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In '79, I started working at a Las Vegas hotel. The first night on my 23rd birthday, I saw the cook clean his fingernails with one of his big knives and then cut up stuff with it. He didn't even wipe it off first. Hell yes I busted him! He denied and denied he did it. Oh no, there was a camera...

I had a Hoover self propelled upright for a long long time. My dogs were terrified of it. The dog in my avatar, King, was scared of only two things, that vacuum, and a ceramic cocker spaniel that could outstare him. I always thought the vac scared him because of the noise, it was very loud, and...

I've owned Yamaha recievers for over 40 years, always connected to external amps. The only problem, if you can call it one is that some of the amps I had connected to them weren't driven to full output. But it was still more than enough for my listening room. Just as an aside, in 44 years of...

I have had many sets of speakers on my PCs over the last 30 years or so, right now, it's just 2 channel and that's good enough, especially since my right ear is nearly dead at this point to to Eustation tube issues. I used to hit a lot of garage sales, and would buy various speakers when I found...

Sometimes, just walking away can be the only thing that will keep you sane. It's just too much to deal with. A friend of mine and his sister have basically decided, since their folks are gone now, to walk away from their much younger brother, who has made some amazingly bad choices, especially...

The ACInfinity units work great, they keep my AVR and old Onkyo M-508 amp from melting down. The temp on both stays at 81F, max. Only negative is the dust and cat hair they collect under them. About once a month, I take my home vac and use it on them and then a damp rag to make everything look...

My frustrations n my own system seem to have begun when I tried to "upgrade" I was and am again using a Yamaha TSR-7810 after I bought what I thought was going to be an upgrade, a Denon AVR-X4500H that has ended up being a huge pain in general. The 4500 has never worked quite right, and failed...

I've had Sharp and Panasonic, and we have a very big Panasonic at work. I would be looking at Panasonic if I was shopping. If you got 25 years out of a microwave, you're very lucky. 10 years seems to be about how long mine last. They don't die, they just start to fade away and get weaker and...

We didn't have anyone blaring over a speaker here, but we, like anywhere else, have an assortment of raving maniacs who will yell all kinds of conspiracy theories (They don't really deserve to be categorized as "theories" because of their being either totally impossible to be real, or very very...

I have ACInfinity fans on both my AVR and main power amp, they both run too hot, at least IMO, and the fans are an easy fix. My AVR temp goes to the point I can barely touch the rear of it after about an hour of operation, and the main amp, an old Onkyo with the giant green meters, just runs...

I've been soldering since I was about 7, working on radios, etc. That was over 55 years ago. Lead free is just bad. If you even think you need flux, just make sure it's rosin flux and not acid, which most of it is.. But I can't think of a single time I ever needed flux for soldering...

A friend of mine was born over in the UK and had never been back until he was about 25. He went with his wife, his parents, and his US born sister and her fiancee'. After they got over there, they wanted to go to where his parents grew up, so they rented two cars and the plan was to meet up in...

My brother in law got to basically go to college for free, since my sister has been a librarian at several colleges for over 45 years now, and almost 25 at her present one. Were ANY of his degrees actually useful? No. English Lit, Greek Lit? Philosophy? He's got master's degrees in them, and one...

I tried setting the crossover to 100 and I don't know if I like it better there or at 80, it's like at the eye doctor, "Is this better, or is this one better?" It's kind of like, "They're about the same!". I'm running a single sub right now, and I'm not sure space or my neighbors below me would...

I listened to Netradio quite a bit over the last 5 days and had no problems, except all my favorites were gone, and a couple of the stations are no longer available. I guess we will see on the Denon...

it actually started to stink a little, and at that point, I got out one of my old 2 Channel receivers wth Pre outs/main ins, and used the amp to run the L+R fronts until the big Onkyo came. The 7810 wouldn't have lasted very long if I hadn't done something. I was kind of shocked at how little...

My seemingly decently powered Yamaha Trs-7810 was straining and cooking itself trying to run my apartment set up, 4 Polk LSiM 703's front and side surrounds, a 706 center, and two old SVS bookshelves for rear surrounds. My older Yamaha RXV-659 could and did run them without issues, but that was...

You don't have to go back 20 years, that's too far, unless you recap it, but any Yamaha 10 or so years old would be good to go IMHO. My recently retired 2006 vintage Yamaha RX-V659 would work very well if I wanted to do like you are posting about doing. Unlike it's first replacement, a Yamaha...

I know two people with LSiM705's and they seem to have no problems with them and I personally like the sound. They both can play them very loudly without stressing the amps too much. But then again, I own LSim703's. My front pair are powered by an old recapped Onkyo M-506 amp, as my receiver...

I was listening a couple of days ago and like it's always been, the quality varies from awful to pretty decent. Some have a very odd lack of bass that sounds like some of the old CDs that were mixed badly and were just unpleasant to listen to. I have everything connected via cable, wireless is...