Electronics - Gotta Luv 'Em

[springmaker]

Originally Posted by WhiteFury

That reminds me of two things:

1) Never, ever buy a cable from BestBuy. I love BestBuy, but they will rape you on the cables. Now I use Monoprice.com. A 20ft, 22AWG High Speed HDMI cable (that's the one that is so thick you can hardly bend it) cost $20.80. BestBuy & I'm sure other retail stores, a SIX foot HDMI cable, like this one, will cost you $80.

2) I tend not to trust electronics repair people. "It's the board...it'll cost you $600." So my A/C in the house won't kick in. I call our A/C peeps that we've used for 11 years now and "the new guy" showed up. He was polite and all but he found that my board had gone bad, and that would cost me about $600. Yeah, let me think on that. So I call the shop again and get John. John owns the place. John asked me how the guy knew it was the board. I said, John, how the hell do I know? He laughed and stopped at the house on the way home. He took things apart and asked me for my shopvac. I got it and he took me outside and told me to stand right in front of the A/C exchange exhaust. Through the window he said "here it comes!" and I got hit in the chest by a squirrels nest going 75 mph. I looked at that thing and was like, WTF? He closed everything up, turned everything on, walked by a still stunned home-owner and said, your board is fine...you let me know when something else comes up...I'll be right out. And with that he drove away. About 60 minutes worth of work, zero dollars.

I had a mouse nest in mine, Brother-in-law is an HVAC wiz, so I don't even bother looking. I call him, and he shows me the nest, and the Mouse carcass. Kinda good knowing the mouse that caused my problem took 120V in the process!

[Richard1]

Originally Posted by cypress

Hate to admit it but I once bought an HDMI cable at Best Buy for $100 because I thought I needed the best one. Now I buy the cheapest one I can find.

I’ve done the same thing brother. The pitch I was given was that the picture quality would be unnoticeable in the beginning, but 3-5 years later the cheaper cables would be “corroding” and diminish the picture quality. The salesman told me that and I said give me the best you have, don’t want any corroding messing up my picture, lol.

[StPeteAPB]

Originally Posted by NMUCat

Good to hear things are working out in your favor.

I would love to fix the stuff I got when it fails. But when the diagnostic and repair cost are as much as a new one then why not upgrade. I think they do that on purpose.

Years ago I bought a surround sound processor called Vantas made by Microtek, I believe. The concept was a replaceable motherboard that WHEN technology improved for surround sound decoding, as well as new surround sound modes, you could just swap out the motherboard and keep all the heavy componentry the same (like the toroidal xfmr for the power behind this beast).

Well, they went belly up because few bought into the idea -sadly. But, on the upside, I still have that processor and it still drives my Polk SDA SRS 1.2 TRs!


(just under 6' tall and 250 lbs each)

[WhiteFury]

Originally Posted by StPeteAPB

Years ago I bought a surround sound processor called Vantas made by Microtek, I believe. The concept was a replaceable motherboard that WHEN technology improved for surround sound decoding, as well as new surround sound modes, you could just swap out the motherboard and keep all the heavy componentry the same (like the toroidal xfmr for the power behind this beast).

Well, they went belly up because few bought into the idea -sadly. But, on the upside, I still have that processor and it still drives my Polk SDA SRS 1.2 TRs!


(just under 6' tall and 250 lbs each)

Great Googly-Moogly...look at those friggin things! I bet they sound just brilliant when you've got em going.

[StPeteAPB]

Originally Posted by WhiteFury

Great Googly-Moogly...look at those friggin things! I bet they sound just brilliant when you've got em going.

You'll have to see/hear for yourself when you come visit. They CRANK!

But, can't do it often ... they can be heard around the whole neighborhood