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1: Headphone Heights, RE: Do any of you own FiiO earphones? (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2021-08-22, 19:52:10 (47.14.64.93)
John, I'm sorry I bought a set on your recommendation. They sounded quite good But I can't use earbuds as I have only on functional hand. I use my Focal Elears instead. .......
2: Radio Road, RE: tuner, tuner, tuner! (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2021-08-18, 15:16:45 (47.14.64.93)
That's a beauty, mrh, I always wanted one. I stopped with my 310-E. .......
3: Radio Road, RE: FM Stations are so poor Quality Now (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2021-06-07, 16:58:35 (97.89.247.135)
You are lucky if that's as simple as they are. Check out your receiving end. .......
4: Radio Road, RE: APS antennas out of business? (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2020-01-16, 16:27:08 (47.14.69.59)
Yo! Timbo! Still carrying the Torch. I was lucky to get my APS-13 before they went out and it still flies on my roof after perhaps 20 New England winters. .......
5: Radio Road, RE: MR80 (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2019-12-15, 19:22:15 (47.14.69.59)
Nice, Cougar! I have an MR-78 that was upgraded by Modeferri about 24 years ago. I was in upstate New York and my favorite classical station was a couple hundred miles to the north. Today I am north o .......
6: Headphone Heights, RE: I don't have any Focal headphones (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2019-12-15, 16:48:06 (47.14.69.59)
I agree on the cable I don't need 3 meters of thick rubber sitting here on my couch. I bought a 5' Moon Audio Blue Dragon, which sound great an are much easier to deal with. This is my first venture i .......
7: Radio Road, RE: going through some changes. Needed to! (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2019-09-06, 11:41:05 (47.14.69.59)
Did! Wassup! .......
8: Radio Road, RE: + 1 the antenna is the most important part of a radio reception system. (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2019-09-02, 18:59:15 (47.14.69.59)
+ 1000! Hey Timbo I hope you are doing OK! .......
9: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Anyone heard from Jim McShane Lately? (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2019-09-02, 17:47:32 (47.14.69.59)
Good to here, Jim! Side effects from meds can really bugger things up! .......
10: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Poll (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2019-04-11, 15:13:53 (47.14.69.59)
I think the SS looks fine, but find a better looking plank. A cutting board? .......
11: Tubes Asylum, RE: Tube curve traces - please interpret.... (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2019-03-29, 15:58:26 (47.14.69.59)
You need to know the load so you can draw the load line your device will trace about its operating point. Ideally you would like to see equal distances between your curves indicating linearity. your c .......
12: Radio Road, RE: I live in Australia where some FM stations use minimal compression (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2018-05-18, 20:03:54 (96.32.45.97)
We do suck, Tho, I live near Boston and my FM is pretty good. .......
13: Radio Road, RE: Hi Bill, I briefly thought you meant 'Wild Bleeding Glimpse of the Obvious! (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2018-05-18, 20:02:07 (96.32.45.97)
Sadly, Timbo, You are correct. they don't want to have to think and decide, best to you I hope you are doing well,Jim. .......
14: Radio Road, RE: an on line radio is NOT an FM tuner (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2018-05-18, 18:35:13 (96.32.45.97)
Timbo is a respected contributor here. Your epithet was out of place. Argue his position rather than reverting to ad homenim. .......
15: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: To the Bored (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2017-09-17, 16:39:47 (75.135.124.182)
Here, here, gusser, There is more unknown in our Black Art than will ever be figured out! .......
16: Radio Road, RE: Hi Steve! I will be quite busy for a week or so. (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2017-09-17, 16:02:08 (75.135.124.182)
Wow, Timbo! you have your hands full! Funny thing to see the antennae questions heat up again. What do you suppose it means? Best, Jim .......
17: Vintage Asylum, RE: Power Tube Tutorial (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2017-02-09, 16:57:29 (75.135.124.182)
Thank you Mark, I don't play geetar but enjoyed reading that full article and listening! .......
18: Vintage Asylum, RE: when Goering realised that Britain had won the radar/radio war ... (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2017-02-09, 15:46:40 (75.135.124.182)
The Germans also figured out how to use the forward scatter from the Chain Home transmitters to detect and track British bomber flights coming their way. EW is very cool and both sides were quite clev .......
19: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Tell us the most obscure tweak you know of that works: (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-11-05, 17:15:48 (75.135.124.182)
Simple Green and my pressure washer clean my ears out so I can hear the pure sound of silence, .......
20: Radio Road, RE: Can't get into FMtunerinfo.com (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-11-05, 08:54:30 (75.135.124.182)
Me neither. I posted a question at their user group. .......
21: Radio Road, RE: Picking up a station 350 miles away (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-09-24, 16:50:07 (75.135.124.182)
Listen to Timbo. He is our resident voice of RF sanity. I've been an RF engineer for my 32 year Career, have designed antenae as well. I hate the term "pull in", antennae are passive devices, like a l .......
22: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Maybe the Hendrix album? (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-09-11, 13:18:31 (75.135.124.182)
Electric Ladyland? Too lazy to dig mine out. .......
