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Let’s share funny-stupid things we’ve done

Let’s share funny-stupid things we’ve done.

I took the time to clean 8 Henry Mancini albums, so I could digitize my favorite cuts.
I sent the signal to a CD burner. All was going well, though I had my volume down so I could preview the following albums. Eventually I’d gone through the remaining albums, so I turned the volume back up. Hmmm, that bongo player sure is good, and damn, what fast hands!.  I don’t remember ‘Baby Elephant Walk’ being so fast paced..oh well, just getting old I guess.

On cut 24 I accidentally hit the head shell with my elbow, which made me look down and notice…I’d spent the last 2 hours recording everything at 45rpm. What a doofus. Surprise, some of the cuts sound better that way!

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dekay
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Does cleaning hot solder off a chisel tip, with a brass brush while not wearing pants count?

I’m asking for a friend.

 

DeKay

jetter
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OK, I think you will get a kick out of this. A few months ago I purchased a Schiit Lokius EQ to just add a boost to the treble when I am watching TV as I like running the cable box audio through my preamp/stereo.

Simple enough to do, even in a semi-dark room. No need to read the instructions.

For two weeks I was tickled as can be at how adding the EQ treble made the TV dialogue perfect and a lot easier to understand.

Only then when I took a closer look at the Lokius adjustment "symbols" on the unit and read the manual did I realize that I had inadvertently boosted the base and not adjusted the treble at all.

OOPS, confirmation bias at its finest..

 

whitestix
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This is a fun thread with no disputes emerging as they often do, sharing out our costly mistakes. 

Dekay, that is great question you are asking for a friend.  Right after I fire up my soldering gun, which I rarely do because I have no such skills, I just touch it to bare skin somewhere... just to get the misery out of the way early on.  Soldering = 100% burnt skin, regardless whether it is from the get-go or at the end and I like to be proactive.

ghdprentice... I just parted with a Wells Audio Majestic power amp (not his integrated version) and am selling a pair of Buchardt S400SE speakers and when I can craft a better ad, a VTV Audio amp with the Purifi module with upgrades from EVS Audio.  Since I got my Wells Audio Innamorata amp, nothing else seems to compare, and my new-to-me Dynaudio Confidence C-1s are really amazing speakers.    

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