Two things

[hifiguy]

One - wut happened to the Lounge? I return to a morgue after a year away from DU

Two - Why do people come into the quiet parts of the library to have nice, loud discussions when there is a fine coffee shop on the first floor? Why do people block or charge into elevators as soon as the doors open, preventing anyone who wants to exit from doing so, and thus making room for the Trampling Wildebeest Millions to actually get in?

[steve2470]

1. people are inherently selfish

Yes, it can be overcome with maturity, training, mindfulness, etc etc etc, but we are selfish at our deepest level. Selfish = we care firstly about our family, our children, our friends, ourselves.

I do my best not to be "overly" selfish.

[Boom Sound 416]

2. That's three things.

[hifiguy]

3. Today they were both library things.

[Boom Sound 416]

4. Listen, maybe you've been away for a while

But here in the lounge, people are serious about those things.

So yuck it up, but let's try to tighten up too ay?

[hifiguy]

5. But of course!

[Boom Sound 416]

6. Hey, it's ok. I'm glad we had this chat.

[Enthusiast]

7. Are you a High Fidelity aficionado?

I am old enough to remember the days before stereo. In those days it was High Fidelity.

I've got some old vinyl LPs from Zenith that were designed to demonstrate high fidelity.

[hifiguy]

8. It's always been stereo for me - Born in second Ike administration

so stereo was the standard by the time I was a kid. I have reviewed very High-End audio components, and some music - for the last 19 years for two still-existing magazines and one website.

[Enthusiast]

9. The reason I ask is.......

my 41 year old Sansui amp-receiver quit on me Saturday evening. When it quit there was a smell of old paper.

Our Saturday evening music is essential.

My brother rescued me by providing me with his similarly aged Marantz. But, as he explained to me, the controls are dirty. Are they ever! It seldom plays both right and left and sometimes the volume control has little effect. It is often noisy on the channel that is having problems. Sometimes it plays perfectly.

I want a new amp. I do not know a thing about the new ones. Do you know of a home size amp to suggest? Maybe that is a stupid question.

We loved our old Sansui. None of us know where we could get these old amps worked on.

[hifiguy]

10. Go to an audio site like Audio Asylum

or the forum at Audiogon and ask around. There are plenty of people who work on and know old audio gear. I prefer tubes - yes, tubes - and anyone who can work on tubes can work on 1970s solid state stuff.

[Enthusiast]

11. Thanks, hifiguy.

[hifiguy]

12. You are entirely welcome.

Some of that gear was built like a battleship. It's worth fixing up. Wish I still had my 1972-era Marantz 2270 sometimes.

[Aristus]

13. I can't answer those questions, but I will say:

'The Trampling Wildebeests' has got to be the best punk-rock name ev-AR!

[Kali]

14. MFM passed away in January.

That put a big damper on it for me. Still funny and good people here, but it has slowed down a lot.

[hifiguy]

15. So sorry to heat that.

He was one of DU's truly original character.