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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,655
    Those damn peckers can wreak havoc.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    edited November 28
    It attacked the little translucent diffusing screen in front of (I presume) the IR sensor. Mangled it. I've thought about trying some transparent tape or something across it, as a half-a##ed attempt to weather-proof it... but:
    1. Even I have my limits vis-a-vis ghetto/MacGyver approaches. :blush:
    2. Not sure that the sensitivity (or selectivity) would be trashed
    3. Not sure that the bandwidth of a random piece of transparent or translucent adhesive tape would be appropriate for IR transmittance.
    :#
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,317
    We stayed in Jackson NH just south of Mt. Washington for several days about a month ago. I would take out our daily trash to the dumpster early in the morning until this one morning I see trash scattered across the entire back parking lot. It seems a bear had gotten into the dumpster overnight and made a huge mess. That morning was the end of me being a nice guy and my bringing my trash out to the dumpster.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,861
    treitz3 wrote: »
    That thing had a slant 6? OMG

    Maybe that's where the "money saving" part came in. So long as you aren't in a hurry, I guess that's alright....

    Tom

    No one was in a hurry back then.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    motorstereo wrote: »
    We stayed in Jackson NH just south of Mt. Washington for several days about a month ago. I would take out our daily trash to the dumpster early in the morning until this one morning I see trash scattered across the entire back parking lot. It seems a bear had gotten into the dumpster overnight and made a huge mess. That morning was the end of me being a nice guy and my bringing my trash out to the dumpster.
    Usually such places up here bear-proof the dumpsters with chains and padlocks.
    Fricking bearsies, unfortunately, can be a nuisance. It's rarely their fault (and we're guilty as charged, as bird feeders - as y'all know).
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    Hanover, NH has periodic problems with bears raiding frat house dumpsters.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,942
    audioluvr wrote: »
    treitz3 wrote: »
    That thing had a slant 6? OMG

    Maybe that's where the "money saving" part came in. So long as you aren't in a hurry, I guess that's alright....

    Tom

    No one was in a hurry back then.

    True that!

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,315
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    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,317
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    motorstereo wrote: »
    We stayed in Jackson NH just south of Mt. Washington for several days about a month ago. I would take out our daily trash to the dumpster early in the morning until this one morning I see trash scattered across the entire back parking lot. It seems a bear had gotten into the dumpster overnight and made a huge mess. That morning was the end of me being a nice guy and my bringing my trash out to the dumpster.
    Usually such places up here bear-proof the dumpsters with chains and padlocks.
    Fricking bearsies, unfortunately, can be a nuisance. It's rarely their fault (and we're guilty as charged, as bird feeders - as y'all know).
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    Hanover, NH has periodic problems with bears raiding frat house dumpsters.

    I told the owner of the place that a bear had gotten in his dumpster and he assured me that it was a raccoon and not a bear as they're in hibernation this time of the year. Once he saw the amount of damage though he admitted yes it sure was a bear. Albeit a confused bear that doesn't know he or she is supposed to sleeping.
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,735
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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    motorstereo wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    motorstereo wrote: »
    We stayed in Jackson NH just south of Mt. Washington for several days about a month ago. I would take out our daily trash to the dumpster early in the morning until this one morning I see trash scattered across the entire back parking lot. It seems a bear had gotten into the dumpster overnight and made a huge mess. That morning was the end of me being a nice guy and my bringing my trash out to the dumpster.
    Usually such places up here bear-proof the dumpsters with chains and padlocks.
    Fricking bearsies, unfortunately, can be a nuisance. It's rarely their fault (and we're guilty as charged, as bird feeders - as y'all know).
    54563215072_d8464c77de_b.jpg

    Hanover, NH has periodic problems with bears raiding frat house dumpsters.

    I told the owner of the place that a bear had gotten in his dumpster and he assured me that it was a raccoon and not a bear as they're in hibernation this time of the year. Once he saw the amount of damage though he admitted yes it sure was a bear. Albeit a confused bear that doesn't know he or she is supposed to sleeping.

