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The weirdest response I ever got was from a British waiter who said he wondered why I didn't have pointy ears...
Coming into my middle 60s. Had gall and back problems, not really worried about not seeing as well. Figured my prescription (stable all my life) had started to change. Except even a full trial-kit of test lenses was not helpful, and contrast was down.
The eye-doc knew what it was right-off, though he did ALL the tests to be sure I did not have multiple problems. Nope, simple cataracts, so advanced that I was not legal to drive! This is nearly the simplest eye-problem you can have: re-lens your eyeballs, cured forever. Stick-in-the-eye sounds frightening, but they make it painless, and everybody loves the results. Longer story here.
There's several other reasons eyesight can decline. Get your eyes checked. Tell the doc what you do for fun (hold tiny objects way close) so he knows you are fussy about your vision.
Aren't Vulcans Vegan? LOL
Joking aside almost no restaurant in the city we live in really caters to vegetarians let alone vegans which forces my wife into a very limited set of choices when we eat out. (We live a couple of miles south of Boston where there are choices, but not convenient for a casual dining experience given congestion on the roads and sometimes slow rides on the subway.)
Surprisingly the Eyejusters in use exhibit unnoticeable levels of astigmatism, at least I am never aware of it, but they are around $100 with shipping.
I have lots of readers, from +1.25 to +3.5 and find the stacking just works better because I can pop them on and off more quickly than a full glass change when I need to look at something close up and then a little further away. An example of this is when I am setting VTA on my turntable. Guess I am weird. LOL
We are getting pretty close to getting our meat off of engineered trees. That and active carbob dioxide “recycling” to make carbob fibres could go a long way to mitigating climate change.
dave
I am 58 and gifted techy. I can fix anything that I can see, including mechanical SLR cameras.
Electronics hobby started at the time I started studying electronics, about 19. I am a repair tech at work. First amp was LM379S based from a magazine, ETI but had assembled a valve radio during studying. Hearing is very good but I have poor eyesight due to GERD which gives throat infection and headache. My hands are always shaky since I remember.
I made my own furniture in my apartment, 12 years ago.
Gajanan Phadte
Electronics hobby started at the time I started studying electronics, about 19. I am a repair tech at work. First amp was LM379S based from a magazine, ETI but had assembled a valve radio during studying. Hearing is very good but I have poor eyesight due to GERD which gives throat infection and headache. My hands are always shaky since I remember.
I made my own furniture in my apartment, 12 years ago.
Gajanan Phadte
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I am 51. Absolutely interested in building and testing new circuits. Make double-sided, non-PTH PCBs at home. Hand-make Interconnects, Power cords and 48 core braided Speaker Cables; you don't have to be an audiophile to hear the difference. EnABL Wide-range Speaker aficionado.
Sought after Theologian, Psychologist and Counselor.
Down side - find it hard to complete projects as more and more creative ideas evolve along with progress of the project at hand.
Sought after Theologian, Psychologist and Counselor.
Down side - find it hard to complete projects as more and more creative ideas evolve along with progress of the project at hand.
I'm 28, apparently part of the really young crowd haha. My electronics ventures officially started when I was about 7 when my father taught me how to solder. I built my first radio not very long after that and I liked to repair and otherwise deal with video games.
Nowdays I repair everything electronic and dabble in making really nice sound stuff including hardware (amps and related mostly), software (I write my own music software, synthesizers etc.) and music (I used to be in a band but nowdays it is all at home with my own tools).
Currently I am building 600 game cartridges for a friend, 150 done, 450 more to go ! almost entirely surface mounted stuff, and if it wasn't it would take waaaaaay longer. Reflow soldering is really really really quick and effective, pick and place parts, cook a little and done. 50 part board done in about 5 mintues would be very much undoable with regular through hole parts.
I am shortsighted, not able to see much beyond my fingers' reach, but I see really well for close up stuff, very helpful with the small parts haha. My hearing is getting worse over time, right now 17KHz is my limit and there's tinnitus in form of couple beyond 1KHz tones (different in each ear) that I only hear in complete silence (i.e late in the night before sleep etc.).
My DIY ventures are fueled by lack of money to actually buy any of the decent stuff so I either make my own to rival or exceed those decent things or buy broken or just good stuff and enhance them to the decent level. Some areas will require money though, such as vinyl playback, there's no way I can make my own styluses for example, and all the good things are very expensive unfortunately. Mechanical music sucks sometimes hahaha.
I take a more scientific approach also. Listening is important and I want to know what exactly I am listening and if a thing in theory actually works out in practice. Measure and correlate !
Nowdays I repair everything electronic and dabble in making really nice sound stuff including hardware (amps and related mostly), software (I write my own music software, synthesizers etc.) and music (I used to be in a band but nowdays it is all at home with my own tools).
Currently I am building 600 game cartridges for a friend, 150 done, 450 more to go ! almost entirely surface mounted stuff, and if it wasn't it would take waaaaaay longer. Reflow soldering is really really really quick and effective, pick and place parts, cook a little and done. 50 part board done in about 5 mintues would be very much undoable with regular through hole parts.
I am shortsighted, not able to see much beyond my fingers' reach, but I see really well for close up stuff, very helpful with the small parts haha. My hearing is getting worse over time, right now 17KHz is my limit and there's tinnitus in form of couple beyond 1KHz tones (different in each ear) that I only hear in complete silence (i.e late in the night before sleep etc.).
