Greetings, from Southeastern Indiana. I am not a fanatic about audio. I enjoy music, and like it to be clean and tidy. I found reference to this forum in a thread from the HTPC forum of the AVS Home Theater site. I am planning to adapt my PC as an entertainment center with the intent of setting up a Dolby digital type sound system for the fun of it. Until then, a TV card, and an old cobbled together stereo will have to do. Other than the PC, it will all be based on some vintage JBL LE8Ts, making it respectable, I think, but nothing 'fanatical'.
I once had a McIntosh system but disposed of it when I expected to be sent to the meat grinder in Vietnam. Never went to Vietnam, but life has been pretty much gray and uneventful, especially in the audio realm, ever since.
I also have some JBL D130s systems, with blown voice coils. I haven't looked yet, but perhaps I'll find some DIY guidance here, in fixing them.
That's all for now...
danz
I once had a McIntosh system but disposed of it when I expected to be sent to the meat grinder in Vietnam. Never went to Vietnam, but life has been pretty much gray and uneventful, especially in the audio realm, ever since.
I also have some JBL D130s systems, with blown voice coils. I haven't looked yet, but perhaps I'll find some DIY guidance here, in fixing them.
That's all for now...
danz
Yeah, but what kinda bike do you ride?
don't all Hoosier's ride bikes to work? used to listen to WOWO in Ohio -- are they still around?
don't all Hoosier's ride bikes to work? used to listen to WOWO in Ohio -- are they still around?
Re: Yeah, but what kinda bike do you ride?
Howdee<G>. Don't work. Use a Schwinn Airdyne, though. I've been in the Cincinnati vicinity for 31 years and do not recall those call letters.
What city was WOWO out of? Cheers...
danz
jackinnj said:
Howdee<G>. Don't work. Use a Schwinn Airdyne, though. I've been in the Cincinnati vicinity for 31 years and do not recall those call letters.
What city was WOWO out of? Cheers...
danz
Hi danz, and welcome to diyAudio 🙂
For the rest of us non American English speakers, what is a Hoosier
🙂
For the rest of us non American English speakers, what is a Hoosier
🙂Hoosier...
A word of unknown origin applied to folks from the state of Indiana, in the United States. Many stories, but none confirmed as to where term Hoosier came from.
I'm actually a Buckeye transplant, but I've lived longer in Indiana than in Ohio. Ohioans are termed Buckeyes by some. Regards...
danz
pinkmouse said:Hi danz, and welcome to diyAudio 🙂
For the rest of us non American English speakers, what is a Hoosier
A word of unknown origin applied to folks from the state of Indiana, in the United States. Many stories, but none confirmed as to where term Hoosier came from.
I'm actually a Buckeye transplant, but I've lived longer in Indiana than in Ohio. Ohioans are termed Buckeyes by some. Regards...
danz
WOWO was "clear channel" in the literal sense of the word (i.e. 50kW of AM Power) from Fort Wayne IN -- we could hear it in Cleveland.
WOWO
I lived in the Cleveland area the first 22 years of my life, but spent most of my radio listening time listening to FM broadcasts. Some of my favorites were WCLV, especially on Saturday Nights. Don't know if they still have it, but then they did a take-off on That Was The Week That Was--TW3--a British show from about that time. Lots of wierd British Humor which I still enjoy when I hear it.
Funny how one's life becomes a fabric of threads leading to and from all sorts of different places. Thanks for the memories...
danz
jackinnj said:
I lived in the Cleveland area the first 22 years of my life, but spent most of my radio listening time listening to FM broadcasts. Some of my favorites were WCLV, especially on Saturday Nights. Don't know if they still have it, but then they did a take-off on That Was The Week That Was--TW3--a British show from about that time. Lots of wierd British Humor which I still enjoy when I hear it.
Funny how one's life becomes a fabric of threads leading to and from all sorts of different places. Thanks for the memories...
danz
Shades of Bob Conrad -- I actually won one of the WCLV contests -- some tix to the Arabica -- another time I won the "Stone Ponies" first albums.
WCLV is online -- they sold the channel they had and moved up the dial. They actually started a foundation which owns the classical music station -- and it is funded into perpetuity -- Cleveland is a great burg for classical music, dance and the arts in general.
Unlike WQXR in New York/NY, the WCLV classical isn't entirely irritating. I think that the management of the New York Times company which owns WQXR is intent on driving classical music entirely off the FM Dial.
WCLV is online -- they sold the channel they had and moved up the dial. They actually started a foundation which owns the classical music station -- and it is funded into perpetuity -- Cleveland is a great burg for classical music, dance and the arts in general.
Unlike WQXR in New York/NY, the WCLV classical isn't entirely irritating. I think that the management of the New York Times company which owns WQXR is intent on driving classical music entirely off the FM Dial.
Yessss...Cleveland...
Hello, again. I went to school at BW and bought many a Severance Hall nosebleed ticket for 50 cents--in my day. Never really knew about nor took advantage of other Cleveland notorieties. I came closest after my first 'meal' on an ore boat docked in the Cuyahoga River. I was a new porter/dishwasher and was told to dump the day's garbage into the river. The only thing that kept my job for me was I didn't want to explain to my uncle whose influence got me the job, how/why I got fired after 3 hours on the job<G>.
Cleveland has re-invented itself since I left. I wonder if there's any causal relationship?
These days I use a C-Band satellite dish, an old Chaparral Monterrey receiver, and listen to WCPE on a sideband(?) of the WGN tv station in Chicago. I just leave the TV turned off. They are from the Triangle area in North Carolina where I have a loved niece. I found them when they still broadcast periodic BBC newscasts. I just keep listening now that the BBC bits are gone, because it beats my alternatives--I have no FM tuner for now.
I'll be flying over you in the next couple of days. I'm on my way to Belgium via JFK for a Hip Resurfacing surgery on Saturday. I'll wave. Cheers...
danz
jackinnj said:
Hello, again. I went to school at BW and bought many a Severance Hall nosebleed ticket for 50 cents--in my day. Never really knew about nor took advantage of other Cleveland notorieties. I came closest after my first 'meal' on an ore boat docked in the Cuyahoga River. I was a new porter/dishwasher and was told to dump the day's garbage into the river. The only thing that kept my job for me was I didn't want to explain to my uncle whose influence got me the job, how/why I got fired after 3 hours on the job<G>.
Cleveland has re-invented itself since I left. I wonder if there's any causal relationship?
These days I use a C-Band satellite dish, an old Chaparral Monterrey receiver, and listen to WCPE on a sideband(?) of the WGN tv station in Chicago. I just leave the TV turned off. They are from the Triangle area in North Carolina where I have a loved niece. I found them when they still broadcast periodic BBC newscasts. I just keep listening now that the BBC bits are gone, because it beats my alternatives--I have no FM tuner for now.
I'll be flying over you in the next couple of days. I'm on my way to Belgium via JFK for a Hip Resurfacing surgery on Saturday. I'll wave. Cheers...
danz
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