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Biggest waste of a good product
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| Topic: | Biggest waste of a good product This thread has 73 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 20:59 |
cheesehead22 Regular Member |
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Here is a fun little survey.
What piece of av equipment do you have that is not being used anywhere near its full potential.
Example
I lost the remote to my Lutron Spacer light switch in my bedroom so I programed my TSU 3000 to do it. That is all that it does.
Now maybe some would say that that is all that remote is worth doing(I might agree),however that is not the point.
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My body is in Las Vegas but my heart is in Green Bay.....Go Packers Go! |
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| Post 2 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 21:06 |
Eastside A/V Senior Member |
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HK3840 (130wattsx2) running 1 pair of $20 plastic speakers in my garage?
or multiple Surround sound packages gathering dust in different areas of the house that have been set up, but have never been turned on?
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| Post 3 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 21:12 |
ceied Super Member |
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a whole rack of ADA equipment sitting unplugged in my ex wifes basement
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kole' sere' ........... hey, ernie called me curt and consice...pithy, compendious, laconic. Concise, succinct, terse all refer to speech or writing that uses few words to say much. |
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| Post 4 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 21:31 |
fonzanoon Regular Member |
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On August 30, 2007 at 21:12, ceied said...
a whole rack of ADA equipment sitting unplugged in my
ex wifes basement
thats just criminal
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| Post 5 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 21:46 |
FreddyFreeloader Select Member |
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Terrible product but the first of it's kind....... An RCA DTC100 Direct TV/off-air HD box.
We use it to for burn-in's and watching local digitals in the shop on a 12" tube TV.
It is actually mounted in our test rack with a leftover faceplate!!!
It's kinda slow to change channels but other than that, picks up all of them just fine with rabbit ears.
The old DTC100 - a true relic.
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| Post 6 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 22:00 |
thefish Founding Member |
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Escient Tunebase 100 sitting in my basement, unplugged.
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| Post 7 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 22:03 |
cma Select Member |
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On August 30, 2007 at 22:00, thefish said...
Escient Tunebase 100 sitting in my basement, unplugged.
I don't know, you might not be able to anything more with that piece than let it sit your basement.
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| Post 8 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 22:24 |
DHarmonyAV Regular Member |
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Triad Silver IR LCRs, 2 pair of Silver IW Surround sitting in my basement collecting dust. Had in my last house in HT.
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| Post 9 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 22:34 |
FP Crazy Senior Member |
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I was going to say a top of the line Pioneer Laser disc that I can't even get $20 for on Ebay, but I think Patrick has got me beat on that one.
Hmmm....unless I bring my Sencore CRT calibaration meter into the conversation (that I cannot even get a bid for on Ebay)...F*ck You Sencore...never again!!!
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| Post 10 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 22:39 |
schueydoo Long Time Member |
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marantz rc5000i holding down my papers, so the air conditioner doesn't blow them around!
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It's always something.....sigh. |
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| Post 11 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 22:57 |
Vincent Delpino Senior Member |
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On August 30, 2007 at 21:06, Eastside A/V said...
HK3840 (130wattsx2) running 1 pair of $20 plastic speakers
in my garage?
what a waste of plastic speakers
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| Post 12 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 23:04 |
Mr. Stanley Elite Member |
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Infocus 7205 that is being used for a printer stand in my bedroom, (2) new velodynes (never opened) in garage... They were on sale at A^^D & seemed like a good deal at the time! A B&O 9000 system unplugged but looking good in my living room... B&O 2500 unplugged on my dresser (my son has his eyes on it)... Denon 3805 running a pair of ADS towers in a dark dingy room in the basement that i never hang out in... 3 Sharp XR10 S presentation projectors in my closet under a pile of jeans...all practically unused... Too many other pair of speakers and surround receivers (everywhere in the house)... A beautiful rosewood encased 1954 Russian Television, 3 old Macintosh computers... A box with about a dozen Harmony and URC remotes some never used.
...And here is the compulsive part... I still go out on Saturdays and Sundays and buy old wierd Hi Fi stuff that I don't need, and stash it in my garage!?!?
Man, no wonder I'm always broke.
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Post 13 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 23:12 |
2nd rick Super Member |
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Triad Gold Monitors (yes, those Gold Monitors) - in the box for over 1 year.
Energy 22.2 floorstanders - in the box for over 2 years.
Mission 70 mkII bookshelves - in the box for over 2 years.
Boston HD5v mini-bookshelves - on a shelf in my office, but no longer connected to anything for 3 mos.
Pioneer Elite 5.1 THX receiver - been sitting for 2 yrs. +, needs to go in for a $50-100 out of warranty service.
Nakamichi MusicBank CD changer (had for 10 years) - not connected to anything for 3 months
Pro-Ject One turntable w/ Grado cartridge (just bought a month ago) - never been played since I got it.
X-Box 360, controllers have needed new batteries for 3 months.
Sony 60" Grand Wega SXRD 1080P, never subscribed to the HD package on our cable provider in over 1 year of ownership (although I did run an antenna outside to get off-air HDTV for Bears away games last year).
Universal Electronics Nevo SL remote and NevoLink - still in the box after over a year....
I also have a vintage H/K stereo receiver (silver face, big analog tuner) on a shelf that hasn't been connectedto anything in 5 years.... and a big ass vintage Sherwood amp under that H/K (big silver face, big pimpy red LED power meter bars)
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2nd Rick on RC and IntegrationPros.
cinemascope on AVS (but I rarely go back there) |
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| Post 14 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 23:21 |
2nd rick Super Member |
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On August 30, 2007 at 23:04, Mr. Stanley said...
3 old Macintosh computers...
I said it once, and I will say it again, if you have a copy of Adobe Illustrator Mac 5.x on any of those machines and they are in working order, you and I need to talk...
I was a line art master back in the day, but I can't make heads or tails of the newer PC versions of Illustrator... It got too complicated for what I did with it.
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2nd Rick on RC and IntegrationPros.
cinemascope on AVS (but I rarely go back there) |
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| Post 15 made on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 23:26 |
Vincent Delpino Senior Member |
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X-Box 360, controllers have needed new batteries for 3
months.
better off not using this in the summer anyway.
Universal Electronics Nevo SL remote and NevoLink - still
in the box after over a year....
Me too, though I hear it works best that way....
hp xt9600 workstation 2xZeon 3.06 prossessors w/hyperthreading (yes 4 cpus), 6 gigs ram, 5 76gig 10,000 rpm scsi hard drives, Nvidia Quadro FX 256 video card with dual dvi outs, Sound Blaster X-FI Elite Pro, Klipch promedia 5.1,
All for my daughter to go to disney.com and webkins.com
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