The end of the world is near...

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

To paraphrase a comment on another discussion:

Maybe if a couple of us TV collectors found an early Gibson-Les Paul guitar and drilled holes all over it for sorting out our capacitors (stand their leads in the holes), or strung up a bunch of Telefunken 12AX7s as Christmas-tree lights (run them at 8 or 9 volts, nice and bright!), when the audiophools came crying, we could explain how this type of junk is to us.

Now there's a cool idea! I didn't know tubes could glow bright at such low voltages.

On a similar note, I junked a Dual turntable for its motor. I'm sure the audiophools would have wanted it for nothing because a little bit of rubbing alcohol got on the platter and ate away a little bit of the rubber. Aside from that, it was too complex for me to want to bother fixing, strobe lights are almost impossible to find and they're not a bolt-in swap for most other turntables of the time. Give me a much-simpler Garrard any day for the rare occasion I do play records.