[Mrs. Wieck]

For Sale Full set of Britannica Encyclopedia, New. Not needed. My ****ing
husband knows everything.

Mrs. Wieck
Wyncote, PA

[Sander deWaal]

"Mrs. Wieck" said:

For Sale Full set of Britannica Encyclopedia, New. Not needed. My ****ing
husband knows everything.

Mrs. Wieck
Wyncote, PA


ROFL!!

Sorry Peter, this *is* funny! ;-)

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- Maggies are an addiction for life. -

[Peter Wieck]

On Jul 9, 1:50 pm, Sander deWaal wrote:
"Mrs. Wieck" said:

For Sale Full set of Britannica Encyclopedia, New. Not needed. My ****ing
husband knows everything.
Mrs. Wieck
Wyncote, PA

ROFL!!

Sorry Peter, this *is* funny! ;-)

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- Maggies are an addiction for life. -

Surely.

Actually, we keep a rice-paper 1913 edition of Britannica.... Back
when they really *did* know everything.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

[David R Brooks]

Bret Ludwig wrote:
....

I must have
burned five thousand bibles, many of which were Gideon bibles and in
perfect shape.

My, I wouldn't want your karma :-)

[Patrick Turner]

David R Brooks wrote:

Bret Ludwig wrote:
...

I must have
burned five thousand bibles, many of which were Gideon bibles and in
perfect shape.

My, I wouldn't want your karma :-)

5,000 Bibles means nothing.

Only 578,346,000 to still get rid of.

But you'd think twice about burning 5,000 Korans
because a shirtload more **** would happen.

Far worse would be to burn 5,000 pristine copies of RDH4.

BTW, last time I read a Gideon Bible, I felt giddy...

Patrick Turner.

[Patrick Turner]

Bret Ludwig wrote:


But you'd think twice about burning 5,000 Korans
because a shirtload more **** would happen.

No, they would never know.

Far worse would be to burn 5,000 pristine copies of RDH4.


It's also a boring large book that has been largely superceded.

With what? Is there a single respectable replacement for RDH4?

My copy sits on the kitchen table and if I open it at any page there
is always something to be re-learned.

The Bible or Koran can have the same effect on anyone
who cares to read them. Whether they make the same idiotic conclusions
that all the fanatics make is anyone's guess.
One could say that the works of William Shakespeare have all been
superceded
so therefore let them be burnt, for we are finished with them.
Do we study what people say to each other on TV shows like Survivor
instead?

I listened to James Lovelock on radio the other night.
He's written a few books which I have not had time to read
but when you hear the man tell us that in 10 years Europe's climate
might be just like that of central NSW in Australia one fears
what one hears. It'd mean farm productivity will plummet,
so where is the food (and water) going to come from.

Didja know that humans breathing creates 4 times as much C02
as the worldwide airline industry?

Niether the Bible or Britannica has got too many answers about problems
we
will have to face.
Although usually the sins we find described in the Bible are a clue,
especially sins of greed and gluttony, and its because everyone refuses
to
absorb the unpalatable message about leading a simple life that the
sin/disease
of AFFLUENZA looks like ****ing us right up.

I'd prefer a world where concerns about greenhouse would not need to
occur,
and we could just proceed with material progress and those who want to
study the Bible, Shakespeare,
RDH4, or TV soap opera scripts can all proceed without too many
burnings.

Where disposal of surplus books seems unavoidable, I'm for
fermenting them into fuel, or good drinkable alcohol,
or allowed to be broken down into fertilizer to help grow crops,
maybe producing methane in the process.

Burning is a primitive activity which should not be encoraged,
but at present without vast and major economic changes we will continue
to burn things
to not just survive, but so all can live as well as a king.

We are a stupid species addicted to killing things, animals and
occasionally each other,
and we love fires.
I am at ease with what we are, as there is nothing I can do to change
anything
except never to become rich enough to pay taxes, or buy all the crap
being offered
in 1,001 shops that fails to satisfy me.

If I read everything available that there was to read, i'd never have
time to
work, and I'd be tired and hungry, and due to contradiction and
disagreement in all
the known texts, I'd maybe be none the wiser.


Patrick Turner.

[Patrick Turner]

Bret Ludwig wrote:

On Jul 11, 4:14 am, Patrick Turner wrote:
Bret Ludwig wrote:

But you'd think twice about burning 5,000 Korans
because a shirtload more **** would happen.

No, they would never know.

Far worse would be to burn 5,000 pristine copies of RDH4.

It's also a boring large book that has been largely superceded.

With what? Is there a single respectable replacement for RDH4?

All good knowledge never comes from a single book.

I agree entirely.

RDH 4 was about ten years too early to give all the really useful
information on tube audio.

Yes but by 1955, the writing was on the wall for tubes and the
onslaught of solid state was beggining.

By 1965, there was hardly ever any articles in Wireless World,
because everyone was into SS, and people filled dumper bins
with old tube gear and happily farwelled the weight, heat, size, and
costs
and distortions.
( they farewelled music too, but didn't realise it...)



You don't get enough to build the really first class audio
transformers-guys like Partridge and Harrison figured out a lot they
never passed on. Not at all-frauds like Mike Lefevre aside-because it
wasn't in the prints. Before ISO 9000 the prints never corresponded to
the work. Sometime they still don't. An outsider going from careful
measurement and teardown actually has an advantage in that way.


RDH4 could not always explain everything.
Several volumes would have been needed. But then there were patent
concerns,
and not everyone wanted to see their secrets all laid bare in an
educational book, ever.

And hardly any electronics makers who persisted in producing
truly horrible boxes full of garbage designs wanted any publicity
either.

Just as long as the money rolled in....


snip...


I'd prefer a world where concerns about greenhouse would not need to
occur,
and we could just proceed with material progress and those who want to
study the Bible, Shakespeare,
RDH4, or TV soap opera scripts can all proceed without too many
burnings.

"Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and
attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such a
thing should ask it of Santa Claus, in whom they doubtless also
believe."

The Tooth Fairey is more reliable.

Patrick Turner.

[RapidRonnie]

The transformer makers were quite secretive, but you can always tear
one down. There was nothing anyone could do then or now.

No, but it's a lot of work. Most people in this business have a
Maynard Krebs work ethic, I've found.



And hardly any electronics makers who persisted in producing
truly horrible boxes full of garbage designs wanted any publicity
either.

Usually the better makers were quite open about their designs.

Component vendors, no. Peerless in the US were very secretive and
that was part of their "mystique". Peerless, Freed, UTC, and even
Triad all built first class transformers when the customer was willing
to pay. In fact, Freed built what in my opinion were the best units
ever sold in a consumer marketed amplifier, the Fairchild 275.

By no means were all Peerless products really "peerless". Their lower
end parts were no better than everyone else's. The only outputs they
made worth a premium are the 20-20 and 20-20 Plus series. Those were
challenging parts with reverse windings and were wound on perfect lay
machinery in some cases.

Marantz, I suspect, really did derive their transformer designs from
tearing down other people's transformers, notably Peerless, but they
wound most of theirs inhouse. Marantz were never terrifically
consistent which led them to the split feedback loop on the 8B. No two
original 8Bs are identical, there was a procedure to custom trim each
one, and that has escaped public scrutiny to this day. The reissues
are absolutely uniform and perform better!

Mcintosh "cheated' in that their unity coupled transformer is
considerably simpler to wind than the best grade hi-fi merchant parts.
By doing it in house with low paid upstate labor they came out way
ahead.