchen having carpet on the floor. And to finish the 70s kitchen decor, my parents ordered avocado green appliances. I think that gave way to copper/brown later. But the real earth-tone big ticket item I remember most was Dad's new 1973 Mercury Monterrey with "Bronze Age" color and trim. Good times.

By the time I really wanted better quality audio equipment it was because of this...

Couldn't afford it then. Or now.

ab348 · July 2020

Ah, the Pioneer SX-1980. The true battleship. Big iron at its best. I love silver Pioneer gear from that era.

I've got one of these. It is in fine cosmetic condition and works, but the switches and controls need a good cleaning with Deoxit/Faderlube, and I think the tuner could use an alignment. 120 RMS distortion-free watts/ch., and the cool-looking Fluoroscan display.

stickguy · July 2020

I think I had one of those. Or close to it. Though maybe it was my BIL. but I know I’ve touched one.

roadburner · July 2020

Here's my Carver 6250- still in use:

ab348 · July 2020

stickguy said:
I think I had one of those. Or close to it. Though maybe it was my BIL. but I know I’ve touched one.

Maybe you saw one. Somewhere. That kinda sorta looked like it. Well, it was silver anyway. Parts of it. And the name might have started with the letter P. :laughing:

sda · July 2020

ab348 said:
Ah, the Pioneer SX-1980. The true battleship. Big iron at its best. I love silver Pioneer gear from that era.

I've got one of these. It is in fine cosmetic condition and works, but the switches and controls need a good cleaning with Deoxit/Faderlube, and I think the tuner could use an alignment. 120 RMS distortion-free watts/ch., and the cool-looking Fluoroscan display.

I have lil’ sis Pioneer SX3700 that I bought in college at Sight and Sound which became Circuit City. It’s stored in a closet. Other than a scratchy volume control it worked fine when it was retired. Still looks new.

abacomike · July 2020

Looks like there is a developing tropical storm about 500 miles east of Puerto Rico and is expected to track west north west toward Florida. No indication yet if it will strengthen into a hurricane.

I am going to go food and supply shopping tomorrow to get prepared. If it looks like we are going to get hit by a hurricane, I will drive up to my brother's in Ponte Vedra.

Just something else to worry about.🤓

jmonroe1 · July 2020

ab348 said:

stickguy said:
I think I had one of those. Or close to it. Though maybe it was my BIL. but I know I’ve touched one.
Maybe you saw one. Somewhere. That kinda sorta looked like it. Well, it was silver anyway. Parts of it. And the name might have started with the letter P. :laughing:

WOW, talk about getting old. Our poster buddy now doesn’t know himself from his BIL. That’s really sad to see a guy go like that right before our eyes.

jmonroe

snakeweasel · July 2020

driver100 said:
It is a little slow here this morning so if you have a few minutes, this is quite entertaining.........
Just sign the ticket. When you find that you have dug yourself in to a hole, it is best if you stop digging.
https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_q5t6xc4MD01yawcmt.mp4
This woman's poor husband

She's a magician, she turned a misdemeanor into a felony.

oldfarmer50 · July 2020

abacomike said:
Looks like there is a developing tropical storm about 500 miles east of Puerto Rico and is expected to track west north west toward Florida. No indication yet if it will strengthen into a hurricane.

I am going to go food and supply shopping tomorrow to get prepared. If it looks like we are going to get hit by a hurricane, I will drive up to my brother's in Ponte Vedra.

Just something else to worry about.🤓

Look at the bright side, you have an excuse to go for a drive.

Speaking of driving, you could keep on going and drive up here. We’ve been having Florida-like heat all summer. You’d feel right at home without the hurricanes or even the every afternoon T storms.

imidazol97 · July 2020

abacomike said:
Looks like there is a developing tropical storm about 500 miles east of Puerto Rico and is expected to track west north west toward Florida. No indication yet if it will strengthen into a hurricane.

I am going to go food and supply shopping tomorrow to get prepared. If it looks like we are going to get hit by a hurricane, I will drive up to my brother's in Ponte Vedra.

Just something else to worry about.🤓

Thought about you there in Florida when I saw the cone a couple days back for this projected path. They're predicting "only"tropical storm level if it hits FL, but those things often change.

ab348 · July 2020

"The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself!"

Don't let the weather hypesters scare you Mike.

graphicguy · July 2020

WOW...what a bunch of great stories about audio gear along with great pics. Lafayette was also Kenwood (depending on where it was sold). Kenwood was one of the first audio companies to move from tubes to solid state....very high tech at the time.