My DIY ventures are fueled by lack of money to actually buy any of the decent stuff so I either make my own to rival or exceed those decent things or buy broken or just good stuff and enhance them to the decent level. Some areas will require money though, such as vinyl playback, there's no way I can make my own styluses for example, and all the good things are very expensive unfortunately. Mechanical music sucks sometimes hahaha.
I take a more scientific approach also. Listening is important and I want to know what exactly I am listening and if a thing in theory actually works out in practice. Measure and correlate !
23 here.
Joined diyAudio when I wanted to add a subwoofer to my home stereo (which was mostly donated bits saved from the bin) and decided that a bottom-end 10" PA midbass was the thing to use!
Have moved on a bit since, and am now running a small sound engineering business after discovering live sound.
I still build my own speakers, but leave the amplifiers up to the guys that know what they're doing - no way I could build what an MA12000i does.
Chris
Joined diyAudio when I wanted to add a subwoofer to my home stereo (which was mostly donated bits saved from the bin) and decided that a bottom-end 10" PA midbass was the thing to use!
Have moved on a bit since, and am now running a small sound engineering business after discovering live sound.
I still build my own speakers, but leave the amplifiers up to the guys that know what they're doing - no way I could build what an MA12000i does.
Chris
I'll be turning 40 in February, despite my so-called youthful appearance. I definitely do NOT look my age. I have a little grey, but not much, and a full head of hair at this point. I've been in building speakers since 1998 and just prior with a few car audio installs of my own. I've built a few power supplies, a single amp from an article, and a few board-module types I am working on still, along with a fairly complex relay-driven 3-position speaker selector switch. I've had help, given help, and enjoyed every minute of it. My wife and I waited until later to have our daughter that is currently 5, so I and she had time to be 'us' before kids became a factor.
I do have a touch of tinnitus in both ears, likely from infant ear infections, as I don't recall a time without it and thought it was normal. I have fairly average blood pressure and routinely measure in the 110/70 range. When it's up, they ring more as it goes. I take Lipoflavonoid as it does help with the ringing in my case, as well as reduce the effects of some light vertigo that occasionally plagues my daily goings on. As it turns out, antihistamines also help with the imbalance and the ringing. Antivert is a strong antihistamine. I'm a strong advocate of hearing protection, and wearing it properly, and wore them in my daily grind (even when it was not required) if I felt it was too loud. I'm sure that affected my tinnitus some, but how much is unknown. I still test out okay, and can hear 16kHz.
I love the challenge of building speakers!
Later,
Wolf
I do have a touch of tinnitus in both ears, likely from infant ear infections, as I don't recall a time without it and thought it was normal. I have fairly average blood pressure and routinely measure in the 110/70 range. When it's up, they ring more as it goes. I take Lipoflavonoid as it does help with the ringing in my case, as well as reduce the effects of some light vertigo that occasionally plagues my daily goings on. As it turns out, antihistamines also help with the imbalance and the ringing. Antivert is a strong antihistamine. I'm a strong advocate of hearing protection, and wearing it properly, and wore them in my daily grind (even when it was not required) if I felt it was too loud. I'm sure that affected my tinnitus some, but how much is unknown. I still test out okay, and can hear 16kHz.
I love the challenge of building speakers!
Later,
Wolf
47 here...
When I was about 10 yrs old, Dad ran the table saw so i could build my first set of speakers. Dad was not an audio Diyer. These wonderful speakers were the first on the planet of their type. Multiway, and no crossover at all!
Ran them for a while on the guts of a console that I built into a 'real' receiver. I swear that thing shocked me so many times it stopped my heart.
Saved my Christmas and Birthday money up, and was able to afford my dream Technics receiver as a demo at Harveys Audio Video. Took it home hooked it up,
the right woofer went on fire in my bedroom.
Dad took me to back to Harveys, with the receiver and my crusty speaker. They couldn't believe it, and promptly caused a fire in a Jamo right in the showroom.
They agreed to give me the newest Technics, and a pair of Fisher 3-ways.
In the full showroom, Spectators abound! they removed the woofer from 'my' MP's Amazing Loudspeaker. The burned woofer came out, along with the underwear that had been missing in the household for the past month.
Where else is a kid supposed to get damping material?
When I was about 10 yrs old, Dad ran the table saw so i could build my first set of speakers. Dad was not an audio Diyer. These wonderful speakers were the first on the planet of their type. Multiway, and no crossover at all!
Ran them for a while on the guts of a console that I built into a 'real' receiver. I swear that thing shocked me so many times it stopped my heart.
Saved my Christmas and Birthday money up, and was able to afford my dream Technics receiver as a demo at Harveys Audio Video. Took it home hooked it up,
the right woofer went on fire in my bedroom.Dad took me to back to Harveys, with the receiver and my crusty speaker. They couldn't believe it, and promptly caused a fire in a Jamo right in the showroom.
They agreed to give me the newest Technics, and a pair of Fisher 3-ways.
In the full showroom, Spectators abound! they removed the woofer from 'my' MP's Amazing Loudspeaker. The burned woofer came out, along with the underwear that had been missing in the household for the past month.
Where else is a kid supposed to get damping material?
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