[Paladin79]

I do not think your collection is any more weird than @bcowen's collection...

Those cars are much too nice for Cowen’s tastes. Got any made from straw?

 

[Paladin79]

AudioGal Said: During restoration I replace more carbon comp resistors and bumblebee paper capacitors than I ever do tubes. >>>>>
bcowen: Paladin 79 could be using paper for his very generous gifts to you. You get cardboard at no additional cost and P79 never complains!!!

I once wrapped a tube tester in paper and shipped it to him, he returned the device in cardboard, go figure.

We can say most anything about Cowen right now, Duke and NC are playing at this time. Different shades of blue.

 

[artur9]

I keep thinking Sonus Faber but I could not find a $10k match lol. I counted 14 speakers in my downstairs the other day so I really need to sell some to make room.

Me, too. I have 3 kinds of Vienna Acoustics, a bunch of Cambridge Audio Minx 1Xs/2Xs, a Totem Tribe II, another bunch of T+A TLR10/20, and the Janszens.
10 subwoofers from SVS, TBI Magellan, T+A (to match the minis), REL, Velodyne, CA and OSD. Home theater and good bass really does a job on speaker count (3 different rooms). I've heard a bunch more (Legacy, SF, GoldenEar, T&F Sun).

I think maybe it's an obsession. I do have room for more, though ....

 

[artur9]

If arrays float your boat then I'm sure either of those would do the trick. Me, I prefer omnidirectional systems and if we're talking needing a new house to listen to them (and cost no object) I'll go for MBL 101 X-tremes with all MBL electronics driving them. By far the finest sound I have ever experienced from a home-audio system.

That is my lottery system. I'll let you visit after I win :-D

I'm also trying to figure out if crossover-less speakers are a design I want to investigate.

 

[artur9]

I think in Jason's situation, he is talking about making /debugging multiple prototypes using different topologies, etc. based on currently available parts and placing orders for key components when the prototypes are only 60% complete.

Sure, I do the same in product development, just in software. Cloud-based prototypes, linux standalone prototypes, MacOS prototypes, redis, kubernetes, mongo, PostgreSQL, mysql, golang, javascript (blech), python.
Always more choices and tradeoffs than a stick could be shaken at. Maybe I'm using the stick wrong?

 

[Timster]

For speakers I generally just use Canare 4S11 at 11AWG but I may well change that out when I go to my dream system. I may even braid my own. How difficult can it be?

I have done this, and while its not actually difficult per se, it does require space and the patience of a saint. I clamped the ends of 5 meters of cables to a joist in my shed and then slowly braided the cables together, with the untangling taking more time by far than the actual braiding.

 

[bcowen]

I once wrapped a tube tester in paper and shipped it to him, he returned the device in cardboard, go figure.

We can say most anything about Cowen right now, Duke and NC are playing right now. Different shades of blue.

How that tester arrived here in one piece I'll never know. You must be charmed.

@Ripper2860 's attempts to jinx the 'Heels didn't work. Now my younger sister will have to figure out who she's gonna root for -- she's lived in Kansas for the last 20 years, but went to Carolina.

 

[bcowen]

AudioGal Said: During restoration I replace more carbon comp resistors and bumblebee paper capacitors than I ever do tubes. >>>>>
bcowen: Paladin 79 could be using paper for his very generous gifts to you. You get cardboard at no additional cost and P79 never complains!!!

Oh yes he does. Constantly. But I *do* like the new nickname: P79. I think that'll stick.

 

[Ripper2860]

@Ripper2860 's attempts to jinx the 'Heels didn't work.

Go UNC!!

 

[JanMc]

Well, schiit, I am pursuing my second hobby this wekend and sitting at the craft brewery which opened near my observatory. The owner invites food trucks. Tonight's food truck offers only crawfish. That's a pretty social dinner and since I'm by myself I don't feel like peeling my dinner.

Before you other Texans get your pitchforks and light your torches, I am sitting nearly a half mile NORTH of I10, so this post is not cultural armageddon.

I don't know, anyone not willing to just about anything to eat some tasty crawfish should probably just call it quits all together.

 

[dieslemat]

debugging multiple prototypes using different topologies

Im not much but of a hardware guy but Im totally curious if the term debugging is used a lot in the hardware world.

 

[433521]

All that fun talk about speaker cables.
Take of the rear panel of your speakers and look inside.
You're spending money outside to connect the cheapest piss poor cabling, connectors and bad soldering inside.
Hilarious.

That's because I'm an idiot, and a moron.

 

[turtlerod]

Im not much but of a hardware guy but Im totally curious if the term debugging is used a lot in the hardware world.

as a hardware guy most of my time is spent debugging.

 

[OldRoadToad]

That's because I'm an idiot, and a moron.

Then I am in good company, brother! Besides, all of us IMs (Idiot/Morons) know when it comes to cabling it's all about the looks.

ORt

 

[FLTWS]

For speakers I generally just use Canare 4S11 at 11AWG but I may well change that out when I go to my dream system. I may even braid my own. How difficult can it be?

I bi-wired my Sonus Fabers with Blue Jean Cables Canare 4S11 Cable and it looks like this. BJ tack welds the wire to the expandable banana connectors. Easy-peezy for me!
I took the first photo and modified it with MS paint program so I wouldn't have to think about what wire goes where when / if I take them off and then try to remember which ones go where, LOL.

Pretty reasonable prices at BJ: