Adventures in electronics
Sep. 28th, 2004 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rikibethI have not yet set up the Excellent Vintage Hi-Fi System, but I did accomplish some stereo goodness today.
Sunday night, the boss' high-end Denon amp, into which the 5-disc changer for the store is plugged, started emitting smoke, according to Chris.
So no music for the front.
Poor Kevin was going nuts, so yesterday I moved the knockoff Discman and the amplified computer speakers that are MY kitchen CD setup out to the front for him, so there would at least be something. As today is my day off, I knew I wouldn't miss it.
But I also knew that tomorrow I'd miss it. So I dragged the spare crappy Yorx bookshelf system (turntable, 2 cassette decks, and a radio with a broken tuner) over to the store, to plug the CD changer into the aux port. It's not high-end, but it's not emitting smoke either.
Small problem. The speakers in the front of the store had bare wire on the ends of their speaker wires. The crap stereo had small RCA jacks.
Went over to Radio Shack. Explained the problem to the nice salesclerk, who located two useful cables with male RCA plugs on one end and wire on the other. That, and a roll of electrical tape: $7.
That way, the boss need not hose her cash flow on stereo repairs or replacement Right Now.
And there's music out front again.
Which means![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadowflyer's band is getting more promotion.
Yay!
Sunday night, the boss' high-end Denon amp, into which the 5-disc changer for the store is plugged, started emitting smoke, according to Chris.
So no music for the front.
Poor Kevin was going nuts, so yesterday I moved the knockoff Discman and the amplified computer speakers that are MY kitchen CD setup out to the front for him, so there would at least be something. As today is my day off, I knew I wouldn't miss it.
But I also knew that tomorrow I'd miss it. So I dragged the spare crappy Yorx bookshelf system (turntable, 2 cassette decks, and a radio with a broken tuner) over to the store, to plug the CD changer into the aux port. It's not high-end, but it's not emitting smoke either.
Small problem. The speakers in the front of the store had bare wire on the ends of their speaker wires. The crap stereo had small RCA jacks.
Went over to Radio Shack. Explained the problem to the nice salesclerk, who located two useful cables with male RCA plugs on one end and wire on the other. That, and a roll of electrical tape: $7.
That way, the boss need not hose her cash flow on stereo repairs or replacement Right Now.
And there's music out front again.
Which means
shadowflyer's band is getting more promotion.Yay!
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Date: 2004-09-29 09:27 pm (UTC)There are three vintage stereos currently set up in my apartment (study, bedroom, and livingroom, plus vintage speakers in the home theater system).
Sorry for the drive-by commenting... but I'm having fun being mysterious until about half a second after you look up my LJ userinfo.
If you're who I think you are...
Date: 2004-09-30 03:11 pm (UTC)Here's the identifying question. Did you, in 1985, own a 1972 Ford Pinto known as the Starship Beatrice?
Re: If you're who I think you are...
Date: 2004-09-30 03:39 pm (UTC)The Beatrice, of fond memory, but (perhaps fortunately) no photographs.
Yes, indeed. :-)
I'll write more later, perhaps. Must run to go see the Ig Nobel Awards now. *zoom*!