I BEGGED my parents to get a decent stereo system when I was a much younger GG. I remember shopping with them to the local stereo shop, which carried high buck stuff like McIntosh. Although I think I had my Dad in the fold, my Mother won out as she wanted a “nice piece of furniture”. So, we got one of those large wooden TV/Stereo/turntable/tuner/speaker combos.

Pioneer and Marantz is what I really wanted, but didn’t have enough money to buy. First money I made went to buy a Sansui Stereo Receiver, a Kenwood turntable (with a granite-like base) and JBL 100 Speakers with foam grills (which I read were just re-released). I added a Nakamichi tape deck later.

Wish I still had that system. Got me through High School, College and the first home I purchased. Probably be worth a pretty penny today. Just curious about how it would sound if put up against the stuff I have today.

@roadburner ....I briefly had that same Carver Receiver. It was a heavy beast that had gobs of power. Ended up trading it for a self propelled mower. Bad move on my part.

graphicguy · July 2020

sda said:

ab348 said:
Ah, the Pioneer SX-1980. The true battleship. Big iron at its best. I love silver Pioneer gear from that era.

I've got one of these. It is in fine cosmetic condition and works, but the switches and controls need a good cleaning with Deoxit/Faderlube, and I think the tuner could use an alignment. 120 RMS distortion-free watts/ch., and the cool-looking Fluoroscan display.

I have lil’ sis Pioneer SX3700 that I bought in college at Sight and Sound which became Circuit City. It’s stored in a closet. Other than a scratchy volume control it worked fine when it was retired. Still looks new.

SIGHT AND SOUND....now there’s a store I spent a ton of time in either listening to gear or buying albums. Got my gear at a now defunct local store called Swallens. They were the Best Buy only in the ‘80s. Stores were all minimalistic and usually cinder bock structures.....not a fancy showroom. They had appliances, furniture, and their stereo gear and album selection were 2nd to none, locally. And, they employed people who were knowledgeable, not just sales people.

omarman · July 2020

I remember Sun TV and appliances was pretty big back then. Sun was cool because they used to have an Alum Creek Rd location as an open box/outlet store. I went there one time after they ran an ad in the Dispatch for a sale on audio equipment but wound up buying a 386 computer display model for $800. Around 1990 or so.

edit: but the monitor was extra! Lol!

explorerx4 · July 2020

There are more of those 'Columbus Neighborhoods' videos on youtube.

Regarding JBL speakers, in the spring a guy I worked with said he sold a pair he had forever for something like $1100. He did mention they had been re-released. The new ones are about 2k per pair.

ab348 · July 2020

Those Advent speakers @sda 's parents had were, IIRC, pretty well-regarded back in the day.

ab348 · July 2020

sda said:

I have lil’ sis Pioneer SX3700 that I bought in college at Sight and Sound which became Circuit City. It’s stored in a closet. Other than a scratchy volume control it worked fine when it was retired. Still looks new.

I have a bunch of Pioneer stuff, most all of it in storage downstairs. I bought a SX-3600 Fluoroscan receiver in 1980/81, one of the first things I bought with money from my first job. Wanted the 3700 but it was a bit too expensive for me (should have found the money for it in retrospect). Used it for years. Around 13-14 years ago I decided to see if I could bring it back and it worked straight up out of the box, so it is hooked up downstairs along with a turntable and a CD player. That got me interested in silver Pioneer stuff again and via a well-known auction site I acquired a SX-880, a SX-3800 and the aforementioned 3900 over a few years time. I've been thinking of recommissiong the 3800 to take the place of the 3900 when/if I decide it needs a cleaning.

kyfdx · July 2020

graphicguy said:

sda said:

ab348 said:
Ah, the Pioneer SX-1980. The true battleship. Big iron at its best. I love silver Pioneer gear from that era.

I've got one of these. It is in fine cosmetic condition and works, but the switches and controls need a good cleaning with Deoxit/Faderlube, and I think the tuner could use an alignment. 120 RMS distortion-free watts/ch., and the cool-looking Fluoroscan display.

I have lil’ sis Pioneer SX3700 that I bought in college at Sight and Sound which became Circuit City. It’s stored in a closet. Other than a scratchy volume control it worked fine when it was retired. Still looks new.

SIGHT AND SOUND....now there’s a store I spent a ton of time in either listening to gear or buying albums. Got my gear at a now defunct local store called Swallens. They were the Best Buy only in the ‘80s. Stores were all minimalistic and usually cinder bock structures.....not a fancy showroom. They had appliances, furniture, and their stereo gear and album selection were 2nd to none, locally. And, they employed people who were knowledgeable, not just sales people.

