Dingman

Huh, well darn. G-Drive does say "share" and "anyone can view" but maybe that doesn't mean download. It's just an MP3.

 

I generated a link again, and I'll go read to see if download is possible. I used to have a website that I put these things on, but don't have that anymore.

 New Link: (it does look diff, has "sharing" at the end of link)

 

Here in Iowa, we used to have a radio book club on Public Radio station. A long time reader was Doug Brown, who has now passed away.

This is his reading of Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol. Of course you guys know the story, but this is an excellent reading of the book. It is in the public domain, so no copyright issues.

 

We typically listen while cooking, wrapping presents - you know, Christmas Stuff. Really, it is entertaining, Doug Brown always did a good job.

 

Share as much as you wish, and enjoy.

Merry Christmas to all. 

 

(this is a new location for the file, let me know if there any issues downloading). 

Interesting, we have some of the same tastes apparently - But I do stray from the norm somewhat.

 

Joes' Garage - Frank Zappa

Dreamboat Annie - Heart

Tubular Bells -  Mike Oldfield

Add it up - Violent Femmes

Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Assorted

Alice Cooper - Goes to Hell

Great Film Fantasies - Erich Kunzel (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)

O'Brother, Where are thou? - Assorted (movie soundtracks, this is a must listen) 

 

I know there's some there off the beaten path - but very good stuff there. Of course, not every track on every album, like Kill Bill has a couple shorts that are really weird, and I skip.

 

 

Good thread! I love this, I'll be checking out some of youse guys' suggestions.

 

Greets from Iowa.

 

I can't help it, when I hear last name of Dent, I think of Arthur Dent. Do you know where your towel is? 

 

Welcome to CS, post often and randomly.

 

For sure, get that C-1 BD'd. 

Greetings from Iowa.

 

Post often and randomly.  

Hey, that's cool Fluidcool, that you're near DSM.

 

I used to take my stuff to Audiolabs, but now just do my own repairs. I've still purchased a couple of new Marantz units from them a few years ago, I badly wanted remote control and the network\SACD player setup.

 

I should also mention, for those that may goto audiokarma, I am Dingman there also. Heh, I'm Dingman everywhere I can get the name.

 

And Kingman, I have a street one block north of me named - "Kingman". In fact, we're pretty sure I live in the original Kingman farmhouse.  

Cool beans on the site rebuild. I've built and maintained a few forums in the  past and it can be a real chore.

 

Thanks for all the welcomes, nice to see an active site. And since there is help here, I'll most likely go thru the Carver units I do hvae here and refurb them. At least until the weather warms up enough that I can get back on my bicycle - that hobby can take up alot of my time.

 

"Anthracite color" - ahh, that's that gunmetal color I guess. It is pretty nice and classy but I really can't read the white lettering, I have to shine a flashlight on it, Har! No biggie.

 

Looking forward to sharing info with you guys. I will be asking questions, that's for sure. 

Greeting gentlepeople.

Hey, thanks for the welcome. 

First off, don't get to excited, I'm likely to one of those drive-by members.

Have to admit, the Carver that I now own seems rather low on the Carver list (a CT-7 and TFM-25) and serve basement repair bench listening system.

 

Then a couple of units coincidentally came in at the same time for repair. First on the bench is a m-200t with no output whatsoever. Two other units, from a friend at work.  a C1 I think and a tuner. Honestly not sure of #'s because I can't read the lettering on those grey units - my eyes don't work as well as they used to. I have a pic that I'll attach, you guys will know right away. I'm just not familiar with Carver stuff.

 

So I'm mostly a Marantz guy, have been for quite awhile. Love to pair my vintage Marantz with the vintage  Klipsch speakers. I've had some nice systems in the past but of course, change things up on a regular basis and have also sold a good chunk of my stuff just to make room.... for more! HA!

 

The pic of the equip in for repair is on another PC, but here's the stuff I got from a recently divorced woman...
 

 

The story behind the CT7 and TFM25 was I saw an ad on CL simply titled "Stereo - must go now". That's always interesting (Note that I do NOT spend much time on CL - but do check occasionally and am not afraid to buy) so I emailed her and she said she was just divorced and her husband left this stereo behind, and she wanted it gone NOW. Well, I was loaded up on amps\pre\tuners at home but I did want the speakers she had - Klipsch ForteII's. She wanted $100 for the lot of it, said it was taking up room in the closet.

So I beat feet over there but was too late for the speakers. Did I lose out to another person from CL, me not being far away, rushing over there within minutes!>?? Huh?

Nope, it was her son. He snagged the speakers! Dingit! Grrrr.
Well, she was willing to give me the Carver stuff for $50. I paid her the $100 that I brought and took the two Carver units home (er, untested, not my style normally - but dingit, she was just divorced and happy to be so. My age, kinda perky, Ithink I was influenced).
Thankfully, they both work OK, although a visual inspection shows some hot spots on the board. But I've done nothing to those two units. Oh, RCA's on the back flakey I think (or the cheap cables I use) but works OK.

 

Oh! My technical background - I wired a garage once!

Ha, joking.

2 years of local college electronics a long time ago, worked as residential electrician for a few years, that sucked. Back to school for BA in Robotics, that landed me a gig with  a company that Siemens eventually bought. So, I work for Siemens in the building automation division, I'm a senior (that means I'm old) System's Engineering Specialist. Which means that I'm not an engineer but have played one on TV. 

 

Since my electronics knowledge didn't help at work, but I do like fussing with teh stuff, I set up a simply repair bench in my basement a few years ago. I kept aquiring more Marantz vintage that needed help, and at first took it to local tech who has worked for a old-school local audio shop. He did a pretty good job, and prices were OK, but... I wanted better. And I knew I could do better (oops, am I bragging? No, any of us can do better with our own units - the whole time, love, ect thing).
So, bench downstairs with usual Rigol scope, signal gen, DC variable, DBT, test stereo, big iron, nice controllable iron, multiple flukes, fridge with beer, pipe with... OK, OK, kidding! For most of that. Heh.  

 

Have successfully repaired multiple units - nearly all my own, except for a few friends. I do not repair for money, do not advertise, nothing - heck, I'm an amatuer (gah, all this with no speel cheek?) and so barely can understand some circuits - like this m-200t - there's stuff in there that I don't understand.

 

OK, that's one beer's worth of typing, so we're out of time. Sorry for spelling, and I'll talk to you guys later. I think I'll spend some time here and learn about the two units I own - I think maybe time to upgrade them (such good knowledge here makes that easy!). 

 

 

 signed up mostly because of the m-200t that came to me.