23: Vintage Asylum, RE: After 25 years with S-5000 I finally lost a 7199 in action (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-09-03, 16:16:53 (75.135.124.182)
Agree on 6BL8 .......
24: Radio Road, RE: I was looking for the ARRL Antenna handbook because I want to make a cubical quad (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-08-06, 16:07:21 (75.135.124.182)
Again, Mike, but haven't looked through this edition, Best, Jim .......
25: Radio Road, RE: I was looking for the ARRL Antenna handbook because I want to make a cubical quad (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-08-06, 09:24:34 (75.135.124.182)
Not what you wanted, but perhaps? https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1967-05 .......
26: Radio Road, RE: Where can I buy online a good Yagi antenna for radio? (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-05-07, 15:03:28 (75.135.124.182)
They are getting to be rare beasts. Many below have noted the need for a rotator, because good antennas like Yagis are directional -they work best when pointed in certain directions. So, first determi .......
27: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: I hear you. (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-04-23, 17:25:07 (75.135.124.182)
Save your nickels and buy some decent used HP, Tek, or Genrad equipment. Remember the platitudes we used to tell ourselves: below some level distortion doesn't matter, tubes and caps are generally wit .......
28: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Just bought Allen Wright's Vacuum State DPA-300b (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-04-10, 18:01:43 (75.135.124.182)
Remember Allen passed last year, may he RIP, He was generous in sharing his ideas. Bless him. .......
29: Tubes Asylum, RE: Extinct?? (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-04-10, 16:38:51 (75.135.124.182)
Lucky my lifetime is short. I think I've my lifetime supply, and they sound great in my Deuce, cathode resistors changed per Jim McShane and 6L6. .......
30: Radio Road, RE: Instead of how many tuners? How many of you have a good antenna? (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-03-07, 16:38:21 (75.135.124.182)
Het, Timbo, As a retired designer of antennas for Satellite comm, I follow your dictum: drive your tube front end to the max. I have a rooftop APS-13 with rotor just outside Boston feeding my Scot 310 .......
31: Vintage Asylum, RE: Thanks! (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-02-20, 14:09:16 (75.135.124.182)
Greetings from up over! I feel your pain, friend. You are used to being active, popping a stitch is not conducive to activity. Hopefully you'll heal well. Just be careful lifting those tube amps! I do .......
32: Vintage Asylum, RE: Doesn't matter AWE didn't build this PSU. (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2016-02-19, 15:51:22 (75.135.124.182)
Speedy recovery, Timbo! .......
33: Radio Road, RE: Unquestionably the finest FM tuner ever made (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2015-01-25, 18:03:26 (75.134.15.63)
I have an MR-78, Modaferrari modded back in his younger days. I love it and it has giving me great service until I discovered my Scotts (5 now). HD radio was a scam used to promote car radios. As Mac .......
34: Radio Road, RE: Unquestionably the finest FM tuner ever made (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2015-01-25, 10:33:50 (75.134.15.63)
The Boston FM "situation" has changed, but not dramatically for the worse. There is a ton of HD crap around if you don't tune carefully. I have a Scott 310-E, listen to WHRB (32 mi) and WCRB(14 mi) ex .......
35: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Harry Pearson died November 4th. (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2014-11-21, 15:33:57 (75.135.124.88)
"Thanks" for news. I am sad but Fremer wrote a beautiful obit. HP introduced me to a lot of really good music. Granted couldn't afford his best in equipment but was inspired to strive towards the abso .......
36: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: pinging: Henry Pasternack (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2014-10-24, 17:34:08 (66.189.90.177)
I'm speechless. Beautiful! .......
37: Radio Road, RE: that's 'cause I effed it up :-P (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2014-10-24, 14:31:54 (66.189.90.177)
I figured that out, Mike, But the website doesn't give it's call sign or frequency so I could look up its footprint. I'm listening to WHRB-95.3 (Hahvud radio) on my Scott 310-E through APS-13 with rot .......
38: Tubes Asylum, RE: Is Jim McShane out of the woods yet? Flood IIRC. (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2014-07-22, 18:44:43 (68.112.254.212)
Hey, jim and Mike, hope you,are both OK, Age, we have no resistance to, Water indoors is about as hopeless. Make the best as you can, and thanks for your posts! Jim .......
39: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Cat Dampers Tweak (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2014-06-03, 16:08:31 (68.112.254.212)
My cats tell me they ARE made out of Unobtainium. .......
40: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: I love the smell of .. (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2014-05-20, 18:14:58 (68.112.254.212)
Yah, beat me. Did it scare the $hit out of them? .......
41: Radio Road, RE: A good amplified indoor FM antenna! Well, well. (0.00)
Posted by kingjim1954 on 2014-04-28, 15:11:45 (68.189.247.179)
No, Timbo! Don't give in! keep up the good fight against the free lunchers. At RF size does matter. Aczel laments that the antenna needs to be turned. Oh the pain of directive gain :) Hard to believe .......
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