Stuff You Come Across When You Are Clearing Out a House

[Bill Hart]

So, we are packing like mad. Even though the movers and craters do their thing, some of it is just stuff you need to go through personally--boxed and inspected by the movers before we ship out.
In the process, I'm finding all kinds of odd things. Receipts from some of my earliest hi-fi buys in the early '70s. Receipts for retubing old preamps with Telefunkens. A wonderful package of stuff from an old audiophile friend who passed years ago-- complete diagrams for a double Quad, Hartley system with tweets, on which he stuck a note: "WAF is minus 2000. Just to cover my ass, I am not recommending this system."
Has anything really changed? Well, put to one side the whole price equation/value thing (some stuff was expensive back then too), everything was done by snail mail. Or telephone.
I even found the velvet bag for my Quintessence preamp- an obscurity when it was new; now long forgotten.
This is, to me, sort of amusing- not really a teary eyed trip back to the past--I'm grateful to be in the here and now.

[mep]

So, we are packing like mad. Even though the movers and craters do their thing, some of it is just stuff you need to go through personally--boxed and inspected by the movers before we ship out.
In the process, I'm finding all kinds of odd things. Receipts from some of my earliest hi-fi buys in the early '70s. Receipts for retubing old preamps with Telefunkens. A wonderful package of stuff from an old audiophile friend who passed years ago-- complete diagrams for a double Quad, Hartley system with tweets, on which he stuck a note: "WAF is minus 2000. Just to cover my ass, I am not recommending this system."
Has anything really changed? Well, put to one side the whole price equation/value thing (some stuff was expensive back then too), everything was done by snail mail. Or telephone.
I even found the velvet bag for my Quintessence preamp- an obscurity when it was new; now long forgotten.
This is, to me, sort of amusing- not really a teary eyed trip back to the past--I'm grateful to be in the here and now.

It's always good to be on the right side of the dirt.

[Bill Hart]

Can't argue with that.

[kcin]

So, we are packing like mad. Even though the movers and craters do their thing, some of it is just stuff you need to go through personally--boxed and inspected by the movers before we ship out.
In the process, I'm finding all kinds of odd things. Receipts from some of my earliest hi-fi buys in the early '70s. Receipts for retubing old preamps with Telefunkens. A wonderful package of stuff from an old audiophile friend who passed years ago-- complete diagrams for a double Quad, Hartley system with tweets, on which he stuck a note: "WAF is minus 2000. Just to cover my ass, I am not recommending this system."
Has anything really changed? Well, put to one side the whole price equation/value thing (some stuff was expensive back then too), everything was done by snail mail. Or telephone.
I even found the velvet bag for my Quintessence preamp- an obscurity when it was new; now long forgotten.
This is, to me, sort of amusing- not really a teary eyed trip back to the past--I'm grateful to be in the here and now.

Last time we moved I packed all the audio gear and moved it my self into heated storage while we moved into temporary digs and built a new home. It didn't come out of boxes for two years.

BTW I'd love to see any detail on the construction of the stacked Quad,Decca Hartley system if possible..

[MylesBAstor]

Was that from Chuck?

[Bill Hart]

Yes, Myles, from Chuck. He was a bright spirit.

[kcin]

Thank you Bill, I will email you. You can do this whenever you get around to it.

[Beaur]

Bill,

How many "So that's where it was" moments have you had! Had a few when I moved out of my house I had shared in grad school and beyond and that was only about 6 years of losing things.

[MylesBAstor]

Ha! I threw out tons of things including many college notebooks when I relocated from the Bronx into Manhattan in 2003. Buried deep in my closet was my Physical Chemistry notebook; for giggles, I thumbed threw it and it might as well have been written in Martian. I looked at the advanced calculus needed to do for the course and think that now couldn't even do basic calculus nee derivate. Sad.

[Beaur]

Myles, I am in almost the same position. Funny thing is that I can do derivations if they involve practical things I do on my daily job, like flows and areas. Doubt if I would know what to do if presented with a formula on a page. I've taken most college and grad school chem and bio classes but the hardest class I ever too was a statistics class! Kicked my butt all over the place and to this day i don't know how I passed.

[Barry]

Funny how the mind works. Multiple regression, almost intuitive! 6 x 10 ^23 and moles? Much more of a mystery to me. Even Planck's constant made more sense.

[MylesBAstor]

The thread heading sounds like a password game clue!

[MylesBAstor]

So, we are packing like mad. Even though the movers and craters do their thing, some of it is just stuff you need to go through personally--boxed and inspected by the movers before we ship out.
In the process, I'm finding all kinds of odd things. Receipts from some of my earliest hi-fi buys in the early '70s. Receipts for retubing old preamps with Telefunkens. A wonderful package of stuff from an old audiophile friend who passed years ago-- complete diagrams for a double Quad, Hartley system with tweets, on which he stuck a note: "WAF is minus 2000. Just to cover my ass, I am not recommending this system."
Has anything really changed? Well, put to one side the whole price equation/value thing (some stuff was expensive back then too), everything was done by snail mail. Or telephone.
I even found the velvet bag for my Quintessence preamp- an obscurity when it was new; now long forgotten.
This is, to me, sort of amusing- not really a teary eyed trip back to the past--I'm grateful to be in the here and now.

I'd hate to think what I'd find if I ever go through all the junk in my storeroom. 30 years + of cables. Plenty of old small signal tubes. Old boxes from gear too. Think there's a couple of huge boxes in there for a pair of Melos amps that I reviewed years ago (they picked up the amps and didn't collect the boxes).

[JCOConnell]

thread title sounds like a clue to the old $20,000 Pyramid game show to me.