Better Late Than Never

[Grateful Dragon 8]

Hey now - happy weekend everyone!  Vintage everything - audio, boats, cars, tools, etc. for me.  My C-2, M-500t, and TX-2 were purchased in 1984.  Sources include [all mint]: (a) Yamaha Dual Cassette  ~  KX-W952, (b) Sony DAT  ~  DTC59ES, (c) Pioneer CD Player  ~  PDR-W39, (d) Nakamichi Cassette Player  ~  682ZX, (e) Nakamichi Cassette Player  ~  Dragon, and a (f) Pioneer Open Reel  ~  RT-909.

 

My music taste is old school: Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton, Allman Brothers, Santana, Steely Dan, Stones, etc.  This relevant because of the range in acceptable quality - especially collecting, making, and trading Grateful Dead tapes in the 70s.  Sources for shows back in the real bootleg days were hard to come by, so in 1978 when we were living in the SAE house and SNL was at it's prime - we were happy with anything new to us.  Previously, I had a Sony D-7 with microphones wired into a hat worn backwards - it would get smuggled into shows - leaving me with great audience tapes (until it wasn't programmed properly at Rocky Grass and I ran it over with my truck...but I digress).  I'm not a taper in the Grateful Dead sense.  Those folks got special tickets to bring their gear in to the shows, had a special section, and often were rewarded with soundboard patches.  Anyway, I've redone a basement room and setting it all up after a couple years of moving and have a couple question:

 

• Can anyone tell me how to go about incorporating Atlantic Technologies AW-5, and Polk Audio PSW-111 subwoofers with the C-1?

 

• The first tape deck acquired was a Pioneer 707 back in 1978.  It wasn't used much before my kid sister was killed in an auto accident just before Christmas - and I gave it to a friend to store - which he has all these years.  My daughter is now 40 and it was going to be a present for her - but the deck disappeared from the UPS Store #4526 in Lenoir, TN.  We have a receipt and a shipping label, but it never made it into the system, and I suspect was an inside job.  It's insured, but that's irrelevant.  Please be on the look out, and pass this around if you think appropriate.  I'd like it back.

 

So that's it for me now - back to hooking it all up - thanks for the vine.

 

MT

[Sk1Bum 10,413]

Welcome aboard GratefulDragon, glad you found us. I'm not familiar with the inputs on the subs you mention, but I hooked up a single sub on the secondary outputs of both  C-1 and  4000t preamps. Both work very well that way. I have dual subs on my home theater, but the processor has dual sub outputs.

 

If your subs have speaker out connections you might try hooking up your speakers to the subs speaker out connections. Other than that stab in the dark, I have no idea.

 

Sorry to hear about losing your R2R, and good luck with your search for it.

 

Again, glad you found us!

 

[Receiver2000 3,081]

Welcome to the Carversite.

[Grateful Dragon 8]

Thanks,  I was mistaken the Atlantic sub was 212 SB.

[AndrewJohn 9,170]

Welcome to the site, @Grateful Dragon, so glad you found us.

 

What a shitty story about UPS.  I had something similar happen with USPS..., our post office has a "drop location" that people (businesses and people in a hurry) can drop off their packages with labels generated online, and once or twice during the day, someone pulls them in, scans them, and puts them in the right bin - HOPEFULLY.  One time I did that, and the package disappeared, and was never scanned in the system.  I no longer try not to ship on "HOPE"!  

 

I've learned that waiting in line, whether at USPS, FedEx, and UPS, it pays.  I've stood there, get up to the window, and my friends behind the counter who I know now by name, scan my prepared label and give me a receipt showing that the package is now "in their system."  I go out to my car, and track the number, to confirm that all computers synch.  Once it is in their system, then Insurance is validated.

 

What's happening in all this?  You pegged it, an inside job - or even outside job.  FedEx and USPS (at least in my area) all have places to "drop off" a package for people in a hurry - expecting that it is "safely" in the hands of the shipper..., now that I always wait in line, and get the receipt to activate insurance, I've observed people coming in, dropping off "a package", and deftly swiping another package sitting there dropped off by someone before them and walking out with it.  I've even called it out - but that doesn't always work out - I've been called a Karen for catching the thief, for slowing the line down even slower..., Slow lines exist everywhere, not just USPS but FedEx and UPS seem to hire ex USPS workers that know that speed is not required..., at the front counter so it's a setup for "karen-ism."

 

Karen experience aside, takeaway lesson is to always get your package "scanned into the system" while you wait, and get a receipt.  Insurance isn't activated until you do - as the carrier will just say "you generated a label, but never dropped off the package..." They won't go look at the security footage, why would the be motivated to do so?  They are not.

 

I hope it turns up for you.

 

In either case, we are glad you found us, and hope you will post some pictures of your gear.  We LOVE pictures.  Hang out, and enjoy the site.