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I watched the restored version of this last night. The restoration wasn't as impressive but it's a better movie than Dracula. Going to watch wolfie tonight.

It may just need a cleaning. I had to clean mine once in a while for the person I sold it to. They were smokers. Nicotine acts like a lube believe it or not and will make some things slip that shouldn't. I've run in to it more than once. Not saying that's your issue but something that old needs to be cleaned and relubed.

Yeah. It really sucks. ?

One of the local mom and pop guitar shops has one of the 300 disc changers they keep loaded. To give you an idea how old my amp was it had Dolby Pro Logic capabilities. Ooooh. I listened to a McIntosh MA-5300 one time and it ruined me. Nothing, and I mean nothing I have ever heard can compare to a McIntosh. They are the most pure, distortion free, clean sounding amps on the planet. I never knew what distortion was or how it effected music until I listened to a McIntosh. Distortion smears the image so to speak and destroys the sound field. And the 5300 is one of their low end amps. It was connected to a low end pair of Magnepan's with a cheap Klipsch sub. It was the one and only time I have ever actually heard a sound field where I could pick out the distance and spacing of every instrument and vocal. Seriously, I'll never spend money on anything else. I'll use old junk amps from the pawn shop until I can afford a McIntosh. I think all totaled it would have cost around $9,000 for the amp, Maggie's, and the sub. Edit: The 5300 has an upgradable DAC so if things change in the future you can just update it and not be stuck with an obsolete amp. Of course, purists usually go for an external DAC, but wow was this thing unbelievable.

Hey! What? Darn. ?

I used to work on Panasonic laser fax machines. They came out with a model back in the early 90's where about a month after you would install a new machine somewhere it couldn't see that there was a drum cartridge in it. There was a metal plate with an RJ45 jack that sent the signal from the cartridge to the control pcb. When you'd put the cartridge in it would automatically align and plug in with the jack. They put a nylon zip tie on too tight at the factory around the tiny fine wires going from the RJ45 jack to the control pcb and the crosstalk between the wires would screw up the cartridge detect signal. Panasonic had us go out and cut all the nylon zip ties on the cable and pop the cartridge in and out a few times and all was well.

@Bapu There's probably more money in the cables than in the amp. I remember many many moon ago when I got my first real amp head unit. I think it was one of the first digital Sony heads. I got it at a place called Silo in PA. It was a high end audio place. It was the floor model on clearance sale for $1200 so that gives you an idea of the quality. I had to pay $80 bucks for the fiber optic cable to go from the amp to the CD player. Now they give them away with everything you buy. I had to sell my system before I moved to the mid-west 23 years ago. I paid about $400 for the CD player iirc. I found one at a Goodwill type store out here called Red Racks for $7.50. It was like brand new. There was no disc cartridge for it so I asked the kid working there and he said he had a whole box full of them in the back. He said, "I don't know what it is with you old guys and your vintage stereos." and he gave me a brand new 10 disc cartridge for it and laughed at me. I had tears in my eyes. I had to get rid of the system along with the x so it had some sentimental value to me because I had it before meeting her. Notice the killer 4x Oversampling. The DAC in the head actually sounded better which is what was used when using the optical cable. I'd load up Chronicles 1, Chronicles 2, Are You Experienced, Book Of Dreams, Fragile, They Only Come Out At Night, Abbey Road, A Night At The Opera, Dark Side Of The Moon and lastly, Days Of Future Passed and I'd dream yes yes right between the sound machine. Maybe one day I'll stumble across the amp, but high end ones like that people tend to hang on to till they die. Edit: I mean the amp dies, not the person. Doh!

I used an 18' (5.5m) mic cable and an 8' (2.4m) guitar cable for 16 years live. I still have them and still use them to record. They are about 35 years old now. I never noticed any latency issues at all on stage or recording. That said, I just bought my first new mic cable in 35 years. It's 5' (1.5m). I got it so my recording cables aren't so tangled and messy. I use Hosa Technology cables. They are cheap, extremely well made, and I don't hear any noise when using the balanced ones. I've had cables made by Sweetwater and they were poor quality. There was no stress protection at the jacks and the wire bends at a 90 degree angle where it comes out of the jack if you aren't careful. Craig Anderton puts LED's in his cables. They act as a transient filter. I always wanted to try it but never took the time to do it.

