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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    "Legitimate" rebranded tubes were often labeled with the brand name of the component in which they were installed (e.g., Airline, Silvertone, Magnavox, harman/kardon, Fisher, etc.). Some companies played on both sides of the fence (Zenith, Sylvania, and, of course, RCA and GE, e.g.).

    It was also not particularly uncommon to see rebranded tubes branded with the names of 'big' tube manufacturers -- especially late in the tube era. For example, I have "RCA" branded 6922s that are clearly labeled "Made in Holland" -- and not made by RCA in Holland ;)

    Here's a 'rebrand' --- these gorgeous (yes, I am biased) "Westinghouse" 5692s are RCAs.

    13337579533_65c3688dea_h.jpgWesties closeup by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

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    (borrowed image, of course!)

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  • mhardy6647
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    49069830256_0e9bb20977_b.jpgSabreliner Move by Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, on Flickr

    I enjoyed these photos, from BWI (Baltimore-Washington/Thurgood Marshall International Airport) on Flikr... they moved an old Sabreliner jet from the airport (or nearby, maybe from Northrop-Grumman, the old Westinghouse) to the nearby Electronics Museum (a place I wouldn't mind seeing someday)...

    here's the 'album' from which the photo above was borrowed:
    https://flic.kr/s/aHsmJoDEhA
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  • tonyp063
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    These are another nice rebrand.

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    (borrowed image also)
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  • Nightfall
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    Old and new NSX. Drool.

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    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Nightfall
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    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Clipdat
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    Clipdat wrote: »
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    Wow. This thing works.

    Amazing.
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 13,105
    edited November 2019
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    Clipdat wrote: »
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    Wow. This thing works.

    Amazing.

    Here's my three word review of the Audioquest Niagara 1200:

    Worth every penny.
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  • joecoulson
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    Yep^
    All you naysayers out there, AQ power is legit ****
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
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    Walter got a new outfit today! :smile:
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  • mrbiron
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    I finished! Kind of...
    Built the upper, lower, and installed traditional shiplap. Painted the walls today. Just need hooks. Then I start framing for my 1,200sqft basement. Yay!
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    mrbiron wrote: »
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    I finished! Kind of...
    Built the upper, lower, and installed traditional shiplap. Painted the walls today. Just need hooks. Then I start framing for my 1,200sqft basement. Yay!

    Nice! The "Frogtape" really makes it pop.

    ;)


    No, in all seriousness -- looks fantastic! Deserving of a better class of mud than are most folks' mudrooms.
    I am envious.
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
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    Clipdat wrote: »
    Clipdat wrote: »
    20191104130341_Review_AudioQuest_Niagara_1200_Intern.jpeg

    Wow. This thing works.

    Amazing.

    I'm curious how the EMI meter reads the before and after with your new toy! :smile:
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
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  • Willow
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    My son's African mantis having lunch .
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  • joecoulson
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    mrbiron wrote: »
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    I finished! Kind of...
    Built the upper, lower, and installed traditional shiplap. Painted the walls today. Just need hooks. Then I start framing for my 1,200sqft basement. Yay!

    Great job - close to the kind of stuff we do
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  • Clipdat
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    verb wrote: »
    I'm curious how the EMI meter reads the before and after with your new toy! :smile:

    Well, measurements aren't everything apparently.
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  • Viking64
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    Clipdat wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    I'm curious how the EMI meter reads the before and after with your new toy! :smile:

    Well, measurements aren't everything apparently.

    Tell that to my ex-wife. :'(
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
    edited November 2019
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    EDIT:
    1) this is not a response to any of the previous posts (not even @Viking64's) :p
    2) the image might make a good badge*; @hermitism?

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    * even if it would might be impractical to photoshop in @lightman1's... umm... puss... onto that puss's puss.

    (we'll see how Vanilla feels about the word p-u-ss. None too sanguine, I suspect.)
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  • Dabutcher
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    Kool picture done entirely with matchbooks! u2s5sr9zsae3.jpeg
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    MIT Magnum MH-750, Monster HTS 5100MKII, Sony 77" Class - A80CJ Series - 4K UHD OLED,PS4, Def Tech 15” sub,LSIM 706c, Sunfire Signature Grand 425 x 4,Parasound hca 120, LSiM 702 x 4, Oppo 103D, SDA SRS 1.2, Pioneer Elite SC63 , Pioneer Elite BDP-05 “Why did you get married if you wanted big speakers?”
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Dabutcher wrote: »
    Kool picture done entirely with matchbooks! u2s5sr9zsae3.jpeg
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    Neat-o.