Our local area "Sight and Sound" chain is not the one that @sda references. They were a local chain. We used to go to the one on Queen City Avenue. Swallens was a hard store to categorize. Not sure what you could compare it to. You just had to see it, to understand.

sda · July 2020

The Sight and Sound I mentioned got its start in Richmond, VA. Later it became Circuit City.

graphicguy · July 2020

kyfdx said:

graphicguy said:

sda said:

ab348 said:
Ah, the Pioneer SX-1980. The true battleship. Big iron at its best. I love silver Pioneer gear from that era.

I've got one of these. It is in fine cosmetic condition and works, but the switches and controls need a good cleaning with Deoxit/Faderlube, and I think the tuner could use an alignment. 120 RMS distortion-free watts/ch., and the cool-looking Fluoroscan display.

I have lil’ sis Pioneer SX3700 that I bought in college at Sight and Sound which became Circuit City. It’s stored in a closet. Other than a scratchy volume control it worked fine when it was retired. Still looks new.

SIGHT AND SOUND....now there’s a store I spent a ton of time in either listening to gear or buying albums. Got my gear at a now defunct local store called Swallens. They were the Best Buy only in the ‘80s. Stores were all minimalistic and usually cinder bock structures.....not a fancy showroom. They had appliances, furniture, and their stereo gear and album selection were 2nd to none, locally. And, they employed people who were knowledgeable, not just sales people.
Our local area "Sight and Sound" chain is not the one that @sda references. They were a local chain. We used to go to the one on Queen City Avenue. Swallens was a hard store to categorize. Not sure what you could compare it to. You just had to see it, to understand.

OK...I kind of wondered if Sight and Sound was a chain....apparently it was, but not the same store as we had here in SW OH. I went to the one on Queen City Ave all the time. Huge (at least to me) audio gear and record store. They had some other, smaller stores peppered throughout Cincinnati at the time.

Agree.....Swallens was really beyond description. Bought my stereo gear there, bought albums, bought my first washer/dryer and microwave, my first stove....probably spent thousands of dollars there back in the late ‘80s. Went to the one on Red Bank road and the one in Springdale (as I lived in Wyoming OH at the time).

All fond memories......actually had a date where we went to Swallens for album hunting and then went about 100 yards away to LaRossa’s for pizza. I didn’t have much money then, and she was agreeable with the itinerary.

benjaminh · July 2020

Yes, these receivers are trips down memory lane. My parents got a good stereo in the early 70s, and our Marantz receiver looked like this one....

suydam · July 2020

omarman said:
I remember Sun TV and appliances was pretty big back then. Sun was cool because they used to have an Alum Creek Rd location as an open box/outlet store. I went there one time after they ran an ad in the Dispatch for a sale on audio equipment but wound up buying a 386 computer display model for $800. Around 1990 or so.

edit: but the monitor was extra! Lol!

I definitely remember Sun TV! Very popular back in the day.

ab348 · July 2020

I always loved the look of those '70s Marantz receivers. Never could afford one back then.

abacomike · July 2020

imidazol97 said:

abacomike said:
Looks like there is a developing tropical storm about 500 miles east of Puerto Rico and is expected to track west north west toward Florida. No indication yet if it will strengthen into a hurricane.

I am going to go food and supply shopping tomorrow to get prepared. If it looks like we are going to get hit by a hurricane, I will drive up to my brother's in Ponte Vedra.

Just something else to worry about.🤓
Thought about you there in Florida when I saw the cone a couple days back for this projected path. They're predicting "only"tropical storm level if it hits FL, but those things often change.

Even tropical storms can be bad - 60-70 mph winds with rain is nothing to sneeze at. Just got back from shopping - Walmart was jammed and they were out of some things.

I will fill the car up with gasoline tomorrow morning just to be safe.

roadburner · July 2020

graphicguy said:
WOW...what a bunch of great stories about audio gear along with great pics. Lafayette was also Kenwood (depending on where it was sold). Kenwood was one of the first audio companies to move from tubes to solid state....very high tech at the time.

I BEGGED my parents to get a decent stereo system when I was a much younger GG. I remember shopping with them to the local stereo shop, which carried high buck stuff like McIntosh. Although I think I had my Dad in the fold, my Mother won out as she wanted a “nice piece of furniture”. So, we got one of those large wooden TV/Stereo/turntable/tuner/speaker combos.

Pioneer and Marantz is what I really wanted, but didn’t have enough money to buy. First money I made went to buy a Sansui Stereo Receiver, a Kenwood turntable (with a granite-like base) and JBL 100 Speakers with foam grills (which I read were just re-released). I added a Nakamichi tape deck later.