I was just thinking about this the other day and forgot about it again. Thanks for reminding me! I've been taking it religiously every single day since it arrived. I'm experiencing exactly what Kush said he did. The 'air' came back a little in both ears and it sounds like the cotton has been pulled out of both ears. It's not a significant change but noticeable. The ringing in my ears has subsided a tiny bit but any loud noises brings it right back immediately. I've been remodeling the master bedroom in my house and forgot to put my noise blocking headphones on while using an impact driver the other day and the ringing immediately became bad. I don't hammer in a nail, use a drill, use a saw, or do anything that may even remotely cause a loud noise unless I have foam earplugs or noise blocking headphones on. Like Kush said, I'm in full on protection mode to keep what little I have left now. ? When I mow I use both plugs and headphones because it takes me almost 4 hours to mow my property and I have a very loud diesel engine on my tiny tractor/mower. I've lost all hearing below about 1kHz in my right ear. I mention it because I don't know if it's related to the NAD+. I have a permanent tube and it's given me trouble ever since my ENT doctor put it in 3 years ago but the low end loss is new. I can hear upper end fine, a tiny bit better actually. But I solo'd a bass track the other day and it sounded almost stereo to me even though it was in mono. I panned right and nothing, panned left and it was normal. I swapped the headphones around thinking it was a bad wire or connector but nope. I've 100% completely lost all low end hearing in my right ear. I had a hearing test done about 2 months ago and it showed my hearing is actually pretty good and improved and it was done prior to taking the NAD+. It's also fairly equal in both ears for the average person my age of 50 so I don't know what's going on. According to the hearing test I can hear well below and well above the average person my age. That said, they have changed the way they do the tests now so I don't think there was actually an improvement. I think they just didn't do the tests very well before. I happened to have an eye doctors appointment a couple weeks ago about two weeks after I started taking the NAD+ and my eyesight improved slightly. Not that it was bad to begin with but I go regularly because I have abnormally large optical nerves they like to keep an eye on. HAH! I mention this as well because one of the optical nerves got a little larger and it's the first time that has happened since they first started checking them regularly about 15 years ago. It's a sign of glaucoma in most people but in me it's from oxygen deprivation caused by sleep apnea. It will turn in to glaucoma eventually if I live long enough but he tells me not to worry about it seeing how they have been stable for well over 10 years, until now. And he told me he's going to stop doing the tests every year now and do them every other year. He wasn't concerned at all by the one nerve getting larger. And the big thing everyone wants to know ... nope ... no improvement there. Oddly the 'at ease' state 'appears' to have improved significantly but it did nothing for the 'at full attention state'. No pun intended here but it was the biggest change I saw. All that said, I've only been taking this stuff for a few weeks. I got a 3 month supply because it was the most cost effective and truth be told I got it free with my C.C. points. If I don't see any real results by the end of the supply then I probably won't continue to take it. It's $120 for a 3 month supply on Amazon so it's not all that bad but I don't like taking things just because they are allegedly good for me without seeing some actual results. It's one of those things you have to take long term to see any results though so if anyone does try it get the 3 month supply. Sorry for the long reply but I wanted to give as much info as I could. I'll keep taking it and report back here in another month. Don't let me forget! ? I have to go back to my ENT doctor to get this permanent tube removed. I'll request another hearing test and have him compare it with the one I had a month before I started taking the NAD+ and report back. LMK if there's any questions. ??

The Royal family in England are blood relatives of Vlad. They even own property in Transylvania. Vlad just did what he had to do considering the circumstances and the brutality of the enemy. That entire area of the world would probably look radically different today if not for him. I guess I never really viewed him as a bad guy. Eccentric maybe, but he did what he had to do considering who he was fighting. From what I've read he impaled people in response to how the sultan of the Ottoman Empire treated his people. The other fun fact about the 1931 Dracula movie is, it was originally billed as a romance and was released on Valentine's Day in 1931. It arrived yesterday and I watched Dracula. They did an incredible job restoring it.

I guess I could take a crack at the old school way again. This guy has a good video on recording acoustic but he leaves out the problem of the room. I can hear his room a lot in his video and I don't like it at all. But he makes adjusting the mic positions look really easy. He's got a lot of really good video's. He did one on the Acoustisonic and he liked it. He must have got one that worked. LOL! Sorry. ?

I'll have to look in to that. I've asked about doing that on another guitar and was told it can't be done. I know what you mean about the piezo sound on the Fender. My MIM Martin 000 has the same sound when going DI. I just kill the high end to keep it under control.

I had such a massive crush on her when I was a kid. I remember her HBO special in the 80's. I must have watched it 6,000 times. There was a period of time back then when the FCC made them unscramble their signal and everybody got it for free for quite a while. If memory serves me that's how it went down. At any rate, most people didn't know about it unless you had one of those new fancy TV's with a built in cable box and you tuned to it by accident. There was just something about here. Side note ... Mel's working on History Of The World Part 2 now. He's gotta be near 100.

Universal has been restoring and preserving some of their old movies for their 100th anniversary. This video shows how they restored Dracula and how they edited and fixed a lot of audio problems. They released a box set a couple of weeks ago with the original Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and The Wolf Man all completely restored. I ordered it last night. Here's a link to it on Amazon.

If she can swing a hammer and lift heavy things that would be great.

Love this song. He's filming a reboot of The Munster's. I can't wait for it to come out.

I have been working non-stop 7 days a week since I started healing up from my slices around March. I am truly so tired. I'm getting too old for this shtuff. I have 29 days to finish a huge project I'm in the middle of otherwise I'll be sleeping on the floor when company comes for turkey day.

That Gretsch is twice as big as the guy playin' it. Sheesh.

So ... really ... what happened? I see all his posts have been edited.

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I've never been a cat person myself but this wild stray showed up at my door a few years ago. I think she was a Siamese but I'm not sure. My wife and I were sitting there watching TV and I looked at her and said my ears must be getting worse because I swear to God I hear a cat meowing. She heard it too so I went outside and there it was way out in the yard begging for food but wouldn't come near me. She was skin and bone and her one eye was messed up. I started calling her Blinky. I would crush up our dogs food and put a bowl out with some water for her and she would sneak up and eat it. Her eye healed up in a couple weeks and eventually I got her to come up to me. She started hanging around all the time and I thought great, I have a cat now. I called the vet made an appointment to get her fixed, get her shots and chip, and bought some really good cat food he recommended. When it was time to feed her that night she sniffed the bowl, took one kibble in her mouth, spit it out, and ran off in to the woods and I never saw her again. I couldn't believe it. My wife thinks someone scooped her up and kept her inside once I got her back to health and looking good. She was a beautiful cat. This is her. Her eyes were awesome.