So, how weird are you??
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Well, I don't know how weird I am but I'm a nerd for sure.
Lamps.
'50's lucite table lamp. Keeper. Left here.
'70's porcelain base table lamp. Keeper. Left here.
'80's solid resin base in shape of tree branches with "carved" scene of mother American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) π€ͺ feeding baby. Keeper. Left here.
I wouldn't pay $1 for it at a garage sale but it's functional.
My lamps. This was a project.
2 small, matching ceramic lamps with mid-century design (I guess it's supposed to be like a woven basket, pineapple shaped, shade narrower at top than at bottom, takes (and I use- this was the point) incandescent bulbs with not many lumens. π€ͺ Shades are tan.
1 small ceramic (advertised- in fact it's resin) lamp that's same size and also uses incandescent bulb.
Mid-century design- geometric. Looks like a jar with pattern of vertical lines. Pale- medium and unique orange color. Shade is not tapered. Shade is white.
Desk lamp with small round base, metal to bend to point the light. Also incandescent.
I'm trying to get the rest of the bulbs in my light fixtures replaced with LED.
Most of the fixtures are banks of lights in "boxes" on ceiling covered by plastic grates in the kitchen and large bathroom.
So the grates have to be taken apart and cleaned to replace bulbs. They aren't readily accessible. The minute the grates are moved dirt will start falling everywhere, the grates will be greasy, and they're too big to be cleaned inside.
So 2 projects in 1.
Oh, and I bought a $19.99 tall lamp from Walmart and tried to assemble it. So dumb of me to waste $19.99 on a tall lamp. $19.99 tall lamp?
I got the rods screwed together except the last one. It sits in a corner of my living room with the top most rid and actual light fixture hanging toward the floor waiting to be taken to the dumpsters.
I'd like a nice (enough) tall lamp for the living room. The living room is a pretty vast space with no ceiling fixture and no wiring for one.
Maybe I'll attach a chandelier (from Murano- j/k) from the ceiling with an extension cord. Yes, I like this idea.
There are 2 clamshell storm shutters outside the 2 living room windows.
They're open. I'm having them shut, for storms but mainly for privacy.
I have two in the big bedroom. They're shut. Some light gets in but nobody can see in at any angle. In fact, I could take the excuses for curtains that are there now and take them away. They're going anyway. It course I'll replace with something basic.
Lamps, yes. The real logistical challenge for me is keeping track of bulbs. I still don't know what I have installed, everything I have stored, and what bulb where is ready to say good bye.
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We have two acoustic pianos and an old Yamaha Clavinova. The Bohemia upright is currently at my sister-in-law's house but it will be heading back here soon.
I have way too many guitars and I recently went completely insane and bought a very high-end turntable.
It is pre-owned (of course) and during the recent customer appreciation party at the dealer, it called to me and they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. lol
I love it when people with a whole lot more money than I have, trade-in to upgrade to the supposed next best thing, and the depreciation gremlin provides an opening for someone like me.
It is a very noticeable upgrade from my previous "high-end" turntable. And it damn well better be! lol
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Wow. Thats quite a turntable!
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BTW I'm reminded of a friend from PW who used to have two grand pianos, as well as two uprights and at least one digital. And then one day he posted about not being able to turn down a free piano!
(and he's not a piano tech btw)I'll have to ask if he still has all those instruments.
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There was a prominent piano technician, Bill Garlick, who reportedly had a whole collection of pianos at his home in Long island. Heβs probably passed on by now, and I wonder what happens to such collections. And I wonder if other techs collect pianos too.
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I was an audiophile. I bought used (lol). I attempted to build a system. I had chosen and bought the amps. Then life happened. I sold my amps for what I paid. I didn't get to the point of choosing a source or speakers.
This is a close variant of my amps-
Mine had a black not silver face. The silver is distracting. JMHO.
Art.
I kind of wish I had them today although I couldn't do anything with them at the moment but display them (and I'd be good with that) and (the real reason it would have been impossible to keep them) because I led a nomadic life moving back and forth from Hawaii Island to Maui over the better part of 20 years (yes, going where the jobs were, as a person did to be able to live out there) and they weighed a ton. There's no way I could have kept them.
I just learned that Cary made (or makes?) a version of SET with integrated pre-amp. Um, yes, please. Lol.
My current system (and I like it a lot) is sub- $100 monitor speakers I connect to my phone with bluetooth.
It's quite amazing actually. The only problem (and it's kind of a big one in music listening terms) is I don't want them to be anywhere except my bedroom.
So they are on each side of my desk.
I can't face them unless I'm sitting at my desk.
I never sit at my desk to concentrate on music.
I have $99 Grado headphones with the largest ear covers they offer ($$ but highly recommend) if I really want to immerse myself in music listening.
I don't have much of an audiophile quality system (the Grado headphones are an exception) but I get what I want with both the little monitor speakers and the headphones-
a spectrum that is not "weighted". It's even.
This is my overriding criterion.
I couldn't listen to classical music or Delta blues any other way.
Not only that, but anything but an even spectrum makes my ears bleed.
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I was an audiophile. I bought used (lol). I attempted to build a system. I had chosen and bought the amps. Then life happened. I sold my amps for what I paid. I didn't get to the point of choosing a source or speakers.
This is a close variant of my amps-
Mine had a black not silver face. The silver is distracting. JMHO.
Art.
I kind of wish I had them today although I couldn't do anything with them at the moment but display them (and I'd be good with that) and (the real reason it would have been impossible to keep them) because I led a nomadic life moving back and forth from Hawaii Island to Maui over the better part of 20 years (yes, going where the jobs were, as a person did to be able to live out there) and they weighed a ton. There's no way I could have kept them.