    They're close to being dormant, but it's very borderline. Mid-December is considered the "safe" date, at least up here in the Upper Valley.
    We're still bringing feeders in at night for a little while.
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,735
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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,566
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    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,566
    It snowed last night...
    8:00 am: I made a snowman.
    8:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman.
    8:15 - So, I made a snow woman.
    8:17 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.
    8:20 - The **** couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead.
    8:22 - The transgender man..women...person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts.
    8:25 - The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.
    8:28 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.
    8:31 - The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up .
    8:40 - The Police arrived saying someone had been offended.
    8:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.
    8:43 - The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.
    8:45 - TV news crew from MSNBC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I replied "Snowballs" and am now called a sexist.
    9:00 - I was on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.
    9:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.
    9:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be arrested.
    By noon it all melted
    Moral:
    There is no moral to this story. It is what we have become, all because of snowflakes.
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

    “If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.” - Steven Wright
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    Last Saturday afternoon, our daughter & her two kids came over to bake cookies with mom/nana. Later that afternoon (about as late as we could push it, given the short hours of daylight this time of year!), we 'hiked' (it's mostly a walk, with a bit of a scramble at the end) to a granite ledge fairly high above our little hamlet. It was a nice afternoon to be up there. On our way back down, we passed several folks going up - I assume - for sunset.
    (photos from my cheap cell phone)
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    Looking towards Mt. Ascutney (Vermont, but right across the river)
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    Looking towards the Green Mountains of Vermont
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    Looking kinda, sorta towards our house (not visible from the ledges)
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    The town's public school (K-8) roughly in the center, the town's snooty prep school on the left ;)

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
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    saw this @ ASR and thought the vinylista might get a kick out of it... or something... B)
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,655
    I had a Stanton.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    The 681EEE in particular was a very fine piece of hardware.
    I am embarrassed to say that I only learned of the... interoperability of Stanton & Pickering in the modern era; I had no idea back in the day. :blush:
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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,127
    I never had the pleasure.
    I was a VMS20 fanboy & didn't see any reason to change.

    Didn't know what I didn't know. :-(
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    edited December 2
    I liked those Ortofons, too. :)
    ahem -- and Joe Grado-era Grados B)

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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,127
    edited December 2
    Oh yes.
    There's an M+ here (T4P) that I've been trying to suss out how to use on a Real Turntable (tm)

    Sounds bloody marvelous on an SL-6
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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,127
    Back to our regularly scheduled pictures.

    An SL-6
    https://audio-database.com/TechnicsPanasonic/player/sl-6.html

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,902
    edited December 2
    I had a dump find SL-5 for (quite) a while. It was so easy to use, and it just. worked. No fuss, no muss, no bother. I used it extensively in my annual holiday music dubbing frenzy for a while. Ultimately gave it to the son of friends of ours who'd gotten interested in vinyl. :p
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    PS Should be a 1/2" mount adapter (adaptor?) available for your P-mount cartridge, @tonyp063 -- at least on the aftermarket. :)Chance favors the prepared mind. B)

    PPS Speaking of P-mounts (and photos), this followed me home from the last NEVEC fleamarket - from the freebie table. If it's free, it's for me. Some things never change... :blush:

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    The little finger-lift is half-broken, but otherwise it works pretty well. It was curated sans cartridge, but even I have a couple-three P-mounts of questionable heritage hanging around for just such an opportunity. :#

    P^3S Looking at those old photos of the SL-5, I realize that the 'turntable stand' is an early Polk Monitor Series Model 10 (unsuffixed). I had bought a pair of those, in meh to fair condition, from a hifi buddy near Boston many years back. They're... in the basement.



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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,655
    edited December 2
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The 681EEE in particular was a very fine piece of hardware.
    I am embarrassed to say that I only learned of the... interoperability of Stanton & Pickering in the modern era; I had no idea back in the day. :blush:

    That's the one I had. It had a little brush attached to it.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 3,028
    This wins funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet today…

    https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/raccoon-breaks-liquor-store-passes-out-bathroom-booze-fueled-rampage

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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,915
    Hilarious!!
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