kramer5150
Headphoneus Supremus
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I was very close to my grandfather. He drove a 68 malibu with a big hole in the muffler, took me to basketball camps, and hiking excursions around lake tahoe, and week long trips to disneyland. We would have to take 2 cars, my mom would ask me to go with grandpa to sing too him and keep him company so he wouldn't fall asleep. The best thing about it was my parents would GIVE ME A BAG of CANDY!! to share with him on the road trips... A little 7 year old, HYPED up on sugar.. bouncing off the windshield to keep the old guy fom falling asleep.
I LOVED those road trips.
He bought me my first AM radio, cassette recorder, clock radio, walkie talkies, microscope... and my FIRST headphone, Koss Pro4x plus.
He owned a radio TV rapair shop in the mid-70s and knew as much about vaccuum tube electronics and circuit theory as anyone here.
When he died in 1987 he left me 3 cases of old NOS tung sol, sylvania, RCA, westinghouse, and GE tubes left over from his shop.
I use his old 12AT7 tubes in my earmax center / driver tube.
I think a big part of him still lives today in my own interest in electronics and sound reproduction.
I guess my way of dealing with his passing is to endulge myself in the electronics hobbies he introduced me to ~25 years ago.
I LOVED those road trips.
He bought me my first AM radio, cassette recorder, clock radio, walkie talkies, microscope... and my FIRST headphone, Koss Pro4x plus.
He owned a radio TV rapair shop in the mid-70s and knew as much about vaccuum tube electronics and circuit theory as anyone here.
When he died in 1987 he left me 3 cases of old NOS tung sol, sylvania, RCA, westinghouse, and GE tubes left over from his shop.
I use his old 12AT7 tubes in my earmax center / driver tube.
I think a big part of him still lives today in my own interest in electronics and sound reproduction.
I guess my way of dealing with his passing is to endulge myself in the electronics hobbies he introduced me to ~25 years ago.