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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 9,116
    edited January 30
    You know you're getting old when.... doing a 20Hz to 20kHz frequency sweep on an R2R, monitoring it with speakers, and the dB meter shows +- 2dB for both channels but you no longer hear the high frequency tones very well or at all.

    I had a good run, 72 now. Everything else still works. :D

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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,876
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.

    My high school had a smoking ring for the students

    Yes sir, we did too.....shouldn't this go into the "You know you're old" thread lol
    Set up:

    Marantz AV8802A - Sources: BRP Panasonic 9000/CDP Emotiva ERC 3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-6, XPA-2 x 2 - Speakers: Focal/PolkAudio, Mains/2ch - Kanta No2, C - LSiM706, SS - LSiM702, WS - RTiA9, RS - RTiA9, FH - RTiA3 - Subs: Epik Empires x 2

    Cables: AQ McKenzie XLR's from CDP to AVP to amp for 2ch, Emotiva XLR's for the rest - Douglasconnection: Furutech Alpha 36 12g speaker wire for 2ch, Furez 10g speaker wire for the rest - AQ Forest48 HDMI for the display, AQ Carbon48 HDMI from BRP to AVP - VR3 filtered power cables for CDP, BRP and AVP, Emotiva power cables for the amps - AudioQuest 505 power conditioner.

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,876
    Oh dang, it is...^^^^^

    Well, I guess this is another indication I'm old :D
    Set up:

    Marantz AV8802A - Sources: BRP Panasonic 9000/CDP Emotiva ERC 3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-6, XPA-2 x 2 - Speakers: Focal/PolkAudio, Mains/2ch - Kanta No2, C - LSiM706, SS - LSiM702, WS - RTiA9, RS - RTiA9, FH - RTiA3 - Subs: Epik Empires x 2

    Cables: AQ McKenzie XLR's from CDP to AVP to amp for 2ch, Emotiva XLR's for the rest - Douglasconnection: Furutech Alpha 36 12g speaker wire for 2ch, Furez 10g speaker wire for the rest - AQ Forest48 HDMI for the display, AQ Carbon48 HDMI from BRP to AVP - VR3 filtered power cables for CDP, BRP and AVP, Emotiva power cables for the amps - AudioQuest 505 power conditioner.

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,123
    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
    Oh dang, it is...^^^^^

    Well, I guess this is another indication I'm old :D

    OR you smoked TOO much latin lettuce .....
  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,876
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
    Oh dang, it is...^^^^^

    Well, I guess this is another indication I'm old :D

    OR you smoked TOO much latin lettuce .....

    :D
    That's the PC version of what we used to call it in high school!!
    Set up:

    Marantz AV8802A - Sources: BRP Panasonic 9000/CDP Emotiva ERC 3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-6, XPA-2 x 2 - Speakers: Focal/PolkAudio, Mains/2ch - Kanta No2, C - LSiM706, SS - LSiM702, WS - RTiA9, RS - RTiA9, FH - RTiA3 - Subs: Epik Empires x 2

    Cables: AQ McKenzie XLR's from CDP to AVP to amp for 2ch, Emotiva XLR's for the rest - Douglasconnection: Furutech Alpha 36 12g speaker wire for 2ch, Furez 10g speaker wire for the rest - AQ Forest48 HDMI for the display, AQ Carbon48 HDMI from BRP to AVP - VR3 filtered power cables for CDP, BRP and AVP, Emotiva power cables for the amps - AudioQuest 505 power conditioner.

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,094
    The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.
    Same at mine -- smokier than even the boy's bathroom. :#
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    Pretty sure Calvin was smelling smoke.
  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,577
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The teacher's lounge at my high school had the strongest smoke smell that I can remember.
    Same at mine -- smokier than even the boy's bathroom. :#
    Pretty sure Calvin was smelling smoke.

    Either that or chili was served in the cafeteria for lunch.

    Chili that can untarnish a penny as good as new.

    A penny that can wreak havoc in the giant Hobart food disposal Sarlacc pit much to the chagrin of blue-haired women in tight white dresses.
  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,786
    ^^^ When five or more people agree people with one of these items, it's an old indication.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
  • geoffr
    geoffr Posts: 24
    People in their 50s call you sir.
  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 4,013
    edited February 4
    When you sit around the table in the clubhouse and complain about package delivery.
    Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel…….Samuel Johnson

    Since we don’t know where we are going we have to stick together in case someone gets there….Ken Kesey

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
    – Kevin Alfred Strom
  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,123
    That dudes going places!!
    👍🏼
  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,786
    edited February 6
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    This has to be the funniest picture in this thread.

    Ken, it came at a very opportune time for me to use. You always are out there with your pics.

    Today February 6, my best friend is 87 years old. He got the picture in an email with a birthday wish.

    (Sent it to my best friend of 53 years. His name is Orville Madison "last name" Jr. )

    Told him, I ordered one for both of us.

    His reply:
    I really appreciate it but I already have one. Brand new in original box. My damn shoulders are so bad that if I got it over my head I'd have to wear it all day.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA