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MHzTweaker

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  1. @Cjcarey39 Welcome to the site. Lurker huh? Sounds like some deviant behavior. You'll fit right in. There's plenty of enablers here who'll help you fill the all the spare rooms in your home... so I've heard 🤫 🙄 You forgot one... tape.
  2. Welcome my friend. While I do not have any Sunfire myself, anyone a Friend of Bob AND who has a love of cassettes is a friend of mine. Love the Dragon and ZX-9. I've been known to dabble in the iron oxide.
  3. While several comments aren't NAS or Streamer related specifically, the infrastructure plays an important role in my mind making those items play nice and be reliable. In fact it was my desire to have a proper file server for all my audio and video content that pushed me harder than anything else to upgrade the infrastructure. Gigabit Ethernet does not cut it for me. I'm too impatient. With the advent of SATA SSD and then NVMe SSD tech I had to upgrade a couple of times and finally have settled on 10Gbit fiber between servers and workstations. My Audio PC and Home theater PC's are still on gigabit because that's all they need to consume content but moving that content around between servers and workstations is just too slow at 114MB/sec that gigabit provided me. When I drag several GIGs from my workstation to a server from an NVMe drive, it moves at about 1000MB/sec until the buffers on the target server fill up. Moving to UnRAID servers will allow the installation of NMVe SSD caching drives as large as 8TB I guess (current max). LOL...... I guess I'll have to go to 40GBbit fiber next.... 🙂 It never ends does it? Working for myself and from home I got the business side on a different subnet some time ago. I have no idea what sort of crap/Mal-ware is installed on peoples boxes and do what I can to limit exposure to potential problems. I've done a few layout "re-works" myself here at home in the last 14 years allowing me to expand my vocabulary.
  4. I agree... things "SHOULD" work but alas Netgear and other vendors abandon many routers as soon as a new model comes out. I've probably flashed a few hundred routers in my line of work without issues but yeah, there is certainly a risk. Probably the worst thing I have seen is unstable DD-WRT builds when new features are being introduced. It does not happen often but usually it affects a newer router CPU more so than an established one. At this point things are definitely in the UNBEARABLE column. I stay with routers that have been out for a year or two. There's always pro's and cons, such as life. I've just become used to the DD-WRT interface I suppose and the reliability it has given me at home and in my shop. The only issues I've had are router transceivers going WONKY after several years of ON time. They become unreliable (lots of power cycling needed) and just get thrown in the trash. Five or more years is a good run for a cheap consumer router. I have a pile of Netgear R7000 routers that i've picked up for free from clients when their silly ISP insists they replaced them with their crappola ones. LOL I use them here at home and in my shop. I switch out to the higher gain Antenna's I use and I'm off and running. I think I have had one go bad here since they came out like 10 years ago. Of course all my sensitive stuff is filtered with PowerVAR transformer based conditioners often used in the medical and scientific fields. Then they are plugged into SineWave UPS batteries. All my 24/7 computers get the white glove treatment. My main rig stereo source components are on PowerVAR.
  5. I only buy Consumer type routers I can be flashed with DD-WRT router OS. I find that eliminates many issues for the life of any given router since the FIRMWARE is both more stable AND an almost continuous stream of updates will be forthcoming long after the manufacturer gives up on it. My other option are MikroTik products such as their cloud routers.
  6. Welcome to the hoard Kurt. What part on N.C. are you from? I'm in Central N.C., specifically Orange County. Of all the Bose speakers, the 601 series have been on my mine and I find them the most interesting of their various models. Uh oh!!! Not I gotta find a pair... LOL As a young man, I was always motivated to work a little harder to have equipment as good as or better than my friends. You know, the one's I have all but completely lost touch with by now? Well anyway, being an island I find some solace at least in being able to listen to the music I love. But you're right, there aren't many folk around me either who give a damn about putting together and maintaining an audio system. 😥 The Carver C-1 and M1.5t is what I purchased new as a young man in the mid 80's before selling it off in the mid 90's (mistake). I've since bought just about everything I've ever owned back in multiples... WITH UPGRADES!! Don't let any fear of a soldering iron hinder you. Take it slow, knowledge is here. It's the experience that's a little tougher but you have to start somewhere. I think you will find ample help at this site. Never have I met such a fine group of enablers before.
  7. Here are some shots of the switchers before I moved 2 years ago. I will re-arrange the layout to put the switchers outside the wall cabinet. It's easier to deal with 24 sets of RCA patch cords that way. I think I had the rack polluted with a bunch of Pioneer decks when that photo was taken I do have 3 Revox decks now: the B710mkII, B-215 and B-215S I have what you would call "He - Shed" where I setup a bunch of equipment this month to celebrate my shunning of People. It is very much a work in progress at this point. I still have a lot of things to connect and work out. Here is one side of source components and the KRC-3 preamp and then the speakers, Marchand crossover and amps.
  8. I moved 2 years ago and only in the last 30 days have I unpacked most of these tape decks from boxes. The shelving unit I built myself. It is made from 3/4 inch cabinet grade oak plywood except on the top where it is 2 x 3/4 inch layers so the shelves wouldn't sag. The front frame is solid oak. To answer your question, YES, they all are capable of playing and recording using a combination of Sony and DBX switchers. I have another 8 deck switcher in my office with even more tape decks and a couple CD Players connected.
  9. I do have a massive collection of tape decks for sure. I could probably narrow it down to my favorite 20 LOL Here's a few: Nakamichi 1000ZXL, ZX-9, RX-505, 700ZXE, Pioneer CT-A9x, T-1100s, CT-93, CT-A1, Technics RS-M95, Aiwa Xk-009,XK-S9000, HK TD4800, Tandberg 3014A, Sony K555ESJ, TC-K777, Revox B710MKII, B215-S, Alpine AL-90, Akai GX-Z9100, GX-F71. There are soooo many.
  10. Thanks for the warm welcomes. Yes, I have it pretty bad I suppose. Having collected 75 of my favorite tape decks and serviced most of them myself in just 4 years. This alone would likely qualify me as "off my nut/rails". I have a few sets of speakers: Monitor Audio, Martin Logan, ADS, LSA and some entry level Boston and JBL bookshelf standers. I don't go too high up the food chain with CD/SACD. Mostly Denon, Sony ES and a couple of Technics players I only have a couple of tables: JVC QL-Y66F and Technics SL-1210M5G. I have a Kenwood KA-801 integrated and matching KT-815 tuner. I acquired a 1980 Technics SA-818 receiver last year. I also have a Yammy CR-640 receiver I recapped and added heatsinks the the driver IC's plus LED conversion. Office duties are performed using a Pioneer Elite C-90 Preamp and QSC power amp right now. I have a "He-Shed" listening space with a Krell KRC-3 preamp I recapped and McIntosh MC352 running the Prodigy's and a Pair of Crown XTi-4000 amps in mono running a pair of subs I built. A Marchand XM126 vacuum tube electronic crossover blends the subs in very well. I will probably burn threw several dozen posts REALLY quickly getting up to speed on whatever Carver Preamp I end up with and the incoming A-760x. I think I really want a C-16 Either that or a C-4000 with a black faceplate transplant to match the A-760x
  11. Good morning all I have landed here today seeking knowledge and group input concerning my soon to arrive A-760x, more about that later. I'm into my 5th decade on this planet. I'm a PC service and tech guy with over 3 decades doing that. Audio has been a passion since I was a teenager in the late 1970's -> Early 80's. I did own Carver C-1 and M 1.5t since new until the mid 90's. I regret getting rid of those. I got back into audio about 2012 or so and have also been collecting and restoring Compact Cassette decks the last 4 years. I have a LOT of quality tape decks. I'm here mainly because I am interested in Carver equipment and wish to obtain and service an amp and preamp. I have an A-760x on the way here now which I plan to replace all capacitors in after it arrives.
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