Actually some KILLER wallpaper!

[Decker]

Sometimes my fingers get going faster than my "spell checker" ... that is why I usually use Vicki ... my proof reader.

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[Randall]

Ooo, touchy are we? Well, a rose by any other name ... ya know??

Touchy? I'm just having fun same as you are ! Oh ya and happy belated birthday! I got one coming up at the beginning of August ... argh.

 

[Decker]

Like fire ,they make great slaves but poor masters.

Dont own one myself, although my wife did saddle me with one years ago, but i managed to get rid of it.

I do wonder at the sight at a local transit station or shopping mall, where a vast proportion of the people seems en-teched, interacting more closely with their digital device than they are with the environment they inhabit.

They remind me of the Borg........

Part of the inevitable merging of biological and machine

Resistance is futile

When I was about 11 or 12 years old, one of my greatest gifts .. might have been Christmas, was a set of kids walkie talkies. LOVED THOSE THINGS. Later in the Army in Viet Nam, now and again I would be tasked to work as an RTO, or radio operator with the "Prick 25" radio. Except for lugging it around I loved playing with it. Of course if I was "out in the sticks" the downside was the antenna which made a really great target. These days it is the GPS on your phone. Except if I am going somewhere and get "lost" I turn the damned GPS off.

Decker

 

[Randall]

Dont own one myself, although my wife did saddle me with one years ago, but i managed to get rid of it.

Yes! he he he ... but let me guess, now you find yourself trying to retain what it was you two were talking about before your conversation was interrupted by her cell phone !

 

[Muadib]

When I was about 11 or 12 years old, one of my greatest gifts .. might have been Christmas, was a set of kids walkie talkies. LOVED THOSE THINGS. Later in the Army in Viet Nam, now and again I would be tasked to work as an RTO, or radio operator with the "Prick 25" radio. Except for lugging it around I loved playing with it. Of course if I was "out in the sticks" the downside was the antenna which made a really great target. These days it is the GPS on your phone. Except if I am going somewhere and get "lost" I turn the damned GPS off.

Decker

That's probably a good idea for the most part, I've heard some horror stories about people following GPS directions to the point of ridiculousness and self harm in a few extreme cases. Case in point, I was watching "Top Gear" (an excellent car show from the UK, imo anyway) and they had a news story about a guy in Britain who drove his car off of a pier and into the sea because his GPS told him that was the direction in which he needed to travel. Think about that for a second..... scary, imo. People need to pay a little more attention to their basic common sense, rather than listening to their GPS device.

 

[Jeff Davis]

Although I do admit to having a penchant for classic cars, and I just picked up a set of these puppies ( Yamaha NS-670s ) the other day for my old school stereo:

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They don't make 'em like this anymore !​

They're picking up the rears. I've got JBL L-100s for the mains.​

My amp is old school too. An old Nikko NR-1019. It totally​

kicks the newer surround system I used to have to the curb.​

Yup ... I've gone retro stereo too . ​

Those are WICKED in the most beautiful way possible! So beautiful and I bet they sound like HEAVEN with your Nikko. The first "real" stereo component system I managed to purchase in 1979 included a Nikko NR-719 along with a pair of these Micro Acoustics 2 way speakers featuring their pyramid tweeters.

I picked up a pair of ADS L620 Speakers at a flea market in excellent shape a few summers back. Got out the proper wood oil and they looked stellar in a matter of 15 minutes. They are not three way like these beautiful babies that you scored, and frankly, I truly think my ear misses that midrange without a sound field that at least allows for the healthy midrange's deficit to be compensated for, so I run both an old school analog stereo sound field, as well as an audio/video universal HDMI digital signal processor that lets me enjoy SACD, DVD-A, (classic quadraphonic masters), of course all the actual digital film (Sci-Fi!!) decoding processes, and frankly just about any other digital input format that currently exists.

Here's an old ADS ad.

 

[Randall]

... I run both an old school analog stereo sound field, as well as an audio/video universal HDMI digital signal processor that lets me enjoy SACD, DVD-A, (classic quadraphonic masters), of course all the actual digital film (Sci-Fi!!) decoding processes, and frankly just about any other digital input format that currently exists.

I would have gone for an upgraded surround system, but they designed my living room in such a way that the TV ends up in a corner under the left channel, so no appropriate place for a center or a sub. So I dumped the Technics 5.1 and went back to old school stereo, and it sounds twice as good ( at least ). I was just enjoying a CD by an artist called Harry Manx. It's beautiful acoustic stuff, fast becoming a favorite.

Harry Manx - The Great Unknown​

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Unfortunately my tinnitus is acting up. It's probably latent damage from playing​

stereo Marshalls at the appropriate bone vibrating volume for so many years .​

 

[Randall]

Better to be a Luddite than a tumor patient: 'Cell phones do up cancer risk' - Times Of India​

 

[Wade]

I've been using this wallpaper for awhile now. The developer tries to simulate what it would be like to expiereince a black hole. Very customizable. The first link is for the premium non ad version which i recommend, it's worth the few bucks that is asked. the second is for the ad version which has the same features.
The screen caps don't do it justice and i would need dozens of posts to give you the full assortment. While staring at it it reminds you of Dave Bowman's decent into the black monolith.



Black Hole Ad-Free - Android Apps on Google Play

Black Hole Live Wallpaper - Android Apps on Google Play

 

[DaveM]

I would have gone for an upgraded surround system, but they designed my living room in such a way that the TV ends up in a corner under the left channel, so no appropriate place for a center or a sub. So I dumped the Technics 5.1 and went back to old school stereo, and it sounds twice as good ( at least ). I was just enjoying a CD by an artist called Harry Manx. It's beautiful acoustic stuff, fast becoming a favorite.

Harry Manx - The Great Unknown​

Unfortunately my tinnitus is acting up. It's probably latent damage from playing
stereo Marshalls at the appropriate bone vibrating volume for so many years .​

Have you ever thought about using four speakers, one in each corner? I have been using that configuration for years and enjoy it immensely. That is, if your room size allows it.