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Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169439) • United States 4 Apr 24

Linda mentioned that her garage door opener is not working correctly. I have never personally had one. Something we had a few years back, at our old house,in our upstairs bedroom was a lamp plugged into a remote control device....

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"We did it!" said my 2-year-old friend. I got my Kenwood receiver back into my main stereo system.

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 24 Oct 22

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Cereal post #3: Testing an older stereo receiver.

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 10 Oct 22

I just took this photo. It is of a 1971 Sherwood S-7100A that I own. I've owned it for several years. I can't even remember where I got it, but I think it may have been sent to me by a fella in Texas in thanks for some speaker...

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Another project for The Horse

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 1 Sep 21

I got this one done yesterday. One of the connectors on the back of one of my 1970 KLH Model Six loudspeakers had become loose. It sounds simple, but to tighten it down you have to go inside the speaker and hold a screw tight...

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Why was Kitty fascinated by my vintage stereo amplifier at 4 AM the other night?

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 18 Jul 21

So the other night I am awakened at 4 AM by scuffling sounds in my house. I follow the sounds to my main stereo, and see kitty carefully studying my conrad-johnson MF-80 stereo power amplifier. Kitty appreciates good music. She...

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Nice sound system

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 28 Dec 20

The day after Xmas my brother came to visit again and this time he gave us one of his sound system. It's old but still has good use. The thing that is able to connect itself with recent tech is the audio connector. It's tape and...

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This can't be good.

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 12 Jun 20

My NAD CD player started distorting a few weeks ago. I've had it for a few years, and my apartment is pretty dusty, so I decided to take the top off and give it a good cleaning with De-oxit, which is basically an electronic...

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I have been wrong for two years!

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 14 Sep 19

For two years, only the right channel of my "bedroom stereo" has worked. I did all of the basic testing (switching connections, etc.), and decided that the left channel of my Jolida 102B tube amplifier had gone dead. It didn't...

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How MyLot helped me make $120.50 in one day Tuesday!

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 12 Sep 19

I sent a pair of ADS 710 loudspeakers home with their owner on Tuesday. It took me several weeks to restore them but most of that time was just drying time for my magical solutions for the speakers. The owner was happy and paid...

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How many "music delivery devices" do you have in your house?

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 14 Jul 19

Right now, I'm listening to "Baroque by the Bay" on my "kitchen system," which consists of a 1969 KLH Model 21 radio hooked up to a custom speaker I made out of an empty 1971 KLH Model 24 speaker cabinet. In my "listening room"...

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Tuner case final update.

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 13 Apr 19

The tuner case I've been working on is all done and ready to go home. It wasn't a particularly difficult restore--all I had to do was replace some missing veneer, sand it down, and oil it up. I just ordered some glue and other...

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Is it really "all about the bass"?

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 19 Mar 18

I recently bought a new subwoofer. It's basically a 16" cube with a 12" woofer (bass driver) and an amplifier inside. It reproduces only the lowest frequencies in music. My old M&K V-2B (a classic) hadn't sounded the same since I...

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bye cassette tapes

hereandthere @hereandthere (45628) • Philippines 6 Mar 18

someone is decluttering here. i saw some old cassette tapes in the trash. nat king cole shirley bassey matt monro bing crosby the four aces our parents' music. i remember our old stereo system encased in wood. one more piece of...

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Child labor yields results yet again!

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 18 May 17

Actually, I did most of the work on this one, but my child laborer helped with some of the surfaces and convinced me to test the silent tweeters to see if the tweeters or capacitors were at fault. It turns out it was the...

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How The Horse scored a $350 item for free!

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 30 Apr 17

Actually, it would be a $350 item if it were working perfectly, but it's not. But I did get it for free. Last weekend (or was it the weekend before?) I drove out to Sacramento to pick up a single Dynaco A-25 (a vintage loudspeaker...

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Woo hoo! I have a new speaker project!

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 23 Jul 16

For the last couple of weeks, I've been working on a pair of KEF 104/2s. They are not-quite-vintage loudspeakers from the 1980s or 1990s. I think their retail price was somewhere between $2,000/pair and $3,000/pair, but I'm not...

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My big task for tonight

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 8 Jun 16

After a busy start to the week, I finally have some time to myself. My task for tonight is to hot glue a screen onto the frame of a KLH 24 vintage loudspeaker that was given to me. It's a single (called an "orphan" in the...

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Into the abyss

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 24 Mar 16

I have the morning off and am heading down to the disorganized shop of that fella I've mentioned in other posts. I do some speaker restoration work for him, and he sometimes provides me with speakers that I can fix up and sell. He...

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Is this ugly thing really worth $750?

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 11 Feb 16

In a previous post (or was it a post on "that other site?"), I mentioned a guy I do some stereo restoration work for. He owes me about $700 and always has an excuse not to pay me. His divorce lawyer is taking all his money. Sales...

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Are you a geek, like me?

The Horse @TheHorse (238276) • Walnut Creek, California 8 Jan 16

On another day, I may do a post called, "Are you cool, like me?" But today, I'm focused on my geekiness. On my way to work, I was listening to a report about the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) as a former haven for geeks. It's...

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