bob540
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| Best concert you've attended Of the more recent concerts I really enjoyed was Dwight Yoakum and two bands that opened for him. I don’t recall the name of the first band, but the second band was a Tex-mex band, the Mavericks. If you like that style of music, I recommend seei... | |
| Improving My Hearing @newton_john Never heard of Earol — sounds like just the thing to maintain clean ear canals. Have you seen the device advertised that is a plastic shaft shaped like a spiral? You turn it inside your ear and it’s supposed to extract wax debris i... | |
| Improving My Hearing @samureyex Metal rod sounds aggressive and like it could scratch tender skin if not perfectly smooth. | |
| Improving My Hearing @drmuso Even with all the build-up in my ears, I would sometimes feel a piece of wax about to fall out, so I must make at least my share of ear wax, that my ears try to evict. I think it is all about softening the wax, using some kind of liquid, ... | |
| Improving My Hearing A little ear humor! 😝 | |
| Improving My Hearing I always heard that you shouldn’t use Q-Tips, or anything like that, to clean your ears. But I would grip the stick so that it would only go in so far, and figured that was safe. But I might have packed the wax in there. It wasn’t effective. | |
| Deep Puppy So good! 👏 | |
| Goldenear….recent experience and lesson learned Interesting. I was considering buying a pair of GE T66, which has powered subwoofers. But I hesitated too long and someone else bought them. Maybe I dodged a bullet? | |
| FM Radio, anyone? There are local fm radio stations that I like and aren’t just the same old songs rotated endlessly. One calls itself “Real Roots Radio” and has 3 stations it broadcasts on in SW Ohio and features old time country music, including bluegrass. Th... | |
| Neil Young I have not seen Neil in concert, but I would expect he was better 30 years ago than he is now. That has been my experience with older artists — their voice weakens and they don’t have the energy they once did. Alan Jackson was like that; so was W... | |
| Wasted Years. When I first got into higher-quality audio equipment 5.5 years ago, it was after my last girlfriend broke up with me and I decided to invest in more expensive and physically intrusive audio equipment that my gf likely would not have wanted. So, f... | |
| The death of ultra hiend audio If for no other reason, people have other needs and priorities in addition to (or in place of) hi-end audio. Everything is costing more and wages for most are stagnant. Most likely, not everyone in the household defines “recreation” as spending ... | |
| I can't believe I found one I received a Stereophonic stereo as a gift from my parents in the late 1960’s. They knew I was wanting a stereo, and my brother-in-law and sister suggested a less expensive model to the Stereophonic that they had purchased. Less expensive was ri... | |
| Open Reel Curious I was buying some records from a couple that asked if I would be interested in their TEAC reel-to-reel deck from the 1970’s. I heard it play and the price wasn’t bad. I had been into reel-to-reel music during the 70’s, using a Sony deck. I might... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? I don’t, not at all. It didn’t take long for me to realize that my audio equipment isn’t in the same league with most of the other people here. As others have stated, my entire system costs less than what some people pay for one cable. Compared... |