Wish I still had that system. Got me through High School, College and the first home I purchased. Probably be worth a pretty penny today. Just curious about how it would sound if put up against the stuff I have today.

@roadburner ....I briefly had that same Carver Receiver. It was a heavy beast that had gobs of power. Ended up trading it for a self propelled mower. Bad move on my part.

I believe that the 6250 was one of the last pieces of equipment Bob Carver designed before he moved to Sunfire. Those magnetic field amps were beasts. I almost bought one of his CD players that had a tube amplification stage.

andres3 · July 2020

Speaking of beasts.... OPPO is no more, but they made the best disc players in modern times, yet they are ancient history now. A real shame as they were a different kind of animal in modern audio equipment times.

Here are the internals of one of their greatest universal disc players I managed to obtain right before they went under.

I put this as my icon/avatar a long time ago. There are a lot of modern day receivers/amps/home theaters that probably have a lesser power supply for 7.1 speakers than this "glorified" CD player.

roadburner · July 2020

I believe I bought my Carver from Swallens.

jmonroe1 · July 2020

All you guys with some old but still good audio stuff must have taken very good care of them over the years; maybe even given them a few wax jobs to keep them looking good too.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50 · July 2020

abacomike said:

imidazol97 said:

abacomike said:
Looks like there is a developing tropical storm about 500 miles east of Puerto Rico and is expected to track west north west toward Florida. No indication yet if it will strengthen into a hurricane.

I am going to go food and supply shopping tomorrow to get prepared. If it looks like we are going to get hit by a hurricane, I will drive up to my brother's in Ponte Vedra.

Just something else to worry about.🤓
Thought about you there in Florida when I saw the cone a couple days back for this projected path. They're predicting "only"tropical storm level if it hits FL, but those things often change.
Even tropical storms can be bad - 60-70 mph winds with rain is nothing to sneeze at. Just got back from shopping - Walmart was jammed and they were out of some things.

I will fill the car up with gasoline tomorrow morning just to be safe.

I was at Sam’s Club this morning and they have the 36 roll packs of toilet paper. Haven’t seen that since March and now the hurricanes are going to mess things up again.

stickguy · July 2020

Stores here have been well stocked with TP for a long time. Not sure if at this point, anything other than Clorox wipes is never in stock.

driver100 · July 2020

oldfarmer50 said:

abacomike said:

imidazol97 said:

abacomike said:
Looks like there is a developing tropical storm about 500 miles east of Puerto Rico and is expected to track west north west toward Florida. No indication yet if it will strengthen into a hurricane.

I am going to go food and supply shopping tomorrow to get prepared. If it looks like we are going to get hit by a hurricane, I will drive up to my brother's in Ponte Vedra.

Just something else to worry about.🤓
Thought about you there in Florida when I saw the cone a couple days back for this projected path. They're predicting "only"tropical storm level if it hits FL, but those things often change.
Even tropical storms can be bad - 60-70 mph winds with rain is nothing to sneeze at. Just got back from shopping - Walmart was jammed and they were out of some things.

I will fill the car up with gasoline tomorrow morning just to be safe.
I was at Sam’s Club this morning and they have the 36 roll packs of toilet paper. Haven’t seen that since March and now the hurricanes are going to mess things up again.

Did you stock up?

driver100 · July 2020

jmonroe1 said:
All you guys with some old but still good audio stuff must have taken very good care of them over the years; maybe even given them a few wax jobs to keep them looking good too.

jmonroe

We still have one in the basement...a Realistic.

suydam · July 2020

Our stereo equipment was still working fine when we moved, but realistically we hadn’t used it much for years. For gatherings (remember those?) I’d make mixes and use my iPod plus a great speaker that took up very little space. All that big stuff just doesn’t fit into today’s smaller spaces. Especially when everyone wants a giant TV in their living rooms. None of my adult kids use any of that kind of gear. So we got rid of it

andres3 · July 2020

My mother keeps saying there's great tiny speakers that sound just as good as my tall deep towers, but she just doesn't understand.

abacomike · July 2020

Already the local TV stations are ramping up the forecasts for this tropical storm. They state we should stock up on batteries, food, water, etc. They are not predicting a hurricane but a strong tropical storm. They do not know where in Florida it will hit because the center of circulation has not developed yet.

This is the difference between hurricanes/tropical storms, earthquakes and tornadoes. With tornadoes and earthquakes, they come and go within minutes. With storms like this, you are in a sort of suspended animation for 5-7 days while the storm is tracked.

Hate this!🤓

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