Appreciating your system

[woodbar]

Cannot make sense now, I drink too much. I will make sense on Monday.
Cheers.

That must have been one hell of a session - still not back and it's Monday evening!

 

[Cricketbat70]

If you are trusting a surge protector to protect £1.000s worth of equipment, don’t trust cheap, don’t trust unknown brands on AliExpress, buy known reliable kit, like Belkin. I have one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OE45MVK?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

It also comes with a £60,000 warranty, if something is damaged by a surge, whilst properly connected through it.

I'm on my second belkin surge protector for my main setup. About 10 years ago there must have been a surge. We saw a blue flash from the surge protector and the on off switch flew across the room. 🤣 All the hifi equipment fine. We have everything protected by surge protectors. I bet we have at least 8 belkin surge protectors.

 

[woodbar]

I'm on my second belkin surge protector for my main setup. About 10 years ago there must have been a surge. We saw a blue flash from the surge protector and the on off switch flew across the room. 🤣 All the hifi equipment fine. We have everything protected by surge protectors. I bet we have at least 8 belkin surge protectors.

I take it the surge protector was toast - a sort of reverse Kamikaze device?

 

[Cricketbat70]

I take it the surge protector was toast - a sort of reverse Kamikaze device?

Yup🤣

 

[Dr Morbius]

I rebuilt my Klipschorn’s (all original from 1978) from crossovers to drivers and I have achieved Nirvana! …….

 

[froze]

Last summer I had my JBL L7's rebuilt and feel the same as Dr Morbius feels with his Klipschorns...I have achieved nirvana.

I was looking at new speakers, but I would have to spend at least $5,000 each to get sound close to what I have, so after much contemplating and much listening to other speakers, I decided to have them rebuilt for a cost of only $250, apparently the mid-range and the tweeters did not need rebuilding, just mid-base and the base speakers needed it, so the cost was lower than I expected.

I live in the same city that one of the most well-known and highly respected speaker rebuilders in America has their business, but that business sadly won't be around much longer due to the owner wanting to retire and he can't find anyone who wants to take it over. He is so busy he can't keep up and is getting tired, at 75 I can understand, he's been running the business since 1973.

All I had to do was get the entire speakers over to him so he could inspect everything even the cabinets and crossovers, normally if a person doesn't live near a speaker rebuilder you have to remove the drivers and send just those, the cabinets and the crossovers will never get looked at.

If anyone here wants to learn a speaker rebuilding business in the States and eventually take it over let me know, I can pass on the information. He's a bit short these days, due to be very tired from working, so a lot a patience would be needed to talk and learn from him. He also smokes in his place. Last I talked to him he was looking for someone, not sure if he's given up and will just shutter the business, or if he has found someone, or is still looking for that someone.