Karma is a wonderful thing, after letting one slip through my hands (figuratively speaking) over a decade and a half ago. I finally bought the first of Stan Curtis's TDA 1540x based CD players, to join it's CD2 and CD3 brothers. The Cambridge Audio CD1. Having "sat in a box in a loft for many years", (the generous ex owners words) a small act of friendship allowed the first mistake to be remedied. And how! There surly cannot be many out there in this condition, or that have been treated and looked after as well. After a few hours of acclimatization to the room and some cleaning of connectors, it's been playing now for a couple of hours. Having owned a number of the TDA machines this is indeed special, some of this may be due to the modifications of a previous owner, (a true audiophile) the upgraded internal clock and massive external PSU, but there is no mistaking the quality due the original designers inspired work. Better already than a relatives Marantz CD7 to my ears at least, still to be compared to the Micro Seiki M100. It will be interesting comparing it with the Tube Technology Fusion (Watts Dac 64 of Chord fame) though designed with ECC88 tube output stage. Certainly a tough act to follow.
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Double Decker Outhouse
No chit! Open the bottom door, there's a bench with a toilet seat, decorated with a plastic plop. There's also a ladder to the upper floor. Which also has a potty-bench. And if you sit in the lower chamber you can see right up the hole in the upper chamber.
No, I did NOT buy either of these products. Not today. (Although at today's lumber prices, that chair may be a fine financial investment.)
No chit! Open the bottom door, there's a bench with a toilet seat, decorated with a plastic plop. There's also a ladder to the upper floor. Which also has a potty-bench. And if you sit in the lower chamber you can see right up the hole in the upper chamber.
No, I did NOT buy either of these products. Not today. (Although at today's lumber prices, that chair may be a fine financial investment.)
A family member has one of those, is a blast with a 9,000 rpm small block, full tube chassis.
Need to go try and find a first car for my daughter…
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9” Dell Inspiron 910 Mini Windows XP - 1.6GHz Atom, 1GB RAM, 8GB SSD
Dell's first entry in the "netbook" fad.
About $400 in about 2010.
Now $24 with a cracked corner and an assumed-dead battery.
Runs like a top and I'm seeing hints of life in the battery.
I run a Windows 3.0 program nightly. It will run in XP but not newer. My last XP netbook threw a fan bearing last week and the fan is the worst part to get out for cleaning/oiling. I was even looking to short-cut through a tin shield but my shears were not small enough to wedge in. Anyway all rotating storage dies. This 910 Mini is an early SSD. Low-clocked Atom. Dead-silent.
Dell's first entry in the "netbook" fad.
About $400 in about 2010.
Now $24 with a cracked corner and an assumed-dead battery.
Runs like a top and I'm seeing hints of life in the battery.
I run a Windows 3.0 program nightly. It will run in XP but not newer. My last XP netbook threw a fan bearing last week and the fan is the worst part to get out for cleaning/oiling. I was even looking to short-cut through a tin shield but my shears were not small enough to wedge in. Anyway all rotating storage dies. This 910 Mini is an early SSD. Low-clocked Atom. Dead-silent.