    Whoever made that should display it with a copy of the cover art from Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane's album, Rough Mix -- the cover of which was a montage of cigarette cards from the England of days gone by. :)

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  • OleBoot
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Dabutcher wrote: »
    Kool picture done entirely with matchbooks! u2s5sr9zsae3.jpeg
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    Neat-o.

    Whoever made that should display it with a copy of the cover art from Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane's album, Rough Mix -- the cover of which was a montage of cigarette cards from the England of days gone by. :)

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    Don't remember cigarette cards in England - maybe were before I started the evil habit. I think a lot of the cards on the Rough Mix cover are "tea cards", which came in, errr, packets of tea. Trading cards came with other things as well like bubble gum and various sweets (candy).

    The other theme on this cover is that the "Rough Mix" title in the top left hand corner is in pretty much the same font as Rizla rolling papers, and the yellow area the same shape as the pack.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    All I can say (bein' a Yank and all) is that I remember a reference to the cover's being a collage of "cigarette cards" in a contemporary review (which I am still seeking in the annals of https://www.americanradiohistory.com/index.htm :p).

    I did find this -- but it's a modern reference and can't really be fact-checked for accuracy :p

    https://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/clapton-eric/pete-townshend-and-ronnie-lane-unsurpassed-masters-rough-mixes-audiofon-af19/
    The covers are rather splendid – featuring the original, unadorned U.K. sleeve featuring various vintage cigarette cards of the kind that might be framed & displayed in a local hostelry. With Audiofon’s newly used casual font adorning the track listing on the back along with the familial picture of Pete & Ronnie sat back to back on a tree stump – this also appears in a larger size in the case back. Liner notes are amended & uncredited from the excellent Lostgrooves blog adding a small addendum at the end for the specific details of this disk. The only gripe would be the spelling of the ‘Stones drummers name – Who is ‘Charly Watts’?

    I also note a reference to cigarette cards in Tom Robinson's song 1967 (So Long Ago) as performed on The Secret Policeman's Ball (The Music) -- an album dating from about the same era as Rough Mix and also featuring a trio of absolutely superb, gossamer Pete Townshend acoustic performances.

    https://youtu.be/eplo-8F1el8

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_card

    Oh, and... finally... Rough Mix is a magnificent album, in a way that one would never have expected from Big T (unless one were very familiar with his other early solo work and the influence of Meher Baba in his life, especially in those days). It sounds really good, too.
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  • OleBoot
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    Don't break your fingers Googling - it is very likely to be my memory, And yes, Rough Mix is an excellent album - one of my favourites. I think it may be one of the few albums I have on vinyl, cassette and CD!
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  • OleBoot
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    So I did the Googling. Turns out that British cigarette cards died out after WWII, which is why I don't remember them. Looking at the age of some of the images, they probably are pre-war cigarette cards. I guess I just grew up knowing those little cards as tea cards.

    cigarettecards.co.uk/intro.htm
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Each to his own tea, I suppose... à la The Rutles. :p

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    OleBoot wrote: »
    So I did the Googling. Turns out that British cigarette cards died out after WWII, which is why I don't remember them...

    ... and that must be why I remember it, then?

    ;)

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  • mhardy6647
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    in other news from the internet...

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    https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-indian-hills-community-center-signs/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&fbclid=IwAR3EFYB7n22QQPiT2uX9teMoYoPG-JZEGFKUs5BT7zO52dSZsZ6HzxzWiOo
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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  • Viking64
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    One would think that I was employed at the Indian Hills Community Center. :o
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    I didn't see any pug puns during my meticulous research, unfortunately.

    and, from other, darker corners of the internet. Here's a bad holiday gift idea.

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    https://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/Mighty+Carving+Knife/207016

    https://youtu.be/PMpskUKFvik
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  • verb
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    One would think that I was employed at the Indian Hills Community Center. :o

    You certainly have the qualifications! :smile:
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
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