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For the audiopiles...

Maggot

Maggot

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    Saw the thread title and could not resist sharing a short story.

    I had a Kenwood GPS Stereo installed in my truck a few years back. I’ll never make that mistake again.

    Anyway, I was speaking with tech support trying to get an answer to a rather simple question but was getting nowhere fast. A one point I called him an audiophile. “What did you call me???” I repeated myself and he said “What’s that???”

    It became clear that he had never heard the term and his mind was conflating the term with the common pejorative “pedophile”. I asked for a supervisor and though the supervisor was embarrassed regarding his underling and could not answer my question either, we did have a good laugh.

    Like I said, no more Kenwoods for me…….
     
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    Max said:
    Saw the thread title and could not resist sharing a short story.

    I had a Kenwood GPS Stereo installed in my truck a few years back. I’ll never make that mistake again.

    Anyway, I was speaking with tech support trying to get an answer to a rather simple question but was getting nowhere fast. A one point I called him an audiophile. “What did you call me???” I repeated myself and he said “What’s that???”

    It became clear that he had never heard the term and his mind was conflating the term with the common pejorative “pedophile”. I asked for a supervisor and though the supervisor was embarrassed regarding his underling and could not answer my question either, we did have a good laugh.

    Like I said, no more Kenwoods for me…….
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    I accidentally crossed the 12v +- wires on one of my Rockford Fosgate amps, let the smoke out. Called them, told them what I did, they said send it in and sent me a new one, no charge.

    They were super cool.
     
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    mrdrar said:
    Would nice if an American company bought Richardson's KT88 and Phillips' 8417 manufacturing equipment.
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    Sounds like he's working in the right direction. The new 300B's are superb. We may all "Own nothing and be miserable." by then though.
     
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    rtB said:
    An audiopile? Is that like a wall of sound?
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    No... THIS is the Wall of Sound. An amazing feat for its time.

    iu
     
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    Herb Stoner said:
    No... THIS is the Wall of Sound. An amazing feat for its time.

    iu
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    rtB said:
    WHAT!?!?!
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    For those who dont know, this was created for the Grateful Dead by their soundman and chemist, Augustus Owsley 'Bear' Stanley to fill the stadiums they were playing. The bass, so I'm told, was so intense it would fuck with your solar plexis. As their chemist, he 'allegedly' created what is said to be some of the finest LSD of the time. They used almost exclusively McIntosh amplifiers, thus the great sound.
     
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    Maggot said:
    As their chemist, he created the finest LSD of all time. They used exclusively McIntosh Beta test amplifiers, thus the great sound.
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    FTFY

    Some of the amps were hand wired and had never been tested before.
    They were running at under 1 ohm loads and never overheated or blew.

    Here's Bear giving some smack down to newbies about the system.....you figure out who Bear posted as...
    deadsources.blogspot.com

    1974: Wall of Sound Technical Specs

    THE GRATEFUL DEAD'S SOUND SYSTEM (HOLLYWOOD BOWL - JULY 1974) Recently there have been major changes made in the Dead's sound system, bri...
    deadsources.blogspot.com deadsources.blogspot.com
     
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    n2ishun said:
    FTFY

    Some of the amps were hand wired and had never been tested before.
    They were running at under 1 ohm loads and never overheated or blew.

    Here's Bear giving some smack down to newbies about the system.....you figure out who Bear posted as...
    deadsources.blogspot.com

    1974: Wall of Sound Technical Specs

    THE GRATEFUL DEAD'S SOUND SYSTEM (HOLLYWOOD BOWL - JULY 1974) Recently there have been major changes made in the Dead's sound system, bri...
    deadsources.blogspot.com deadsources.blogspot.com
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    No, you didnt fix it, but I'll leave it at that.

    Interesting read on the system though.
     
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