I just learned that Cary made (or makes?) a version of SET with integrated pre-amp. Um, yes, please. Lol.
My current system (and I like it a lot) is sub- $100 monitor speakers I connect to my phone with bluetooth.
It's quite amazing actually. The only problem (and it's kind of a big one in music listening terms) is I don't want them to be anywhere except my bedroom.
So they are on each side of my desk.
I can't face them unless I'm sitting at my desk.
I never sit at my desk to concentrate on music.
I have $99 Grado headphones with the largest ear covers they offer ($$ but highly recommend) if I really want to immerse myself in music listening.
I don't have much of an audiophile quality system (the Grado headphones are an exception) but I get what I want with both the little monitor speakers and the headphones-
a spectrum that is not "weighted". It's even.
This is my overriding criterion.
I couldn't listen to classical music or Delta blues any other way.
Not only that, but anything but an even spectrum makes my ears bleed.
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I was an audiophile. I bought used (lol). I attempted to build a system. I had chosen and bought the amps. Then life happened. I sold my amps for what I paid. I didn't get to the point of choosing a source or speakers.
This is a close variant of my amps-
Mine had a black not silver face. The silver is distracting. JMHO.
Art.
I kind of wish I had them today although I couldn't do anything with them at the moment but display them (and I'd be good with that) and (the real reason it would have been impossible to keep them) because I led a nomadic life moving back and forth from Hawaii Island to Maui over the better part of 20 years (yes, going where the jobs were, as a person did to be able to live out there) and they weighed a ton. There's no way I could have kept them.
I just learned that Cary made (or makes?) a version of SET with integrated pre-amp. Um, yes, please. Lol.
My current system (and I like it a lot) is sub- $100 monitor speakers I connect to my phone with bluetooth.
It's quite amazing actually. The only problem (and it's kind of a big one in music listening terms) is I don't want them to be anywhere except my bedroom.
So they are on each side of my desk.
I can't face them unless I'm sitting at my desk.
I never sit at my desk to concentrate on music.
I have $99 Grado headphones with the largest ear covers they offer ($$ but highly recommend) if I really want to immerse myself in music listening.
I don't have much of an audiophile quality system (the Grado headphones are an exception) but I get what I want with both the little monitor speakers and the headphones-
a spectrum that is not "weighted". It's even.
This is my overriding criterion.
I couldn't listen to classical music or Delta blues any other way.
Not only that, but anything but an even spectrum makes my ears bleed.
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@Daniel Sweet amps!
I have a pair of Decware monoblocks that I use when I am in the mood for tubes. Not a great photo of them.
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These look amazing. I bet they sound great.
https://tmraudio.com/products/cary-audio-design-cad-211fe-monoblock-tube-power-amplifiers
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So, I just took down the two plastic panels covering the "light box" over the 2 sinks in the his and hers bathroom.
This is what I found:
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One incandescent bulb that was working but was literally pulled apart. The base of the bub was disconnected from the rest of it and you could see the wiring inside the bulb. It was working and just hanging there waiting to start a fire. Apparently, one of the grates had knocked into. I imagine the previous owners did the damage, ignored it, and flew back to Canada, with the electric never turned off, of course. I'm sorry but what id
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One soft white incandescent. Um, why?
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One incandescent lamp light. Again, why?
I put in 3 LED's of the right length and closed the 2 panels, making sure the grates were in place and made sure the bulbs (I wrote down the bulb height) were not touching the grates.
Then I tried to investigate the light in the "VENTLINE" brand (I wrote it down) but couldn't get the plastic covering off and had to give up for the day.
I know this was a vacation home but a vac!ation home will burn to the ground as soon as any other.
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@mark that is a very cool turntable! Does it have a cover when youβre not using it? One of our cats sits on top of our covered turntable; he likes being high up.
We have 3 lamps in the living room, or 4 if you count the piano lamp. One piano (sold the Roland about a decade ago).
More guitars than I remember; I have two, occasionally play one of them. Mr. AM has four. Kiddo left five or six here, maybe? 3 are electric.
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I am not an audiophile. I do have some superb speakers and a 12" subwoofer that is not hooked up. Have an upscale Sony receiver. When I play cds I use a DVD player.
My hearing may not be the best but I cannot bear carpy sound systems. Could not stand the Amazon Echo gizmos because the sound is lousy. Got a pair of Sonus that do the job of the Echos better.
I got out of the practice of listening to music while living with Don. He had an uncanny talent for walking in and taking over during the most crucial part of any piece of music.
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@mark that is a very cool turntable! Does it have a cover when youβre not using it? One of our cats sits on top of our covered turntable; he likes being high up.
We have 3 lamps in the living room, or 4 if you count the piano lamp. One piano (sold the Roland about a decade ago).
More guitars than I remember; I have two, occasionally play one of them. Mr. AM has four. Kiddo left five or six here, maybe? 3 are electric.
The Turntable does not have a cover. I could certainly imagine one as an acrylic cylinder but then what would I do with such a monstrosity during playback? It would be very large and I would be paranoid lifting it off of the turntable. I found one that is custom made for a smaller, less expensive version of my turntable but it would need to be more than 2x the height of this one.
Check it out here. https://stereosquares.com/product/clearaudio-innovation-dust-cover/
See how they have the tonearm sticking outside of the cover? YIKES! That would be the part where I would paranoid with it. This one is already $400+ doubling that plus shipping charges would probably put one north of $1k. Plus I don't really like the looks of this one. A Cylinder would look pretty cool though. Let's crank that price up even higher! lol
I just keep it dusted every few days or so using a very soft long bristle brush. I will run a dry swiffer duster over all of the stereo components monthly, being very careful around the turntable stylus.
I do always keep the stylus guard installed when not being used in case someone bumps the tonearm.
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