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I watched a vid of a guy in OK if I recall correctly. He did his own solar build in the small fenced back yard and had it planned and wired to either 2-3 window AC units no connection to the grid or the rest of the house. His goal was keeping the house at 72-75 on 100 degree days which he achieved. Apparently this was most of his electric bill Mine flips to NG in winter as electric use drops way down. Ice Cold IL No reason you couldn't switch the cells to running some electric radiators in the winter to supplement the central heat during the daytime.

Who is making them, are they selling stock ?

Almost the entire US is sitting on a Lake of NG, oil and Coal. Solar has applications in the South and Southwest, and Islands or remote areas, same for wind. The internet has probably cut emissions by more than anything, enabling home businesses more than ever. EVs may be usable in urban areas but in the burbs and rural areas not, in the cold batteries are 50% or less of their rating, so you can't drive far. Batteries have to be charged with something, coal, hydro and nukes. I believe the US would need to increase electric generation by between 3-5 times or more to charge cars and we don't have enough generation now. Elect is going up so charging EVs is going up. They also contribute zero for the streets they drive on another subsidy from all other vehicles of any kind. No subsidies, no sales.

Fuses don't blow for no reason. Short in the speaker or wires could blow the fuse. Inspect the pre amp tube, maybe a new one is in order. Open the unit first and look for brown spots, melted insulation, lose connectors or wires etc. ensure the solder joints are good and no capacitor leaks or shorts between components from extra solder.

Application specific. Like Wind turbines, and EVs no subsidies no sales. A bigger problem is that none of these are recyclable with lots of toxic waste. Remote Island, sure wind and solar make sense. Next door to to a nuke, no way.

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Goodnight from Chicago Can't decide which version I prefer. Think her work with Nelson Riddle were her best LPs Baby Ronsdadt with piano With Orchestra Entire concert with Riddle Orchestra

The British Invasion or just Rock wiped out the Quartets and Harmonizing. Hollies were great and CSNY may have been the last of Popular Quartets, minus the retro groups like Boys to Men etc. Studio Outtakes interesting Voices Isolated no auto tune, min reverb

Early Stones were quite different

Really pleasant American Folk Performer World Class Carrie Newcomer I believe out of Indianapolis IN Studio Production duet with Chapin Carpenter

Oldie but goodie Heart still beating Ottmar Leibert' Nouveau Flamenco LP This one popped up on auto play while I was making the post... Guess it wanted to be heard too.

Triple Cross, 1960s WW-2 period movie HD but on Youtube just now uploading Lots of A list actors, spy genera If you are looking for something to watch this evening, so far so good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9DI0RaSioI

Three min radio edits seldom reveal the greatness of some of the bands, definitely not pop radio.

Goodnight from Chicago Audra Mae, this girl can sing A capella Completely different style of music Song popularized by Nina Simone

Tiffany I may have missed it but what kind of music are you listening to ? Some photos of your room and gear would also be helpful. FWIW IMHO Klipsch has the best reproduction of the human voice no speaker is better at everything than every other speaker Heresys on end tables puts the mids at ear level, and the woofer slightly below yielding the best human voice. With the Heresy's and LaScalas a tight articulated sub does fill a void at the bottom Get a good 100W ch class AB used surround receiver, and use the auto correct and auto EQ for the room $100 should get you a Pioneer Elite or good Yamaha. 10 years old for a unit is fine, I like the THX rated Pioneer Elites for the application. Gary has been a cornucopia of good advice above. My two cents

