"phenotyp" (phenotyp)
09/15/2015 at 00:31 • Filed to: Things that are good
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"phenotyp" (phenotyp)
09/15/2015 at 00:31 • Filed to: Things that are good | 9
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I’m honestly speechless. (he says, as he starts talking; short version of long story ahead)
My grandfather and I spent many hours listening carefully to beautiful recordings, and he was a stickler for fidelity. It was a pretty good education, of music, voices, reaction, and I’m only mentioning it to undersell it, here.
I brought his speakers (made sometime between ‘79-83) home, and all the old foam (just like the cameras) needed replacement. One of them tore apart as I unpacked it.
Thanks to other people’s enthusiasm and dedication, people make new things to repair old things. This alone is worth noting. That I could find them, and in a week, have the parts I’d need to fix these two, and have the patience to let the glue dry sufficiently, and not mess up the alignment, before hooking them up, is pretty amazing.
And now that they’ve been hooked up to my old amp (for like less than an hour!), playing music they never would have predicted, and I’m hearing things I never could have believed someone could hear. It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced. Pieces of old wood, metal, magnets, wire, and fabric, pushing air.
Some things, physical objects, weigh more than you think they do. Sometimes carrying a weight makes you lighter.
Here’s an old thing that isn’t:
DrJohannVegas
> phenotyp
09/15/2015 at 00:36 |
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Nice job on the refoam. If you ever do another set, you might find that the “test tone” method (or centering the drivers with a nearly-dead battery) works really well, too.
Solid cabs!
lone_liberal
> phenotyp
09/15/2015 at 00:42 |
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McIntosh, correct? Good stuff.
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phenotyp
> lone_liberal
09/15/2015 at 00:51 |
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Yep. Grandpa’s stuff was McIntosh and Leica. And it all still works better than any new stuff.
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phenotyp
> DrJohannVegas
09/15/2015 at 00:55 |
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It was all original foam, having lived in a farmhouse in northeast Ohio, and none of it survived transport (and would have been trash had it been left there).
Hope never to do another one, because this was all my soul could take.
Anon
> phenotyp
09/15/2015 at 01:15 |
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So what you’re saying is that your Grandpa had expensive as hell taste! I say this as someone who would love a Leica.
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phenotyp
> Anon
09/15/2015 at 01:23 |
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pretty much. I’m just now able to take all that beautifully-made stuff (lenses, speakers) and make them work with digital things like a 5D2 and and desktop that drives a 1997 Kenwood amp.
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phenotyp
> Anon
09/15/2015 at 01:26 |
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http://photography.kinja.com/some-difficult…
The first pictures i took with his 50mm Leica lens on my 5D2. (keep in mind manual focus and aperture)
citizennick
> phenotyp
09/15/2015 at 01:33 |
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I'm fairly certain my parents have some McIntosh monitors laying around somewhere.
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phenotyp
> citizennick
09/15/2015 at 01:35 |
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Whaever they are are, they are worth it.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> phenotyp
09/15/2015 at 07:26 |
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looks 100x cooler than anything you could get now.
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phenotyp
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/15/2015 at 12:18 |
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And they weigh about 100x more, too.
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> phenotyp
09/15/2015 at 19:04 |
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I asked a buddy of mine to help me move. He comes over “you needed my help to move these” (they were my grandparents old dressers from the 40’s) go to move them
friend:@$%!“#%#((@#