"Use the MaggotBox for firewood and replace it something=20 more modern" (My dear old Dad used to call them that :....)
But the customer is in LUV with it ! Of course not enough to spend "too" mu= ch money on it lol.=20
Really though some people do like those, at one shop where I worked on a fe= w of them they were clearing estimates for near $300. Still want that weeni= e roast ? Another alternative is to replace ALL the guts. It takes a bit of= woodwork but you get a modest 25 WPC reciever from the 1970s, a regular tu= rntable and just hook it up to the existing speakers. It depends on the "pu= rism" of the customer. In fact my Uncle BUILT a mahogany monster a long tim= e ago. Copied a MacIntosh Williamson push pull design and built a pair of m= onoblock amps, dug up a preamp and tuner and mounted them, put in an Elac M= iracord turntable and built the speakers separate but in matching cabinets.= You couldn't buy something like this and I think if I had it today it woul= d be worth quite a bit - to the right person (read fanatic) of course. In f= act his son, my cousin also built his own amp and speakers, but of course = that was more modern having them thar newfangled transistors. Another thing= that brought in some money a while back was putting new TVs in old cabinet= s. It was the cost of the new table model TV which we had to choose of cour= se, plus about $250 labor. If a combo we would wire the TV sound to go thro= ugh the amp and speakers, for a small fee of course. People paid it.
" I thought it was a good idea, "
It seems I heard those words before, now where was that ? OH YEAH, ME ! Plu= s about =BD the people I've ever known. Amazing how many ideas I had, and n= ow tht I have spare parts to burn, PCB making supplies and a small machine = shop, I draw a blank. Well almost.
"You've been watching too much old Star Trek episodes. These days,=20 we take dried soybean curd, add flavoring, modify the texture,=20 heat, and serve."
Careful with a can of worms that big. I correspond internationally and just= joined Internations in fact. Get this, there are people who LEAVE AMERICA = because they can't stand the food. I shit you not.
By the way, I am having a very hard time getting any Star Trek online. It s= eems CBS is very stingy with them.=20
"There are numerous supermarket delivery services"
Yes but some of these high security buildings are ridiculous. Sign this, st= and here for the photo, show ID. Next the TSA will be there doing cavity se= arches.=20
Anyway this has been wonderful banter but I would lke to get on to this pre=
-distortion thing. I had a concept a while back having to do with tape reco= ding. As you all may know if a tape is underbiased, it loses some midrange = and lows, and has odd order distortion in the phase which extends the peaks= . An overbiased tape loses highs and has odd order distortion in the phase = which flattens the peaks. Now if one had a misbiased tape, and then copied = it misbiasing the tape to be recoded on the opposite way, that might concie= vably cancel out no ?=20
Of course it would be a PITA because then you have to determine the lavels.= But IN THEORY it should work.=20
"IN THEORY it should work"
If you have never heard that one raise your hand.
J