Do I use a laptop as a "jukebox" YES

I take zero pills other than a vitamin I check no boxes on the medical form profiles. No bleeding gums etc..... 60's, walk a mile per day, ride a bike 10 miles weather permitting, can bench my weight 250lbs would rather be lifting 210 lbs..... maybe someday Have no difficulty walking 3-5 miles The human body is made to perform physical work and lots of walking. If you don't walk, you don't have an immune system, and moving food through the digestive process becomes much more difficult. Your sinovial joints aka knees don't get lubricated and fed, reducing mobility You don't burn your calories, and the body stores the energy as fat. You don't metabolize the toxins in your body Likely you don't get enough sunlight to function properly A mile a day after dinner seems to be sufficient, a minimum std. The primary solvent used in the body is water, lots of it. Soft drinks, fruit juice, and alcohol are unnatural to the diet and place stress on the liver and kidneys Cigarettes are poison IMHO the more processed the food, the less you benefit The mental health and social aspect of cooking, socializing in the kitchen area, and preparing the food can not be under estimated. Sugar is a heavily processed food that tastes good, damn them ! Growing herbs is easy as are veggies such as Kale which produces like crazy once on line. Fruit, veggies, herbs are necessary for the digestive tract to function properly If you are performing physical work or sports, carbs seem essential to me. Unprocessed foods that taste good, generally are good, the reverse is true. My two cents

Build Quality on McIntosh is second to none So is the engineering If the knock off has potted transformers, I doubt they are the same design or quality same for the rest of the components

Lots of good equipment out there From my experience, McIntosh and Yamaha's TOTL products are hard to beat. Remember, it's the first half Watt that you listen to most of the time.

Early digital had a greater quantization error, and was clipped or compressed to fit the CD limits 20Khz top end. MP3 is the wholesale slaughter with psycho acoustics added in for the missing music.... If you have a quality analog recording, and digitally encode it at high bit rates, the quantization saw tooth is certainly much less pronounced, although even with in finite processing speed will always be there. The encoding and decoding algorithms also vary greatly in their effect. It would be interesting to measure the frequencies above the CD limit on one of their vinyl records to see what is there..... I believe an analog master encoded with current state of the art hardware and software, can sound as good or better than pure vinyl. The truth in labeling remains a requirement..

Different frequencies create different effects in the brain depending the the desired effects. This has been studied extensively and is well understood. Brainwave entrainment, also referred to as brainwave synchronization or neural entrainment, refers to the observation that brainwaves (large-scale electrical oscillations in the brain) will naturally synchronize to the rhythm of periodic external stimuli, such as flickering lights,[1] speech,[2] music,[3] or tactile stimuli. As different conscious states can be associated with different dominant brainwave frequencies,[4] it is hypothesized that brainwave entrainment might induce a desired state. Researchers have found, for instance, that acoustic entrainment of delta waves in slow wave sleep had the functional effect of improving memory in healthy subjects.[5] wiki General Concepts and Formal Models of Entrainment by a Periodic External Drive One property of oscillating elements commonly found in nature is that they are self-sustained and dynamic (e.g., Glass, 2001; Pikovsky et al., 2003). Such oscillators can be perturbed by an external force. If this force is periodic, the natural oscillation may then become synchronized to the periodic event. Synchronization here means that the oscillating element starts to cycle with the same period as the external force. Or in other terms, the oscillator becomes entrained or locked to the external event. In this context, synchronization, entrainment, and locking are synonymous1 (Pikovsky et al., 2003). We will use the term entrainment to denote synchronization to a rhythmic stream (or train) of external events. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00170/full

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In this order, isolate the problem: Inspect the cabinets for defects or leaks. Try reversing the speaker wires LR RL If the problem moves, it's the amp, pre amp or source Eliminate the crossovers Disconnect and test OHMs for each driver and write down the numbers Driver numbers should be nearly identical by type, tweeter, woofer, mid horn Remove and swap the crossovers, and see if the problem moves with the crossover If the problem is in the crossovers, test each component and write down the numbers. Or just throw new crossover in .........

The growing list of projects I would like to do.... If you could post the Bills of material and links for replicating your projects it would be helpful A lot of my project time gets sucked into Crawling around in attics in 150F changing failed exhaust motors and blowing the cottonwood seeds out of the clogged vents. New carburetor for a Lawn boy 4 Stroke arrived yesterday, so did the rain. Cleaning AC units and replacing the capacitors........ etc etc etc ............ You may want to make a new Topic for your favorite projects My 2 cents .......

I believe your comment is correct Live amphitheater performances amplified were in mono to my memory I attended a lot of them, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia MD Studio recordings, done properly, can reproduce the sound of an in person acoustic performance Multi track live recordings, can be mastered in the studio to achieve nearly the same effect of physical placement